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Every Tuesday and Thursday since late 2019 yours truly here has been diligently hammering away at the keyboards with insights, rants and general ideological regurgitation of brain farts and concepts. If you already subscribe that's great! You're getting them already. But if you want to 'try it on' before buying, so to speak, then by all means read away below!
Really, I mean really good art!
For the most part this was a fun story to read.
This shouldn't work, and yet... it's a masterpiece.
At the end, it's a question of Jack Joseph's sanity.
Rumors of a gigantic evil dragon lurking in the tunnels of Montreal's subway have been circulating for some time.
A few new details emerge with part 3. Children are unaffected...
Mr. Truman puts on paper a very dangerous and cruel looking world.
I'll start right here by saying that this comic went in a different direction.
You may have not known these movies were originally comics.
Broken Trident has some interesting concepts.
I had an odd infatuation with underground Comix artists...
The seedy, dark underbelly of New York in the Eighties.
I ran into a problem. Albuquerque isn't there anymore.
Will Mackenzie meet her mother again? It seems a strong possibility but I won't tell.
Superhero story lines are hot now.
Nine years, and about 87 pages later they've achieved their goal of finishing the story.
This is the best comic of the year that I've read.
The Penciled Version!
The stakes get ramped up in CD 3, which is interesting.
A light in the night sky called Brightstar is about to come crashing down to Earth. Doomsday is approaching.
I can recommend three things.
The story of The Locksmith is set in NYC, namely The Bronx.
How $1500 spent is worth $340 earned.
In this case, it's the 'magic powder' so craved by the elves, dwarves, and other creatures that will spend great amounts of cash for.
The world has come to an end. Civilization is in chaos.
This time I've got a short discussion on how you get out of writing yourself into a corner: Character Sheets!
Nuriye is a Wizard-in-training trying out new spells and incantations. She's succeeded in creating a small spirit, a familiar named Shale.
Once again, it's time to share a bit of what I routinely go to on the internet.
After reading the intriguing part three of this tale, I feel like everything is coming together while everything is coming apart.
The show's subject was Orange County Choppers, headed by Paul Teutul, his son Paul Jr. and other son Mikey.
I so wanted to love White Ash. And yet it fell short.
How do you draw a circular thing in space... as an elliptical?
The artwork is a very high caliber -especially in the first few pages.
Here's five comic book newsletters worth checking out.
Happy Hill is a horror story that contains the theme of 'paths' or roads (even shoots and tubes): a conduit that leads one towards a destination.
Incognito is about Zach Overkill, a super-human crime stopper who once crossed the line and now is in hiding.
That's how many watch my YouTube tutorials.
The theme of 'End of the World as We Know It' -with children.
Who would you cast?
Everything is cold and foreboding.
A Rat Rod is pure machine.
The trick of telling a good story is to hook the reader early on.
I moved to a very expensive tiny house.
There's alternative realities, worm holes at play here.
have a new round of images culled from shows I have been watching that stood out for their expressiveness.
The legend behind it packs an interesting punch.
Not So Fair Tales is an anthology that's a riff on fairy tales and mother goose stories...
Would you believe that artists have been wrestling with this problem of 'action scenes' since the 1500s in Italy?
I loved 'Fractured Fairy Tales' when it was a cartoon on Saturday (or after school).
There were maybe a few superhero characters they missed.
Two plumbers are sent to a spooky house to solve the water problem.
I watch a lot of streaming TV on the computer.
Anthologies like these are great in that they allow new talent to get their artwork out into the world without the huge expense of self-publishing.
In 1961 to 1965 or so when Marvel was first getting started, who would I cast in a movie?
Here we go in this anthology with the next five stories:
What makes for a great story? It's not the subject matter...
Compiled and edited by Lynsey G and Jayel Draco
What exactly was a 'fern bar?'
It's well within the horror genre. And... there's a biker protagonist.
There are few artists who encapsulate the heart of the 'outlaw' side of the 1960s as much as David Mann.
'Bad-Ass' won't cut it by itself.
Indian Larry was a widely respected builder of custom motorcycles.
There's a real warm-glow aesthetic going on here, for the first few pages for sure.
The early 1970s saw at the aftermath of the Viet Nam War a rise in radicalism.
This is a comic where I definitely will be wanting to read more chapters to get filled in.
They keep trickling into my head.
Lots of mushrooms are key in this comic, as well as studies on garbage and refuse.
This time around it's all about getting that inked page ready for coloring.
Part 2 opens up, the cover promising a dinosaur somewhere in the story...
What was a fold in?
Author Erica Shultz obviously has an interest in the relationship of the three sisters.
Newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst loved Krazy Kat.
Three sisters who come together to solve the mysterious murder of their mother.
Screen grabs of shows I've been watching that would work out great for a comic book page.
We get a tale spun on a very well-travelled road indeed.
Archie Bunker or Marcia Brady. Which one are you?
Dylan Sharpe has an ability. He can rewind a 24 hour period and re-live it.
This book is like Quantum Leap meets Inception meets Men in Black.
How do I go about making sure their clothes (and hairstyles) are authentic looking?
Happy Hill is an overpriced Vacation Resort with a past.
Crucifix Executioner is a graphic novel that could have been a great work.
What does it look like to depict two people having a phone call conversation?
Two plumbers are sent to fix some 'bad water' issues with an ancient decrepit old house.
Dry, reverential, sober, clean. His people always stood stock straight. They lived in very neat places.
A simple story line, one based in believable circumstances. That's what I expected from Ed Brisson, and that's what I got.
My biker-related comic has strong ties with Spain's Trashman.
Stray Bullets isn't concerned with story arcs.
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