Dick Grayson : Nightwing & Robin (1)

Dick Grayson : Nightwing & Robin (1)

Spider-Woman : Jessica Drew & Darth Vader Grid Sketch

Spider-Woman : Jessica Drew

"Jean Grey : Marvel Girl" & More...

A time-displaced Jean, Scott, Hank, Bobby, & Warren have been back for a few years now, but it looks like these Silver Age versions of the original 5 are sticking around post-"Secret Wars" in the All-New All-Different Marvel U.  This is despite all but Jean & Scott having their older counterparts still kicking around in the present.  So yeah, technically Jean Grey got resurrected again as part of a natural story progression with zero stunt fanfare.  I have to give Brian Michael Bendis credit there, and that's not to mention the fact that he also left future writers with a time-displaced young Scott Summers who doesn't have the baggage of being a guy like the Cyclops we've known for the past 40 years...

I drew this when I was still excited about the beautifully drawn Humberto Ramos series "Extraordinary X-Men" but despite 2 awesome final page reveals that are almost too baldly meant to hit the reader in the easy x-feelz I'm dropping off at issue 3.  It's no slight toward the writer, he's free to pull influence from whatever era of the characters he likes, but seriously, who loved super-religious 1990s & early 2000s Nightcrawler???

BPRD's Daimio Versus The Black Flame

BPRD's Daimio Versus The Black Flame drawn with Graphik.Uk pens on illustration board.

 

 

Lockjaw of the Inhumans!!

Lockjaw : The Inhuman Royal Family's Trusted Teleporting Bulldog...

The Ultimates (2015)

While my head's still in and out of Battleworld weekly as Jonathan Hickman & Esad Ribic's "Secret Wars" rages on (not to mention the tie-ins/continuations of other stuff I'm reading) it's been difficult not to see what lies ahead in the brand new Marvel U.  One of the more curious launches of this fall's All-New All-Different Marvel is Al Ewing & Kenneth Rocafort's "The Ultimates" with Black Panther, Monica Rambeau, Carol Danvers, Ms America Chavez, & Blue Marvel.
 

Moon Knight (Warren Ellis & Declan Shalvey Era)

Marvel's Moon Knight in the 2014 Warren Ellis & Declan Shalvey Era...

"Starlight"

Old Duke McQueen & Krish Moor from Mark Millar & Goran Parlov's "Starlight"
(Composition based on Carmine Infantino's 1964 "New Look" Batman & Robin below)

"Space-Love Redux"

The 2015 reworking and the original (2006 or 2007)...

Space-Cat...

Daredevil, Homeless Kid, Dolphin Splash, & The Human Torch

Black Bolt of "The Inhumans"

Black Bolt of "The Inhumans"

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Bison on the Range

I just got back from Yellowstone and saw a lot of these majestic creatures...

God Emperor Doom!!

Bernie Sanders, Beta Ray Bill, & Batgirl/Nightwing..

A true progressive with a fighting chance, Walter Simonson's greatest creation, & the sweetest "will they, won't they??" in all of superhero fiction...

Elektra's Revenge!!

Here's a little reversal of that tragic moment from "Daredevil" #181 with reference from a Frank Frazetta "John Carter" drawing.  I just finished up W Haden Blackman & Mike Del Mundo's short-lived but brilliant "Elektra" revival.  It was such lush beautiful stuff and easily the best work on the character in a solo series since Miller & Sienkiewicz' "Elektra : Assassin".

Ode to Musashi Vs Kojiro on Ganryujima Island (1612)

I saw that my domain automatically renewed and thought, "why not update my blog more than once a year???"  Anyway, this here is an homage to the statue on Ganryujima Island, Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan commemorating the 1612 duel between Miyamoto Musashi and Sasaki Kojiro.  I just finished Vagabond Volume 12 (Vizbig Edition) & Usagi Yojimbo's back from hiatus with issue 146, so I've had the greatest swordsman who ever lived on the brain lately...

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