^getting ready for san diego comic-con so have a lot on my mind right now and too much on the plate. stopped to write this entry though because there have been some fun and goofy moments in the interim.
the week before thien rummaged the morgue and found an old
"new" teen titans comic with marv wolfman writing and george perez on pencils. i totally forgot i'd even read
the teen titans as a kid, but this issue made it all come back in a horrifying and somewhat comical (i mean funny) wave of nostalgia. i remembered the cover of this issue because beast boy was a cute koala on the cover.
i plopped down on the couch and read through the issue. i laughed my ass off. the dialogue was (is) so creative and hilarious. i mean, i'd
love to have my own computerized voodoo fetish that can sinc with people's cell structures, who wouldn't? it's a fetish that you can spray! wait, did i get that right?
so one thing leads to another, as they say. over to
comic relief and bought a stubby stack of trade paperbacks.
robin, batman, batwoman, gotham central. i didn't know anything about these books except for what i've seen in the movies. that and oh! a 45rpm book record of
Batmam vs. ManBat that i used to listen to when i was, like, eight.
gotham central was so good i read it front to back
twice without putting it down. everyone who worked on that series has mucho talent, and i'm now a big fan. a few years ago someone joked that if i had married
michael lark my name would be
lark lark. i never thought much of it since i didn't know his work, but now that i do, i think i'd be fine with that name. thien says he finds possibility of being
thien lark also enticing. in an alternate reality, pham. you'll get your chance.
though the kid in me would
love to draw superhero comics (for myself or otherwise), i can't afford trying it now. mostly, i'm not all that good at it, though i could practice and probably get into the style of super-art eventually. but also, and in turn, this would throw a monkey wrench in the comic projects that i've got going on now, they're not supposed to look superheroey at all.
so for now and probably a long while yet, i'll remain a fan, one who is cheered up by superheroes and outrageous dialogue and the occasional innovative storyline. thanks to the hubs and my friends who keep me up to date with all the Marvel, DC, Transformers and all other non-indy nonsense going on. it's all good fun.
in between drawing toughies wolverine and punisherjerome opena draws a kookaburra for me!(guess where it's going!)art + diversity = a good thing***
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