OSI - Inevitable Consequences

Tweaked the dialog some and messed with a few colors I wasn't satisfied with.

For top 8 round, genderbend.

No celebrities were harmed in the making of this picture. I'd like to think the real Frank Delima would be flattered. I will only apologize for only one thing (and it's not the man in drag) - I'm imitating another comedian's humor, and said humor is targeted at a completely different audience than those who are likely to view this image. In the meanwhile, sit back, and enjoy a little peek into Hawaii's response to discovering they have their own sailor senshi.

Round "Music": "I'm a Bla-bla-bla-blala" by Frank Delima. Or really, just about any Frank Delima will do. Just youtube "Frank Delima" and go from there.

Alternatively, while not music, This video is another look at the sort of material I'm working from.

Writeup:

Sailor Haumea's "male form" (for admittedly an EXTREMELY loose defition of the term) was an inevitability, really. Hawaii loves and greatly supports its celebrities like no other, and after an incident where she saved a bunch of kids on a field trip to Honolulu Hale (City Hall) in front of KITV4 cameras, Sailor Haumea certainly possessed the celebrity. However, celebrity comes at a cost, and if nothing else, that cost is humor at your expense from the local comedians.

Frank Delima is one of the most well-known of these, famous for his ridiculous impersonations of both real people (Imelda Marcos) and Hawaiian stereotypes (Mary Tunta); and the thought of donning falsies, bad drag and a miniskirt equaled perfect show material. Thus, the persona of Sailor Haupia Malasada was born. Taking Haumea's Hawaii shtick to its ridiculous extreme, Haupia Malasada sports a stereotypically horrible aloha print on his fuku, rubbah slippahs, and uses only the most ono food in his "attacks." Similarly, he uses a hulihuli chicken spear, and of course there's his name. Sailor Haupia Malasada's mode of transportation is a Leonards Jr truck (which just so happens to serve...guess what...malasadas!).

That there would be vast differences between Sailor Haumea's actual personality and the personality Frank Delima adopted for his stage persona should be obvious, as Haupia Malasada is only based off the public's perception of Haumea (and is an over-the-top parody of said perception at that). At the time, the public had really only seen Haumea's protectiveness of children. As a result, Haupia Malasada became an odd blend of Hawaiian ethnic stereotypes - to children he's the smothering, overprotective auntie and to enemies, he's the fierce tita who's not afraid to throw her weight around. Add in some spectacular magical girl posing and speeches picked up from news reports of the senshi in Japan, and you have the general idea of the supposed personality of Haumea as a man. Couldn't be farther from the more grounded personality of the real Haumea, but that's the danger of parodies based solely off news clips.

End official writeup


In case you're wondering what the F*** I was on to come up with this

I like to play around with some of the consequences of what would happen if Sailor senshi were real. The genderbend round last OSI put this into my head. AND IT WOULD TOTALLY HAPPEN. Comedians make fun of sailor senshi and they're not real. Make a senshi with as much of a huge Hawaii shtick as Haumea has a reality? The local guys would have a field day. So yes. I had to do it. If only for how amazingly, amazingly wrong it is. I may get eliminated for thinking a little *too* outside the box as far as what justifies "draw[ing] your senshi as the opposite gender," but I entered OSI specifically FOR this round, so I reached my minimum goal.

Beyond the whole man in drag idea, a lot of this is drawn from my own experience in Hawaii. Haupia Malasada's modifications from Haumea had to be equally Hawaii, but in a more humorous way.

Art Notes

Besides the obvious comic form, this round presented a completely new artistic challenge - how to draw bad well. Haupia Malasada is not supposed to be pretty, he's supposed to be ridiculous. Frank Delima certainly isn't a skinny bishounen either, and the drawing needed to be decidedly male in spite of feminine details like gag boobs and makeup. All of that needed to be reconciled with my usual style though. In addition to referencing Frank Delima photos, I took a few notes from Sailor Bob (just search for it) and Satoshi Kon's "Tokyo Godfathers" in my drawing. I played up the body hair some; Delima doesn't appear to be super hairy, but it does add to the whole drag thing.

Besides Haumea's actual fuku, the design for Haupia Malasada's look came from two major sources - Frank Delima's "Mary Tunta") stage persona, and bad cosplay. The fabric drape and details in the costume are *supposed* to be totally wrong. The wig is supposed to be horrible.

I played around with some new shading techniques for lighting. Haupia Malasada is supposed to be the focus, and the storyline comic format makes that a little difficult. I tried to deal with it with lighting, using dim lighting as would be inside of an auditorium with a show about to start. Haupia Malasada gets much harsher lighting, i.e. spotlighting. I achieved this with a hue saturation layer and layer mask abuse. I want to work with it a little more to perfect it, but I may do a tutorial at some point. I added a paper texture to blend the shading a little better.

Hey, look, I introduced Tony! (Rochelle's hubby)

Stock used


...does somebody know where I can find malasadas in the SF Bay area?