182 – The Phantom Stranger

182 – The Phantom Stranger
No mystical character rocks a turtleneck and chain combo like The Phantom Stranger, complete with a cape and fedora for a super-suave bonus.

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181

Ok, PANIC!: The Simpsons

Ok, PANIC!: The Simpsons
A “realistic” Homer.

180 – Impossible Man

180 – Impossible Man
Fulfilling a request for Sarah Potter, daughter of my Ok, PANIC! cohort Jeff Potter who is an amazing artist that everyone should check out. Now. Do it. Stop wasting your time with this crap here.

I used to buy the Impossible Man one-shots that Marvel put out in the early 90s, and always enjoyed them. It makes me realize that “fun” has been dirty word at The Big Two for almost 20 years now.

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179

178 – Bullseye

178 – Bullseye

177 – Scarecrow

177 – Scarecrow

176 – Red Hood

176 – Red Hood
Jason Todd is a character who serves a greater purpose when he’s dead, and I can’t think of a more useless, awful character running around the DCU for the useless and awful reasons he is. Until Grant Morrison wrote the character during his Batman and Robin run, and spent three issues pointing out what a pathetic joke the character is at the same time as making him almost likeable and badass. Plus he gave him an actual costume, instead of a just a crappy jacket. This was a well-designed, partially fleshed out character I wanted to see again.

Then he showed up, sans Morrison and reverted straight back to the leather jacket wearing, useless Mary Sue of a douchebag he is. Thanks, Judd Winnick! I’m gonna stop defending your work now.

175 – Norman Osborn

175 – Norman Osborn
I know I recently did a Green Goblin sketch, but I couldn’t pass up an opportunity to draw his secret identity of Norman Osborn, Marvel Universe psychopath, or his crazy hair. Seriously, any ginger with that hair style should have been locked up from the get-go.

174 – Dirk the Daring

174 – Dirk the Daring
So yesterday, I accomplished a thing that I have, essentially, been waiting almost 27 years or so to do. I finally played (and beat) Dragon’s Lair. This is a game I saw all the time at the arcade, it was expensive to play, and hard to play, and my 5 year old mind couldn’t wrap itself around it, so, like most things in my life, I gave up. Well, now I’m almost 33, and I downloaded the game on the Playstation Network, and it’s still a hard game, probably more expensive than it was worth, and I still can’t wrap my mind around it. But it had some lovely animation and character design by the legendary Don Bluth and company, so I decided to draw Dirk the Daring. I thought about drawing Princess Daphne, but she was perhaps too slutty looking even for me. Eh, I still might.