Shenanigans & Tomfoolery

My first SKRATCHJAMS entry in quite a while. The challenge was to, you guessed it, redesign Superman. I’ve been in a serious funk in the last few days, mostly because of the quality of my art. I started at least 4 different pieces and dropped them halfway through (or earlier) because I didn’t feel they [...]

I’ve taken on some commissions over the past few months so I thought I’d make it official by throwing some information out there that’ll hopefully make the process a little easier on both ends. Check out the details here.

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World was the last piece in the Scott Pilgrim comic/game/movie trifecta that I experienced and, going in, it was the one I felt most ambivalent about. I understand and appreciate the appeal of Brian Lee O’Malley’s original comic but, three volumes in, and I ultimately felt it just wasn’t for me. The downloadable game has one of my favorite [...]

It’s not often that I finish a drawing in sketchbook and think: “you know, I really want to color this,” yet here we are. And what better candidate for such an oddity to happen than my favorite character in comics today, Mr. Wally West himself. Or maybe it’s Barry. Or Bart. Ah, legacy characters. Gotta [...]

DC’s line of direct-to-DVD animated features have been of varying quality so far. I think the biggest issue these movies have is the 70 minute time limit which leaves little room for character exploration and makes a lot of these seem like quick “get in, get out” ordeals. I think Wonder Woman succeeded because it [...]

Meet the Kindle killer. The iPad, the oft rumored Apple tablet/e-book reader, was finally revealed yesterday. It’s pretty neat and all but this is relevant to me and to what I do because of what it might do to digital comics distribution. There hasn’t been a truly viable device with which comic publishers can deliver [...]

The hardest part about making a top ten list of comics from over ten years is that you have no choice but to leave out a ton of fantastic stuff. So, before moving ahead, I want to make a special note of all the books not on this list that have blown my mind over [...]

I had fun writing my “Video Games of the Decade” posts so I’m going to make a repeat of that with a different subject matter and my true passion: comics. A “Top 10″ of single issues would drive me insane (one single issue does make it to the list though) so I’ll be focusing on [...]

DC’s big, Superman-related event of 2010 was revealed today over at their official blog, The Source. It’s titled “War of the Superman” and it’s to be the culmination of some two years’ worth of story in the Superman books. More interesting is that, as with Blackest Night, issue #0 of crossover will be handed out [...]

We’ve reached the halfway mark in Blackest Night with issue #4 this week and I feel compelled to write about my general thoughts on the series thus far. I’ve only been actively following Blackest Night itself, Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps so I can’t comment on the tie-ins though I hear they are rather [...]