Halloween Costumes, part 5: The Heroes (Patreon)

I'm giving myself an Inktober-lite challenge of drawing the Precocious class in Halloween costumes, to be posted over the last two weeks of the month, on our way to the big holiday! Fourteen days, thirteen kids, one teacher, two costumes per post, and a post every other day - with a final post on the 31st that will feature the original sketches I made, including alternate outfits for some!  

Yowza, these last two ones have tested me. I am a fragile soul, and there's a reason I dropped off the face of the Earth around 18 months ago. This week I was active too many days in a row, and got a MEGA MIGRAINE as a reward. Approximately 60% of the last two updates only got done because I have an emergency triptan, that counters migraines. I am allowed two doses a week, so GOOD LUCK, ME OF THE NEXT FEW DAYS! Hope the migraine quiets down soon!

Anyway, on to the costumes!

 "It's a lovely holiday in Precociousland, and you are a horrible child." Up first, resident gamer Quincy has embraced the game that hit at the hearts of many: Untitled Goose Game. Quincy is dressed as the cowardly boy who runs away from Comrade Goose, and loses his glasses to our honking protagonist. (The goose can trick one of their victims into tying a ribbon on them, so of course I had to include that!) Since the game only renders noses on the faces of people, I tried to show Quincy had covered his face with something to block out his features. I kinda regret the realism of showing the fabric bunching. Nothing about Precocious is real! I should have let him be streamlined. Oh well, it was still mindful planning.

Did you know the VERY beginnings of Precocious, back in 1991, emerged from an idea for a video game? I wanted to make a sandbox-style game where you played as children in a neighborhood, who wandered around and made trouble. You would play dodge ball, hate water balloon fights, try to prank parents without getting caught, or simply build a cool fort, I basically invented Grand Theft Auto: Elementary School. So, yeah, I was waaaay ahead of the curve on that one! And, ta-da, that concept is very much the core of Untitled Goose Game as well! Precocious has come full circle!

The game is available on Switch, and even a person so hopelessly bad at video games like me can play and it find immense satisfaction in ruining the lives of a neighborhood! Here's my video of a satisfying surprise: You can THRASH a garbage can with a bottle!

For Max, a Voltron-style look makes sense, right? It's a bunch of friends coming together to show the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and a great big hero and savior!

But that's not what I did. This is MECHA MAX. It's one big ego ride of a mech, just for him. See the little pilot Max waving from the chest window? Fighters ending up as big mech versions of themselves is a fun classic that might be more of a cheeky trope these days. Hey, this gives me a chance to link to a music video I love, where vikings and kiss pirates have a rock battle that, like all things, ends in mechs!

Am I making sly commentary that Max believes his hype more than he lets on, or did I just really think a friendly Max waving from the window of his death machine was funny? *shrug*

Next post is scheduled for the 28th! Let us all hope my migraine settles down by then.