A few months back, over at Gutter Trash, we reviewed Eric Powell & Kyle Hotz’ Billy the Kid’s Old-Timey Oddities. I went into the book pretty much knowing I was going to love it. I’m a huge fan of both Eric Powell and Kyle Hotz – a resident of Dayton, Ohio no less. My friend …
Tag: supervillains
215 – Parallax
So I don’t like Hal Jordan as a Green Lantern, he’s a boring douchebag. Earlier in the summer, I made the observation, with the Thor & Green Lantern movies coming out, that they were the opposites of each other. Thor is an arrogant asshole from another world who has his powers taken away and is …
213 – Firestorm
I totally didn’t mean to have to posts in a row with guys with their heads on fire. Firestorm was the first non A-List character I ever really glommed onto. I loved him on Superpowers, and it was one of the first comic character action figure I ever had that wasn’t Superman, Batman, Spider-Man or …
212 – Flaming Carrot
A request for my friend Jason, Bob Burden’s Flaming Carrot is a favorite comic character of his. I don’t know much of anything about him, other than he is a member of The Mystery Men, a movie that has not held up on repeated viewing, and a trade paperback worth of comics I own but …
211 – Babyface and Mrs. Manface
I’ve been watching a TON of the Batman: Brave and the Bold cartoon, which – other than the many (many) musical numbers – I’ve decided is the best television show in which Batman is the star. Ever. So, I drew a couple villains from the show – Babyface and his wife, Mrs. Manface. Other than …