Wednesday, October 6, 2021

Broods by Rich Corben, Jim Steranko, and Berni Wrightson






 Only thing worse than a giant python is a giant python with multiple heads.  Seems to've been a theme, but if you know of more, please let me know

The Hulk Face by Jim Steranko










 Kid of Crivens! Comics & Stuff offered up this first image to me from his blog (thanks, Kid!), and it made me think about all the times I've seen the beauty of the intended face.  Yeah, just about everywhere but the actual cover

Sunday, October 3, 2021

Tales From Comic Book Marketplace by Frank Frazetta


It's like seventy degrees and lush, but the calendar says October
 

Saturday, October 2, 2021

The Face Of The Spirit by Wally Wood










 The Outer Space Spirit was amazeballs, especially if you look at when it happened (all I need now is Frazetta send'n Li'l Abner into space), but the best part of the whole she-bang was the chiseled jaw that Wally gave Denny, and that first image is a sketch I'd never seen, until now.  sweet

Friday, October 1, 2021

We Are Returned! by Jack Kirby



 ...and Vince Coletta.  Only in Asgard  could you walk in and say "we are returned!"  Okay, I've mellowed over the years on my distaste of Coletta inks on Kirby (still can't take Syd Shores inks, though).  For one thing, I've tried ink'n Kirby pencils myself a few times, and it's exhaust'n!  The squiggles and krackles are the toughest for me, and I cannae imagine being handed some twenty pages at a time, and being on a tight deadline.  That being said, I still dunnae know why two warriors and a horse would just disappear in a cloud of smoke

The Reaper by Berni Wrightson


 Hey, it's October!  Time to play the Thriller video by Michael Jackson

X-Men Mini-poster by Barry Smith


 Always dug this image (see X-Men #205 on here for a bunch), but Marvel put out a magazine of mini-posters in 92, and they were cleaner versions of a lotta covers