BW’s Art Soundoff 2016 Bonus Videos #1: Creating The Family

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So I goofed up. Thanks to this being the last day in November the Art Soundoff Challenge officially ends today, and I still have five characters to go into the creation of for Jake & Leon. So today and tomorrow will have longer videos to collect the supporting cast. Today we look at Beth and her parents, Bill and Meredith, and where they came from, and what roles they serve in the comic.

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“Yesterday’s” Comic> Thundercats #1 (WildStorm)

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Yes, scare the reader out of buying you. Save that for the next miniseries!

Thundercats #1

WildStorm (October, 2002)

“Reclaiming Thundera” (the name of this miniseries collected in trade)

WRITER: Ford Lytle Gilmore

PENCILER: Ed McGuinness

INKER: Jason Martin

COLORIST: Chris Walker

LETTERERS: John Layman & Sergio Garcia

ASSISTANT EDITOR: Kristy Quinn

EDITOR: Jeff Mariotte

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BW’s Art Soundoff 2016 #20: About This Year’s Challenge

The creating videos will continue but this is the last official day of Art Soundoff and I wanted to talk about my experience this year and plans for next year.

“Yesterday’s” Comic> Masters Of The Universe vol 2 #4 (2000)

Great poster. Now where's the comic cover?

Great poster. Now where’s the comic cover?

Masters Of The Universe vol. 2 #4

Image Comics/MV Creations (June, 2003)

WRITER: Val Staples

ARTISTS: Emiliano Santalucia & Ezra Fontana

COLORIST: Kevin Senft (assisted by Shyanne Corbett)

SELECTED COVER ART: Emiliano Santalucia & Val Staples

LETTERING: Dreamer Design

EDITORS: Heather Schneider, Jeremy Padawer, Ian Richter, & Geoff Walker

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Disney’s Live-Action Infatuation

A Valentine for You

A Valentine for You (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Seriously, Disney? A live-action Winnie The Pooh? Seriously?

Over on Facebook my fellow Reviewers Unknown compatriot Eli Stone (The Cartoon Hero) was talking about the next live-actionized Disney movie, after the Jungle Book. Of course it’s not a Disney original, few movies they’ve made being at least inspired by another work, but the fact that Disney made a live-action version of the story when they’ve had great success with the animated classic. Even the direct-to-video sequel is at best mediocre and unnecessary.

But now we’re getting a live-action version of Winnie The Pooh, the classic A.A. Milne character that has starred in numerous Disney shows and movies in animation only as late as a few years ago. (Well, except for Welcome To Pooh Corner, the early Disney Channel show for kids that used costumes with moving mouths which had a special video about stranger danger. But that was a special situation. Dumbo had one of those, too.) But for some reason Disney has opted not only to make this into a live-action movie, but to rip off the plot to another film that wasn’t made by Disney but they have a connection to the character. Namely Peter Pan.

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“Yesterday’s” Comic> The Adventures Of Spider-Man #10

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“Fine, you win. I’ll take a bath!”

The Adventures Of Spider-Man #10

Marvel (January, 1997)

“To Catch A Spider”

WRITER: Nel Yomtov

PENCILER: Alex Saviuk

INKER: Rob Stull

COLORIST: Kevin Tinsley

LETTERER: Steve Dutro

EDITOR: Mark Bernardo

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BW’s Art Soundoff 2016 #19: Creating Leon

Also, I didn’t realize we were this close to the end of the month. Tomorrow’s Art Soundoff will be the last one. Officially any way. I’ll explain in tomorrow’s video.