In honor of Man of Steel, all this weekend, buy anything from my Etsy store and get a free, original Superman sketch by me.
Tell your friends!
This man’s love of Superman makes me wish I liked it a third as much as he does. Seriously, go back through his stuff, he did a shirt a day I think from June 1 until he saw it late on Thursday.
I like his ‘toons and this is a cool deal.
Bizarro Back Issues: Superman Plays Superman In A Movie About Superman (1967)
By Chris Sims
You may not have heard about it since Warner Bros. is keeping it pretty quiet, but there’s a new movie about Superman coming out this week. That means that it’s once again time for a new group of people to try their hand at bringing Superman to the big screen, and if there’s one thing we’ve learned from past movies, it’s that this is a darn near impossible task. Even in the best of circumstances, even if Clark Kent himself steps up to play the lead role, they’re always going to get something wrong.
And I know that, because Otto Binder and Al Plastino did a story with that exact premise. And as weird as that might sound, it gets really crazy once his cast members start dropping dead from jungle diseases. Seriously.
Source: superspacechick
My friend Matt thinks Superman is boring so he rewrote him for today’s Good Stuff.
I love this idea of an alternative beginning to Clark Kent’s life on Earth.
DC Comics has handed the keys to the “Champion of the Oppressed” to a guy who has dedicated himself to oppress me, and my partner, and millions of people like us. It represents a fundamental misread of who the character is, and what he means.
It is dispiriting. It is wearying. It is also, finally, not for me.
One of the other nicknames that accrued to Superman right away – that predates “Man of Steel” by a good amount – is “The Man of Tomorrow.” And much of his early iconography bears a distinctive Socio-Realist, Diego Rivera vibe: a lot of burnished golden sunrises, eyes raised to the horizon, gazing into the future.
Because that’s where he lives, Superman. And that’s what he says to us: We can do better. We can be better, to ourselves, and to each other.
Hey, DC Comics? Be better.
Glen Weldon, author of SUPERMAN: THE UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY, twitter wit, and wonderful pop culture thinker and writer, on Orson Scott Card and his grotesque miscasting as writer, however temporary, of Superman. (via mattfractionblog)
I was waiting for @ghweldon to sound off on this, and he does not disappoint…
(via johnrossbowie)
(via paulftompkins)
Source: mattfractionblog
Hey guys.
I’m auctioning off the original art for the Newtown memorial piece I did yesterday, with 100% of the proceeds benefitting the Newtown Connecticut Youth & Family Services Center, which has been aiding the victims. You can bid on the art here on eBay.
If you’re not really wanting to bid on it, but still want to donate, that’s even better. You can contribute here.
Please spread the word. You guys are an amazing fan-base. Let’s all help these kids through this difficult time.
-Yale
So I finally watched the Man of Steel trailer.
Amazing. Brilliant. It looks like someone finally hit on a decent reboot of one of the most maligned superheroes.
But, jeez, for ONCE couldn’t they give his damn outfit a logical reboot? Do we have to keep the red and the cape and the knee high boots?
Anyway, I’m much more excited for this than I am for the new Star Trek Into Darkness movie. Sigh. I have high hopes for that franchise (I LOVE the actors), but the trailer made it look like a damn video game. Hoping it’s not a repeat of Revenge of the Sith.
Rachael, i’mma let you finish, but when I looked at that second picture I was just like “bawls n dik”. There is just so much lighting defining them, that picture was taken to show off the cup or banana hammock they had him in.
Otherwise, I’m indifferent. I done care enough about Superman to see this. That said, I have no objections going if someone else is footing the bill or of it’s free on tv. I have so hasn’t other movies I’d rather spend my money on :/
Tony Stark’s the best super-hero EVER!
It took 2 sittings over the course of 7 days, one Sunday then the following Sunday when I felt I had the time to read all fo Superman: Brithright. I enjoyed it well enough. I really don’t know many specifics about narratives with Superman and prior to reading this I had some of the same problems with the character that other people generally mention:
He’s too good, where is the character drama, he’s a one trick positive pony
He has too many powers and writers just add shit as necessary
He just never seemed interesting.
His arch-enemy is just a human, that doesn’t seem fair.
Do all of his powers work all the time or is it selective? Like the hearing and the x-ray vision
When I first got into comics i picked up a collection of Alan Moore stories that had some Superman stories in it, I wasn’t too keen on him but I read the stories because i paid for them. It only makes sense. I kind of got into the drama but it still didn’t do much for me.
After reading Birthright I know what makes Superman comics interesting and it’s not Superman. It will probably never be Superman for me, he just can’t be the interesting part because he isn’t interesting. Clark Kent is the interesting part.
Superman Birthright is less about Superman and more about Clark Kent dealing with being Superman and having to deal with it. The human connection he attempts to make are interesting, his inability to make these connections and his hiding his alien self make him interesting. As a characters, Superman shows up to save the day and gets criticized for it by other people but Clark Kent has to deal with people and is working to make himself disappear so people don’t link him to Supes. There aren’t many interactions for Superman with anyone because he’s too busy saving the day then leaving before the military or the press have the time to figure out who he is. All of his character building is based out of who Clark is.
Thinking about those Moore stories I read they were about Superman and not Clark so they were boring. One of them it was Superman’s ‘birthday’ and Wonder Woman, Batman and Robin went to the Fortress of Solitude to celebrate but some alien villain sent a robot or something and I forgot what happened. Supes was angsting about belonging, i think, I haven’t read it in about 4 years. That story is forgettable to me because it’s him at the top and dealing with being at the top. I remember another one where Lois knew Clark was Superman, they were married but their life sucked. Or it was a dream caused by something from the robot, I really can’t remember.
I’m more interested in the human component of Superman comics than him being a hero. What makes him a flawed character, how do his powers and his true heritage interfere with his life? Maybe that’s why if I just picked up a comic and he was fighting aliens or other super-beings I’d be bored because i feel there’s a (human) connection missing.
I know I keep saying ‘human connection’ but I mean an emotion investment in the character and his life. What makes him feel and what makes him care other than his ability to feel life. How does that work?
Funny is growing up the 90s i didn’t watch Superman: The Animated Series, I just didn’t like the art style do I didn’t want to give it a chance. It is possibly the most mainstream opportunity I had to get to know the character as a kid. I loved Batman: The Animated Series - I guess the biggest factor then is my brothers didn’t watch it as often. There was just something that seemed dull about the character that I never really wanted to give him a chance.
Birthright was interesting but i think because it spent so much time showing how Clark has to deal with being Superman more than it showed Superman having to deal with being Superman. i don’t think many of my judgements have been changed but if I hear of a well written Superman trade coming out i might give it a once over and decide if I want to buy it instead of always walking past and buying something else.
I guess it’s also good to say, I don’t read many superhero comics. I have some of the staples of Batman (Killing Joke, Dark Knight etc) I have a few Avengers, a small number of Iron Man, one or two Daredevil, Green Arrow and a smattering of others. I mostly read independent comics, one off narratives, or a non superhero series. I have Y: The Last Man, The Gaiman run of Sandman, Preacher, the Boys, Sin City and some other long-form comics publications but a lot of one offs. I think i like knowing that the story has an end or that I don’t feel I have to buy 20 books across 5 series to get the full narrative. It’s nice to know there is only one continuity, if someone dies they’re not going to be revived or be alive in a different plane of existence, i think it’s nice to know that closure is a possibility and a probability.
Kerry Callen’s got a couple of rad new designs up at Threadless.
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You may have seen my previous post here about how my 6 year old computer is about to die, and I need a new one to keep making art and comics for you kind people.
To raise the money, I am trying to sell off as much of my original art as I possibly can, so this is me doing that!
Here are the prices!
LBFA Strip “Yes. More.” - $70 (Artist’s note: This is not a great photo, but you can click the link to see the comic in all it’s glory. This is one of my all time favorite strips, so I hope this goes to a good home.)
Superman cooks a hot dog - $25Jimmy Olsen - $25Doop - $20Mary Marvel - $35Kermit the Frog - $10
Conan the Barbarian - $25TL;DR - I’m desperate for $$$ for a new computer before my old one dies, so email me at THECHRISHALEY AT GMAIL if you want to buy any of this original art!
Be sure to check out the art that’s still available on my previous post!
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE REBLOG!
Thank you! I love you!
xo
ch
The phone bit will explain missed typos and weird words.
So, the new Superman yester poster has been running around the internet for the past few hours, days (written sunday morning) and it kills all drum dark, weeks is not metropolis. Superman was about daytime crime and aliens being dicks, not about grit and scowl and eating concrete for breakfast. That later really doesn’t make much sense.
But something i find talky weird about superhero costumes is how obsessive the designers are to give then texture. All fabric had texture and will have texture but in these cloth fortunes it’s as if they do all they can to make sure there its all the texture and giant weaving possible. I mean, go look at that fucking poster, it’s large, layered, lumpy texture.
Why?
There’s already a come separation between the prussian blue and maroon of the costume (seriously, prussian blue? Why isn’t he usa flag blue?) (And it’s all low saturation) make having such giant and noticable textures weird. I think if it looked like a regular cotton weave it’s be fine, if they don’t want it to look like spandex. it also wouldn’t look like spandex if the material wasn’t formed to fill in -every-muscle crack. That just didn’t happen. Example of s thing that didn’t halogen, when a chick is wearing a shirt and out wraps around each breast individually, our dips in to fill in cleavage, no. it should stretch a but across the cabine, sink in a little but not so far as to completely suffice one best from the next.
But back to superman, really, why so much friggin texture, will the camera be that close so often it’s important? And why so dark in poster coker, o mean that poster is like 90% black. It’s like looking at color in s rothko painting where there is little divide batten the black and the kiss if pigment just barely added.
Our’s like they firefly that gotham and metropolis are two sides to the save new york city coin, night and day respectively, and made them both night. If batman visited this metropolis would it just be like a total eclipse (of the heart) the entire tinge he’s in the city to keep it dark enough?
As some of you may or may not know, I do a lot of comic work.
The majority of this work requires a computer.
My computer is 6 years old and about to die. It is literally crashing all the time and having mad problems with living as a computer should.
To try to raise the money quickly to get a new one before this one dies so I don’t lose any further work related revenue, I am going to start aggressively selling off my original art.
This is me starting that!
Here are the prices!
UPDATED WITH NEW ART!
Gameboy - $75
“World’s Finest” - $75
Batman - $50“Before Watchmen” - $20AstroBoy - $15New 52 Power Girl - $25
Superman - $35
“Handsome” Dexter as M.O.D.O.K. - $20Adventure Time drummer - $25
OMAC & Batman (this is two sketches that are too close to each other to separate, so you get both!) - $50
TL;DR - I’m desperate for $$$ for a new computer before my old one dies, so email me at thechrishaley at gmail if you want to buy any of this original art!
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE REBLOG!
xo
ch
Hello, I'm Jasmine Pinales, I sign things online as 'Jasmine P'. I write and draw stuff. I spend an inordinate amount of time online enjoying comics, movies, cartoons, movies, youtube, movies, comics, books, comic, movies, books. i think you get the picture.
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