When I was a kid I lost my yellow Batman wallet. Years later I found one on eBay and snapped it up--and now I have this thing taking up space in my life.
I have since come to the conclusion that with most things--if I DON'T buy it--I regret it forever and if I DO buy it--I regret it forever.
Savage Dragon #271 went on sale today--or not--depending on which distributer your local store uses. Lunar is Image's primary distributer and they got books into stores today. Diamond buys Image books from Lunar and those copies will be in stores next week.
Michael T. Gilbert shared Alex Niño's three stabs at a Captain Fear splash page on Facebook. Alex went with the third one but it's interesting to see his thought process here. All are wildly different. I would have been thrilled to have composed any one of these.
For the record--I would have gone with this. The one Alex settled on is nice but breaking the picture into smaller panels doesn't set the scene as well. There's no sense of place or distance. We don't know how far away the ship is or know where these characters are in relation to it.
I have a love/hate relationship with Neal’s work. Sometimes it’s super effective and sometimes it is really trying too hard to be clever or characters flail about looking somewhat broken. This, to me, is more strange looking than clever.
Okay--I have Savage Dragon 271 comps and at the risk of the most banal spoiler possible--the printing in my copies with the red cover have numerous pages where the Cyan plate was way too oversaturated. Here's an example (and there are plenty of others but I don't want to post anything TOO spoilery).
The top image here is from the BLACK cover (and the interiors of the PURPLE cover look much the same)--the bottom from the RED cover. I don't know how the rest of the run looks--the ones in my local store look fine--but I am curious to know how YOUR copies look.
The one thing Adams didn't take into account was that various papers configured the strip in different ways. In some paper the strip would have looked like THIS and the hidden head was completely lost.
I drew an alternate cover for Free Agents #1, a book by Fabian Nicieza, Kurt Busiek and artist Stephen Mooney! It’s based on the cover to FantasticFour #25 by Jack Kirby and George Roussos.
Donald Trump has 44 former Cabinet officials.
It's insane for any president to have anything even close to 44 Cabinet officials in one term.
But Trump had 44.
Of those, only FOUR have endorsed him in 2024.
His own VP won't endorse him.
This is unprecedented.
Comparing double-page spreads from Savage Dragon #193 and #194. The top was drawn at the standard comic book dimensions (15¾ x 20)--the bottom was drawn "twice up" (22 x 28)--check out how much more detail can be packed into the larger spread.
It’s that time of the month again where I have to rule out paper so I can draw pages. One of the pitfalls of working twice up is that nobody prints up paper that size.
