Axe Cop's Wexter with Fire Breathing Dragon

Dragon vs. Dinosaur:  Sadly, not appropriate for Quaker first grade lunch.

We finished reading Axe Cop's "Revenge on Rainbow Girl" last night which included a huge battle featuring Axe Cop's Gatling gun-armed T-Rex and a red dragon.

I discovered last night that there just aren't that many images available online of dragons fighting dinosaurs. It's just one of those mysterious missed opportunities in the internet common culture.

Napkins in "Axe Cop Gets Married"

We are honored to have some napkins in the pin-up section of the latest Axe Cop release.

You can see these and the other Axe Cop napkins at this link.

Axe Cop, Battlepug and Dr. McNinja

 

"Why must I be plagued by these ridiculous animals?'

We've been catching up on several web comics that we follow during bedtime reading over the last couple of nights.  

Axe Cop, Battlepug, and Dr. McNinja all embrace the ridiculous and often include "inappropriate" content... making them particularly delightful as far as our sons are concerned.

Axe Cop And Connor From Assassin's Creed III

Axes for Peace:  Axe Cop and Connor from Assassin's Creed III support nonviolent conflict resolution for Quaker lunch:

Ansel wanted these two guys on the napkins complete with their axe/tomahawk.  This was not exactly Quaker First Grade lunch material, so I moved the weapons to the edge of the image and ladled the peace rhetoric on really thick.  Archer said, "Oh come on! No one actually says that stuff at school!" 

Ansel had requested that they should both be saying, "I'll chop your head off!"... (Although, perhaps not to one another- He did not specify)

I am pretty sure that saying that sort of thing is not encouraged at school.

Axe Cop with Ares and Pallo From Lions, Tigers and Bears

Today Axe Cop teams up w.ith Ansel's two favorites from "Lions, Tigers & Bears" by Mike Bullock and Jack Lawrence. Ares and Pallo are part of the Night Pride- stuffed animals who morph into real powerful cats in order to protect children

Axe Cop is wearing his nightime cat suit of course.

Napkin Not For A Lunchbox #17

From the 24 hours of dysfunctional parenting series:

This is 8:40 pm, around the time that any reasonable child would already be sleeping, or at least in bed pretending to sleep.  Unfortunately we are just getting around to reading a book...a nice quiet, relaxing, restful book...like Axe Cop.  

As this napkin series was originally based on a day in February, I have to truthfully report that we were not reading "Bad Guy Earth" on that particular day... I think we might have been reading age inappropriate Batman titles.  But this is what we have been reading lately, and quite frankly, it had the cover that explained the bedtime reading as incitement to play violence scenario the best.

So...does the funny word balloon help to make up for my awkward drawing of my kids?

(You can see the whole series so far at this link. )

T-Rex Boy as Wexter From Axe Cop

This one is perhaps one of the more disturbing napkins in recent memory.

Archer had asked to be portrayed as Wexter, the Gatling gun-armed, reflective sunglasses wearing Tyrannosaur from Axe Cop.  I didn't think I was going to be able to pull it off... and I was correct to be concerned.

It's hard to say which aspect of the image is the most troubling.

Archer's only response was, "What? am I naked?"

Wexter With Dr. McNinja and Axe Cop

Who do you call when your pet gatling gun-armed T-Rex has a sore throat?
Dr. McNinja is not a veterinarian, but in the Axe Cop universe, he seems as likely a candidate as any.

The request from the boys yesterday was Wexter, Axe Cop's pet dinosaur, and Dr. McNinja.
To be completely honest, what they really wanted was for me to draw them as the two characters- the older child as the gun-armed tyrannosaur, and the younger as the masked doctor. 

They went to bed later than usual last night, and it was just too late in the evening for me to get my mind around the problem of how to make my 10 old son look like a dinosaur.  Dr. McNinja was less problematic, but still daunting as only his eyes are visible... and was I going to draw him with the physique of a six year old?

So, I went for something more straightforward... although as it turns out, no less complicated.

Maybe tonight a solution to the dinosaur-gun-boy will come to me.
(If I do manage to draw such an image... it will definitely not be going to lunch at their Quaker school in the fall.)

Sketch of Kids as Wolverine and Axe Cop

This one didn't make it past the preliminary sketch stage.

Ansel swears he asked to be drawn as Dr. McNinja not Axe Cop. 

The result was shaping up to be fairly strange either way.

Flying Cat Legged Manta and Shark from Axe Cop and Dr. McNinja

Our kids really liked the flying, legged sea life created by the witch doctor cats in Axe Cop's "The Dogs." (link to Axe Cop archive)

They agreed that it was reminiscent of the flying sharks summoned by a ghost wizard in Dr. McNinja (link to Dr. McNinja archive)

Since we were first introduced to Axe Cop through his team-up with the Doctor, here is a team-up between a flying manta and shark.

Beardroid with Iron Man Palm Lasers

Beardroid is another character from Axe Cop's "Bad Guy Earth"

...although he does not have Iron Man's palm lasers, nor does he make the "jazz hands" gesture anywhere in the book.  Archer wanted the palm lasers, and I am afraid I have only  myself to blame for the pose.

Axe Cop's Shield Wolf and Robot Satan

The non sequitur violence of Axe Cop continues to be compelling for the boys.  We finished rereading "Bad Guy Earth" and moved on to the updates on the web comic.

Archer points out that I totally blew it on Robot Satan's hands, or arm appendages, as the case may be. He is supposed to have some sort of gun apparatus on at least one arm.  Ansel seemed satisfied enough with the napkin despite my grievous  mistake.

Gunslinger Confronts The Clown Samurai Panda

A napkin inspired by our reading of Axe Cop's "Bad Guy Earth."

Ansel thought the napkin should look more like a comic, and star his latest hero and avatar- "The Gunslinger."

He specified that the Slinger should be funny as well as heroic- always falling off of his horse for comic effect. And he should be fighting a ridiculous bad guy.  

I'm afraid the Clown Samurai Panda is not as amusing as Axe Cop's President Zombie Bear Cop... or even Booterang, my personal Axe Cop favorite.  He seems to be overwhelmed by his outfit. 

Ninja Chainsaw Bear

Archer has been reading some Axe Cop recently.  I always thought that our kids would enjoy that series as it is written by a kid and drawn by his much older brother.  Now that there ads for the new Ax Cop TV show, Archer is rereading the books. 

Today's ninja bear with chainsaw arms is very much in the Ax Cop spirit.