One of my favorite characters in the cartoon series, so I went with an approximation of his look from that here.
92. Bouncing Boy
91. Lightning Lass
Lightning Lad’s twin sister. Sort of an amalgam of a bunch of her costumes. Since I had the Lightning Lad file open, I used the same colors. Twins and stuff.
Watched:
Frankenstein Unbound. A 1990 meta/sci-fi take on the Frankenstein story, it was the first credited movie that Roger Corman had directed in 20 years, and the last movie Roger Corman ever directed. It stars John Hurt as a time traveler who meets Mary Shelley (Bridget Fonda), Lord Byron (Jason Patric), Percy Shelley (Michael Hutchence of INXS), Dr. Frankenstein (Raul Julia) and the monster (some guy). He introduces everyone to cars and sunglasses, gives Mary Shelley the novel “Frankenstein” before she writes it – which is based on a “ripped from the headlines” news story that is actually happening, fucks Mary Shelley, helps Dr. Frankenstein build “The Bride” and then travels to the far future where the monster takes over the world. If anything I’ve just describe appeals to you in that incredible run-on sentence, please feel free to rent this movie.
All-Star Superman. To be reviewed by The View Masters. Soon.
90. Lightning Lad
Welcome to May and my first theme month: The Legion of Superheroes!
I’ve got my list of 31 days and 31 Legionnaires to fill ’em up with. I plan on doing other theme months in the future, but we’ll see how this goes first.
As an added bonus/challenge I’m going to color all of them. It’ll mostly just be doing flats, maybe a tone, some simple effects. Nothing fancy. But the Legion is too colorful to leave ’em in B&W.
The Legion intrigues me, but I don’t know a thing about them. I’ve only ever read the original “Legion Lost” series by DnA & Oliver Coipel (whose work in that book is amazing, and much more preferable [to me] to his cleaner style he’s been using since after that comic). I liked “Legion Lost” a lot, but never went any further, forward or backward. I also was a pretty big fan of the animated series. So that said, I’m having to look up every character as I draw them. I’ll be picking and choosing elements from all their incarnations and costumes in my sketches, so die-hards, beware.
Anyhoo.
I watched Rise of the Guardians. It’s enjoyable, but not great. Just missing… something. Ultimately though, it’s fun and an original-ish idea and it’s got a message about innocence that’ll pretty much fuck me up every time.
88. Spider-Woman
So, there’s an idiot what lives in my pants. About 20 some days ago, I misread what number the previous post was and jumped ahead. I just noticed this mistake yesterday. It’s resolved now. So instead of Sketch-A-Day 2.0 #90, today is #88. Thank you for bearing with me during this troubling time.
I’ve always had a fondness for Spider-Woman. I think I may have had a few issues of her comic when I was but a lad, long since thrown out in one of my mom’s great purges of my stuff (y’know, like my collection of Garbage Pail Kids of which I had a massive amount). I am seemingly the only person I know who remembered her cartoon series, but at least I now have proof of its existence by owning the DVD collection. Unfortunately, I haven’t really dug any of her stories that I’ve read since her resurgence in the last decade or so.
Movies:
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot. Yup. It’s a movie. And I watched it.
Smokin’ Aces 2: Assassin’s Ball. Also another movie that I watched. While it was better than S!OMMWS, it is far far inferior to the vastly underrated Smokin’ Aces, which should probably surprise no one.
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Rewatched Goon with my friend Jason and then we watched Commando. I had never seen it all the way through. It’s dumb, fun, splodey and JEPH LOEB. Also, Schwarzennegger fights an evil Freddy Mercury. JEPH LOEB!
Ok, PANIC!: Do-Over
A re-do of this. Slightly better, but still not great.
86
Yesterday was a weird day. I got half a day off work and I came home fully intending to work on stuff all day and night. Instead I watched a bunch of movies, took a four hour nap, drove around for about an hour while in the midst of some sort of nervous break down, drank an entire bottle of wine and then around midnight finally got some drawing done.
So yeah. Perfectly normal, right?
FDR: American Badass!. I didn’t even finish watching it, but I saw a majority of it. It’s basically about Franklin Delano Roosevelt (played by Barry Bostwick) who gets bitten by a werewolf and contracts polio. When he gets elected to the presidency, he wages war against the werewolves, aka Mussolini, Hitler and Hirohito. If that sounds interesting and fun, then you’ll get duped just like I was.
Nature Calls. Patton Oswalt is a scoutmaster who kidnaps a bunch of kids to go camping, and his brother Johnny Knoxville tries to get the kids back. It’s… eh.
Kuffs. Early 90s Christian Slater action comedy. I saw it back then on video and I liked it. It still holds up. It’s the movie that I learned the rule about PG-13 films can contain one instance of the word “fuck”.
I watched about half of Lockout, the Guy Pierce basically-a-remake-of-Escape from New York/LA-but-on-a-space-station. I had to stop watching so I could actually be productive last night. I’ll finish the rest of it later. What I saw was enjoyable and I liked it better than Escape from New York
Official Handbook to the Marvel Universe REDUX EDITION
Today, my latest contribution to Calamity Jon’s OHOTMU Redux blog went up.
Click here to see the newest piece as well as my past contributions, and while you’re at it, the rest of the site, ‘cuz it’s all great. Don’t be scum.
85. Invisible Woman
Moobies:
The Woman. I was going to say that I’ve seen some of Lucky McKee’s movies. Apparently, though, I’ve seen all of them, except “All Cheerleaders Die” – which was his first film and according to IMDB, getting remade – and “Blue Like You”, a short film. So I guess you could say I’m a fan. His episode of “Masters of Horror” (Sick Girl) was just okay. Red was disappointing, but he left that project while shooting it. May is creepy, sad and brilliant and The Woods is criminally underrated. The Woman is more of a miss than a hit, but it was good. If “good” can be used. A few weeks ago, I watched a movie called Deadgirl which may have been the most misogynist thing I’d ever watched. This comes pretty damn close. Sure, the misogynists are clearly unlikeable creep assholes and are the real villains of this movie (and Deadgirl), but it doesn’t make it any easier to watch. The story is about a man who kidnaps a feral cannibal woman and tries to “civilize” her with the help of his family. Things, obviously, go awry. It’s a solid film. Can’t really recommend it to anyone in general (Kathleen, you may like it).
Team America: World Police. A palette cleanser, of sorts. Unfortunately, I’m not a fan of anything the South Park guys have ever done. I get it, I just don’t like it, I don’t think it’s funny. This was more of the same. I do like the Team America theme song though. Fuck yeah.
Also Hannibal is the best thing on broadcast (antenna) television. Every episode gets better and better and it started out strong.