Yang With a Corgi and Captain Marvel

Just some practice I finished up a few days ago. I'm fairly certain I've talked about Captain Marvel up  there, but if I haven't all I'm going to say is buy Volume 1 by Kelly Sue DeConnick. Captain Marvel is a badass military gal who doesn't take shit from nobody, one of the best brawlers in the Marvel Universe, and just a genuine joy to read.

And here's a little gift I did in a night.

RWBY Season 2 coming July!

I was just dicking around with a couple tricks I picked up a few days ago, and the new monitor which is much nicer than the built-in I've been using. Figured I'd put some words to it.

Cyclops is furking amazing. He gets a lot of hate because he's been... misrepresented in his media appearances. I don't know much about him pre-M-Day, but since then he's taken every threat to mutant kind and bitch-slapped them into their place, going so far as to take charge of Magneto and Namor, two of the biggest power-houses and long-running leaders of men. He stood up to the leaders of the free world, told them to get out of his way, and when they didn't he moved them. He became what he needed to be to save Mutantkind and in many ways is the reason there are still Mutants in the Marvel Universe.

But one day he made a bad call, and when the dust settled he'd killed Charles Xavier... and won. That's what Bendis's run on both All-New X-men and Uncanny X-men deal with, Cyclops falling from grace and trying to keep doing what he's been doing. Save the world, protect the mutants. Something that I've loved about the X-men is that it has always been about making the world a better place, something that most Avengers or Justice League stories can't say. Cyclops is finished trying to change hearts and minds, he has a people to protect.

Red like Roses

Just testing out a few things. Ruby Rose!

RWBY!

Alright! RWBY! It's an american anime web series made by Roosterteeth, the people who brought us Red vs Blue. If I had a year I couldn't describe why I like Roosterteeth so much, though it's much simpler to describe why I like RWBY so much. Great characters well done, it mixes and matches genres, and it has fun while not shying away from darker territories. Oh, and the always incredible fight scenes from Monty Oum and friends.

If you have not watched it yet go watch it. If you're not hooked by episode 8 there's something wrong with you.

Wonder Woman!

Alright! This one's been in the wild for a week or so, playin' catch-up on the blogger front. Wonder Woman! My mother asked me to draw this for her a couple months ago, and I actually drew one up a couple months ago... then I started finding tutorials and that old picture, which I wasn't particularly happy with when I made it, suddenly looked like amateur hour. It's starting to happen again, so expect another coloured version of this soon.

So here's Wonder Woman. I can honestly say I don't know much about her, but I've had a couple days of conversation to voice my opinion of her character on the Deviantart picture. Something I love about Wonder Woman is the fact that she is a character trained for war, a Greek Soldier playing a Super Hero. She is the Justice League-er most comfortable with murder, and most capable of telling when that step needs to be taken. Superman respects all life, Batman fights death itself, Wonder Woman uses death as a tool.

Journey Into Mystery Journeys into History

Sif's adventures (in this particular book) come to an end. I'll miss it. Between Valerio Schiti's artwork and Kathryn Immonen's take on the warrior goddess the book was pretty much perfect. Any book that can make me want to watch the adventures of one of Volstagg's children and Heimdal's pet Helhound deserves a special kind of attention. That was a single issue between adventures, by the way. A filler issue. And I would have bought a whole series based on it.

Sif in particular was fantastic. I love the righteous fury characters, but Sif had something else going for her. She wasn't some brooding antihero. She enjoyed the testing of her skills through combat. She enjoyed fighting for her land. And she was social. Between monster fights she would have dinner with friends, or snowball fights with the Mortal kids in town.

X-23 Target Terminated

This was a thing. I was simply testing something out, something small that dictated everything I was doing wrong for years and so simple I've been beating myself up over it for a week now for not seeing it sooner, and it quickly evolved into my desktop background. This is one of the more annoying parts of being an artist, you tend to learn something that makes you regret releasing the previously-good pieces of hog shite that you were so proud of...

I don't need to explain X-23 to you, I've got plenty of pictures and explanations in the archive. What I will do is ramble on about her in Avengers Arena. Let me say I'm loving the book so far. They haven't backed down from the deathmatch aspects of the story in the slightest, which makes me worry for Laura up there. She's the obvious win, which everyone in the book seems to know, and her powers make her indestructible so... a writer might need to get rid of her to make things interesting.

Or the trigger scent can come back.

I'm not sure how I feel about Laura's treatment in the book so far. She seems much more... mentally stable than she's ever seemed. I know the whole "Every time I enter a room I list off how to kill everyone there" but it hasn't seeped into her speech. There hasn't really been any social awkwardness when it comes to her character interactions. It's a minor thing, but I notice it because I'm a massive fan.

Now to go into spoilers for the issue that came out today. You have been warned. Assuming that whatsherface would even notice before Laura slipped a claw between two ribs and into her heart there's simply no way that Laura couldn't take that bitch of a mech suit. It was barely held together, whatsherface (Apex) mentioned how it wasn't nearly as good as the old Sentinel it came from, and I've seen Laura get a great shot in on a Nimrod (Sentinel from the future), and destroy one of the modern ONE Sentinels in Messiah Complex.

Like I said above, love the book. It's murdered some of my favourite characters and I still love it. But Laura, even in the context of the book itself, with everyone so awed by her, knowing to stay the furk away from her, seems to be being handled oddly. Not even poorly, just different. But she is my favourite character, so I notice, and I ponder.