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... Their oldest children were at an age when they constantly boasted to one another, even if it was just about who has bigger roaches in the cellar. (Here, the progeny of Hank McCoy was the decisive winner, since they, with a little help of their father's experiments, managed to grow "their" roaches to the size of a labradoodle. Cecilia then had to shout down both the kids and her husband, because when she'd gone downstairs to fetch the jam jars, she ended up scared half to death, thinking it's the newest vawe of the Brood invaders.)... ["You don't sit while babysitting" by Charlie the Dragon]
"Doesn't it strike you as stupid, doing your son's homework? You don't even take the time to cover up for yourself! 'Confuciosornis ad. Ornithurae developed s.c. pygostyles holding hypoarchis pannae, leading many scientists to believe the obvious relation to the Aves family.' I don't even know what that's supposed to mean!"
"I'm sorry, mrs. Wormwood, but my area of expertise is microbiology. The only thing I recognize is the grammar slip in his Latin."
["There is Hell in all of us" by Changer the Elder]
It's so nice to have a little batch of geniuses, although I suppose each would be entitled to their own area of expertise... The old X-Man veteran Henry McCoy with his youngest boy, Miguel. Again, as is the case with my recent "Crusader" piece, the kid is not my creation, but an official Marvel character. If you want to see him, fetch the last book of X-Men: THE END. He's there with both his siblings and parents. Even though I assume some artistic liberties, since Hank should probably be older.
Boy, talk about the irony having a fucked up sense of humor. To finish a father/son picture, today of all days... just my luck. But it did took me a while to decide I want it online. It's just a sketch I've been working on during my vacation two weeks ago. I decided I kind of like the sketch, so I colored it inbetween commissions and other work-induced stress.
As a sidenote - I'll take a little break from art now. But I'll be back. With Rules of a Hunt and everything else on cue.
"Doesn't it strike you as stupid, doing your son's homework? You don't even take the time to cover up for yourself! 'Confuciosornis ad. Ornithurae developed s.c. pygostyles holding hypoarchis pannae, leading many scientists to believe the obvious relation to the Aves family.' I don't even know what that's supposed to mean!"
"I'm sorry, mrs. Wormwood, but my area of expertise is microbiology. The only thing I recognize is the grammar slip in his Latin."
["There is Hell in all of us" by Changer the Elder]
It's so nice to have a little batch of geniuses, although I suppose each would be entitled to their own area of expertise... The old X-Man veteran Henry McCoy with his youngest boy, Miguel. Again, as is the case with my recent "Crusader" piece, the kid is not my creation, but an official Marvel character. If you want to see him, fetch the last book of X-Men: THE END. He's there with both his siblings and parents. Even though I assume some artistic liberties, since Hank should probably be older.
Boy, talk about the irony having a fucked up sense of humor. To finish a father/son picture, today of all days... just my luck. But it did took me a while to decide I want it online. It's just a sketch I've been working on during my vacation two weeks ago. I decided I kind of like the sketch, so I colored it inbetween commissions and other work-induced stress.
As a sidenote - I'll take a little break from art now. But I'll be back. With Rules of a Hunt and everything else on cue.
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Okay, three things...
1) Now I gotta go pick up "The End", starting from the beginning because you can't just step into the middle of the story. :p
2) I'm probably going to sound insensitive for asking, but what's special about today that makes finishing this picture so ironic?
3) It really goes without saying, but I'm going to say it anyway because I'm like that: This pic is awesome.
1) Now I gotta go pick up "The End", starting from the beginning because you can't just step into the middle of the story. :p
2) I'm probably going to sound insensitive for asking, but what's special about today that makes finishing this picture so ironic?
3) It really goes without saying, but I'm going to say it anyway because I'm like that: This pic is awesome.
Well, since the McCoy kids only make a cameo appearance towards the end in the epilogue, you might want to change that idea. END is not a bad book, but it's not a particularily good one, either. Suffered a lot of punishment from the editor (the story was originally supposed to span across twice as many books, so it ended up cut a lot) and despite me being an avid Claremont fan, I don't really count it to his best works, either. Even though I loved some of the follow-ups, it's them that make the book basically impossible to read for anyone but a walking X-Men encyclopedia.
Nothing insensitive, really. It's more like being my fault for being that cryptical. And the irony comes from the fact that about two hours after finishing this thing, I found out I've lost mine.
But thank you for the compliment :)
Nothing insensitive, really. It's more like being my fault for being that cryptical. And the irony comes from the fact that about two hours after finishing this thing, I found out I've lost mine.
But thank you for the compliment :)
Well, it was obvious it took a lot of punishment from the fact that it had originally been meant to span across twice as many books. But I'm satisfied - solid, believable characters are a rare sight which generally gets punished in the reviews (so's the case of New Exiles, Peter David's X-Factor...), while stupid sex&violence books thrive for some reason. Despite being underdeveloped (or overdeveloped, who knows), I'll read this over any current mainstream title, no matter how praised, any time.
Him with Brand felt... weird. I personally disliked it. But true, my opinion's more likely based on the fact that I hated what the whole SWORD storyline did to the characters of Hank and especially Lockheed, so I didn't really give her a chance. So I guess I'll rather say I'm indifferent to it. Even though, if I imagine Miguel here being bright neon green instead... it does give me the creeps o.o
Him with Brand felt... weird. I personally disliked it. But true, my opinion's more likely based on the fact that I hated what the whole SWORD storyline did to the characters of Hank and especially Lockheed, so I didn't really give her a chance. So I guess I'll rather say I'm indifferent to it. Even though, if I imagine Miguel here being bright neon green instead... it does give me the creeps o.o
Oh I don't know. I thought it was cute finally seeing Hank find someone who loved him for who he was physically and mentally (even if she is the strict professional while on the job), i was nice seeing a joking Hank again (like back in his Avengers days). Hank had become way too brooding as just the X-Men science guy, and it was cool seeing him actually get in some action for a change. And come on, drunk little lockheed was adorable. :D We always knew he was more intelligent than he was letting on and the idea he's not just a pet was intriging because now maybe he'll be treated as in individual character again like back in his Excaliber days (Pet Avengers have helped this out a bit too).
I'm a big Peter David and Clarmont fan because they do give use more personal interactions of characters and not just always action. This for some come off as boring. I think the main thing really that hurt the END series was the artist he got teamed up with. It had a sorta...dated look to the art style.
I'm a big Peter David and Clarmont fan because they do give use more personal interactions of characters and not just always action. This for some come off as boring. I think the main thing really that hurt the END series was the artist he got teamed up with. It had a sorta...dated look to the art style.
It was Lockheed being turned into a wannabe-badass agent (which creates lots of loopholes in the original story) and the art I had the most trouble with. I don't love any character more than Lockheed and I'm far to calling him a pet, but this just stroke me as weird. I loved the Pet Avengers though. And when he shouted down Pete Wisdom back in the day =D Hank... I wouldn't mind that, I'd actually welcome the change, if he didn't swing back and forth in his moods. I mean, when they really want to suddenly change the character, they should stick with their choice, not have it bungee-jump as they see fit. It's the same reason I can't read anything related to X-23 - the writer's can't decide whether she's a poor tormented kid, an emotionless coldblooded killing machine or what.
The whole Earth #41001 (THE END and GeNext) gives me a headache as a whole, but I wouldn't call END boring, since I believe the root of the trouble with it is somewhere else. Problem is, I keep feeling we're only shown part of a much bigger picture. We can only guess what's happening in the background without really seeing it. End ended that way because getting cut (it's obvious with some of the scenes that they were supposed to start/end somewhere else), but on the other hand, wasn't cut enough. The editors and the writer gut sort of stuck between floors on that one. I believe that if Marvel gave them more time, they'd end up with lots of revisions. With the art, it did feel rigid. I'm just not sure if we're to blame the artist or the inker (or the combination of both). But I still prefer it over, say, Uncanny X-Force, which makes no bloody sense (yet has the great art of Mark Brooks). Plus, I give it a plus point for the epilogue. That actually kept me going through most of the third book.
The whole Earth #41001 (THE END and GeNext) gives me a headache as a whole, but I wouldn't call END boring, since I believe the root of the trouble with it is somewhere else. Problem is, I keep feeling we're only shown part of a much bigger picture. We can only guess what's happening in the background without really seeing it. End ended that way because getting cut (it's obvious with some of the scenes that they were supposed to start/end somewhere else), but on the other hand, wasn't cut enough. The editors and the writer gut sort of stuck between floors on that one. I believe that if Marvel gave them more time, they'd end up with lots of revisions. With the art, it did feel rigid. I'm just not sure if we're to blame the artist or the inker (or the combination of both). But I still prefer it over, say, Uncanny X-Force, which makes no bloody sense (yet has the great art of Mark Brooks). Plus, I give it a plus point for the epilogue. That actually kept me going through most of the third book.
I'll give you that. The way they have written him has been inconsistant lately. Though in the SWORD I don't know if he was any more bad ass than he always had been, but he was a heck of a lot meaner when depression and booze got mixed with dragon fire. I just couldn't help but crack up at his assaulting of the SWORD Agents who thought it was really cute that the wittle dragon with his big Jack Daniel's bottle was all drunk on the couch.
Hank lately is suffering what Storm is going through. Only so many writers 'get' him. I thought Whedon wrote him well. He was smart, but very sorta dead pan sarcastic and that was great. The SWORD was a bit...over the top on everyone, but that made it a fun read because it was a bit silly. I'm not sure what they are doing with him on Secret Avengers though the most recent one did have a decent Hank, though he still came off as a blabber mouthed know it all.
I never read GeNext because I knew that wasn't going to be going anywhere. The END series needed to be a series, rather than a mini- frankly. Too many characters with too many subplots to try to fill and follow with an artist that frankly was a bit substandard for the title. I just didn't like any of the costume designs that guy came up with. Any of them. Uncanny X-Force, I'm on the fence. I'm liking the fact it's making me actually like Fantom X (a character prior, I totally hated and thought was lame). Though, I'm not crazy with how they use Deadpoll. Though, turning Warren all evil, that's an interesting character development I think I could actually get behind (let's face it, he was always more interesting as archangel than just angel).
What do you think of Schizem right now (Man, we could go on for days talking X-Men)
Hank lately is suffering what Storm is going through. Only so many writers 'get' him. I thought Whedon wrote him well. He was smart, but very sorta dead pan sarcastic and that was great. The SWORD was a bit...over the top on everyone, but that made it a fun read because it was a bit silly. I'm not sure what they are doing with him on Secret Avengers though the most recent one did have a decent Hank, though he still came off as a blabber mouthed know it all.
I never read GeNext because I knew that wasn't going to be going anywhere. The END series needed to be a series, rather than a mini- frankly. Too many characters with too many subplots to try to fill and follow with an artist that frankly was a bit substandard for the title. I just didn't like any of the costume designs that guy came up with. Any of them. Uncanny X-Force, I'm on the fence. I'm liking the fact it's making me actually like Fantom X (a character prior, I totally hated and thought was lame). Though, I'm not crazy with how they use Deadpoll. Though, turning Warren all evil, that's an interesting character development I think I could actually get behind (let's face it, he was always more interesting as archangel than just angel).
What do you think of Schizem right now (Man, we could go on for days talking X-Men)
Yeah. I'd guess expecting an intergallactic version of SHIELD to have intelligent agents who actually must've had to learn better than underestimating an alien species is a bit too much to ask for. Anything for the sake of "comic relief", I suppose -.-
But I definitely agree with Storm and Hank being written bad a lot of the time. But it's not just them. Rogue in Legacy. Cyclops in every other story. Psylocke in Remender's, Fraction's or Yost's hands. I guess the only ones they can't screw up are the dead. With Secret Avengers... I smell an X-Force rip-off in the air. I mean, X-Force got uber-popular for introducing a badass team of mutants that deals with threats on a permanent level and working "around the rules". It's worked once, Marvel's (and Disney's) mentality orders to milk that cow dry! Sheesh. But at least they have a good scribe handle it. Brubaker's proven he can get a good job done when he gets into it, so maybe he just needs to break in a bit.
I liked Storm's costume in END. But yeah, that's about it. But frankly, Marvel has quite a long list of a lot worse artists, so in the end, I'm quite glad Sean Chen did it.
I hate X-Force for two reasons with basically the same origin - Remender's building on something I doubt he's ever read. He continues the Age of Apocalypse while making it look all he knows is the general plot and a few pages. He centers his story around Psylocke (who he claims is is most beloved character) without actually knowing a thing about her history. And so, characters who are dead are suddenly alive (Gambit), posses powers they shouldn't (Psylocke), behave like idiots (Wolverine, Psylocke, Sabretooth; Wolverine's and Psylocke's jumping the fence over loving one person on one page and another on the next really makes me want to hurt that man. If I meet him at the comic con next month, I'll slap him with an omnibus) or create subplots that make no damn sense. But I admit Fantomex comes out surprisingly best out of the mix. Even though that might be just because I knew very little about him before that. I agree with that Archangel thing, but the plot's execution is terrible.
Schism... well. Today, the writers usually start with the outcome they want and bend the characters and plot according to it, with a bit deus-ex-machinas (or, in Marvel's case, "It's magic!"s) here and there. That's why I resent the Schism. They don't end Uncanny because the plot asks for it. They don't divide the team because the plot or characters ask for it. Instead, they're restarting the series so they don't have to argue with Stan Lee about that "Stan Lee presents" logo in every issue anymore (the same what they did to FF recently). They think the Magneto/Xavier rivalry is getting old. So, who else could we pit against each other for the next twenty years? Oh, right! Wolverine and Cyclops! Who cares that their "rivalry" is taken all wrong since the original writers left the book. It's gonna be legendary! Ditto on the team's division post-Schism. It's not decided by the characters themselves, but rather "who has to go where to get the highest sales of all the books?". You can actually track the characters popularity from them being moved from title to title.
By the way, don't you happen to have MSN or Skype or something like that? Since it appears we can go like this forever, we could take it somewhere more... practical :)
But I definitely agree with Storm and Hank being written bad a lot of the time. But it's not just them. Rogue in Legacy. Cyclops in every other story. Psylocke in Remender's, Fraction's or Yost's hands. I guess the only ones they can't screw up are the dead. With Secret Avengers... I smell an X-Force rip-off in the air. I mean, X-Force got uber-popular for introducing a badass team of mutants that deals with threats on a permanent level and working "around the rules". It's worked once, Marvel's (and Disney's) mentality orders to milk that cow dry! Sheesh. But at least they have a good scribe handle it. Brubaker's proven he can get a good job done when he gets into it, so maybe he just needs to break in a bit.
I liked Storm's costume in END. But yeah, that's about it. But frankly, Marvel has quite a long list of a lot worse artists, so in the end, I'm quite glad Sean Chen did it.
I hate X-Force for two reasons with basically the same origin - Remender's building on something I doubt he's ever read. He continues the Age of Apocalypse while making it look all he knows is the general plot and a few pages. He centers his story around Psylocke (who he claims is is most beloved character) without actually knowing a thing about her history. And so, characters who are dead are suddenly alive (Gambit), posses powers they shouldn't (Psylocke), behave like idiots (Wolverine, Psylocke, Sabretooth; Wolverine's and Psylocke's jumping the fence over loving one person on one page and another on the next really makes me want to hurt that man. If I meet him at the comic con next month, I'll slap him with an omnibus) or create subplots that make no damn sense. But I admit Fantomex comes out surprisingly best out of the mix. Even though that might be just because I knew very little about him before that. I agree with that Archangel thing, but the plot's execution is terrible.
Schism... well. Today, the writers usually start with the outcome they want and bend the characters and plot according to it, with a bit deus-ex-machinas (or, in Marvel's case, "It's magic!"s) here and there. That's why I resent the Schism. They don't end Uncanny because the plot asks for it. They don't divide the team because the plot or characters ask for it. Instead, they're restarting the series so they don't have to argue with Stan Lee about that "Stan Lee presents" logo in every issue anymore (the same what they did to FF recently). They think the Magneto/Xavier rivalry is getting old. So, who else could we pit against each other for the next twenty years? Oh, right! Wolverine and Cyclops! Who cares that their "rivalry" is taken all wrong since the original writers left the book. It's gonna be legendary! Ditto on the team's division post-Schism. It's not decided by the characters themselves, but rather "who has to go where to get the highest sales of all the books?". You can actually track the characters popularity from them being moved from title to title.
By the way, don't you happen to have MSN or Skype or something like that? Since it appears we can go like this forever, we could take it somewhere more... practical :)
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