Tag: DC Comics

30. The Ollie Initiative

My friend Joe G. wound up buying a copy of Green Arrow # 17 with the blank cover that our comic shop accidentally ordered 20 copies of. Joe even only bought this comic because they sold it to him cheap to meet the credit card minimum at the shop. Then he asked if I could …

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27. Batman

I’ve recently figured out that I prefer a well-adjusted Batman. I have lost all taste I once had for a broody, sulky sad sack Batman, or the uber-dark paranoid dick Batman. There is no better adjusted or happier Batman than the Adam West Batman.

Ok, PANIC!: New 52

Of all the DC Comics New 52 launches, OMAC was my favorite. So of course it was the first cancelled.

20. John Constantine, Hellblazer

Oi, piss off. Hellblazer # 300 comes out today in comic shops everywhere and concludes the longest running Vertigo comic and – on a technicality – DC comic. I’ve already said my piece on the subject of John Constantine and DC’s cancelling of his book in favor of a New 52’d version. Since I get …

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9. Swamp Thing

8. Batman

Batman doodle on a Post-it. I do not like a short-eared Batman. Unless it’s Adam West.

3. Lady Beetle

Over Christmas my former friend asked if she could draw me something as a present. I said yes, she asked me what I would want. Whenever any of my friends asks me what I want them to draw, I say Blue Beetle (Ted Kord). Not being comfortable drawing male characters, she drew a female version. …

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1. Wonder Woman

Oh. Hey. What happened? What’s goin’ on? How’re you? So. I realized today that it was exactly two years ago that I had started my initial Sketch-A-Day project. I worked on it for 369 (my brotha!) days straight and never missed a day. It was an incredibly productive year, if otherwise meaningless. It was tiring …

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Nightwing

Old school, disco Nightwing. I don’t care, I dig the costume. I also forced myself to draw this since I’ve been completely unproductive, unmotivated and unwilling to work on anything.

Hell, Blazed

NOTE: I wrote this about the loss of the comic HELLBLAZER and what that book means to me. However, since then, I have gone through a much worse and meaningful loss – the loss of a pet. Max was a fat, quirky stray cat who came to live with my parents about six or seven …

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