TMNT: A Fistful of Turtles by Mike McMahon

This is a very late entry, and they're just sketches. I did them about a month ago but forgot to post them.

Fatal exceptions, Nathan Anderson

Gritty Reboot (Robot): Hamlet by Mike McMahon

When I originally read Justin's email, I read "gritty reboot" as "gritty robot". And I thought to myself, what property wouldn't usually have gritty robots in it, and I came up with Shakespeare. I thought a scene from Hamlet with robots would look kinda cool.

It wasn't until after I did the sketch I decided to take a look at the email to check something and I saw that it really said reboot.

But it can still work right? That's right, cause now Hamlet has been rebooted as an alternate world with robots in a medieval setting that not only have to worry about revenge and evil Uncle's, they have to worry about rust. And nothing's grittier than rust.

5 minute Illustrator action! By Kelly Brown

I thought I do something fun with my wacom in Illustrator.

Stand-up Comedians: Patton Oswalt, by Josh Lynch

I love me some Patton Oswalt. Original sketch here (with speech balloon)

Stand Up Comedian: Gabriel Iglesias

So, first off as for favorite stand up, I really don't have a favorite. But, Iglesias was on my mind this past week so here it is. Mr. Fluffy himself and the little girl (don't remember her name) from Despicable Me. The idea popped into my head and I had to draw it. Had tons of fun doing this since I got to sit around and just watch standup on Netflix. Great pic for this week.

"Lenny Bruce" Nathan Anderson

Stand-Up Comedians: Rodney Dangerfield by Rich Flood

Stand-Up Comedians: Reggie Watts by Eric Schuster

 

Reggie Watts is the man.  Almost everything he does is improvised, looping his beatboxing with silly phrases and sound effects to make some remarkable songs.  He's kind of hard to explain, so here's him derpin' around, doing what he does best:

view of neo tokyo no.1 by nathan anderson

AKIRA: Great Dialogue, by Eric Schuster

 AKIRA is a movie best watched slightly louder than is comfortable.

Akira Hulk, by Josh Purple

:)  ...well, it was his hair that made me think of the Hulk (and he has that angry expression).

The original size here

Tetsuo by Adam Rosenlund

Created a few new brushes in photoshop, and used this as an opportunity to test them out.

Akira, by Josh Lynch

original sketch here

ed scissorhand-t. brton

pokemon

mr miracle and big barda

Pokemon Battles by Nathan Anderson

Rhyhorn by Kelly Brown

It's been a loooong time since I posted something.

Pokemon Battles: Giant Size X-Men 1, by Josh Lynch

Okay, so I may have cheated again this week.  I may have drawn this a while ago.  Sorry I'm a terrible person. However, Jiggles is my boy.
PS: Original Sketch

Pokemon Battles: Nidoking vs Pikachu, by Eric Schuster

Fuck yeah Pokemon.  When I first played through the original Pokemon (Red version), my Nidoking saved my team during the long haul through the cave under Mount Moon.

Pokemon Battles!: Pikachu vs The End of His 15 Minutes of Fame by Mike McMahon

Big Barda and Mr. Miracle by Mike McMahon

Only had time to do a sketch

Big Barda & Mr. Miracle, by Nathan Anderson

This one is titled "Comic Book relationships at low resolution"

Mr. Miracle & Big Barda, A Special Night

OK, so I honestly don't think I have ever read a New Gods story. I feel kind of bad because I love Kirby's work and as any comic fan would say, great work.  Any way, my exposure to Mr. Miracle and Barda is pretty limited and what I have seen is Barda is pretty straight forward and Scott, well he just doesn't always seem to get it. But here's my take.

Big Barda & Mr. Miracle, by Eric Schuster

The Fourth World is my favorite Jack Kirby story, and Mr. Miracle might be my favorite book out of the bunch.  There's so much to love: the main male character is the conscientious objector and the lady is the one who throws hands.  Also, lots of nifty gadgets and a great pair of antagonists in Granny Goodness and that miniature Hitler dude.

After reading a Jack Kirby comic, other comics just seem too refined and tame.

Charleton Heston

Inks available here.

Charlton Heston Lives! by Mike McMahon

Charlton Heston: Planet of the Apes 2001 by Eric Schuster

My favorite Charlton Heston movie is easily Planet of the Apes...big fan of that series, I own the box set.  His hammy, outraged arrogance is perfect for that movie.  The Tim Burton one was laughably bad, but the Charlton Heston cameo was fun.

Bonus: my initial idea for this theme...I didn't want to only do this because it's not a drawing, but it made me laugh out loud when I thought of it.  I need to stop reading Reddit.

Charlton Heston: My Gun by Mark Hurst

So this stems from a conversation with a friend the day of Heston's death which was something to this "quick now, someone go get his gun" So here we go, a vengeful Heston pissed that someone took his gun. Thanks Mike for the theme, had tons of fun doing this one.

Charlton Heston: "Self Explanatory" by Nathan Anderson

Cover to Cover: Avengers 7, by Josh Purple

Damn, I end-up following Josh's AWESOME cover work :) !  Obviously I did not get a lot of time to do this one, but I've always been tempted to do the 'giant stomp' move.  Thought it would be fun and quick, -enjoy :) !

Cover to Cover: Avengers 7

Originally I was going to do this big thing with shattered glass and each of the avengers and villains... yeah, I ran out of time. So here is this thing. You can see the assets here and a WIP here. Also the color might be a bit funky. I upgraded to CS5 and I'm having trouble saving out jpegs with the correct color profile.

Avengers Redo: Video games>Comics , by Nathan Anderson

This cover redo was inspired by the video game Choplifter! specifically the sega master system version which was the best version of its time. I feel like some times its sad to look back and see how much video games have changed, but than I look back and see how little comics have changed and thats sad too.

Avengers Redo By: Mark Hurst

OK so normally, opposed to some people's beliefs, I'm not really all that political. But every four years the mud slinging begins and everyone focuses on BS stances that they don't plan on following once they get in office. Personally I think this is most politicians. No one ever really focuses on big issues that are more important long term then short term. So the idea of them fighting among themselves is pretty much what this cover was about so it popped in my head. Plus I love how as Americans no (except for the good voters) pay attention to politics until a presidential election year. Me included.

Ketchup: Literally Armagetto Fabulous, by Eric Schuster

 I punted on Rich last time, and I know this idea was one he's been percolating for awhile so Superhero Album Covers is my theme for Ketchup week.  I'm more a fan of East Coast and hippy-hop (mopey underground raps) but Straight Outta Compton's got plenty to like.

Ketchup: PopMusik: Luke Cage, by Josh Lynch

Okay, in all fairness I drew this a few years ago so I shouldn't be posting it.  But it fit the criteria and I started to do a newer one but I've been handling some other stuff and so I didn't have time to really do a new one. Sorry I'm a terrible person.

Ketchup: Minions of Apocalyps: Kalibak by Mark Hurst

So with some downtime and it being a "Ketchup" week I figured I'd do the Minions of Apocalypse since I really really wanted to draw Kalibak. Here he be, and I have to say was actually a lot of fun to draw. Kalibak always reminded me of something like the bastard child of a troll and werewolf or something with his huge head of hair/fur. Kind of want to do more of him but set it up a long the lines of a happy go lucky guy skipping through flowers or something... not sure why?

PopMusik; "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders (as Alien)" by Josh Purple

Detail;

It's a fast rough draft, but it was the idea that I wanted to get across  (plenty I could fix / finish).

Since Ziggy Stardust was an alien (well, he's the human manifestation of an alien)  I picked ...  :)  .   Forgive me Rich if you were thinking of us doing a take on 'Tonight.'  I was guessing that picking any Bowie album cover would work.  To be more accurate I should have picked E.T. with a guitar, -since Ziggy's message was peace and love ( with just a little bit of sex and drugs mixed in :D ).  "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders" was 1972, and Alien was 1979 (I think), again a near miss, but why not give the legend a violent twist into the future, -Bowie was certainly ahead of his time.  Maybe the alien needs purple boots and red hair :) .

Thank You Rich, -excellent theme!

PopMusik: RollingVenom by Mark Hurst

So just went through a bunch of album covers and well this Rolling Stones cover is pretty recognizable and when I saw it I immediately thought of Venom and how his tongue is always all over the place. Awesome choice Rich, had tons of ideas I still want to do because of this.