Author: Ethan Nicolle

I know Axe-treme is the obvious joke here, but Malachai never made the joke, therefore I did not include it.  Similar to the reason Axe Cop never says “Kick Axe”.  Puns are old people humor.  You'll find out what Malachai considers good humor in the upcoming Axe Cop story “Axe Cop: the Funny Episode.”

For now, here is Axe Cop doing some Xtreme sports.  Enjoy!

Ethan

The title of this blog is a reference to the Last Boyscout which is a classic buddy cop film.  You gotta see it if you haven't.  But it also pertain to the fact that the current plotline is taking place in a head and a gut.
  Today's page was another one of those ones where I just had to make a bunch of characters up on the spot because Malachai said “they find Bat Warthog Man's friends, a bunch of super heroes”.  So, I just pooped out all these super heroes.  I have no idea who they are, what their powers are or their names… but there you go.  Bat Warthog Man actually found his friends!

As you can see, the comic is winding down.  There is actually only two pages left… I may try to do a finale double episode next week.  In any case… the end is near!

In other news, my friend Austin sent me this gift… a commission from TMNT artist Jim Lawson. 

I grew up on the turtles and lots of Lawson's work, so it was pretty thrilling to see Axe Cop next to a Leonardo, drawn in that recognizable Lawson style.  Thanks Austin!  Now we just need to hook up a TMNT crossover.  I need my guys at Surge to get on that.

Anyhow… see you soon.  I owe you an Ask Axe Cop episode this Thursday!

Ethan

Hey there head choppers,

Just to give you an update I'm almost all moved and am just getting my new office/workspace all set up.  No new Ask Axe Cop today, but as soon as I'm settled in here I'll be picking up the pace on episodes in anticipation of the next Volume of the Axe Cop collected editions.  I am looking forward to putting some of these crazy ideas Malachai came up with during my last visit to paper.  Thanks for your patience.

Ethan

The guys who made the Axe Cop live action fan film are working on a second installment.  In the meantime they have entered the 48 hour film competition and are hoping to win so they can fund the next Axe Cop video.  All they need is YouTube views, so please take a moment to check out this monster movie they made and pass it along to friends and get them as many views as possible!

We're heading into finale territory,which means each page is more work draw, and less work to read.  But it's fun right?  Bad guys VS. dinosaurs inside the brain of the King of All Bad Guys?  I did this page using my old intuos 3 because my Cintiq is packed up because I am in the middle of moving.  For those non-digital artistis, an intuos is a digital drawing pad where you draw on the pad but watch the screen in front of you.  A Cintiq is a drawing pad/monitor combo so you draw directly on the screen.  It was an adjustment going back to the intuos and I definitely do not miss it, but it got the job done.

The big news this week is that Axe Cop won the Eagle Award for Favorite Web Comic for 2011.  The Eagle Award is the British equivalent to the US Eisner award.  The big difference is that the Eagle Awards nominated Axe Cop for best web comic and best cover, and awarded Axe Cop for one of those, whereas the Eisners didn't even nominate Axe Cop.  That's fine, but let me just reisterate my appreciation for the love the Brits have shown Axe Cop… I really hope we get to come visit some day.  Thanks to everyone who voted online for Axe Cop and all who were involved in honoring us with this award. 

Well, the Bat Warthog Man story is winding down.  It may end on exactly episode 100.  We'll see, I haven't done the math but I know it's close.  Thanks for tuning in,

Ethan

Well, I am in the middle of moving, so I skipped out on doing a new Ask Axe Cop, but instead am posting a couple guest episodes that are long over due.  Apologies to both artists for taking so long to post these, but hey, you gave me something to post on a day like today where I am busy transporting my life to a new location. 

The first one is by Matthew Sargent of SkippingInfinity.

I appreciate the tribute aspect of this one, and the time it must have taken to draw all those cops!  The next one is by my good friend Lars brown of Oni's North World.  I'm not sure if Axe Cop would ever actually drink tea, but if he did I'm sure this would happen.

Besides that, here is an interview I did at Sketch Maven, and Comic Impact posted some sketches they commissioned from me at Wizard World Anaheim.  That's all for now!  See you next week.

Ethan

I don't have much else to say but, hey look… a new page!  So, enjoy, and I'll see you next episode.

Ethan

I decided to make this episode the first ever “Ask (not Axe Cop)” and instead have Flute Cop answer.  I didn't want to let on that Axe Cop knew this much about Flute Cop, since technically the two still have no clue they are brothers.  I don't know how it works that Flute Cop went to college for 100 years, then joined Axe Cop's team except to assume that time and math work differently in Axe Cop's world.  We can also assume that what we know as a “recorder” in our world is known as a “flute” in Axe Cop's world.

They were filming the documentary when Malachai gave me the answer for this one, and he was running all around the room making up these moves.  He made up a ton of them and I fit the best ones onto the page here.

Outside of a new episode, it's official that Malachai and I will be special guests at San Diego Comic Con this year, which is a huge honor.  We are planning an amazing Axe Cop panel and Kevin Murphy of MST3K/Riff Trax has agreed to moderate.  Malachai is SDCC's youngest special guest in the history of the event.

Also, don't miss the special episode of CHOP we did, which was actually a special episode of Nobody's Listening.  WARNING:  It is long, and it is FULL OF BAD GUY EARTH SPOULERS.  We are riffing and reviewing the entire Bad Guy Earth series in this one, so you should read the series before you listen to this podcast.

That's all for now.  It was fun to revisit Flute Cop, and finally found out how he fights.  Until next time…

Ethan

What's funny about today's episode is that I actually had done a sketch in an early sketchbook of a tongue-in-cheek character named “LIBORG” who was a lion cyborg.  I did not think to give him a third-half of a cheetah brain, but other than that I basically had a preliminary sketch done on this character in a sketchbook I know Malachai has never seen.  Great minds think alike.  Another fun fact is that Malachai has assigned the character Liborg to be our brother Isaiah.  He is Liborg.  He tried to assign our other brother Noah, who is a Marine, to be Army Chihuahua, and he refused because he hates Chihuahuas, and he hates the Army.

Also, I know that I could have spelled it Lyborg, but I chose to spell it Liborg for two reasons… one, it retains more of the word “Lion” with the “i” instead of a “y”.  Two, I think a kid would spell it this way without even considering the option of using a “y”.  It makes more sense if you only look at the words Lion and Cyborg and don't get tangle up in the weeds of words like Liberty and Libra that make you think somehow it should pronounced “Lih-borg” or “Lee-borg”.  Just roll with it.

I don't have much in the way of Axe Cop news related links, but I do have this: 

James Kennison of CHOP! has a website called YoureMockingMeArentYou.com where he posts a new piece of Buzz Lightyear tribute art every single day, and recently he did an Axe Cop Buzz.

Also,  super awesome painter Dave Rapoza has agreed to team up with me on the cover for the Bad Guy Earth collected edition, and it is currently looking A to the MAZING.

I'll leave you with that, and I hope you enjoyed the new character, because now I have to draw him for the rest of this comic, along with all those other dang characters.  Lions!!  GAH!!

Ethan

Remember last Halloween how we had an Axe Cop costume contest?  Well, we showed those photos to Rubies Costumes and they were convinced to license some official Axe Cop costumes!  Now we are trying to figure out what the top 3 or 4 best character would be to make in costumes besides , obviously, Axe Cop.  So leave a comment on this blog post and let me know your top 3 choices!

And while I am posting a blog I might as well mention that KBOO finally posted this interview Malachai and I did back when we were in Portland for the Axe Cop TPB vol 1 release party and signing. 

Also, I was on CollegeHumor.com's video podcast Nerd Alert.  Here's the video: