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The Work in Progress color version of the cover of X-Men #10 featuring Wolverine, Spider-Man and the Lee-zard!Colored in Photoshop CS3 with a Wacom Intuos Graphics Tablet.
Inked by Rachel Dodson over my pencils drawn on 11 x 17 Marvel Cover stock with Light Blue and HB Pencil.
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Thanks - the issue hasn't been drawn yet so I just winged it on the Lizard.
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He looks cool, though
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"Life isnβt divided into genres. Itβs a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography, if you're lucky."- Alan Moore
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Whoa, that is cool. I love your covers.
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So the lizard just hangs around nekid latelly?
Awsome work Terry, and congrats on getting back on doing interior work in the X-men book.
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Thanks!
I just drew the Lizard that way for the cover - I have no idea what he looks like in the inside of the book.
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That's the mildest of his recent changes. He also rapes women and eats his children.
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o_O U
I'm speechless, sh**...(though I think now the nakedness makes some sense but...)
damn, I thought of Curt of a Jekyll/Hyde character, I know he was in jail recentlly, but daamn, that's taking it a bit too far...
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Agreed. But then, the Spider-man books have been on a steady decline since One More Day.
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DUDE! SHED was amazing! I learned to read on Spiderman, the Lizard is one of my favorite villains, and this, The Grim Hunt and a few other recent stories have been some of the best Spidey stuff since Civil War.
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...He RAPED a woman and ATE HIS SON. That's not good writing, that's visceral gore for cheap shock value.
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I think you completely missed the point of the storyline and the evolution of the character there dude.
The Lizard and Curt Connors are two completely separate entities. It even shows this with the interior monologue. Curt Connors "dies" when the Lizard eats Curt's son as an act of territorial dominance, hence why the "No-no-no-no!" dialogue shatters as it happens. It also comes full circle when the Lizard realises that in taking over Curt's body he has to accept the mammalian aspects of the brain he'd denied before. Every other time he turned into the Lizard it was a fight for dominance, the lizard doing what it could to overcome Conners while Conners fought back. The whole time, he's fighting Spiderman as well...
This time, the Kraven's deliberately set off the chain of events that would eliminate Conners and allow the Lizard to take over completely. We even see in Madame Web's vision that if Spiderman gets to Curt's son, they'll be able to reason Curt out of the Lizard, but Kraven gets to the boy first to make sure this doesn't happen. It's all part of the Gauntlet storyline. If it was done for the sake of gratuity, none of it would've come back later the way it did and it would've been far more shocking visually than it was.
Also, you're putting the rape thing into it. At no point is rape even implied. It could be that she was so badly mauled that she'd've been better off dead. Nothing is said other than "she's in no shape to talk", and at that point the Lizard is still in his pre-evolved "Bite and Fight" for dominance mode.
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Oh me, oh my? Where to begin. The Lizard is a rather one note character with the same story being told over and over ad nauseum. Lizard goes nuts and tries to kill all humans only for Little Perpetually Ten Years Old Billy to talk him down. Save for two instances, Torment by Todd McFarlene where the Lizard is taken over by Calypso to kill Spider-Man and was critically panned, and Shed in which Connors has a creepy sexual fixation on the lab assistant, sniffing her and acted like an "alpha male" whenever her boss showed up to take her out. Afterward the language used to describ her by OMG-she's-totally-awesome-and-perfect-for-Peter-in-every-single-way-possible-and-the-only-way-to-show-that-is-have-other-characters-continusouly-exposit-this-and-is-in-no-way-shape-or-form-editorially-mandated Carlie, "she's in no shape to talk-pause-let's leave it at that" followed by Spider-Man covering his face and Carlie leaning over a table. What are we suppose to think? That can of wording combined with the not-so-subtext of Connor's feelings toward the woman all drive a person to the most horrific of conclusions. That The Lizard raped her. If she had been savagly mauled then say that she had been mauled or was too injured. Don't phrase it like you're talking about a rape! Billy being eaten served no purpose other than shock value.
All of this in a comic rated for 9 and up. You know, FOR KIDS! This is ignoring that Peter and Felica are now fuck buddies, flushing all characterization of Peter as someone who actuallys wants a deep, meaningful relationship and not just friends with benifits. All the while he tries to woo Carlie.
And Grim Hunt, an equally abominable storyline with rampent miss-characterizations and plot holes you could drive a Abrams Tank through. After nearly killing Alyosha, Spidey mocks her instead of being horrified that she was impaled through a pipe, Kane, someone MUCH bigger than Peter is confused for the actualy Spider-Man after putting on the costume which shouldn't fit him by people who have fought Spider-Man for years, when Kane dies he does not disintergrate like the he should as a flawed clone but instead is used to tie into the whole Spider-Totem and coming back as a spider-monster at the end of the story, not to mention Kane being shown forcing himself on a woman in the backstory, Matti Franklin killed and her corpse implied to have been eaten by Vladmir, Kane shot with a rifle that they claim is the same that Kraven used to shoot himself despite that gun not having a scope on it which this one did so the artist or writter didn't do their research or Sasha defiled the gun, *takes a deep breath*, she then says that it "contains his regret" despite Kraven offing himself having become totally satisfied with what he'd accomplished. This ignores "Soul of The Hunter" which had Spider-Man encounter Kraven's spirit who was happy and content.
Grim Hunt and Shed are two of the worst Spider-Man story's I've ever had the displeasure of reading, along side One More Day and the aggresivly clumsy and hamfisted One Moment In Time.
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I've been reading Spidey since I was three. I didn't have a problem with either story. I did see what I considered minor inconsistencies in Grim Hunt, but I don't let it detract from the story. If you do, that's your deal. I agree about the Black Cat/Peter fuck buddy thing though... with her last "key" involvement in the Spidey books being "The Evil That Men Do", her acting the way she does goes right against what that story brought to the plate.
I think you're also taking 9 year olds for granted, especially in this day and age. Have you read Batman lately? You can't exactly point the finger at Spiderman and ignore everyone else. Look at video games, look at movies, look at cartoons. I also knew what sex was when I was that age, and I think you'll find most do now as well. And if they don't I think you'll also find that they don't care. They just want Spidey to beat up some bad guys and save the day. This also kind of works against your point about Soul of the Hunter, too. How many 9 year olds are going to have read that, or have immediate access to it?
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I'm not the only one who saw rape in it, most comic reviewers have too. As for eating Curt's son, it was still gross and unnecessarily morbid, and - to me - in bad taste.
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I'm not taking a malicious stab at you or anything here, because I think everyone is entitled to their opinion. It's fine if you don't like it, I'm just saying you were disliking it from a misunderstood point of view. If it's in bad taste for you, that's fine, I'm not disputing it, but it's far from an act of gratuity if it's a key part of the story the way this one is and as a writer, I think this was handled rather well. If he'd just eaten Curt's son out of the blue, then yeah, I'd agree that it was 100% shock tactics, but it all makes perfect sense, especially if you know about reptiles. I'm also not saying you can't draw rape from it, I'm saying it's not the only way of looking at it. If you want to read it as rape, that's fine, just don't tell people that's what it is when we don't know what it is. As I said, she could be so badly mauled that she'd be better off dead. She may've hidden and been witness to the whole event, which'd be enough to traumatize anyone into a state of dementia. You ever tried talking to someone in a state of shock? "No shape to talk". Either way, nothing is said. The only thing we DO know is that Steve Wacker -- the books editor, came out and said that no rape took place. Good enough for me. And even if it did happen, I still wouldn't've cared. Some people will, and some people won't. I just don't like seeing people forming opinions without having the whole picture, that's all.
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I stopped reading the regular 616 Spider-man after JMS left so I'm really outdated.
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Well, One More Day is the reason why JMS left, because Quesada had him write Spider-man's marriage out of existence so Spidey could go around nailing other women.
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Yeah, I've heard something of it. JMS spider-man's run wasn't pure gold but being a good writer as he is, even in his bad days it was a good read, I guess it's really hard for writers to work with big publishers like Marvel because your creativity can always be nuttered by editorial mandate
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It's like that in almost any field, I would imagine - writers are at the mercy of idiot executives and editors. Quesada was just one of the worst of the contemporaries.
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Love the composition and how dynamic it goes.
Wild cover!
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Great Wolvie and a beat-up Spidey ! Classic
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The color is fine!!
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Excellent! The perspective on wolverine is great and itΒ΄s also cool against a white sky. Tough I would really like to see the ink version of this picture. There was the pencil one but I like your inking very much.
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Rachel inks the art, so I will let her post it!
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Does Rachel have a deviant-account? I looked but I could not find one.
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No, that's the rub, she never posts stuff or comments - too busy inking or not inking!
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Bummer ): I love her inking work.
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Jeez! Talk about your brutal brawls to the bitter end! Very intense! Lee-zard reminds me of ReptileCynric here on dA, only with more animal intensity and not as much personality.
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