Comics Alliance posted an article today about Gabriel Hardman's wonderful sketches on deviantART. Hardman has produced many nice drawings of classic Marvel and DC characters which need more exposure.
In keeping with our Mister Miracle theme this week, here is Hardman's rendition of Big Barda. I think he loves that Kirby headgear as much as I do. Nuff Said!
Link: Gabriel Hardman on deviantART
Link: Gabriel Hardman Keeps It Classy, Even When He's Being Sketchy (Comics Alliance).
Here's an Adam Hughes illustration featuring the Scarlet Witch, from her more heroic days.
She's looking very calm and collected after taking down that giant Sentinel. Nuff Said!
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The new Zatanna series by Paul Dini has had some good solid stories featuring the mistress of magic. What's even more magical are these variant covers by Brian Bolland. I've seen these issues selling for $10 or more at comic book stores. Here are the first four covers published so far...
Zatanna #1 re-introduces the character with the old pulling a rabbit out of a hat trick. Instead of rabbit, it's the nightmare imp Fuseli. It's a great little gag by Bolland, who used to tease us with Judge Dredd covers in the 80s. The look of disgust on the demon's face is wicked.
Notice one thing here about Zatanna: no hat! I think she looks better without one.
Zatanna is tormented by twisted visions of Catwoman, Dr. Light, and Batman on issue #2 cover, but this is just Fuseli tormenting her dreams. Perhaps Ms. Zatara should get a prescription for Ambien.
The tophat is back! But it is almost falling off to one side.
Issue #3's cover is the least effective of this set. Zatanna is in disguise, perhaps running away from a fight? No, she's going in the backdoor of her stage show. This issue featured the ghostly return of her father, Zatara, which longtime DC readers will remember. The joker on the deck is Brother Night, the villain she's been fighting in the first story arc.
Tophat is back, fully on, just hiding that luscious hair perm Zatanna conjured up.
Issue #4 has Zatanna vs the Royal Flush Gang while she's in Las Vegas. Brian Bolland can take any goofy villain and wring something out of them, and the Flush gang is pretty laughable, travelling around on flying cards. The Queen of Hearts can't wait to knock that silly tophot off Zatanna's head.
If only DC could get Bolland to draw an actual Zatanna story, that would truly be a feat of magic. Nuff Said!
I've been missing Steve Rude's classic takes on various DC and Marvel characters. Here is a nice illustration of Black Canary.
I really dig how Rude plays with the light source and shadows in this elegant little drawing. Nuff Said!
Link: Steve Rude's Gallery at ComicArtFans.
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Here is Francis Manapul's pin-up that appeared in Wonder Woman #600, sans color.
If you are digging Manapul's Flash run, you should check out his interview with John Siuntres on Word Balloon. Nuff Said!
Link: Francis Manapul's Homepage.
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In the post-Crisis year of 1986, George Perez relaunched Wonder Woman for a brand new DC Earth.
This cover for Amazing Heroes 106 that Perez did may even be better than the cover to Wonder Woman #1. Nuff Said!
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Here's a nice little drawing that Neal Adams did of Wonder Woman. I believe I found this on Facebook or the Neal Adams store.
I can't imagine this pose working as well in the WW pants suit, can you? Now I'm hoping Diana Prince will show up in Batman Odyssey. Nuff Said!
One of the greatest Wonder Woman artists of all time (and the father of the current continuity), George Perez, drew the lead story in Wonder Woman 600. Diana Prince teamed up with all the super-chicks in the DC Universe, as you can see in the above splash page. The details in the black and white inked piece are amazing. You can see several other pages of Wonder Woman 600 original art here.
Here's the final page with colors by Hi-Fi. The colorist adds a tremendous amount of effects, but there's no doubt that Perez gave him a lot to work with. Not too crazy about the new outfit, but this lead story was pretty cool. Nuff Said!
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