Previews and Reviews that are Z's Views
Today we have Sly as Judge Dredd by Shawn Surface. Shawn is an all-around nice guy and his art should be getting more attention. This is the first of three pieces that I recently picked up from Shawn. The other two will be posted in the coming weeks. Until then, why not check out his site and give him some love?
I saw Wolverine first and then the 2 Bat Men. Pretty clever drawing, eh?
And a tip o’ the cowl to Geek World Order.
Mike Torrance aka The Krayola Kidd scores a “Victory” with his take on Sly as Captain Richard Hatch from one of Sly’s most under-rated movies.
You can see more of Mike’s art at The Daily Sketch with The Krayola Kidd and his Deviant Art site. Mike is available for commissions and his prices are very reasonable.
That’s a very clever image [cover?] to promote Nathon Edmondson and Nic Klein’s new series Dancer.
Newsarama recently listed their choices for the 10 Best The Walking Dead Moments of Season 2. While I agree with all of their choices, my order would have been…
10. Glenn Meets Maggie
09. Andrea’s Dead-Eye Shot
08. Hershel and the Farm
07. The Prison
06. Ding! Dong! Who’s in the Well?
05. Carl Gets a Bullet and a Hat
04. Zombie Sophia
03. Dale’s Death
02. Rick Kills Shane, Who Turns
01. Michonne
I also would have added two additional moments:
This week we have Sly from Expendables 2 by Tom Hodges. I discovered Tom’s art through his DA site. I saw that Tom was going to be drawing live on UStream so I commissioned several sketches. Tom still draws regularly on UStream and it’s always a blast watching him sketch and interacting with the crowd.
Since we were talking about Sin City yesterday. I thought you might like to see some character designs for a Sin City game that never got past the development stage. [And don’t some of those design drawings look like something that John Beatty drew? He didn’t.]
One of my favorite comic characters [Marv] will return to the big screen this summer! Robert Rodriguez announced filming of Sin City 2 this summer!
Wow! Francesco Francavilla scored a first round KO with his variant cover for The Shadow #1. To see more of Francesco’s fantastic art, head on over to his site!
Lance Sawyer makes a return appearance at the StalloneZone, this time with his take on Sly as Rocky. I saw Lance was taking on some sketch and sketch card commissions, so I jumped on board.
If you’d like your own commission or to see more of Lance’s art, you can right here.
If these animated gifs of Batman and Robin running with Cary Grant, running from a T-Rex, running from a T-1000 [no relation to the dinosaur], running from the Joker and other things don’t make you smile, you might be in a coma.
I’m just sayin’.
This week we have Sly as Rambo by Tom Hodges. I discovered Tom’s art through his DA site. I saw that Tom was going to be drawing live on UStream so I commissioned several sketches which will be posted in the coming weeks. Tom still draws regularly on UStream and it’s always a blast watching him sketch and interacting with the crowd.
This is Dan Panosian‘s second appearance in the StalloneZone sketch gallery. His first was a drawing of Jack Carter that he gifted me at an FX Convention in Orlando.
Dan is a big Stallone fan and really gets the Jack Carter character. I love Dan’s art and hope this won’t be the last piece to go in my collection.
Check out more of Dan’s art here and here. Plan to spend some time, because everything he draws is worth a look!
Yesterday, I promised a MegaCon 2012 story about John “Hex” Carter. So, on the off-chance that’s why you’re back, here it is.
Hex was set up at MegaCon 2012 three tables south of John Beatty and I. As you can see from the photo, Hex is a big guy. When in character, as he was for MegaCon, Hex speaks in a deep, booming Russian voice. Imagine a mean, angry Cossack’s thunderous voice and then think a little scarier.
The other guy in the photo is Mitch Hyman. Mitch is a funny guy. If he heard me say that, Mitch would say something like, “Yeah, but looks aren’t everything.” Mitch is a much smaller guy than Hex. Oh, and Mitch had never met or even seen Hex before.
So it’s early on Saturday and Mitch is telling Beatty and I one of his many humorous stories when Mitch says something about his Russian grandma’s beard — and follows that up with something to the effect of, “You know all Russian women have beards.”
I say, “Hey Mitch! You better be careful what you say about Russian women and beards.”
Mitch questions a look at me and says, “Yeah? Why’s that?”
Perfect, he’s given me my in. “Because if the BIG RUSSIAN GUY hears you, he might take offense.”
Mitch cracks a smile, thinking I’m joking and replies, “Let him take offense. I’ll kick his *** if he doesn’t like it.”
“Really?”
Mitch replies, “Really” and looks at me like it’s my move.
So while returning Mitch’s stare, I yell: “Hey BIG RUSSIAN GUY!”
On cue, Hex rises to his full height, raises his arms in the air and yells in that booming, scary Cossack voice: “Vhat?”
The look on Mitch’s face is priceless. There is no way that Mitch believed that there was a Russian around, much less a BIG RUSSIAN GUY who might be angry about his comment. Mitch immediately says to me, “Don’t get me in trouble with this guy.”
Ignoring Mitch, I instead point to him and yell to the BIG RUSSIAN: “This guy says that all Russians are…”
Mitch quietly says to me, “Zablo, don’t get my butt kicked.”
I continue: “...SISSIES!”
With that Hex, in character roars: “RUSSIANS are not SISSIES!” and he begins stomping down to our table. Mitch goes paler, if you can believe that. Hex stomps down to the table. For a split second Mitch stands frozen in his spot staring up at the huge angry Russian. Then we all have a good laugh and I get them to pose for photos.
Have you seen these extremely cool fan made videos of Superman vs the Hulk? Ya gotta love how Superman is obviously based on Christopher Reeve.. Check out all three parts: 