Tag Archive: Jack Kirby

97. Timber Wolf

Timber Wolvertooth! **** Why is Bob’s Burgers second season only 9 episodes long? **** I had a Kirby epiphany. A Kirbiphany. I’m looking at modern day superhero costume designs, and it’s all extraneous lines and seams and designy dots and glowing suits and krackle. Then a New God or a Celestial shows up and it’s …

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347 – Orion

When Kurt asked for Orion of the New Gods, I almost wanted to point out that I’ve already got an Orion drawing on the blog. But, since I didn’t actually draw that one (it’s a Kirby sketch that I “inked” and colored), I decided not to. Plus, I could get to draw the Astro Harness. …

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306 – Wally West: New God

Inspired by a comment from Josh Marowitz (friend of Joe Grunenwald and listener of League Night), I decided to give Wally West a Fourth World-inspired makeover to explain that he has become a New God, which is why he no longer exists in the DC Universe anymore.

279 – Odin

By Odin’s Beard! My friend Stephen Alexander is a member of a group called The Gem City Gentlemen of the Gilded Beard. This is a group of people who are in love with – to a possibly obsessive degree – their own beards. If my comments seem snide, it is out of pure jealousy and …

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Covered

I’ve been Covered. Again. Check it out, as well as all the other awesome covers too. But mostly mine.

Orion of The New Gods by Kirby

I’ve never been a huge Jack Kirby fan, but lately I’ve been growing more and more fond of his work. I found this sketch online: And then “finished” it in Adobe Illustrator and tweaked in Photoshop. Special bonus post!