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Drea
by 3 months into hand-drawing the remastered Life in Four Panels, I’ve been messing around with drawing the characters on the computer.
WordPress Themes and Comic Easel Tweaking
This is going to be a post-in-progress as I try to figure out how to get a WordPress theme to do what I am imagining for this website and learning more about the Comic Easel plug-in to get the most out of it. WordPress Theme I had been using the Fashionista theme but I have switched over to the Bam theme and have been working on making small changes to it to see if I can get it where I want. Not remotely done but so far so good. Comic Easel Plug-in I have the basis function of Comic Easel …
Website Reboot
New decade, new website. I’m planning to regularly post new stories and new comics on this website in 2020. I hope someone likes some of them. I hope I like some of them. Either way I need to build some creative habits again and having this blank slate staring at me every day is probably going to help with that. The first project for the new website is actually an old one. Life In Four Panels was a webcomic I created in sporadic bursts of effort between 2002 and 2004. A lot of conflicting influences on this — a slacker …
John Constantine Hellblazer
I never really got into Hellblazer as a teenager — somewhere in a box I have a few comics from the beginning of its run in the late eighties but I didn’t stick with it. So I’m basically new to the character and its story. Luckily for me all of the DC and Vertigo issues are collected into 22 volumes. As with many of these posts, this is also a handy bookmark for me to remember where I am in the series. Starting off with the first two volumes: John Constantine Hellblazer Volume 01: Original Sin and John Constantine Hellblazer …
Preacher
Preacher is the comic book series by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon about the story of Jesse Custer, a preacher in the small town of Annville, Texas. The superhero part of it comes from when Custer is possessed by Genesis — the offspring of an Angel and a fallen Devil — and gains the power of “the word of God” which seems to be able to command anyone to do anything. It’s also a love story between Jesse and Tulip O’Hare; and a frenemies story between Jesse and Cassidy. And a giant fight with a Dan O’Brien style all-powerful cult descended from Jesus …
Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Stories
So I read a lot of Arthur C. Clarke and Ray Bradbury novels and short stories as a child. I did not read Isaac Asimov — not really sure why to be honest and something I had a nagging sense I should rectify at various points of adulthood. So first things first, I had to figure out in what order I should read the various novels and stories that make up the saga of The Foundation. And luckily for me, Isaac Asimov, included in his Author’s Note to Prelude to Foundation, a chronological guide to his stories: The Robot Series I. Robot (1950) Collection of Short …
Y: The Last Man
I never got around to writing a bookmark post for Y: The Last Man but with the news that FX is going to make a series (probably!) based on it, I want to add something about it to the blog. 10 years after the series wrapped up its run, I read it in the collected version (10 volumes from Vertigo). (I seriously cannot get my head around the fact that 2008 was ten years ago). The series has a huge BIG idea for a premise – something mysteriously wipes out all of the men on Earth, except for one Yorick …
THE MARVEL MOVIE UNIVERSE
Marvel movies and teevee series have become enormous in their scope raising all kinds of questions of how they all fit into a shared universe and more importantly, what order to watch everything in. Luckily others have done all of that work already — CNET, Collider, and Fandom Marvel Wiki all have put together comprehensive lists of the movies, shows and shorts in chronological order. To begin with, the first Captain America: The First Avenger and the two seasons of Agent Carter are clearly set in World War II and thereafter — a bit disconnected from the other movies and teevee shows which …