Random comic and or comic-related pictures

Frank Cho engendered some controversy with the following.
Strangely the addition, not subtraction, of one or two lines, leaving Wonder Woman MORE clothed, is what got this popular artist taken off the title at Greg Rucka's behest:

Less is not always more, here "more" actually does give the sense of less.
It's a weird and maddening paradox, because even a lot of women liked the overall sense of fullness and bodily strength Cho invested in her.

Have to say, I actually prefer the less colorized renditions of Cho's work here.
Sometimes colonists are amazing, transcendent, really, but here, the qualities I admire ...

Reminds me now that Jamal Igle did a GREAT rendition of Silver Age Wonder Woman in black-and-white for a fan back in 2009 or thereabouts for Wonder Woman day that year.

Might have to track that down ...

I went ahead and did so.

Along the way I discovered Jamal actually DID get a chance to work on Wonder Woman. Unfortunately, despite being in a book whose title SUGGESTS the Silver and Golden ages of Wonder Woman, ie Sensation Comics (#33 & 34 iirc, circa 2015), the book has dark themes and an art style entirely inappropriate for the general audience that used to be its target demographic.

Mores the pity.

At any rate, I discovered I was right; Jamal himself explains in some Google entry that he ORIGINALLY drew the piece I was seeking in 2009, though he himself did a coloring of it 4 years later:

Here, as with Cho shown a post or two earlier, I have to say I prefer the I colored work. It's kind of weird, but the black and white version is more evocative; sort of like an Ansel Adams photograph, at least to me:

Perhaps I am recalling the fun I had discovering Showcase Presents compendiums years ago. Those were black and white collections, too.

And some of Jamal's colorized work is pretty good, too, though some cropping is needed to get the true aesthetics contained therein:

Gah.

I HATE the auto-"correct" feature of KMC.

It gave me the more commonly used word "coloNist" where I typed in "coloRist", and likewise put "I colored" in place of "UNcolored" in my preceding posts ...

Annoying.

An encore is in order here, for people may get the idea that, because I've publicly argued with Jamal before and am critiquing his work that I don't genuinely appreciate certain aspects of it.
Little could be further from the truth, and, in fact, years ago I gave it praise in a thread devoted to artists who managed to convey a sense of the "tactile" in one or more of their works.

Here's the image in question:

Here's what I liked about it:

Originally posted by bluewaterrider

Thought about what you said about anatomy, Mindship.
Think the reason the 3 that inspired this thread do so is because they are intuitive.

I'll point out what I find special about each in turn and in depth now.

3. Kara Zor-el versus Silver Banshee, Shea Stadium

This scene is remarkable for how well it captures instinctive response.
There's no sense of artificial posing. What you see from Kara is nearly exactly what you see from anyone under sudden attack from a source coming straight to the face. One arm instantly positions its hand as a shield close to the face itself, the other extends quickly outward to block or push away the attacker. Eyelids shut, chin goes down close to chest if it can. The only major departure from this classic response is that Kara holds her shielding hand against her ear, perfectly appropriate under the circumstances, a vain attempt to block the sonic nature of Banshee's assault. Banshee herself is a grasping, screeching, muscular harpy-like figure. Her flexed bicep implies her physical strength, her other hand, though, stretching the material of Supergirl's outfit as she grabs at Kara's chest, looks like the claw of some giant bird of prey.
The detail that makes this, though, is Kara's hand on Banshee's forehead, striving desperately to keep that dangerous cawing mouth from either neck or ears. It's a masterpiece in the way it captures the painful, desperate intimacy of close-quarters struggle.

http://www.killermovies.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=14164287

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Source: Supergirl #34, Volume 5
Writer: Sterling Gates
Penciller: Jamal Igle
Date: December 2008
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http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Supergirl_Vol_5_34

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Surprised as I get older, sometimes, what resonant time capsules comics often make. For instance, nowadays a movement called "Crossfit" dominates the exercise scene. 15-20 years ago, however, the movement was "Step-Aerobics", which was frequently combined with strength and weight training.
The personality most at the forefront of it was a woman named Cathe Friedrich.
Her show used to be featured so often on ESPN that you could scarcely avoid it if you randomly channel-surfed past that cable station. Which was not necessarily a bad thing. Cathe showed, in this era before Crossfit, that women who treated themselves right could remain competitive with the average 20-something even into their 30s or 40s, as did most of her regular TV crew.
I'm amazed I'd largely forgotten them till now, but obviously Garth Ennis did not, nor did Garth fail to comment on how our then Commander-in-Chief, rightly or wrongly, was portrayed by the media in that same time period:

Source: Thor. Vikings. (5-part miniseries)
Circa: 2003

Thor: Vikings (2003), introduced in my previous post, has some disturbing motifs at play if you've been brought up in any sort of Islamic or Judeo-Christian subculture.

Heavy violence, death worship, one-eyed symbolism, blood sacrifice, supernatural alien forces ...

You name it, Garth's story probably has it, sort of like a primer for the esoteric, if you ever happen to watch a video on that topic.

Might be interesting to hear what a celebrant of Asatru thought of this story someday. Until that time, however:

Vague recollections and associations:
The face Ikra makes when Samursi Jack approaches the sentient gem of the Oasis ...

That'll come later.

Since I went through the trouble of screen-shorting:

Source: Action Comics #270
Circa: November 1960

Wanted another black and white versus color comparison, but, unfortunately, the scale is off in my previous submission. We'll see if this one works better ...

Harley Quinn.

Trickster god?

Disciple of Molech?

Fortunately, on realizing what she was almost unwittingly tricked into doing, she turns apostate VERY quickly ...

So you see Hulks been frightened before.