Comrade Cockroach, In Motion
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As you may or may not be aware, Comrade Cockroach started as an RPG character. My friends were pulling together an supervillians game, and I was looking for a chance to use a silly accent in polite company. My original idea, a martial artist named The Hand who could create four duplicates of himself and was thereby a master of “Quinjitsu,” was vetoed for several reasons, not the least of which being his power, while cool and comic-booky, wouldn’t be all that useful in the game system. After hitting on an appropriate inspiration animal-and appropriate silly accent-Comrade Cockroach was born.
I tend to draw sketches of my character while roleplaying-here’s a few-as it keeps me thinking about the character, and the Good Comrade is no exception. Last game, our team successfully decimated a biker gang, and it was unanimously decided that out of the spoils of victory, Comrade Cockroach would claim not a muscled-up Harley, but a motor scooter.
Clearly, this had to be illustrated:
I can’t look at this picture without hearing “put-put-put-put-put-put-put” in my head.