“Yesterday’s” Comic> The Phantom Annual #1

It looks like the Phantom found the Dragon Balls.

The Phantom Annual #1

Moonstone (2007)

“Five Days Of The Dragon”

PROJECT COORDINATORS: Mike Bullock & Ron Marz

SELECTED COVER ART: Bret Blevins & Terry Austin

LETTERER: Ruben Procopio

This comic features five tales of five different iterations of the Phantom, surrounding the search for five pieces of a statue, which we’ll get into in the review. Marz had contacted Bullock about setting this up because he wanted to try his hand at The Phantom. Outside of the above listed and usual consultant Ed Rhoades (whose Behind The Mask features goes in the Phantom’s many nicknames), the teams were different, although two share a colorist. The result is a pretty cool idea.

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Jake & Leon: Best Of Years Seven & Eight

From this first comic Jake & Leon began. The comic has served as art testing, extra commentary, or just an escape from a bad week, either for me or the world in general. October 26, 2019 is when it began, serving as a way to introduce my weekly comic reviews, but when that went daily it opened a weekly collection of article links that might have just been an excuse to keep the comic going since I still could have made an article about those. Eventually I got tired of saving article links without major commentary until the end of the week and the comic had its own posting.

I forget every year to do these annual wrap-ups of my favorite comics from the past year on their proper date. And I did so few last year I didn’t even bother, deciding to combine it with this year. Although in hindsight that would have made for a shorter article so I just made myself more work, but considering what I went through last year I wasn’t exactly thinking straight, was I? So we have a more robust choice this year. So from the past two years, which Jake & Leon comics did I think were some of my better work?

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“Yesterday’s” Comic> Transformers: Devastation #1

“Wait, is that Verity’s webcam? While I’m swimming?”

Transformers: Devastation #1

IDW Publishing (September, 2007)

WRITER: Simon Furman

ARTIST: E.J. Su (also selected cover)

COLORIST: Zac Atkinson

LETTERER: Chris Mowry

EDITOR: Dan Taylor

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BW’s Art Soundoff 2017 #2: Going Digital

Why did I make the switch to digital, and does this mean I’m abandoning paper?

The He-Man Newspaper Comics: Evil Under The Stars

Leafing through a giant hardback compilation of an entire run of newspaper comics, even a series with as relatively short a run as He-Man (especially compared to something like The Phantom or Prince Valiant), is you don’t really get to see or notice everything. For example I did see Gwildor, the creator of the Cosmic Key in the Masters Of The Universe movie with Dolph Lundgren. He actually has a recurring role in the comics for whatever reason. Mattel only made toys of the movie character because it was a movie based on their toyline. (Although I don’t think they gave us movie versions of the regular characters, whose costumes were so far off you’d think it was a ripoff rather than an officially licensed adaptation…and it’s STILL a better adaptation than Super Mario Brothers.)

However, looking briefly into this month’s chapter I noticed two other movie-born characters had signed up–namely Skeletor’s movie minions Blade and Saurod. So how will they be introduced into comic strip continuity? In our fifth trip into this collection we’ll take a look and see. I’m actually quite curious.

Evil Under The Stars

WRITER: Chris Weber | ARTIST/ORIGINAL LETTERER: Gerald Forton |

COLORIST: Connie Schurr | EDITOR: Karen Willson

At some point I should have a dedicated format for these credits. Getting Finally Watched right on the first try was a fluke. Just look at the early Scanning My Collection articles.

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“Yesterday’s” Comic> Voltron v2 #10 (Devil’s Due)

“I’m replacing this pilot chair with a recliner, first chance I get. Or maybe a futon.”

Voltron: Defender Of The Universe vol. 2 #10

Devil’s Due (October, 2004)

“Warpath” conclusion

WRITER: Dan Jolley

PENCILERS: Alitha Martinez with Clint Hilinski

no inker again

COLORISTS: Devid Messina & Barbara Bargiggia

GRAPHIC DESIGN: Mike Norton

COVER ART: Clement Sauve & Bland

LETTERING: Dreamer Design

EDITOR: Mark Powers

Lowman 77723

WRITER: Mark Waid

ARTIST: Clement Sauve

COLORIST: David Messina

LETTERING: Dreamer Design

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BW’s Art Soundoff 2017 #1: What’s Different This Year?

It’s time again to take part in the Art Soundoff Challenge, where comic creators discuss creating comics in a short podcast. But what’s different this year?

To join the fun check out artsoundoff.com or the #ArtSoundoff hashtag on Twitter.