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Soon I Will Be Invincible is a fun book, with a lot of interesting characters and spends an awful lot of time inside the head of the main villain, Dr. Impossible. This is my interpretation of the character.When I did this drawing, I penciled and inked the figure of Dr. Impossible first, then started adding background. It was an interesting way to work, and I may have to try it some on my comic strips.
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Great rendition of the Dr. I listen to the audiobook about once every summer. If you enjoy that one, you may also enjoy Confessions of a D list Supervillain. There is a prequel to that one as well. And of course the Ex-Heroes series is also brilliant. Soon I Will Be Invincible does set the bar for me? Thanks for sharing your art work. I hope you do more.
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Thanks. I got the British edition, as well as the audio book. I think I've read the book four times, now.
I have read all the D-list books, multiple times, for the first two. Great stuff. Marion Harmon's Wearing the Cape books are also top-notch. Awesome world building.
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I wish he'd do a sequel.
You should check out Devil's Cape by Rob Rogers, too.
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Awesomeness squared! Could you do drawings of anyone else in the series?
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I would love to, I just can't get a good visual impression of the others. If I can, I'll certainly post it.
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I actually might have something that could help, have you seen the alternate cover for the book?
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Yeah, I have a copy. I just haven't sketched the characters from it. Hitch was a perfect choice for that book.
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Well, that one has Elphen and Feral on it. You could draw them if you want.
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I'll have to give it a shot, one of these days. Rainbow Triumph and Fatale are the ones I have the most trouble wrapping my head around.
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Well, I have a couple of suggestions for Rainbow Triumph...you ever hear of Rainbow Dash?
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No, can't say I have.
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Hmm, what of "Friendship is Magic" then?
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Doesn't ring a bell.
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The current incarnation of the "My Little Pony" franchise?
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No, I have a friend who tells me I should check that out, but I haven't.
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Well, I personally think that the character of Rainbow Triumph should look a bit like a human version of Rainbow Dash from the show I mentioned...if you take a look at her, you might get what I mean.
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My image of her is kinda a cross between a life-size Barbie and Sailor Moon decked out for a gay pride parade.
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Interesting, what about Damsel?
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That's trickier, because she doesn't seem to have an obvious visual link to some other well-known comic character.
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Not to me, I always thought she'd look like Alan Moore's Glory.
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It's been so long since I read any of those. But, she does have the alien princess thing, so I guess she does need some of hat regal bearing, stuff. Her description is so much more down-to-earth, it's more about her personality, than anything else. He carefully leaves so much to the imagination, it kind of frustrating, as an artist, not to have more visual details.
I'm working on story that is becoming my own first novel. Young superheroes, because that's what I dig writing about, but I plan to include many illustrations in the thing, old school-like. Used to love the illustrations in sci-fi and adventure books.
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I can definitely see how that could get annoying. I mean, I think Damsel wouldn't just look like Glory...I think she'd look exactly like her (due to how there's very little information about her appearence.) I could offer another idea or two if you want.
Now that does sound interesting, I like young superheroes quite a bit too, the main reason I've became a large X-Men fan in recent years is because I really like the New X-Men, especially Dust. What's your opinion of them?
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I don't read a lot of modern comics. I try, but the stories are just too convoluted and it annoys me. About the only comic I keep up with is Invincible. And Empowered, but that's a whole other thing.
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I've read both, been a bit behind on Invincible but I've read all but one volume of Empowered (have trouble getting my hands on a borrowable copy from my library) both are pretty good comics...a shame they aren't recognized more.
Modern comics from DC and Marvel aren't actually a problem for me though, I've never had trouble understanding them.
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Well, I don't get every title, and they have a nasty habit of inadequately recapping what happened in another book, when they're doing a multi-part, mutli-title story arc. I was there when they did the New Mutants, which to me, is among the worst titles ever. Saying, it's not going to be all about training to be superheroes, but that's what it was. Not that there's anything wrong with that, just embrace the hero part, if you're going to do it, enjoy it!
What I've read of the New52 I've mostly hated, and so I haven't been back. To me, they read like mediocre fan-fic. It's like,"my Superman and Batman don't wear shorts over their tights, they WANT you to be able to tell their religion at a glance! And my Wonder Woman dresses even sluttier than the Mike Deodato version! And, for no adequately explained reason in-story, all the male costumes have the same sort of semi-random squiggles and seams on them."
(Any guy who's ever worn spandex will get that "religion" ref)
Invincible is my current favorite comic. It's the one I go back and re-read. Empowered is sneaky. At first, it's just a funny bunch of bondage jokes and such, but Adam Warren is a sneaky guy. He terrorizes Ninjette with the body horror of becoming limbless breeding stock and then, Minf*#k. Wow. Didn't see that coming. Sistah Spooky shattered. Effing awesome.
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Out of curiosity, which New 52 books have you read?
Empowered is both a funny series and a dark drama...it flips back and forth a lot. And that's one of the reasons I love it.
My favorite indy comic though is probably Dreamkeepers, have you heard of it?
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I read a lot of the #1 issues, loved the Rags Morales art in Action (I think), but hated the L'il Abner Superman. JLA all but made me physically ill. Rushing to get to the big story, the way it did. it's been a year, so I don't remember them all. I looked at Earth 2 a couple of weeks ago and it just made me go, "Ugh." I've accepted that, for the most part, Marvel and DC don't want me as a reader. They've left me behind. It's okay, it helped push me into doing my own thing for awhile. I'll do my own thing, again, someday.
No, I haven't seen Dreamkeepers.
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I actually like a few of the books, did you happen to read Static Shock?
You might want to try it, in my opinion it may be the most epic indy comic I've ever read...I mean, Invincible is great but Dreamkeepers' artwork alone is way better than most of the things I've seen in any medium.
What's your opinion of Alan Moore though?
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I've been reading Moore since Marvelman. Not Miracleman, Marvelman, in Warrior Magazine. Along with V for Vendetta, as well.
I read Static back in the Milestone version, and enjoyed the cartoon series. I'll check it out, but without Dwayne, I fear it will have lost it's core.
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I've been reading his work for a few years now. I'm especially fond of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, what do you think of it?
Perhaps, I haven't watched any episodes of the show for years...and even then I may have only seen two or three episodes.
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Yeah, Moore's kinda nuts, but he's a damn good writer. For me, nothing will ever match those early Warrior issues. Marvelman was a revelation. I liked his Captain Britain, too.
I've read LoEG, but I have never felt the desire to re-read it, like I have, say Moore's "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?" or the Superman Annual, "For the Man Who Has Everything", or Watchmen.
I loved Tom Strong and Top Ten, too.
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The only things you've mentioned that I haven't read are Miracleman and Captain Britain (for the same reason I can't get Volume 6 of Empowered) Top Ten, V for Vendetta, Supreme and LoEG are my favorite works of his, especially the latter...have you read the latest volumes of it though?
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No, I read the first two of LoEG. I love old SF and adventure/pulp stuff, so it appeals to me on that level.
Marvelman was the first "everything you thought you knew is wrong" comics. Moore took a goofy Captain Marvel knock-off and made him into a god.
A book you should look for, if you're interested in the source for a lot of Moore's inspiration, as well as many other modern comic writers, look for Robert Mayer's "Superfolks"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfol...
Luckily, it was reprinted in recent years, so you can find a copy at a reasonable price.
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You really should try the other Volumes, The Black Dossier and Volume III were fantastic. Same with Nemo: Heart of Ice.
Though granted I'm a bit concerned that Moore's making the Evangelion of crossovers. My blog explains this in better detail, I could send you the link if you want (though it contains spoilers for all three of these.)
That I've heard of, didn't think it was the first of it's kind though. I have heard of Kid Miracleman though and I gotta say...that guy makes Superboy prime look like a little baby with a temper tantrum.
I've read that, it was a wonderful book. Though I wish there was a sequel or continuation to it, that's a world I'd love to learn more about.
What's your opinion of webcomics though?
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I have a webcomic of my own, called Ad Astra ( adastracomic.com ).
Superfolks is great, but I imagine anyone under about 50 misses a ton of the pop culture references, starting with the main character's name and planet of origin.
Yes, before anyone else was a superpowered psycho-killer there was Kid Marvelman/Johnny Bates. And then came the best superhuman fight scene in comics.
Another favorite from ye Olden Dayes is Grant Morrison's Zenith. Really enjoy re-reading that one and it got me started reading H.P. Lovecraft.
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Really? I might have heard of this...does it have a TV Tropes page?
I didn't get that initially, I did recognize several references but there were plenty I missed. I found it particularly amusing to see Charlie Brown as a member of the Supreme Court.
How did he kill so many people anyways? Even with superpowers you'd need to at least be Dr. Manhattan level in order to kill that many people as quick as he did.
I can't get access to that one either. I'll have to buy the collections of it once I can spare the money for it. Though I'm especially interested in the many British Comics references, wouldn't mind getting a better grasp of Lovecraft's eldrich menagerie though.
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I started Ad Astra in 2007. It's roots are in my love of the Legion of Super-Heroes, and some ideas I had for the Legion comic, back in the nineties. As it became clear I was never going to get a shot at drawing the Legion, and I have no real desire to do fan-fic, I adapted my ideas into Ad Astra. I don't think there's enough story to do a tvtropes page on it, though I do love that site.
I kinda got derailed on Ad Astra, last fall and I haven't done a new strip in months. I plan to get back to it, but things keep interfering.
As for Johnny Bates, well, the story is a little complicated. The way Moore rewrote the story, the boys were part of a secret govt project, using alien cloning technology, to produce superhumans. Afraid they would run amok, they used a kind of dream inducing technology, from the same crashed alien ship to keep them in an induced dream state that the project could monitor and control. They based the dream world on Captain Marvel comics, after the chief scientist found a copy in the mess one day, where a semi-literate soldier had left it.
Things went on, reasonably well, for years until the boys started rejecting the world they were being fed. It became harder and harder to keep them under control, so it was decided to pull the plug on them. But, how do you pull the plug on supermen? You wake them up with a mission to go fight the bad guy. So, they fly off to fight Dr. Gargunza, they're nemesis out over the North Sea. There's some kind of airship out there and, as they approach it, Young Marvelman charges ahead, but Marvelman hesitates, sensing something wrong, and Kid Marvelman veers away just as an atomic bomb goes boom. Young Marvelman is killed. Marvelman is injured, because the radiation triggers his change back to young Mike Moran, and he falls into the sea. Johnny got away.
Johnny never changed back to normal human. He stayed super for twenty years and grew up superhuman with no adult supervision that could make him do anything he didn't want to do. He got strongest and smarter.
Mike Moran grew up, but he had amnesia. He'd washed ashore, badly injured and forgot all about his magic word and flying and all that. Twenty years later, he tarts having headaches and nightmares. He dreams of flying and blinding flares of light and a word that he can't quite make out.
Good stuff.
One of the things I like about Lovecraft is that hs gods and monsters aren't really evil, or good, there's no good/evil dichotomy in his stories. Things don't eat you because they're evil, they do it because you're food and they don't care that you don't want to be eaten. They're malevolent, the way a hurricane is. It was later writers, working in his mythos who added all the good/evil childishness to the mythos. The idea of creatures that just don't care if they step on you is much scarier, to me.
Yeah, it took me awhile to catch all the British comics refs in Zenith.
Shoot me an email at joe@heroblog.com
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May I have a link?
AHA! So that's where Moore got that idea for that one issue of Tom Strong, I see he parodied his past writing then.
Still though, that certainly has to be rough, I can kinda see how Kid Miracleman went mad...but this certainly doesn't excuse he murders.
Would it be a good idea to make a mutated human who is to the GreatOld Ones what they are to humans?
That's what initially interested me...I love comics with massive amounts of cameos and fiction references...identifying them is what I enjoy the most. Did you read Mark Millar's run on the Authority?
Certainly, should I continue this thread in it?
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My comic is www.adastracomic.com, the foundation for which is www.heroblog.com.
Yeah, shoot me an email.
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Alright, I'll send you one in a sec. The title used for it will be deviantART, that's how you'll know who's e-mail it is.
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Thanks! I wish I could get a better handle on the other characters, I think it'd be fun to do a Champions group pic.
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I think this is the only pic of Dr Impossible on DA..rather sad becasue in a weird way i find we are all doctor impossibles.....
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I haven't looked for any other "Soon I Will Be Invincible" art. I wish the book had sold better, I really enjoy it and hope other people discover it.
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so far this is the only Dr Impssible art on DA
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I wish I could get a better sense of the heroes' costumes. I just can't get a visual on them, for some reason.
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well it gives a pretty good description of Stormcloud's (Damsels father) but i was not interested in the heros that much i found the villains more compelling
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Some of the others are described pretty well, but they just don't translate into pictures when I try to work on them. And don't get me started on Fatale. That kind of cyborg is just outside my ability to visualize and depict. A lot of the other costumes are kinda generic, described like sportswear, more than iconic costumes.
I'm reading another book based on the villain called "They Tell Me I'm The Bad Guy" by R. D. Harless. Haven't finished it yet, but so far it's pretty good.
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i'll have to check it out...i worked on a story once called "so im called mad?" its basiclly the same thing told through the veiw of a super villain
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