It's Norm's birthday today! I'll be completely honest, this date caught me by surprise since I'm so busy rn, so I thought I'd share a little behind the scenes thing about the character I might've mentioned before aaages ago:
Norm's character went through a few iterations while I was planning his route out! One of the big things I had to figure out was how Norm time traveled. NASA guy who went through a wormhole was really obvious, but that was only one of two ideas that I almost settled on.
Believe it or not, I actually considered Norm being some kind of paranormal investigator working for the government, akin to Mulder + Scully from the X-Files or even the SCP foundation, that wound up being transported in time while investigating a time anomaly. It would've been a visual mashup of FBI (men in black) aesthetic + cowboy instead of NASA + cowboy.
In the end, I decided to go with NASA because I felt it was more visually interesting and played well into the fact that he was a veteran (to represent that many astronauts are ex-air force!) I felt it also synergized better with the theme that Crown embraced technology, by showing how differently the space race went with him in office!
Bigfoot :). The image size didn’t fit with the rest and I really didn’t feel like drawing more for this “project”, thus Bigfoot has been banished to the readmore section.