217 – Billy the Kid & Jeffrey, the Miniature Boy
A few months back, over at Gutter Trash, we reviewed Eric Powell & Kyle Hotz’ Billy the Kid’s Old-Timey Oddities. I went into the book pretty much knowing I was going to love it. I’m a huge fan of both Eric Powell and Kyle Hotz – a resident of Dayton, Ohio no less.
My friend Jason asked me to draw Billy and his friend, Jeffrey the Miniature Boy. Well, I drew them, but it doesn’t look like them, because Kyle Hotz is amazing, and I am no Kyle Hotz.
216 – Robin
Damien Wayne, Robin IV – a character I despised when introduced and has since grown on me. I tried to make the drawing look as tough as possible and yet also look like a 10 year old. I don’t know that I succeeded.
215 – Parallax
So I don’t like Hal Jordan as a Green Lantern, he’s a boring douchebag.
Earlier in the summer, I made the observation, with the Thor & Green Lantern movies coming out, that they were the opposites of each other. Thor is an arrogant asshole from another world who has his powers taken away and is sent to Earth to learn humility so he can save the world. Hal Jordan is an arrogant asshole from Earth who is given immense power and taken to another world to become a bigger asshole to save the world.
The only time Hal has overcome his particular personality defect of being a bland douchebag is when he went crazy with grief and slaughtered all of his friends and co-workers and become the power-mad, omnipotent and evil Parallax. That guy, he was interesting.
He could even still be interesting, today, as Green Lantern. See, if, as Parallax, he had decided to try to redeem himself and take responsibility for all the horrible things he had done, and struggle to once again be a hero – man that’s a great and fascinating character. Television is full of those types of deeply conflicted characters – Dexter Morgan, Walter White, Tommy Gavin, Jimmy McNulty, etc. Characters like that gain praise and win awards.
But nope, it’s all the fault of a giant yellow space bug. Hal didn’t do anything wrong, he was possessed. Thanks, giant yellow space bug!
But it’s a good thing that Hal can harness all that emotion of willpower that he has.
214 – Huntress
Let’s see if Jim Lee made this character even more ridiculously slutty looking in the DCnU.
213 – Firestorm
I totally didn’t mean to have to posts in a row with guys with their heads on fire.
Firestorm was the first non A-List character I ever really glommed onto. I loved him on Superpowers, and it was one of the first comic character action figure I ever had that wasn’t Superman, Batman, Spider-Man or The Hulk. I recently reacquired that Superpowers figure from my friend Joe G. who gave me his spare.
I will always have a soft spot for Firestorm.
212 – Flaming Carrot
A request for my friend Jason, Bob Burden’s Flaming Carrot is a favorite comic character of his. I don’t know much of anything about him, other than he is a member of The Mystery Men, a movie that has not held up on repeated viewing, and a trade paperback worth of comics I own but have never read.
211 – Babyface and Mrs. Manface
I’ve been watching a TON of the Batman: Brave and the Bold cartoon, which – other than the many (many) musical numbers – I’ve decided is the best television show in which Batman is the star. Ever. So, I drew a couple villains from the show – Babyface and his wife, Mrs. Manface.
Other than the singing, I can’t think of a bad thing about this show. Well, I guess that it’s no longer going to be on air soon. That’s a bad thing.
210 – Jonah Hex
I don’t know why I’ve never drawn Jonah Hex before. I draw guys with hats all the time, and I love to draw guys with fucked up faces, so you’d think this’d be a regular thing.
