[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-monster-battle-on-dartmoor":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"While Stuart and I visiting the Reeves on Dartmoor, \u003Ca href=\"http://philipreeve.blogspot.com\">Philip Reeve\u003C/a> and I spent a morning at \u003Ca href=\"http://www.widecombe.devon.sch.uk/\">Widecombe-in-the-Moor Primary School\u003C/a>, engaging in \u003Cb>FIERCE MONSTER COMBAT\u003C/b>. I first got the idea when Neill Cameron and I pitted one of \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/329458.html\">his Mo-bots against my sheep, Vern\u003C/a>. And funnily, we were following Neill, who had made a Mo-bot visit to the same school earlier in the year. (See \u003Ca href=\"http://neillcameron.blogspot.com/2010/11/tiger-ballerinas-spotted-on-dartmoor.html\">Neill's write-up here\u003C/a>.) \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/philip_reeve_1-4fab1fd97a.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Cfont size=\"1\">\u003Ci>Photo by Sarah Reeve\u003C/i>\u003C/font>\\r\n\\r\nPhilip and I had the kids help us design monsters, then took turns getting suggestions for ways to kit up our monsters for battle. Here's Philip's monster in full warrior gear. I seem to remember the kids' intention for the banana weaponry was to make my monster slip in her killer high heels. Lucky Philip got to draw TEN mouths on his beast.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/philip_reeve_3-d3f1db4ea3.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nWhen I'm drawing in front of lots of people, I try to strike a balance between drawing well and drawing very fast, and generally speed tends to win out. But I was very impressed that Philip could draw well AND fast (although I'd like to add that he drew a bit more slowly than me, but not tortoise-paced), maybe I'll pick up that skill someday. Here's a comic jam we did together, again, taking suggestions from the kids. Panel One by Philip:\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here to see photos under the cut-->\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/comics_jam_1-3f53d34201.jpg\">\\r\nPanel Two by me:\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/comics_jam_2-82dc338e1f.jpg\">\\r\nPanel Three by Philip:\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/comics_jam_3-576f58e4a7.jpg\">\\r\nPanel Four by me (Okay, keep in mind that we really were running out of time by this point!): \\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/comics_jam_4-8be341f151.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's Philip with his original monster design. We very much liked one of the youngest children's suggestion for a name, Mr Monster M'Leg. Sort of like 'Milord', but better.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/philip_reeve_2-8c6688e236.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd my Mr Messy the Fifth, who lives up to his name:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/philip_reeve_5-bd4fd74b25.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThanks for having us come visit, Widecombe Primary! We had fun seeing your comics jams, and hope you get to make lots more.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ci>Edit\u003C/i>: A lovely card just arrived at the Fleece Station from the school, complete with lots of drawings of their comic characters. Thanks so much!! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/widecombe_drawings-567b6a3913.jpg\">","2011-05-27T09:09:00.000Z","monster-battle-on-dartmoor",[],"monster battle on dartmoor",1776628720249]