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The Wasteland Project:
A goal of mine to take the reviewers from That Guy With The Glasses (as well as Blistered Thumbs)...then twist and distort them into a cyberpunk version of themselves, with things I think would work for them, and things they have established their internet fame with.

This project is a result of being inspired by the artists of That Guy With The Glasses, such as *AndrewDickman, ~Berlin-Poe, and *Halfwest. I feel like Rob Liefeld talking about Jack Kirby when it comes to how awesome they are in their works, entertainment, and as people. Kinda like a kiwi looking at a bird of prey and thinking, "man, I wanna be like that".

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In this universe, I could see Benzaie's overall personality putting him into one of two positions: A man of the cloth like Saint Gerard...or an arms dealer.

Considering the fact I don't want to piss anyone off...I went with the second idea.

When drawing this, I tried to keep in mind that I wanted to reference the interests of the person behind it (though going off Twitter, I can only gather so much)...and Benzaie had a tweet about Berserk...so I felt it was necessary for one of his arms to be mechanical and in the style of Guts' arm.

After that...tweaking the design with new ideas and old ideas...it went from Pirate Benzaie into Trigun Benzaie.
(I can only guess it's because I was still in the mindset of the Todd in the Shadows one I'm doing, which a lot of the idea I owe to The Makeover Fairy herself).

Benzaie didn't seem a gun user to me...so I figured throwing knives and crossbow were more his style, and cannon/shotgun arm in extreme emergencies...(That and this was right when I noticed it looked too Trigunish with dual handguns). ^^;

As it is, I'm pretty happy with this being the final design of Benzaie in the Ultimate Wasteland universe.

Beary is currently in the works, being brainstormed into existence along with ScreamingMantis' and 8 Bit Mickey's Wasteland incarnations. (I have the idea of what they would be, now to think of the how they would look.)

I've got the base ideas of Todd in the Shadows, Marzgurl, Obscurus Lupa, Jew Wario, Pushing Up Roses, Linkara, Iron Liz, and so on and so forth...but it's one of those things that despite having my favorites, I want to give everyone equal treatment. And also let some ideas brew a bit more. I mean, Cinema Snob as a brawler with Pepsi Blue powered shotgun fists is amazing and everything (I am going with this currently as I could easily see him where he'd weaponize Pepsi Blue rather than force himself to drink it), but I need to think on how I'd incorporate it into the drawing. I'm also trying to incorporate aspects of the personalities of the reviewers too.

After all, these roles they play are somewhat of extensions of the person behind it, right?

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So this has a primary focus on TGWTG, it's not limited to TGWTG only.

Here's the collection so far (excluding this piece):
Nostalgia Chick: [link]
Todd in the Shadows: [link]
ScreamingMantis: [link]
JewWario: [link] (Color Vers.) [link] (Pencil Vers.)
Marzgurl: [link] (Vers. 1) [link] (Vers. 2)
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TNGM's avatar
Benzaie looks friggin badass. Even more that he did in Suburban knights