This is suddenly relevant again…
Shortpacked!: Glue
(figgered the first panel by itself would be of interest)
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.
Shortpacked!: Five
Shortpacked!’s final week begins! If you buy 3 or more items in the Books category in the store, use the coupon code SOGGIES to get $10 off your order! Works on items in the Books category only!
(The Dumbing of Age 3-book combo counts as only one item, but there’s 5 Shortpacked! books in there, so grab ‘em up.)
You know what, I think this “make dina saying what a meme” thing might work out.
http://itswalky.tumblr.com/post/42415631118/okay-fine-wednesday-you-win-the-dina-what-thing
Martian Manhunter saying “Babaloooooo” is from some injoke me and my pal Graham have. We have no idea where or how it originated. This kind of injoke context detachment happens way too often between us. I threw it into this comic because I friggin’ can.
Now, “Batman can breathe in space,” another injoke between us, well, the origin for that’s just obvious. I mean, duh. How else is Batman going to survive Superman’s atmosphere-destroying missile, which the Man of Steel stole from a dimension-hopping Aunt May?
Sadly, Mr. Terrific was not actually bitten by a radioactive T. Rather, his powers are being able to float balls through the air through the power of atheism. That’s almost as good, but not quite.
More Fanart for Shortpacked!
This is based on one of his recent comics: http://www.shortpacked.com/2012/comic/book-14/03-totally-babies/equaltime/
This is just a response to a comment I couldn’t draw earlier due to work and parties.
Shortpacked by David Willis
Shortpacked.com
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.
HA!
the saddest part is that there now IS a beverly hills chihuaha 2
Who is your dad, now?
I WILL reblog this video every damn time I see it because this kids is A GENIUS