Damn you Iron First Masterworks v.2

New trade dress for my Masterworks. I'll get over it. I must get over it.

I'm an asshole when it comes to comics

Read this article, from my local paper about the Silver Scorpion's creation by a group of disabled kids: http://www.tampabay.com/incoming/disabled-youths-construct-new-muslim-comic-book-superhero/1124375

Now, why I'm a douche; the Silver Scorpion is about a guy in a wheelchair that instantly reminds me of Prof X's hoverchair (mixed with The Chief's Battle Chair from Doom Patrol 94). And then his power is to control metal, much like X-Men villain Magneto. but hey, maybe the character is different. It's not like Nazi Holocaust  victim Magneto was influenced by war. 

So here's some kids, trying their best to do a good thing for a good reason, and all my cynical comic-fan mind can do is think that this is a huge rip-off and  MY rip-off's of comic characters never made the paper. 

Doodles

I like it when restaurants give me crayons

Remember Bloodhound?

Bloodhound was a short lived 2004 series from DC Comics. It was about a normal man named Travis Clevenger, who is released early from prison just because he's exceptional at hunting down meta-humans. A cool book from Dan Jolley and Leonard Kirk, it should be very easy and cheap to pick up (it ran for 10 issues).

Go read up on some old interviews about it:

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=3736
http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=11310

Seems Dan's regained the rights for it, and has been very busy in the years since. Check him out at his website. http://www.danjolley.com

Awesome Jamie Hernandez Cover

Someday we'll be as developed as you!

Classic Cartoon Network commercial featuring the Super Friends and the Powerpuff girls

I've enjoyed the EC Archives Shocksuspense volumes.

They really do feel ahead of their time, but thats probably based on my prejudices and uninformed views of the the 1940's and 50's. As I've been exposed to more from the era (in literature, movies, and comics), I've found that it wasn't nearly as conservative as I had been led to believe. It's not just in the horror and crime genre either; I've been collecting The Complete Dennis the Menace, and there's as much (if not more) sexual content and undertones then modern mass newspaper strips. But the point of this is to say the EC books are really good, but are seemingly going back out of print very quickly so if you like horror, sci-f, war stories, adventure, crime...give them a try and do it fast. I'm hoping the out of print volumes will come back (like Tales of the Crypt and Weird Science vol. 1), but because of money issues I can't be certain. 

Shocksuspense is my drug of choice because of the variety; there's four comic stories in each, a horror, crime, sci-fi, and a 'wild-card' shocksuspense story. These don't really fit into any one mold and are usually the best of the issue. The first one from issue 1 is Yellow (turned into an episode of the Tales From the Crypt tv show) about a father in the military dealing with his sons cowardice in battle. Another of my favourites is called The Patriots, which focuses on blind patriotism and its costs. Despite coming out in 1952, these stories in particular teach the same lessons today that they did almost 60 years ago. Anyway, EC books are awesome, find them if you can, even if its just to read them once. 

Aborted Series Sketches

Artist name is now lost to me :/ Jeff Kipnis from Lightning Squirrel? I don't think so...A little sci-fi/comedy story  about a sea-side small-town sheriff that falls in love with a mermaid and has nautical adventures. For some reason I had it placed on the west coast, and I never do that!

Supergirl by Dean Trippe

This is one of several sketches I've had done, this one from Megacon 2005.  http://tencentticker.com/deantrippe/

Woman in Supergirl shirt has Power Girl breasts

Grand Theft Auto: Marvel

'Marvel Adventures' is an all ages line from Marvel Comics, so most people automatically assumed it was dumb and for kids. What they really were was mostly self-contained stories set in a loose-continuity world where fun, exciting stories could be told; stories like this one where Dr. Doom steals Johnny's car.

In short, Doom feels his property was taken by Reed so he is simply exercising his rights to take it back. The Fantastic Four invades Latveria and we get a funny look into the college days of Reed and Doom.

Great stuff from Jeff Parker, who of course now is tearing it up in the Marvel U proper. If you like being entertained, you can do worse then tracking down these backissues.

Supercool Supergirl shirt

Actually found this awesome shirt for sale at Wal-Mart, which is the cover to Action Comics 373.

The issue contains reprints of five Supergirl stories;


Action Comics (1938) #258
Action Comics (1938) #276
Action Comics (1938) #277
Action Comics (1938) #287
Action Comics (1938) #291


I've read the first three, in my treasured DC Archives: Supergirl collection (the much cheaper b&w Showcase Presents: Supergirl should also have them). Silver Age Supergirl was very well done and I've talked about it before, but I was really giddy that AC 258 made it into the reprint, and then onto this shirt; its the oldest comic I own, and the one I paid the most for at over $100.

Here it is:

And next to the shirt:

Wal-Mart has recently had a surprising number of classic comic shirts, including a mens thats features the cover of Detective Comics 33 (which drove me crazy trying to remember why it was important - it's Batman's origin!), but still there's no good Supergirl shirts for someone like me, who's not really built to wear ladies clothes. Husky straight men like Kara Zor-el too, DC! Hell you should know that, you had her re-debut in 2004 naked.

Bobby has good taste in comics

Invincible is terrific

Almost year 8 of my Kevin Smith boycott

Ah, Hollywood writers. If there's one thing they were good for after the turn of the century, it was dicking over comic fans. And no one was better at it then Kevin Smith. While he did come into the decade on what many called a high note (I don't - his Green Arrow was based around entirely avoiding the continuity of how the last series ended and his Daredevil was centered around writing DD as out of character as possible), by mid-2003 his star had lost its shine. Issue 3 of Spider-Man/Black Cat: The Evil That Men Do was nowhere to be found (last issue coming out in October of 2002), and Daredevil: The Target #2 was also still missing (January 2003 #1 hit). And then...Jersey Girl. And Degrassi. Basically, anything that WASN'T comics. So, I decided to not pay for anything else Kevin Smith was doing until he finished his books. The Spider-Man book was finished in 2006, but Daredevil is essentially never getting done. It's not some grand cause and I'm not telling anyone else they should avoid his work, but personally I can't support someone who's not supporting the fans.

You ever have one of those really horny days?

Where the highlight is looking in the paper hoping to see Luann in a bikini?

Her mom is a milf btw.

George Perez from Fetishcon

Each year, comic legend George Perez hosts a superhero/villain show at Tampa's Fetishcon. I attended this year, but missed that even! Luckily, I find George walking around later and gushed like a girl with a schoolyard crush over him, and he was kind enough to do a quick Wonder Woman sketch for me thats simply gorgeous. I took a picture with him too, and holy shit he's me time travelling back from the future!

66 Space Princesses

Here are a few sketch pages from an Adam Strange-inspired story of mine that never took off. The art is by Ryan Butcher, who seems to have moved on from comics in the time since they were done. We collaborated on a few different things, including the short lived webcomic Sexy Asian Pizza which i'll talk about more another time. 

Independence Day Project Cover Samples

Many years ago, when I was trying to become involved in the world of comics, I was part of the Independence Day Project. The group was started by Jason Berek-Lewis (who sadly seems to have vanished from comics) as was supposed to be an outlet for creative frustrations and to foster more unity within independent comics. It never really panned out - although the community is still strong and I'm glad to have been briefly considered among them as a peer. What I have to post today is a follow-up to that group, the cover for a indy anthology I was hoping to put together during my time in Las Vegas. Time has sadly robbed me of the original artists name, but please enjoy these pics from a simpler, more idealistic time in my creative life. I'll post more stuff like this as time goes on.

I'm with...

For the Marvel Comics event 'Civil War', the company was encouraging fans to pick sides by using one of too banners; one that said you were with Captain America, and one with Iron Man. It didn't take long before forum users started posting their own allegiances, and I had these few I had made saved. 

Wolverine by Faith Erin Hicks

Faith Erin Hicks is a cartoonist, meaning that of all artists she's the best kind. I discovered her from a funny, cute Wolverine comic you can read here.

You can visit her website to learn about her comic work, and it has a lot of wonderful original art and some nice fanart too. One of my favourites would be of Jade, the heroine from the criminally unappreciated game 'Beyond Good  Evil'. Check her out!