Inspired by a comment from Josh Marowitz (friend of Joe Grunenwald and listener of League Night), I decided to give Wally West a Fourth World-inspired makeover to explain that he has become a New God, which is why he no longer exists in the DC Universe anymore.
306 – Wally West: New God
304 – Lemmy
Lemmy is a human cartoon, so pretty easy (and fun) to draw. By no means should anyone take this as a dig at Lemmy. Lemmy is fucking awesome. May you kick God’s ass the day you get to heaven, Ian Fraser Kilmister.
301 – Beaker
First of all, I’m an idiot. Yesterday’s drawing should have been of a Spartan Warrior.
Second of all, I look forward to watching The Muppets when it eventually comes out on DVD. I think I’m done going to the theater.
Thirdly, I think I’d rather see a new Muppet Show than a series of movies.
Meep.
300 – Madame Masque
Iron Man villainess. This was never intended to be my Day 300 post. I had been working on a large coloring project with the intent of being ready for Day 300, but some things have come up that prevented that from happening. So it might wind up being Day 328 or something. Who knows. 65 days to go.
299 – Dormammu
It is fun to say “Dormammu” out loud. Say it. It’s spelled like it sounds. Door – Ma – Moo. Dormammu.
298 – Kilowog
Still a better Green Lantern than Hank Gordon.
I watched the two-part series opener of the Green Lantern Animated series. The story was okay, I’m really not a fan of the Rainbow Coalition of Lanterns, and this seems to be really focused on that. The show seems to be light on “fun” and takes itself way too seriously. That said there were some surprisingly ultra dark moments in the show.
My biggest problem with it is the way it looks. It’s a CG animated show, which, if your name isn’t Pixar, you shouldn’t try this style of animation. It basically looks a couple levels above “ReBoot”, which is still not good. The worst thing about it though, is that it is trying to convert the Bruce Timm style of art and animation into 3-D CG, and it just doesn’t work. Timm’s style – a style he developed over years of work and combining his influences into one cohesive look, a style that is often imitated and never matched – works for 2-D and ink. It is so recognizable a style that to convert it into 3-D causes all the energy and greatness of it to disappear. It is very off-putting to watch that particular style of art and animation translated onto dead-eyed clunky mannequins with a shiny plastic coat painted on top.
I wish this show luck, but it’s not for me.