Hey Friends,

Everyone just knows when it's time for some new clothes. Either the old ones are out of style or a new persona is in play, among other reasons.

In my upcoming One Shot Special Edition for Eye of The Keeper, The Eye initiates a new look for our protagonist. Whether it's something he needed, or a part of something deeper in him that's pulled out, the old look had to go.

That design was one of a few takes by the late artist Dheeraj Verma. We worked together on designing Keeper but never quite finished what he was supposed to look like. So in this new story, we go back to a small portion of the beginning of the overall storyline. Keeper's original look is quite plain and unfinished. Those days are part of a prequel to be written (but is planned with notes). But some time after those days is where this story takes place. Each stage of Keeper's development comes with growth. So a prequel would show lack of that, which to me is very interesting, but also much darker in scope for his origination. In a way, throughout each of his looks, the origin story is still unfolding.

So when this upgrade happens, it gives Keeper an extra edge of resolve as he soon takes on a rather elusive villain.

Keeper always walks through a portal of strips of metal that eventually adhere to him. Because this is Skullspike Keeper, the strips of metal further become cables of wire that wrap around him, and meld into his metallic skin. On his biceps, some of the cables are left in that form. And the rest becomes his total outfit, minus some "leather" that exposes his heart area. So it's all metal, it just appears as clothing. A trope of comics I found difficult to discard, but something I could define, given more thought.

Have a good one! There's more to come. --Mark

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