It’s a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. You get to decide which one it is! Whichever one is your favorite, this is it!
329. TMNT
328. Eleventh Doctor
Merry Christmas, everyone. I’m not big on celebrating the holiday anymore, but I don’t want to rain on everyone’s parade either. So I truly hope everyone that visits this blog has a great holiday, whichever ones you celebrate or don’t. One thing I am looking forward to though is the appearance of Mike Schmidt: The 40 Year Old Boy tonight on Wheel of Fortune as a contestant. The other thing I am looking forward to is the Doctor Who Christmas Special. Tonight is Matt Smith’s final outing as the 11th (12th?) Doctor and the 1st (most likely brief) appearance of Peter Capaldi as the 12th (13th?) Doctor (Valeyard?). I never really warmed up to Smith as 11. He’s fine, but, I dunno. Something about his run doesn’t make me love it as much as Eccleston & Tennant’s. I’m looking forward to Capaldi as an older gentleman and seeing his relationship with cute, perky Clara whom I kinda think is the worst companion in the entire New Who series. But a friend of mine absolutely loves Matt Smith as The Doctor, and the original drawing was her birthday present a month ago and now her Christmas present as a colored print. This is also soon to be available for sale as a print at the Art Store.
327. Fourth Doctor
It’s Christmas Eve, and a tradition for geeks is the Doctor Who Christmas Special, which airs tomorrow. So, I got The Doctor on my mind, which was super fortunate when muh pal Joseph G. Runenwald asked me to do a sketch on this blank Doctor Who sketch variant cover. He mostly did it because he knows that if I could be in love with paper, it’s the paper that these sketch variants are printed on. Seriously, it’s the best paper in the history of paper.
So anyhoo, Joe wanted The Doctor running on The Cosmic Treadmill – The Flash’s method of time and space conveyance. I knew I had to add The Flash somewhere, because to a general audience, no one would get what was happening, other than The Doctor running on a treadmill. I asked Joe which Doctor he wanted and like a Joe will tend to do, he gave me the option of basically 8 of the 12 exisiting Doctors – which is no good answer at all. I was discussing the sketch with another friend and she said it would be funny if Four was running and got the crazy scarf caught in the wheels. I hadn’t drawn Four yet, Joe had listed Four in his options, so it all worked out!
And for the record, The Flash here is Wally West. The Flash is always Wally West. If you ever see a drawing of The Flash done by me, know that it is Wally West and no other version of The Flash unless otherwise specified that it is Jay Garrick or John Fox. But you would recognize those Flashes as being those Flashes. The rest of the time, it is Wally West.
Wally. West.
326. King Diamond
So King Diamond is pretty great. A legendary metal vocalist, a definite style (if not cribbed a little from Gene Simmons [if not cribbed a little from Alice Cooper {if not cribbed a little from Arthur Brown}]), and he seems to be 100% aware of how goofy his career is, and that makes him all the more awesome.
But what really caps it is this song from his solo career, No Presents for Christmas:
Christmas is just two days away and you owe it to your self to listen to this.
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Even Black Metal dudes love cute animals.
To sacrifice to Satan.
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Experiment with a China Marker. Also, a new signature.
321. Black Bolt
Need to draw more Inhumans better.
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Last night, I watched The Bay, a found footage horror film about mutant parasites directed by Barry Levinson and starring a girl in the tightest pants ever worn by a human and it was amazing. The movie is okay. I did learn something though. Have fun being horrified.
Prior to that, Gutter Trash reviewed The Monster of Frankenstein. We’re also having a contest. Of sorts.
I watched two stand-up specials. Paul F. Tompkins’ Laboring Under Delusions and Mike Birbiglia’s My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend. Birbiglia’s show was more emotional and funny, but Tompkins is one of the top three funniest people in the world and can never be beat (except my maybe the other top two funniest people in the world, but I couldn’t tell you who they are at the moment).
Another found footage movie made its’ way onto my eyebrains, Europa Report. It’s a sci-fi movie with a touch of horror and a big dose of yawn. You’ve seen this before in a variety of other movies, comics and television progrims.
And finally, last and least, Lovelace. The bio-pic about porn actress Linda Lovelace is boring, poorly shot, poorly acted despite having a ton of great actors and despite having an absolute fascinating subject matter. Watch the documentary Inside Deep Throat instead.