Oh, in other news...it would seem that my (scratches ball sack) deviantART page crossed over the 6k views mark last night. How very.....underwhelming.
Original Sketch by Shon Howell
Inks and Colors by Phillipthe2
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Black Canary
Outside of a few select characters and titles, I've never really been the biggest fan of DC. Hell, I've never even read Birds of Prey. The plain truth of the matter is I like coloring Shon Howell's stuff, irregardless of the subject matter. Just don't ask me to color that My Little Pony shit. I loathed it in the '80s...and do you know what's changed since then? Not one gawd-damned thing.
Oh, in other news...it would seem that my (scratches ball sack) deviantART page crossed over the 6k views mark last night. How very.....underwhelming.
Oh, in other news...it would seem that my (scratches ball sack) deviantART page crossed over the 6k views mark last night. How very.....underwhelming.
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My wife and I call it my SPED little ponies due to the fact their eyes are alittle too close together
ReplyDeleteI dunno. I could go on a long tirade about this current generation (of kids) and their apparent lack of originality and imagination, toy companies profiting on said generation glomming onto all things "retro", etc, etc....but I'll refrain. Take any given 70-80s cartoon / toy, throw some anime eyes on it, and voila'! Instant money making abortion!
Delete*twitch*
^Ehh, I'd still say the 80's originals were derpier. Then again, I was barely minted in '83, so take my observations with a shot-glass of salt.
ReplyDeleteAnyhow, I've noted Shon/K-C/MJ's work on & off, here & there...all told, the guy(?) is nothing if not consistently productive. As I may have noted in that Cpt. Amelia pic a while back, muzzled furpersons just ain't my bag...but if any single artist was gonna change that, it'd be Howell. For what it's worth, the recolor here does a fine job (to my eyes) of highlighting that balance 'tween toon and pin-up which Howell's sketches shoot for.
For as much as I hate, loath, and despise MLP and/or MLP:FIP I did actually like his "iron horse" concept...sort of a mish-mash of MLP and various characters from 'Hell on Wheels'. Odd paring to say the least. The odds of me coloring one of them however....there's better odds on having a snowball fight in hell.
DeleteAnyway...I was a product of the 80s (minted, as you say, in the 70s), but I rather prefer the late-90s incarnations of DC and Marvel characters. I started collecting in the early 80s, but the bulk of my collection came from the 90-00' time frame when the industry giants got a little competition....who in turn thumbed their noses at the 'comic code' of old.
The bulk of my early comic consumption was 40's/60's/70's/90's sci-fi/creature-feature fare from the 50-cent bins of various & sundry specialty establishments, including the old & nu-incarnations of "Turok, Son of Stone." Speaking of whom, I recall that character & a bunch of his Gold Key Comics(R) stablemates getting 90's techno-makeovers c/o the now-defunct Valiant(C) label...and now apparently Dark Horse(R) has picked up said franchises for the purpose of new & old material alike. Talk about recirculation, though I'm not complaining in this instance.
DeleteAnimation-wise, the X-Men, Batman:TAS & Spidey toons had a fairly solid lock on my 5th/6th-grade spare time, though most of my Marvel/DC consumption these days entails back issues & the odd online plot summation.
As a merely moderate manga/anime consumer myself, I do feel the style-especially its supposedly comedic/cutesy-pie 'chibi' variant-has been rehashed into a gray paste by many Western toons over the past decade & change. Regarding the retro-toon issue...gotta admit I barely recall more than four episodes of Classic!Transformers, much less G.I. Joe or Thundercats...an authority on those I ain't. As for MLP, I've seen just enough to suspect that had I been subjected to the undiluted original series, I'd empathize with your hatred even moreso than is already the case. We all have our limits.
I dunno...about as close to manga as I care to get is Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo and that's probably because of the vaguely Sergio Aragones style of drawing....likewise, it's just about the only anthropomorphic shit I can stomach for any length of time. Then again, Sakai was doing it long before the genre was popularized. Ask any modern-day anthro fan-atic who he is and 9 times out of 10 their response will be "Who?"
DeleteOtherwise, I could really do without that pie-eyed look of anime/manga. Dunno if I wanna giggle at them like an easily amused infant...or shrink away in horror.
I first encountered the cthonic force that is anime-mugging through "Pokemon" back in 8th grade. For God-only-knows what reason, some cousins on my dad's side roped my immediate fam into a theater screening of the first movie...it's been 15 years and the cerebral scars have yet to fade.
DeleteAs for making anthro-exceptions, UY is a top-tier pick in my book. O.G. cred aside, Sakai is a solid, no-gimmicks storyteller, and with him at the helm I've found it damn easy to overlook the whole "Wait, so this bounty hunter's a rhino, and that evil spymaster's a python, and everyone else is some kinda nondescript cat...WTF?" line of questioning.
Aragones...yet another seasoned force of 'toon nature. Gotta find me some more of that "Groo: the Wanderer."
I dunno...I don't so much 'hate' anthro characters in general...it's just these modern-day OC parings that I find rather idiotic. Every year I go to Orlando's Megacon and this past one I made the mistake of asking one nondescript/unknowable furry cosplayer what/who she was supposed to be. "Oh, I'm (I can't recall the name)...she's my part liger (liger, not tiger), part Zulu warrior princess alter ego!"
DeleteSay nothing while nodding to feign approval. Don't make eye contact. Back away slowly.
Sage gameplan, that. In the event I ever, EVER hit up a convention, expect my persona to be a truly endangered species: the Recently-Groomed Casual Guy.
DeleteAnd here I am, thinking I'm the only one.
Deleteyeah but your pushing 70, right? kidding i know your only 60
ReplyDelete*roll on snare drum*
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