Based on advice I’ve heard from artists with actual clients.
As far as my own Art Soundoffs go I have two days left…but with how crazy things were this week (there isn’t even a Clutter Report saying there’s no Clutter Report this week) when they’ll post is a bit up in the air. I do want to get the next installment of the Chapter By Chapter review of Star Trek: Prime Directive in as well as whatever I have planned for this week. As soon as I plan something for this week.
Meanwhile, starting December 1st Christmas Spotlight returns. There will be new Christmas music and shorts mixed into the daily videos and articles in the daily article link. There will be reviews and commentaries mixed in on Christmas stories as well. While this won’t be all we talk about because even I can only handle so much Christmas before the fun is drained out of it, I do want to get as much Yuletide-themed content out there I can, including building up my YouTube playlists of Christmas songs and Christmas specials. To that end, if any of you find some cool Christmas-themed posts send them my way via bwmedia@snet.net, the Contact page, or just post in a Christmas-themed post’s comments. If it works for me I’ll add it to the list. I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and that everyone (whether you celebrate it or not because it’s still a big day) a merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year in advance…just in case 2021 has any extra “surprises” in store for me before it shoves off!
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Back when I did the “tokusatsu” primer (as of this writing I need to go in and fix the dead video embeds and maybe drop the page idea) I talked about the Japanese superhero type known as the “metal hero”, a style that has all but vanished. Even then they’re token appearances or just a theme for that year’s Kamen Rider. For Western audiences one of my examples for equivalents they might understand outside of VR Troopers and the two Beetleborgs series, which Saban managed to get out just before the metal heroes disappeared from Japanese TV and gave them no new footage to work with, was Iron Man. By that point the Marvel Cinematic Universe had begun with the first Iron Man so you didn’t have to be a comic book fan to get the reference. And seeing how few armored heroes there are outside of comics and animation, he’s probably the best example I could use.
I guess the movies did well for Japanese audiences because an Iron Man anime, one of four produced by Sony and famed Japanese animation studio Madhouse, came out in 2010. Oddly, Spider-Man is not one of the four despite Sony actually having the movie license with old Peter and two other versions of Spider-Man already known in Japan–the famous live-action re-imagining with the giant robot and the sadly lesser known manga that was actually pretty close to what you’d expect to a “what if a Japanese man was bit by a radioactive spider instead of an American one” would look like. Poor Yu Komori. Instead we had Blade, the X-Men, and a solo outing for Wolverine, all other Marvel heroes with successful movies. Oh, maybe that’s why no Spider-Man. That franchise wasn’t a success since Spider-Man 2 until Into The Spiderverse outside of the MCU movies.
Playing off ideas from the movie, Iron Man sees Tony Stark bringing his Arc Reactor to Japan, trying to give up being Iron Man and finding successors through his new Dio armor. However, it gets stolen by a “Japanified” take on the Marvel villain organization the Zodiac and Tony has to suit up again to stop him. Thanks to the Sony-owned YouTube channel Throwback Toons I get to show you the first episode. Enjoy.
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A few things didn’t pop up and I got interrupted but overall you still get to see my coloring methods. I may address the stuff OBS didn’t record in a follow-up. I have two days left, three if I make something for Sunday.
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Speed just has general issues with mystery racers.
Speed Racer #5
NOW Comics (December, 1987)
“Dead Heat”
WRITER/INKER: Brian Thomas
PENCILER: Jill Thompson
COLORIST/LETTERER: Ken Holewczynski
EDITOR: Tony Caputo
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I know, it started at 9 AM ET but I have a posting schedule and didn’t even consider it until 1 PM. If you missed it live here’s your chance to relive the stream. Happy Thanksgiving.
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You just wanted to draw Minmei befor the comic ended and chose the covers even though she’s not in the comic, right?
Robotech #10
Antarctic Press (September, 1998)
Prototype 001: “Variants” part 3
WRITER/ARTIST: Ted Nomura
COLORISTS: Ben & Joe Dunn
LETTERER: Joe Wolfe
EDITOR: Doug Dlin
