When my oldest son was young, we once stuck a scuba helmet on a toy cat and started calling him Astronaut Kitty. We had many adventures with Kitty and liked to draw pictures of him and his exploits.
My son eventually made up a new character called Flash Flyer. He was a super hero that could shoot lightning and lived in outer space.
My son often played as Flash Flyer. So when he needed a partner, the obvious choice was to recruit his younger brother. And so, Kid Flyer joined the team.
Official uniforms were designed and Nana broke out the sewing machine. A few short videos were filmed but most of the Flash Flyer adventures were taking place in drawings and comics that the boys were creating.
I pitched the idea of making my own Flyer comic and together we came up with the story. Since we had great costumes, we took a bunch of reference photos. We liked the photos so much that we decided to use them in the comic instead of drawing everything.
Christmas Night of the Robot Menace was the final result. Our heroes team up to rescue Santa Claus after he was kidnapped by a planet of foolish robots. This was a labor of love that was worth every minute. But it's fun to have a book too!
I've posted some of our early sketches and art work here. The photo based artwork that follows are select scenes from the Christmas Night of the Robot Menace book.
There are no definitive plans for a sequel but all agreed that we liked revolving the tale around a holiday. So the next one will definitely take place on Halloween!