"Twin Peaks : The Return" has easily been my favorite show on TV since
"Sopranos" ended, but after last night I'll concede Lynch & Frost
are testing their audience. Thankfully, I'm happy to be the hands of
two master storytellers presenting their incredibly imaginative and
unfiltered artistic vision on such a large commercial scale. Everything in this show is working so well that you almost don't notice that Kyle MacLachlan is doing some of the best acting of his career.
Which brings us to last night's Episode 6, and here's
a little drawing of Dougie Jones (Coop) in the midst of revealing some important information his boss has yet to discover the magnitude of.
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I'll probably keep drawing Kirby characters on and off until the King's 100th Birthday on August 28 and here's another. The all-ages winner in my Best of 2016, "Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur" seems to be continuing into a 3rd year. It's really nice to see Artist Natacha Bustos taking over cover duties with issue #19. Still, I hope we see former co-writer and cover artist Amy Reeder do some more Marvel work in the future. Her covers set the tone for the series' monster movie scale and she had a really good sense of story potential for older established characters like The Thing & Dr Strange and some of the new school heroes like Ms Marvel & Hulk (Amadeus Cho).
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The High Evolutionary is one of Kirby's less popular creations at this point, yet his whole character premise as a perfectionist who regularly destroys the very civilizations he creates seems ripe for a modern day spin beyond the fleeting excellence of Rick Remender & Daniel Acuna's second volume of "Uncanny Avengers". He's a dynamo of design whom I've never seen a bad version of, but he's never looked more iconic to me than when drawn by Keith Pollard on the "What If..." cover referenced below. Oh, and I loved when he met ALF in that faithful summer of 1988...
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Oh, the agonies and ecstasies of life as X-Man, Scott Summers... He's had his ups and downs, especially in recent years, but he's never been the hippest square this side of Captain America and Superman since his 1990s iteration. And why not? This was post-"Inferno", the time of the animated series, and everything leading up to him and Jean tying the knot in 1994.
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First of all, thank you to anyone who came by to see me at last week's Seattle Punk Rock Flea Market. Your interest and kind words made for a great first time experience at this local event.
Well, as a kid I fell off of Mark Gruenwald's Captain America run somewhere after Steve's legendary clash with John Walker aka The Captain aka USAgent in #350. Had I just held on five and a half more years I'd have read of Steve's era of Lycanthropy, but the idea has popped up enough over the years where I couldn't help but resist the Marvel Legends Captain America with a switchable Cap Wolf head when it was released last year (revolver courtesy of a Simpsons' Snake figure in photo).
While looking into Cap Wolf I was shocked to find that Gruenwald's run was 135 issues (307-422,424-443) and 10 years long (1985-1995) all told. That's quite a run, and one with some obvious ups and down if you peruse the covers on GCD. You gotta love the timely pun of the story title in 1992's #405. "Dances with Werewolves", what gold!!
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It's been too long since I sat down and scanned some artwork. Luckily, half of these ended up looking pretty okay.
Leading is Monica Rambeau in a Captain Marvel Costume redesign. I loved her in the Stern/Buscema Avengers run, but she was at her best in Warren Ellis & Stuart Immonen's Nextwave. A selfless hero and a natural leader, she brought some levity and veteran wisdom to the team in that book...
Next, there's a drawing of wolves I did with all technical pen and tried to keep pretty loose. Everthing else is sumi and white acrylic.
This third Daredevil drawing isn't very interesting. I was going for Romita but it just didn't work, so I tried to recreate the color scheme then colorist (and future artistic superstar) Javier Rodriguez employed on Mark Waid & Chris Samnee's DD run to at least salvage the piece. It doesn't make it any more dynamic, but I think it evokes the era nicely.
Lastly, here's a duel between a warrior and a ghoul. This was a speed drawing, but I almost wish I'd given it some more time and sharper inks.
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