It just occurred to me I’ve never read a comic with Falcon in it. It also occurred to me that he sorta became the main character of the newest Avengers cartoon, and that he’s awful in it and that show is fucking terrible.
My interest in Captain America 2 just took a dive.
And this drawing is pretty bad, too.
Fuck you, Falcon. You ruin everything.
One of the Daughters of the Dragon, she’s a Hero for Hire and, like, one of THE supporting characters of the entire Marvel Universe. I’ve always enjoyed her and Coleen Wing’s appearances and their DoD mini from around 2004/05.
I was really looking forward to drawing her all month, so I saved her for the end.
I think I wrote about Brother Voodoo when I did a redesign of him back in October. So I won’t go on here. I did want to try something different with this sketch. And I did. Good lord, I’m tired.
I kinda love this character, but even though I drew his New 52 look here, I didn’t read his New 52 book. He appeared once in Earth 2 before I dropped that series. It’s too bad. He was a great character. Fuck DC.
So, because I am a 35 year old man, I spent my Saturday even with my pal Jason, drawing cartoon characters and we watched the movie C.H.O.M.P.S. a family comedy about a superpowered robot dog starring Valerie Bertinelli from 1979. It was fantastic in the worst way possible. I loved it.
I am having an excellent past few days. Part of that was meeting up with some friends of mine to get some steak last night. I’m not usually one to go out on a Friday night, but I’m also not one to turn down steak. So, when the hostess told me there was going to be a 45 minute wait, I took the beeper buzzer thingy, went to my car – where I am trying my hardest to keep a sketchbook and pencil or pen in my glove box – and doodled this while waiting. I have read only a handful of comics with Cloak & Dagger, and most of those have been the Ultimate versions. I did read a one-shot where for some reason, they were X-Men.
So while my weekend is going well, someone else’s most likely isn’t going as well.
Bill Mantlo is the creator of Cloak & Dagger. He is also the creator of Rocket Raccoon, who will soon be featured in a major motion picture and reap a ton of profits for Marvel Comics and Disney. Back in 1992, Mantlo was in a tragic car accident that left him with severe brain trauma. You can read all about his life here, but it is a tough thing to get through. Despite the amount of money Marvel/Disney will be gaining from Mantlo’s creation and imagination, he won’t be seeing any of that either. Sure, it’s true that there’s nowhere in his old contracts that states he should get anything for multi-media uses of his creations – work for hire creations that he does not own any rights to – but that doesn’t make it right. I’m a cynic, and I know Marvel won’t be doing anything to help Mantlo out. They haven’t yet, and honestly, they don’t owe him anything. But we’re all humans, and we’re all comic fans. Mantlo’s lengthy list of credits surely include something that you’ve enjoyed or even loved.
That said, consider donating some money to the Bill Mantlo Support Fund, and I’m sure every little bit helps. I will be donating 10 bucks, basically the cost of the ticket I’ll buy to G.o.G. It’s not a ton, but it’s all I can afford, and it can’t hurt.
The other black guy from Youngblood. If I remember the 1st issue correctly, he was the leader of the “away” team. He’s basically Iron Man. I looked up reference, and the guy had 90 different armors, depending on the panel he was in. But I saw a cover where he had an eyepatch, so I added it here.
From Peter Milligan & Mike Allred’s brilliant X-Force/X-Statix. I don’t remember what happened to the cast of that book at the end. I’m guessing dead. I also don’t know why this Dennis Rodman-y character was called “Anarchist”. He was never very “anarchic”.
Enjoyed this character’s turn in the original Young Avengers run, but I’m not sure what happened to him afterward.
Speaking of America, I watched American Hustle. Some really good acting couldn’t save this movie from desperately wishing it was a Martin Scorsese film, and in the process forgetting that the unlikeable characters and convoluted plot were turning it into a dull turd.
Bishop is probably the key component of the downfall of the X-Men books in the early 90s, even moreso than Cable. Not that he was a bad character, just representative of everything wrong with comics at the time – a character with a cool name, a big gun, mysterious and bad-ass. But nothing else. Eventually he was fleshed out, but for the most part, just a “kewl dude” with no real story, used to fuel plots that would never be resolved thanks to Scott Lobdell’s inability to have talent. To be fair, he and Fabian Nicieza were left dangling in the wind by Jim Lee & co. But no matter what, Bishop will always have the stink of early 90s in his jeri-curled mullet.
I went with Blade’s Tomb of Dracula look here, just ‘cuz. Don’t judge me. You can read my reviews for all four Blade movies here, here, here, and here.
As for my review of the animated Dark Knight Returns that I watched last night, it’s right here: It was okay. When I first read DKR, I hated the art but was blown away by the story. I must have been 10, maybe? As I grew older, I grew to love the art. Older still, I began to despise the story, not even able to get through the first chapter of my last attempt at a re-read. With the animated version, the story feels a little fresher, and trims away some of Frank Miller’s writer-y indulgences. However, it’s still the same story and it doesn’t have the awesome art to back it up. So, yeah. And it’s 2 and a half hours long.