A Podcast for the End of the World!
I forgot to grab the camera out of the bedroom before the wife went to sleep… So tonight instead of a picture of the Cyclops drawing I just did you get some older drawings of mine that I have saved on the Hard Drive…
To maintain the Mutant trend we will start with a couple of Mutant Sketch Cards.
Finally feeling better and getting caught up. So you get two Mutants today. I will try to stay on track the rest of the month…
I first started reading the X-Men right before the X-Tinction Agenda (#264 is where I started buying it monthly.) I was one of the fanboys who thought that Gambit was awesome when he first showed up in the comics. Still do. He would be in my top five X-Men I think.
Wolverine on the other hand… I never really cared for back then. He has grown on me some, but I still think he is over used and not the best character out there…
Still not feeling great. Here is the picture for today…
So as Fall here in September, I thought Fall of the Mutants would be a good name for the sketch a days this month…
I have no plans to put color to these this time, but that might change as we go…
We start off with Longshot.
So lets start the month of the X-Men out this way…
This has always been one of my favorite comic covers.
4 piece sketch card set I did for fun on a plane trip to keep my mind off the fact that I was in the air…
recreation of the Jim Lee gate-fold cover of X-MEN #1
I will admit when this comic came out I was at the top of my Fanboyness and I bought all five covers! (Three of the gate-fold version)
Recently on Facebook a friend of mine posted that his son had asked what his top ten favorite comic book stories where. When I saw the post my brain automatically kicked in and I had to make a list of my own!
The Rule I made was I had to list the first ten storylines that I could remember really liking. Logic being that the ones I thought of first would be the ones that I had liked the most…
XMEN BOOKS – Xtinction Agenda
This was the first major cross-over storyline I read and collected in a comic. I had been collecting old issues for a while but had just started picking up X-FACTOR after finding out that it was spun out of the last issue of New Defenders. Really dug the story. It was the underdogs and against the evil in a expanded story (Nine issues total, three each from New Mutants,X-Factor and Uncanny X-Men). It was a good story with a strong start and end. Something that is missing in the crossovers of today where the story idea is forced into every title from the publisher no matter if it works or not.
Batman Eartquake in Gotham storyline– Cataclysm, Aftershock, No Man’s Land
I always love disaster movies… so how could I not love disaster comics? I loved this era of Batman comics, but thought it sadly took a dive right after and was many years before it came back…
Wolverine : Old Man Logan
End of the world story… What more needs to be said?
DC: New Frontier
Darwyn Cooke.
Annihilation and Annihilation : Conquest
DNA make the Marvel Cosmic books cool.
Batman: Contagion
A Batman Virus story. I love reading about virology. I love virus stories…
Bone
Jeff Smiths epic tale. I love Epic Tales and this is one that ranks with the best.
Kingdom Come
I have to admit this one makes the list mainly for the art.
Usagi Yojimbo – GrassCutter
It was hard picking just one Usagi Story. While they are all epic, this one makes the top as one of my favorites.
Mage – Hero Discovered/Defined
Seems most of the stories that made my list are Epic Tales. Mage, a retelling of the Arthur myth is another one. Parts one and two of a trilogy , I like many Matt Wagner fans await the final volume of this tale.
Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck
One of the best epic stories ever told. Detailing the life of Scrooge McDuck this tale combines Don Rosa’s Masterful art with his ability to tale wonderful and funny tales.
I really really liked X-Men : First Class. It is one of my favorite comic movies. Because of that I am really getting hyped to see the next one and this little mock-commercial from Trask Industries(The manufactures of the Sentinels) has just fed into that. Little marketing things like this are one of the great things of the internet!
GODFATHER III is a decent flick.
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