Previews and Reviews that are Z's Views
Here’s Sly as Marion Cobretti aka Cobra. This piece was created by the man, the myth, the legend, John Beatty. You can watch a video of John creating the piece below.
If you like what you see, check out more of John’s (almost) daily live drawing. John is also available for commissions!
Frank Miller fans will be on the lookout when Marvel releases the Daredevil by Frank Miller Boxed Set on October 15, 2019. The boxed set will include:
DAREDEVIL: MARKED FOR DEATH TPB
COLLECTING: PETER PARKER, THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN (1976) 27-28; DAREDEVIL (1964) 158-161, 163-167
DAREDEVIL: GANGWAR TPB
COLLECTING: DAREDEVIL (1964) 168-180
DAREDEVIL: LAST HAND TPB
COLLECTING: DAREDEVIL (1964) 181-191
DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN TPB
COLLECTING: DAREDEVIL (1964) 219, 226-233
ELEKTRA LIVES AGAIN TPB
COLLECTING: MARVEL GRAPHIC NOVEL: DAREDEVIL – LOVE AND WAR, ELEKTRA LIVES AGAIN GNHC;MATERIAL FROM BIZARRE ADVENTURES 28; WHAT IF? (1977) 28, 35
ELEKTRA: ASSASSIN TPB
COLLECTING: ELEKTRA: ASSASSIN 1-8
DAREDEVIL: THE MAN WITHOUT FEAR TPB
COLLECTING: DAREDEVIL: THE MAN WITHOUT FEAR 1-5
DAREDEVIL BY FRANK MILLER COMPANION TPB
DAREDEVIL BY FRANK MILLER BOX SET SLIPCASE POSTER
This bad boy will clock in at nearly 1900 pages with a price tag of $250.00. (Considering that single issues of Miller’s Daredevil comics cost ten times that, this boxed set is a bargain!)
Last July I talked up the web comic Last Stop by Trey Walker and Hoyt Silva. Here’s the premise…
Time is ticking for the World’s last superhero. Disillusioned, Lincoln Adams (AKA Unstoppable) must make peace with the changing world around him—can there truly be a place for him in a world without Supers? After learning of his terminal disease, Lincoln sees an easy way out; however, the re-emergence of an old Arch-Nemesis, and a new shadowy masked figure, turn Lincoln’s plans of an easy passing on their head. Can Lincoln stop this new threat before the disease stops him?
If this sounds like something you’d like, you should check out the Last Stop Kickstarter. I’m on board. I hope you’ll consider joining me.
I got this Jack Carter sketch from the very talented Shamus Murphy at HeroesCon 2016. It was actually the second sketch I got from Shamus at the show. The first was a Rocky Balboa and I’ll post it soon.
Here’s a rarely seen color Talon drawing by Steranko who also created the character.
Source: PencilInk.
Film School Rejects presents 25 Things We Learned from the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Commentary. Here are three of my favorites…
2. We see the number 42 early on — and will see it in the film again — and it’s a reference to Miles Morales’ (Shameik Moore) origin story involving a lottery that landed him at his elite prep school. It was also Jackie Robinson’s jersey number, but “it has nothing to do with Douglas Adams.”
9. It was Ramsay’s idea to hold off on the visual comic language — word bubbles, panels, etc. — until Miles is bitten by the spider.
“If you hit pause anytime a train goes, because everybody wanted to animate Stan [Lee], he’s in almost every single train.”
What we have today is a gallery of Frank Miller’s Daredevil covers courtesy of PencilInk. Man, that was a glorious run of well-written, well drawn stories. Miller of course did the writing and pencils and Klaus Janson provided the inks.
If you click over to PencilInk you can click on each cover to see a larger version as well as a summary of the issue.
Going to the Chapel is a new four issue mini-series written by David Pepose, with art by Gavin Guidry, colors by Liz Kramer, and letters by Ariana Maher. Pepose describes the series as…
…Die Hard meets Kill Bill meets 3000 Miles to Graceland.
If that’s not enough to get you interested, then perhaps Syfywire’s coverage with more of Pepose’s discussion of the series, character sheets by Maan House (who also created the cover above) plus preview pages by Gavin Guidry.
Joshua Greathouse has a new art book featuring covers, sketches, paintings and a preview of his next series Unprofessional coming out. Enlightenment is now on Kickstarter.
If you click over to give it a look, you’ll get a glimpse of the Get Carter piece that Greathouse did for me. I’d think that for many readers of this site, the Stallone art would be enough to support Josh’s Kickstarter. ; )
That’s Frank Miller’s cover for Superman Year One. In addition Miller will serve as the writer for the series with John Romita Jr. providing the art. If you click over to Bleeding Cool’s coverage you can learn more about the series and see additional covers.
I became a fan of Palle Schmidt when I read The Devil’s Concubine, a crime noir that he wrote and drew. I’ve pre-ordered Schmidt’s Stiletto, a three part crime mini-series and am looking forward to another great crime comic.
TwoMorrows posted an interview with Alex Toth that is worth a read by Toth and comic art fans.
Thanks to SYFY Wire we can watch and listen to John Romita Jr. as he draws Batman!
Legends of the Dark Knight: Michael Golden is a book that quite a few readers are going to want. If “Michael Golden” in the title isn’t enough to get folks to reach for their wallets perhaps the fact that it will be a hard cover reprinting rarely seen stories featuring Batman drawn by, you guessed it, Michael Golden!
The 1970s stories starring Batman featuring the slick artwork of Michael Golden are collected for the first time, including appearances by the Demon and Man-Bat. Golden is renowned for his design skills and unique interpretation of Batman and other heroes, as seen in these early stories, written by well-known comics writers including Dennis O’Neil, Gerry Conway and Mike W. Barr.
Collects shis collects stories from Batman Family #15-20, Batman #295, #303, DC Special Series #15, Detective Comics #482, Batman Special #1, Batman: Gotham Knights #22. It also collects the covers from Detective Comics #625-626, 628-631, 633, 644-646, Batman #484-485, Showcase ’93, Nightwing#66-77 & #129-130 and the Man-Bat entry from Who’s Who in the DC Universe #12.
Legends of the Dark Knight: Michael Golden is available for pre-order now.
When I saw that Giovanni Valletta, an artist on the John Wick comic series was taking commissions, I jumped on board for a couple of head sketches (John Wick and Jack Carter). Because it took a little longer than expected to get the art to me Giovanni added more to the art and threw in some prints as well. That’s customer service!
