Month: April 2015

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I feel like we’re repeating ourselves endlessly here (Widow, Nebula, #WhereIsGamora), but there are so many young girls that love superhero films who need awesome lady toys to play with. Women made up half of the Guardians audience – why shouldn’t they be able to buy a shirt with Widow on it? Or even with the whole actual team? If women and girl are expected to be okay wearing shirts with dudes all over it, why can’t men and boys wear a shirt where one of five people is a woman? Will it give them cooties? If they think so, we need to start socializing them better – and it starts like this.

From here. It’s telling that the headline for this piece – about the lack of Black Widow (and Scarlet Witch) merchandise for Avengers: Age of Ultron – is “Disappointed, But Not Surprised,” I think. Disney considers the Marvel properties specifically male, and isn’t going to change that anytime soon. I’m going to be very curious to see what the positioning/merch for Captain Marvel turns out to be.
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Coloring Scott Pilgrim

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Coloring Scott Pilgrim was a unique challenge because it was originally published in black and white and already had a legion of fans with often profound relationships to the work before I ever had a chance to color a single page. It was very important to me to respect that. I knew there would be many fans who’d say that the story didn’t need color. Hopefully my work has—if not convinced them otherwise—at least shown them that color, while not absolutely essential, adds depth, mood, and focus to the storytelling and can enhance their enjoyment of it.

With that said, let’s walk through my process in coloring a single page of this book. 

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Nathan Fairbairn’s process pieces are amazing.

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Rachel & Miles X-Plain the X-Men, Episode 53 – Sometimes They Come Back

Rachel & Miles X-Plain the X-Men, Episode 53 – Sometimes They Come Back

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In which Wolverine doesn’t care about your baby; Storm takes charge; duels are terrible bases for systems of government; editorial mandate is hell on a marriage; Magneto is a pretty cool teacher; Jean Grey comes back; and we have mixed feelings about the Phoenix retcon.

X-PLAINED:

  • Kenji Uedo
  • Uncanny X-Men #201
  • New Mutants #35
  • Avengers #263
  • Fantastic Four #286
  • Classic X-Men #8
  • The post-Trial of Magneto status quo
  • Nathan Christopher Charles Summers
  • A small cross-section of Cyclops’s myriad issues
  • The wrong means to the right end
  • Magneto’s educational philosophy
  • The politics of creative credits
  • “You Know Who”
  • The Phoenix retcon
  • Several unrelated break-ins
  • The return of Jean Grey
  • Jean and the Phoenix Force
  • Alternate-timeline Madelynes Pryor
  • Jean Grey’s code names

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