And so we kick off the month of October with something that is neither spooky or creepy at all, unless you find cartoon skunks scary. New character sort of!

His design's not finalized, which is why none of those are consistent. I wanted to try something different with drawing a character in that I don't immediately fall in love with the first time I draw a character. The skinny little guy on the bottom was the first drawing I started out with, and then I started moving around proportions, giving him different ears, little things like that. I'm really digging the full body I did but if any of these feel more appealing, I'm all ears.
I tried making these not look like striped dogs, but ironically the one that took the most reference from a hog-nosed skunk picture ended up looking like a badger. Whoops.

I'm always afraid of posting art of my original characters, feeling that no one's going to give a crap about them, but at the same time, how else are people going to know that I have other characters besides the mutant lizard guy. So I decided to bite the bullet and share one of my mutated monsters that's in the Progress City storyline.

Lazy Eddie lives in the massive junk sea that surrounds half of Progress City (mad science makes a lot of waste) but he manages to eke out a living by selling whatever he finds in the massive trash heaps to the other mad researchers that work there. Eddie is not above doing things like fishing cybernetic eyes out of the sockets of dead monsters and then turning a neat profit or scraping brain matter off a failed mind control helmet and selling it "like new" to unsuspecting chumps. Problem is, doing that also gained him a reputation so most residents of the city who hunt in the junk sea have enough common sense to not buy anything he's selling.

Problem is, Eddie also sells information, and is surprisingly informative about all the latest rumors and trends going about the befouled city, so people usually end up talking to him if they need something found out.

No one really knows how Lazy Eddie came to be - whether he's some unlucky human who ran afoul of a vengeful scientist with a very bad sense of humor or a failed attempt at making a decent evil minion out of a mere hog-nose skunk - but the biggest clue is the massive brain surgery-related scar on his head that he's always covering up with toupees he finds in his garbage runs. The most Eddie will admit is brain surgery, but anything beyond that is usually met with some colorful vocabulary to mind your own business.

And before anyone asks, Lazy Eddie cannot do the skunk spray thing. But he can bluff pretty well about it to the point of being able to perform a decent handstand.