Archive for June, 2011
Speedball: The Masked Marvel
I always loved Speedball: The Masked Marvel. The character they couldn’t seem to figure out what to do with.
I didn’t really finish coloring this, because my wacom started acting funny. I need to replace the nib in the pen, I think, but I don’t have a replacement handy, and won’t be able to get myself over to TekServe for another week or so. Annoying.
Joe Lambert cover
I recently bought this very-affordable piece of original art off of Joe Lambert:
While on the phone this week, I doodled an homage:
Does that count as something that can be submitted to the Covered Blog?
TCJ Talkies – Center for Cartoon Studies Grads
I talked to four graduates from the Center for Cartoon Studies over at The Comics Journal. Listen to conversations with Lucy Knisley, Melissa Mendes, Joe Lambert, and Steve Seck.
The Ink Panthers Show! #96 Season 2 Finale
The Desert Panther, Tony Consiglio, joins us to welcome Summer in our special Season 2 Finale episode. Gaming, bicycles, Cherry Danishes, and men riddled with bullets. It’s quite an episode to go out on (and also somewhat NSFW). It’s been a good year, but it’s time for a short break. We oughta be back in The Lair sometime in the middle of July to kick off “Season 3″.
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The Sentinel of Liberty
While at my parents this past weekend, I came across these old Marvel fan-fiction comics I’d drawn as a teenager, in 1990.
My story was set in the distant future, 2015. The premise was that after Thor was killed in battle, Captain America retrieved his mystical hammer, Mjolnir, and became The Sentinel of Liberty. Here are the pages depicting his origin. It starts with the battle on Asgard, where Captain America and Thor are fighting a troll.
THOR: NOOO! If he is dead your life will become of it! So swears the son of Odin!
WOK!
THOR: Od’s Blood! What is this. He hardly noticed the blow. Mjolnir, I think we have our work cut out for us!
THOR: And my work is not to be taken lightly. By the storms that are mine to command… YOU SHALL PERISH!
Meanwhile, in Nevada, a mysterious old man has paid 5 million dollars to use Tony Stark and Bruce Banner’s miraculous de-aging machine that they have invented…
Old Man: It’s working! Even as I think, old and stubby limbs are becoming as good as new!
Bruce Banner: OK Anthony, stop. He’s done. Unshackle him.
Tony Stark: Looks good.
Bruce Banner: Yes. I hope he thinks it’s worth it.
Tony Stark: He’s glowing!
ASGARD
Captain America: Oh Thor… I’m gonna miss you old friend. Huh! What’s that?
EARTH
Bruce Banner: He’s broken the tank! He’s gonna…
ASGARD
Captain America: Thor’s hammer. Should I take it? Yes.
EARTH
BAOOM!
ASGARD
Captain America: The energy. It has filled me.
EARTH
Old man: Heh heh heh. Heh heh. Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
ASGARD
Captain America: Captain America is no more! Thor has perished!
Captain America: Now. To take their place, The Sentinel of Liberty is here… now and ever-more!
EARTH
Old man: I am reborn. After a hundred years of hiding as disguise. Adolf Hitler is back! And this world shall perish!
Hitler: Now! I need a herald! Someone with power. But a hero so I can destroy the ideals of others. Who?
Hitler: I know! John. John Walker.
LATER. IN THAT SAME RESEARCH LAB
Iron Man: Bruce? Bruce! Dead!
BRUCE BANNER. A GREAT MAN. DISCOVERED “F10″ THE CURE FOR AIDS. MADE AN AGE MACHINE SAVING THE LIVES OF NICK FURY TO GEORGE BURNS.
DEAD.
Hitler, it turns out, is really The Dark Phoenix. John Walker, a.k.a. US Agent, becomes his herald: Master Race. I especially love Hitler’s reasoning behind the choice: a hero, so he can destroy the ideals of others. Chilling stuff!
Ain’t No Power – State of the Union
To be continued…
Next update will be back to the Arthur Koestler essay!
Related comics:1/28/2002 – Global Learning Systems – Little Eichmanns
The Ink Panthers Show! #95 The Girlfriend Experience
Warning: Parental Advisory. The Panthers are back from their break, and ready to discuss the oldest profession of them all: prostituion. Mike and Alex spend an unusual amount of time discussing a comic book, Chester Brown’s Payin’ For It, and then go on to discuss their own encounters with the bewitching Ladies of the Night. After that, they get into a frank discussion about technological advancements in the field of lifelife sentient sexbots, and eventually predict that one day in the not-too-distant-future, someone will write a graphic novel about their own choice only to date sexy animatronic robots, and make the case that society would be a better place if we all followed suit.
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