NUKEpig

is a satirical rep recantation of humans in the 20XX century. Nuke pig is an ordinary pig that has super powers but is totally unaware of them. He acts just like any normal pig would but most of the time his actions produce some sort of mega power. Nuke pig was inspired in part by Jackie Chan Adventures in the cartoon certain actions would provoke the powers and our pig operates the same way: he gets scared = flying, he gets mad = Blasting green laser beams out of his nipples... Through this character Dust has explored a new way of laying out comics. With NUKIE he attempted to vary the generic 4 panel formula by using the strokes of Chinese characters as the panels. Before executing this new style of paneling Dust has done mild research and consulted with Prof. Chi Chun Hsieh from the New York City College of Technology. She sent him a list of translated words which later became the comics listed below.

It's worth mentioning that the comic originally was intended to be a part of a newspaper and the concept was developed by Zakiya Owens a student of photography would write while Dust illustrated. Zakiya is an individual who is passionate about the environment so we constructed this comic in order to express her concern. Sadly the comic has never made it into the newspaper and has now become nothing more than an archival reminder of a project.

In the future NUKIE is aimed to reach 50 strips by which I will close the lid on that project. I intend to use Japanese titles as the panels and draw fan service type strips as learn more about comics.

Origin Story
An ordinary pig was bred in a slaughter house "$=LIFE slaughter house" but at the fatal hour managed to escape the hands of a butcher. Ran into the dark forest. As the young pig wondered deeper and deeper into the forest a NUKE was dropped into the foREST (hence the name NUKEREST) The pig was far enough to not be affected by the immediate impact. However the radiation polluted the water and as any animal the pig found a pond drank from it and obviously mutated but mentally stayed a pig, no self awareness at all.