This is for my friend Northstarfan. She’s awesome.
chibimasshuu replied to your post: Are you watching Young Justice? How do you feel about Cassie’s character traits? In the comics she was hardly a ditz but they’re going with the dumb blond for some reason.
Nah, she’s being played up as green more than anything. She’s been assigned to an all girl unit with Martian, Bee, and Batgirl. I was a little sad to see how little they used babs in the episode but Cassie got to do some heavy lifting indeed.
Aaaaaand with that the show has gone all the way to the front of my viewing queue! :)
I’ll post my impressions after I see it.
Oh, and if you had telephatic powers, you could prevent a mob from starting in the first place, so I still take that over phasing (which is mighty cool, but still). ;)
Are you watching Young Justice? How do you feel about Cassie's character traits? In the comics she was hardly a ditz but they're going with the dumb blond for some reason.
I have only watched the first episode of the second season. I have the others on queue, but still need to ger around to watching them.
I can say that I was pretty excited to see she’d be featured on the show, but now you’ve got me worried! :(
Finally finished the second Wonder Woman on my new “Wonder Sketchbook” series.
This was Diana’s look from the 50’s and most of the 60’s, and it’s what you’ll find in the Showcase PResents volumes that reprint her stories. There’s also a really nice action figure from DC Direct that was modeled after this look.
chibimasshuu replied to your post: You win a million dollars, are granted a super power and told you have to kill one person; what do you spend it on, what would it be and who would you kill?
Phasing.
Why would you need to phase when you could just take control of people’s minds?
You win a million dollars, are granted a super power and told you have to kill one person; what do you spend it on, what would it be and who would you kill?
I fund my publishing business with the money.
I develop AWESOME telepathy (seriously, what power could possibly beat telepathy?).
That phelps asshole. And with my awesome telepathy, even the memory of that horrid man would be erased.
Also that the Tolkien estate is making ridiculous loads of cash off of elves, while, despite your tenure, your book about people in coffee shops talking about dead sparrows and metaphorical sodomy will never make it further than the bookshop of the university that published it.
*raaazzzzz!*
Oh God. This. So much. When I was working on my B.A., every single fiction workshop prof had a strict “no genre pieces” policy. The last prof in this series was a complete tool, the very definition of the disgruntled failed author who despises everything up to and including the fact he’s been “reduced” to teaching. Despite the fact he didn’t want us to write fantasy, sci-fi, horror, etc., our VERY FIRST FUCKING ASSIGNMENT was some inane writing exercise about what kind of tail we would have if we were animals.
I’m not even joking.
I dropped a class where the CW professor, first day, said that there was no point in us trying to write genre fiction because “Really, how many of you are going to be Asimov?” Yeah, sorry…I have enough bitterness of my own without steeping in your failure, lady.
One of the fellows I stayed with was actually a very good professor and helped me strip a lot of the fat out of my writing, but I still wanted to throw a brick at him when he said that genre fiction wasn’t worth using classroom time for because he could “bang out a fantasy novel in a week.”
Well, I’m sure you could, sir, but it would be crap, just like any other novel tossed off in a week. Ugh.
I spent the entire class turning in the origin stories for my superhero characters, and he spent the whole semester praising them to high heaven. So it’s promising literature now, but the moment I add spandex and superpower, it’s pablum? Get the fuck out, sir.
Not exact the same thing, but when I was in college, one of my first assignments in the “Introduction to Graphic Design” class was to elaborate a seminar/presentation on graphic design. My team chose “Graphic Design in Comics”, and the teacher IMMEDIATELY gave us that “Oh, what a bunch of slackers who don’t want to do any REAL work” glare. She actually GIGGLED in disdain.
So we proceeded to do the absolute best presentation of the entire class, in the whole semester, showing with countless slides how the process of making comics involved all the thought processes and decisions we were applying to graphic design.
No “A” was more satisfying to me than seeing the look on her face when we finished the presentation. Like she was hit on the face with the realization that, wow, maybe this comics thing actually involves, y’know, thought and craft.
In one of the slides (you’ll like this, Northstarfan), we used the page from Alpha Flight where Mac is trying to defuse his suit before it explodes. I was talking about how the way the page was laid out dictated the pacing of the storytelling, and how the way the panels were drawn as numbers in the countdown influenced the perception of the reader. And by the time I finished she was actually involved, and even wanted to know if he’d made it!
Marvel Essentials cover concepts by Dylan Todd.
Stop it Dylan, you’re breaking my heart! YOU’RE BREAKING MY HEARRRRRRTTTTT!
I…I just can’t get over how beautiful those look.
Can someone at Marvel’s Design Department PLEASE give this guy a job?? Like NOW??
As egos collide, Black Widow—street name, Natasha Romanova—is the only character who does not throw a monstrous hissyfit. The only character to gather actionable intelligence against Loki from Loki. The character who not only literally kicks sense back into the brainwashed Hawkeye, but then absolves him of any sins performed while under the loony god’s spell.
You want fearless? When midtown Manhattan is swarming with thousands of robo-aliens, the dreaded Chitauri, Black Widow commandeers one of their slippery aero-sleds and flies it to steal Loki’s glowing phallic scimitar so as to save the world so Iron Man can blow up the aliens.
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From an article about the reviews downplaying/ignoring the importance of Black Widow in the film, and the role of women in action in general. (via honeyspider) Fantastic article. Yes. Yes. YES. And now I will stop (re)posting thing about the Avengers for at least a little while. (via hollyblack) Done and done. (via menshevixen) YES. |
So I FINALLY finished this drawing. If I do say so myself, it came out pretty good. And, wow, this would be a pretty powerful team, wouldn’t it?
So I’m trying a new approach to my “Wonder Sketchbook” drawings. I’ll spend more time on the art, experiment a bit with the coloring, see what happens.
And I’m starting again at the very beginning, with Wonder Woman as she looked when she first appeared in 1941.
This is how she was envisioned by her creator, William Moulton Marston.
“But I knew I wasn’t wrong.”
Well then…
“He coolly tucked away the knife in his jacket, then bent down to whisper something in his victim’s ear.”
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Save me.
“Darkness and Warmth.”
I leave that to the imagination. XD
“Work the shoulder reflex.”
Oh god does that mean lots of shoulder bites? I just got turned on by a sentence from a book on reflexology…
“We cannot enter into alliance with neighboring princes until we are acquainted with their designs.”
“They were on the roof before he spoke again.”
Ooooooooo-kay.
Organizing some old files, came across this oldie here. I can’t believe I haven’t posted this one on Tumblr yet, it was one of my favorites at the time. I may restart to colour it at some point.
James, this is wonderful!!
And my favorite kind of art. The off-duty moments.
Thanks! :D
Well, Barbara there sure would LIKE it to be an off-duty moment, but the bat-signal won’t have that…lol
