Meanwhile, this is what the cover was like on mine:
It’s weird. Amanda Conner draws people. J Scott Campbell doesn’t draw people, he draws a collection of parts loosely scotch taped together in an attempt to recreate the one woman someone described to him once maybe fifteen years ago, like a game of Telephone gone awfully awry.
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Yesterday, I named Wonder Woman the top DC book for 2011 for female characters. The art on the book has a lot to do with the book’s success. But while I’ve spent a lot of time discussing Cliff Chiang’s pencils, mention should be made of Matthew Wilson’s coloring which has given the book a edgy feel and perfectly complements Chiang’s style. If this Wonder Woman feels bold, Wilson deserves a lot of the credit.
Wilson has posted some of his thoughts about how he colored the latest issue specifically the bar scene and it is fascinating reading. Here he discusses the technique he used:
I want to talk about a scene in Wonder Woman #4 that was set in a night club/bar and that presented two challenges that could be addressed with color. The first is that we have our group of characters split up, and in different parts of the club, and I knew that I could use color help the reader understand which part of the bar each character occupied. There are also quite a few panels with a lot of people drawn in them, and if I were to do my job poorly the art could flatten out and become hard to read. I had to make sure that I did a good job of separating planes (foreground, middleground, background) to properly show the depth of space in the club. In this case coloring different areas of the club with different color schemes solved both problems. These different colored “pools” of light include the blue-green seating area, the yellow bar area, the red stage area, and the crowd being a transition between red (stage) and blue-green (seating area) ending up a pink-ish/purple.
Here’s how his technique was used on the first show of Diana.
Here’s the page with the original colors:
Wonder Woman is lit by red-ish light but I needed her (and the crowd) to separate visually from the guys on stage. So I took the red from the stage, and the blue-green from the rest of the club and met in the middle (sort of) with pinks and purples…
He also writes about Cliff Chiang’s direction for the pages including what the band should sound like.
I’m not a huge superhero comics fan, but a lot of folks I follow on Tumblr are, so lately I’ve been seeing a lot of Wonder Woman’s redesigned costumes (both TV and comics). Aaaand I have to admit, seeing the design with the red low-slung pants, I was like, what. Not like “zomg skimpy”, but like, how the hell are you going to fight crime in that also those earrings will get ripped out
So I got to thinking about how the classic WW getup could be shuffled around a bit and gave it a shot - hammered this out in PS in about 15 minutes. It sucks as armor, but it’s an outfit I could imagine someone running around and kicking ass in.
Meh. *shrug*
I dig it.
Batman The Animated Series is back! …in some way at least.
First still from the upcoming movie “Batman and Harley Quinn”
wait what
I choose to believe that Nightwing and Harley Quinn are going on a date, and Batman is chaperoning.
I choose to believe that Nightwing and Batman are going on a date, and Harley Quinn is chaperoning.
I choose to believe Nightwing and Batman are try to go on patrol and Harley Quinn is narrating it like it’s a date
Batman The Animated Series is back! …in some way at least.
First still from the upcoming movie “Batman and Harley Quinn”
wait what
I choose to believe that Nightwing and Harley Quinn are going on a date, and Batman is chaperoning.
I choose to believe that Nightwing and Batman are going on a date, and Harley Quinn is chaperoning.
I choose to believe Nightwing and Batman are try to go on patrol and Harley Quinn is narrating it like it’s a date
For a long moment, the inside of the car was silent except for the sound of a burger wrapper.
Nightwing started to take a bite, then stopped with a sigh.
Even he could not pretend that this was normal.
“What is she doing here?” he asked finally.
“I’m helpin’,” Harley said, somehow managing to say it quite clearly even though her lips never touched. Her lipstick was a dark matte, and getting a dark matte just right required surgical precision that she could somehow still manage in the back of a moving vehicle without any lights.
“Why, though.”
“In case he needs backup!”
“That’s why I’m here,” Nightwing pointed out.
“Sure,” she said, somehow making the word sound entirely composed of vowels, snapping her compact shut. “Now.”
Nightwing sighed. “I was ten minutes late.” He looked to Batman, who said nothing. “Ten minutes.”
“A lot can happen in ten minutes,” Harley said, primly putting her things back into her bag.
Batman still said nothing, but tilted his head just enough and just long enough that Nightwing knew he was looking pointedly at his fries.
“I’m not apologizing for the fact that I wanted real food,” Nightwing said. He turned around in his seat to look back at Harley. “Have you seen his little protein shake things?
“They’re his robo-fuel!”
“You know he’s not a robot.”
“Yeah, I know that.”
Harley and Nightwing both looked at Batman. Nightwing turned back around in his seat. “I had a busy day, I didn’t have time to eat, so I got some food. It was a totally reasonable thing to do.”
“What’s even your day job?” Harley wondered. “Y'ain’t gettin’ paid for this.” Then she gasped. “Are ya in college now?” she asked, delighted.
“He dropped out,” Batman said before Nightwing could respond.
Harley gasped even louder.
“Now, wait a minute,” Nightwing began, before Harley interrupted by cuffing his ear. “Ow! Harley!”
“That’s Dr. Harley to you, young man.” She looked to Batman. “Tell him he has to go back to school.”
“He’s an adult now,” Batman said. “He can do what he wants.”
Harley narrowed her eyes at Nightwing. “Is that why ya had that mullet?”
“It was not a mullet–”
“Is this what youthful rebellion looks like when a dork tries to do it?”
“You’d know better than I would,” Batman said.
“Hey!” She backhanded his shoulder, then sighed. “I guess I did go to med school.” She reached over Nightwing’s shoulder to grab a fry. “But I also did a lot of coke.”
Nightwing, mid-sip, choked on his iced tea.
“A looooot of coke,” she added, chewing. “In retrospect I was prolly self-medicatin’.” She put a hand on Nightwing’s shoulder. “Not that that makes it okay,” she said. “Listen to your Aunt Harley. Don’t do coke.”
“Yes, Dr. Aunt Harley.”
“If ya needed money for school, ya coulda called me,” she said.
“You don’t have any money.”
“I can get money.” She paused. “An’ I’m real good at gettin’ scholarships.”
“You’re a genius,” Batman reminded her, managing to make the statement of fact sound not at all complimentary.
“That did help,” she agreed.
“Why is she actually here?” Nightwing asked.
“She has some leads on Crane.”
“I’ve been tryin’ to find him so we can have a nice talk about medical ethics,” she said with a grin.
“She wants to cave his skull in with a giant hammer,” Batman corrected.
“An’ you’re gonna try an’ stop me!” she agreed, still just as cheerful. She leaned forward to drape her arms over the headrest of both front seats. “We’re gonna have so much fun.”
my summons worked!!!!!!
Batman The Animated Series is back! …in some way at least.
First still from the upcoming movie “Batman and Harley Quinn”
wait what
I choose to believe that Nightwing and Harley Quinn are going on a date, and Batman is chaperoning.
I choose to believe that Nightwing and Batman are going on a date, and Harley Quinn is chaperoning.
DC’s newest game Infinite Crisis will feature multiple versions of its iconic characters from various Earths. Wonder Woman will have at least three versions including Mecha Wonder Woman, regular old Wonder Woman and Atomic Wonder Woman.
Atomic Wonder Woman? Atomic Wonder Woman.
I will not be the least surprised if Atomic Wonder Woman has her own digital comic in a year.
Hey, Hoop, did you design this? She has a chainsaw on a stick and her skirt is made out of the neckties of conquered patriarchs.
In the FACE!
Ooooh, Tokyo Movie Shinsha motion-streaks.
animation so good
Emerald City sketches
YOU SHOULD HAVE KILLED ME WHEN YOU HAD THE CHANCE, CHARLES
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#this does not fill me with confidence
yeah the glass sucks but it’s still no match for our shitty weak bears
fail glass covering our cringe bears
