Tue Jan 14 00:00:00 -0500 2014
I haven’t kept up to date with the Marvel cinema universe. I’ve only seen about a quarter of the films they’ve put out so far if you count all the X-Men, Spider Man and Blade entries. It’s incredibly odd then that I’ve religiously watched every Agents of Shield episode to date. I couldn’t even make it through the first two episodes, yet I keep coming back. Ultimately I watch Agents of Shield out of fear. The episode I miss could be the one that really delivers something I won’t be able to find in any other mainstream television show. This is a series that could potentially deliver something that I’d love to see on TV. What that may be is pretty much in the open. A series where one of the plot threads involves perfecting a super soldier serum opens the door for mainstream FMG, however unlikely. There’s the slim chance that there may even be a She Hulk reveal, but almost certainly not. AoS seems to focus on C and D level characters, I’d put She Hulk on the B-tier with Power Man, Iron Fist, Jessica Jones, etc… Even if she’s out of contention, Marvel has a lot of...
Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0500 2014
2013 is finally, mercifully over. Yay.
In celebration, I banged out the pencils for another Irradiated Woman installment in one sitting. One five hour sitting, but one sitting regardless.
The Irradiated Woman concept was supposed to be pretty simple: girl gets agitated then she gets angry, finally big. But I couldn’t figure out whether the character should be played for laughs or for horror. If more lighthearted, I couldn’t show the violent aftermaths of her outbursts. I really didn’t want a gory conclusion to these stories, but I didn’t want her to just yell and scream in the last panel either. Conundrum. It’s led to me shelving a few potential stories. I’m a bit worried about the last page, but it had to end somehow.
I wanted to throw this one up here quick so just basic inks from pens. Still got a few hours of vacation left, hope to spend it on something or other.
Enjoy.
Mon Dec 23 00:00:00 -0500 2013
The She Hulk has snuck back onto video screens in a couple new-ish installments. Ultimate Hulk vs Wolverine will always bring up conflicting emotions for many in this community. On one hand it contains, hands down, the best fmg sequence for She Hulk ever published in a Marvel book. And what a character! Although Jen Walters plays a prominent role in this story it’s Betty Ross who transforms into the Jade giantess. Its a retconning that works in the best Ultimate universe tradition of streamlining characters to their essence. After all, in the “Ultimate-verse”, Ross is an assertive, intelligent, and successful woman, similar to Jen Walters in the regular continuity. If your definition of the She Hulk is such a woman given the brawn to match her strong character, you can forgive if her name isn’t Jen Walters. Unfortunately, the very series tasked with bringing the She Hulk into the Ultimate universe probably killed any prospects of seeing the character again. There was a three year delay between the first three issues and the last three. In that time the Ross-as-She-Hulk reveal was placed on hold. Continuity rolled on. The Ross character made multiple appearances that made no allusion to...
Sun Dec 01 00:00:00 -0500 2013
Looks like the 2013 edition of Maniac’s “Advent Calendar” is up and running. The first installment is an illustration of a sequence from Terry’s “Rebirth” storyline, also reccommended. You can track that down at the Savage Impulses III yahoo group
Fri Jun 07 00:00:00 -0400 2013
Here’s one for the community: Sinsationals
Comic artist Shade is trying his hand at a sexy superhero team comic, where each character represents a different trope/fetish. Yes, included is a gamma-powered hulking beauty and a multi story tall giantess.
The idea of a super sexy squad of female heros is nothing new (Femforce and C.h.i.x. comes to mind) but the quality of Shade’s art puts this thing over the top. Here’s hoping this will be successful.
Also a new single pager: The Succubus
Sun Jan 06 00:00:00 -0500 2013
What good's a website redesign if it doesn't come with new content?
Introducing Jessica in Another Dimension, a series I've had sitting on my
desk for more than a year, waiting for the proper occasion to get polished up. Well, "polish" is the wrong
word in this case. I threw on some quick colors and posted it since it was pretty much complete.
I think one reason I'd never finished this earlier was that I didn't really come up with a compelling monster
design. I intend to make a spider of some sort, but the prospect of studying arachnids for hours while trying
to learn their "essence" was not very appealing.
In short order the spider-monster became a worm. Ah well, they can't all be winners... Enjoy
Mon Dec 24 00:00:00 -0500 2012
This was a long time in the making. The original website was built in Drupal, a pretty heavyweight CMS in PHP. My problem with this format was that it took a lot of learning to get it up and working, and while powerful it required a lot of maintenance. Updates, security issues, changing passwords, managing databases, etc... Also, this was nothing I used daily. The process for submitting new posts was complicated. Given my infrequent posting schedule, I found I was forgetting how everything was supposed to work together. I was unhappy with the look and feel of the site, but trying to modify heavy weight modules would take more time than I had to devote. I concluded starting from scratch with a PHP framework was a better course of action than sticking with Drupal. However, this was easier said than done, and months of intermittent coding brought little progress toward a finished web site. Finally I stumbled onto Jekyll on some blog post or another. Jekyll is a static file blog generator: a very simple way to write a web blog that relies on the blogger knowing a bit of HTML. It spits out a site's worth of raw...