In 1988-89, I met Ray Castaldo via several mutual friends. But we became fast friends via my comics... we had a bunch of mutual friends and the comics had a lot of parodies of them, he LOVED them!  We (mostly) got along great with and he later became my best friend due to the fact that I don't stay in touch with many of my old classmate friends, but Ray and I do. We share many likes -- we both loved Transformers, Star Wars, video games, WWF/E, and actually dated the same girl in high school (at different times, different times! Ew... Sheesh! We weren't THAT close, you pervs!). We were even both about 50% Italian-American mix, so we kind of got along like cousins in a way. Back then we had no film political opinions, but as adults, we now also mostly agree on political and religious views as well, so our friendship remains close decades later.

In fact, Ray so loved the comics that he made a spin-off comic, which I absolutely got a huge kick out of! Others HATED it (as you could see with the graffiti that was drawn on them below), but I found them hysterical! In fact, he introduced several characters into the Universe that became faves -- including Ian "The Brain", who was based on a mutual friend who was 2 years younger, but was so gifted with a calculator-like mathematical-speedy brain that he skipped 2 grades in school! In fact, we tested him... he could do mathematical equations as fast (or faster) than we could on calculators! And... his mother made clothes for him and dressed him... quite... poorly. In high school. Yeah... if that kid isn't a character to base after in my comic, then nobody was!

So, Ray wrote and drew a comic. I liked it so much (it made me laugh out loud!) that I took his script and layout and drew it myself! Especially because a mutual friend -- one David Desgrosiellier -- defaced Ray's via graffiti and people HATED Ray's art. Both my versions (above) and Ray's versions (below) are included on the site.

Enjoy.

ORIGINAL VERSION BY RAYZOR C.:

(S)Hitman Comics (1989) Written by RaYzor C.; Original Layouts by RaYzor C.; Finished Art & some additional panels/dialog by Chris Stevens; Graffiti by David Desgrosiellier.

May 2026 Update: Hold on... AI ART?!

My comics have been hand-drawn by me since I was a little kid (and digitally colored on apps like Photoshop later on). However, with AI slop being the craze, and noticing that this was the only cover in the 1st Season of ChrusherComix that didn't get an Anniversary Cover, I decided to employ AI to do thy bidding.

So, some 35 years later... here are some funny AI Slop additions!

ATTEMPT #1:

This is COMPLETELY wrong. Wrong art style, wrong character, wrong year, wrong genre, absolutely nothing right!

ATTEMPT #2

OK, so still 100% wrong. It reminds me of an offshoot of a bad Archie comic from 1989 would look like. So it got the era right, but that guy looks like RaY C. had a baby with Ray Overy. And who in the hell is the mystery person?! That's actually intriguing! 

ATTEMPT #3

GREAT progress made here! This looks a lot closer to the actual story, although it's still nit 100% accurate. Still, who is the mysterious large armored person or robot in the back? I'll hand it to AI... they added an extra layer of intrigue with that!

ATTEMPT #4

OK, this one is getting close... in fact, SCARY closer... but Butski is completely wrong, somehow Chrusher became Chrasher Chassis, and Ian became what looks to be a homeless bum. Overy and Crudd are much closer as well. So definitely getting better, style is much closer to my style of that era as well.

ATTEMPT #5

THE closest thing yet! Chrusher looks a little chubby, Butski somehow had facial hair (we were 14 at the time, maybe a few of us had slight peach fuzz moustaches, but not full blown stubble like that), RaY, Ian, Crudd, and Overy all pretty close to on-point! AI is learning!

This makes me want to use AI to assist my colors now... stay tuned!