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Jugger Grimrod from Alien Legion

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"Alien Legion" was a science fiction / action adventure comic book series in the 1980's. I was in high school back then, and remember it being a very popular book among several of my friends. I owned a few of the early issues and thought the artwork was consistently great but the stories were very dialogue heavy and tended to leave me thinking "Geez, when are you gonna stop over-explaining all the alien races and planets and culture and just get to the action!!" But it was still a really solid comic book and was highly regarded among most 1980's comic book readers. Of all the Alien Legion characters, Jugger Grimrod was everybody's favorite. Jugger was a rule breaker and a tough bastard and damn ruthless in his methods of dealing with hostile alien life forms.

One of my long-time commission clients (Matt R) hired me to draw this. Matt has been bugging me to do a Jugger Grimrod illustration for years. And for years I kept putting him off and saying, "You don't want me to do this commission. My old Alien Legion comics are in a box somewhere in the basement at my parents' house. I haven't even seen them since 1989. I don't even remember what Jugger looked like!" But then, very recently I was visiting my parents house and accidentally stumbled onto that exact box... and there were those old comic books, and I no longer had an excuse. I emailed Matt R and said, "Okay... guess what... I found my old comics... You still want me to do that Alien Legion commission??" He sure did. So it went on my list of Summer 2013 commissions... and here it is. The Alien Legion comics are pretty much forgotten today, except by us old guys who were kids reading comic books in the 80s. So I won't be offended if nobody on Deviant Art even knows who Jugger Grimrod is. But he sure was a bad-ass back then. Haha.
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Love Alien Legion!
Sinners and saints. Tough as tungsten and loyal to the bitter end.