Ho Lee Shit. These are absolutely incredible. The level of detail, even in the backgrounds, is astounding, and you managed to bring a surprising amount of life, energy, and humor to what is often a very dull character.
Thanks rattraprules98, silverbolt00, and Aernaroth. While Max still suffers the Height-to-personality inverse proportion rule, I'm happy to hear the facial and body language were expressive enough to keep interest, and convey a simple narrative through movement. For no apparent reason, I thought I'd share my head study montage. I considered doing a Megabolt head, but decided on the final (Manga style) head before I got the chance.
Neat. What's the difference between comic-head in the top left and comic-head in the second row, second spot from the left?
Very little probably, considering the tiny increments I often develop at. I think I was pushing for the comic head at that stage, so it's probably just a colour and specularity comparison, with perhaps a texture tweak. Inevitably it didn't seem to work. Which is a shame, because I've always liked the Ring of Hate depiction of 'Worlds angriest pacifist'.