Comic Day from Hell!!!! But that's a good thing :)

Guess how much I spent on fkn comics today. $40!!
The best of the bunch was Amazing Spiderman 512. Gwen Stacey got it on with Green Goblin! Holy Cow was my jaw on the floor. I think anyone reading the series saw this coming but it was still very shocking. Especially that she gave it up willingly. The end of the issue has a great scene of Peter Parker flipping out as he imagines Gwen and Norman "knock'n boots"(dam that's old :) while realizing Norman was her first. The dialogue and interaction between MJ and Peter was great. I think Straczynski is one of the few people able to pull something like this off without it coming off like a "Clone Saga" event.

Flash 214 is a must if your following Identity Crisis. It picks up right after the fight with Deathstroke where Flash was stabbed through the chest. Last issue of Green Lantern, #181, also came out. It was great but didn't really feel like an END. Kyle decides to fly into space and search for his destiny. Where the hell is Hal already geez. Catwoman - When in Rome #1. Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale go back and continue the story that put them on the map only this time following Catwoman instead of Batman. Good stuff. Doctor Spectrum #2 Great companion series to Supreme Power by the man Straczynski. Batman/Superman #12 how many months late is this? We all should know by now that Turner cannot handle a monthly book. It's worth it when they ship tho. Some great "Super Hero" moments in this issue. Batman getting eaten by a giant dog then killing it from the inside. Superman busting out a Kryptonite ring to kick Supergirls azz. But best of all .... Batman beating Darkseid!!! This kind of takes Bats to another level. He's beaten Superman and many super heads ...but Darkseid! Awsome. Then I picked up all the new 2099 books (4) by Kirkman and the new Wiz mag.

For the Liefeld challenge I've started working on ideas for Diehard. Ok check it out.

Diehard has been around since the World Wars. He has had many incarnations and reappeared on various teams. He is the quiet Warrior who is the symbol of our nation. I had the idea that Diehard isn't a person but instead a program. Like Windows. Only the program is of the ultimate soldier. In the same way Windows is installed on hardrives, Diehard is installed onto brains. Then the brains are inserted into the latest cyborgs and robots. When ever a Diehard dies it's brain is retrieved and the data is collected, analyzed and put back into the program. By doing this:

1. The Diehard AI learns from its mistakes
2. The Diehard AI stores all of its memories. This helps the program to seem like one person who is simply living a long time and surviving all battles.

This idea needs a little more fleshing out tho. For instance how could they have this program started during the world wars? Perhaps a situation like when Captain America was unfrozen only his body was destroyed but his brain intact? Don't know. I've started sketching out some droid Diehards and will post them later. I've been thinking of doing some sequentials to get all of these ideas together because this is alot to cram just for a jam.

okokokok I fkn rambled enough
I put some pics up HERE. I don't really like the interface and layout of the site so I may look into different moblog sites. There's a pic of my sister and niece there.

Deun

Cellphone Pics

At my job the guys bathroom is always crappy. The bowl is always yellow and people toss paper everywhere except the toilet. On the wall there is a piece of plastic that is where the toilet liners are supposed to be. It has become a kind of bathroom message board. Remember in highschool there were messages of girl's phone numbers or "blank" was here. Well instead this board is filled with things like...

Bush will Win
Kerry fkn flip flopper
various racial slers
Here is a pic. Its hard read but you'll get the idea. I'll try to get a better pics that are legible. I've never contributed until I started seeing these Pro Bush statements. I put Pro Nader stuff :D


and here are the kids. My 2 nieces and nephew.
Anthony

GiGi

Arianna


The girls are in car seats because that day I was hanging out with my sister checking out costumes for Halloween. Gigi wants to be Donkey from Shrek! My sister wanted her to be a princess or something like that. It appears my plan to make her a lesbian may be working.

Sketches cont..

And here is the character that sparked these ideas. Shaft. He has been a staple of almost every Youngblood team. So I wanted to do the opposite. After years of playing the good soldier and following orders he's had enough. His heart had become stone after years of killing. He had no problems leading new heroes to their death, replacing them, reorganizing, and leading newer heroes back into battles. It was the system and the orders where simply passed down to him. He learned not to get attached. But he had an awaking. In the battle that paralyzed Sentinel and shattered Badrock. When he nearly lost the two people he considered family he realised he was just a puppet. The memories of the many heroes he'd seen die flooded his mind. He had tryed to forget the things that made him laugh and smile. The things that horrified and scared him. But he was awake now. I pictured him going RAMBO style into the jumgle. "Fuck the government", he thought. The government invested too much money into him to just let him run away tho. With many heroes still taking orders without asking a single question it should've been easy to retrieve him. Should is important word there. And so our adventure begins.

Here are the pics.



and that's where I am with that :)

Sketches

Here are the sketches for the Rob Liefelds characters redesign Challenge I mentioned in the previous post.

At first I was going to do something with the character KABOOM!. He was not created by Liefeld himself so I couldn't use him. I did this sketch anyhow when I was getting ready to start.


Here is the character Sentinel I described


Here is Badrock. I wanted him to look damaged from years of battles. In the particular battle that left Sentinel paralyzed, Badrock's arm was shattered. To everyones surprise his human form was revealed. After years of being trapped in rock he could "Feel". He quickly begged the doctors to try to remove the rest of his rock skin but they couldn't. Instead they created attachments to protect the arm. Now he has abandoned guns and cannons and rushes headlong into battle hoping to crack open more of his rock shell. In the first pic I was still experimenting the second pic is the whole idea.



....2 be cont..

Been Busy :(

I finished the Ironman page. The project was scrabbed because we didn't have enough people involved so unfortunately the page won't be inked or colored. I wanted to add a couple little details to the page but for now its complete.


I shaved my head a couple weeks ago and my hair is just starting to grow back in. The fams is cool and everything's going alright.

I've started working on a comic called THE UNKNOWN with my buddy Terrance. I'm thumbnailing the pages right now as well as redesigning the characters and coming up with a style for the book. Visually I hope to make it fun like J. Scott Campbell or Art Adams' art only more urban.

I've also joined the Rob Liefelds characters redesign Challenge over at Pencil JAck in the Proving Ground section. So far I've redesigned SHAFT and BADROCK. I have the designs down now I'm working on the presentation. It's not due until Oct. 15th so if I can get those done early I'll work on another. Once I started brainstorming I came up with alot of wild ideas that came together into a little story. Sentinel was badly wounded in this story and became a parapoligic(?). I envision him like Steven Hawkings. His situation would be similar to Ironman in that he is dependant on armor to survive. I imagine sad situations where he begins to befriend women and must cut them loose because without the armor he cannot even talk. Doctors having to shut the suit off remotely because he hates being paralyzed. Lots of cool situations!! ps if anyone steals this stuff I'll hunt ya down:) ...and kill you:D and feed you to my muddaf'nfjdkjfsa :T

cya

Dan