Entry 112: Blast From The Past Part 9

Hi-
I'm overdue for a new blast from the past post. So lets all step inside the time machine and take a little trip back to 1999... Or maybe it was 2000. I gotta be honest I don't know what year we're going back to. I thought that the first year that I went to the San Diego comic con with my portfolio was in 1999, but when I count backwards each year, it has to be in 2000. I'm missing a year!

Entry 108: SHIELD #6

This week the final chapter of SHIELD VOL. 1 hit the stands. Which means that soon there will be a collection of the first 6 issues in a single book.  There's going to be a hard back version which is really exciting to me. This will actually be the first graphic novel to be published completely drawn by me. I can't wait to have it in my hands.

Entry 107: Super Powered Lucy/ Mad Men

Hello again! and welcome to another Live Web-log by me, Dustin Weaver.
As you can see, Lucy has begun to manifest her mutant X-gene powers. Normally they don't kick in till puberty, but she's an exceptional kid. The doctor says it's perfectly normal in some cosmic energy manipulating omega-level mutants. That's right "cosmic energy." All I can do is make my eyes glow, which only looks cool. But guess what, when they're lit up, I can't see. Completely sightless!

Moving on.
This week on the Periscope Tumblr we are doing Mad Men pieces. No, not pictures of crazy and or angry guys. Pictures related to the popular TV show set in the early 60's, Mad Men.

I must say that I had never seen the show when I saw that we were going to be doing a week on it and I defiantly thought to myself, "Screw that!" "I don't watch that show and everyone who does must be stupid." But then I thought, "Wait. not everyone who watches that show could be stupid. In fact, logic dictates, that there is likely some percentage of that shows viewers who are smart. That means that I could watch it too and I don't have to feel like I'm stupid for doing so."  So I'm giving it a try. I'm a little more than halfway through the first season and I like it.

Here's my piece

This show makes me want to smoke.

Check out the other Mad Men pieces at the Periscope Studio Tumblr.... if you dare.
...It's not scary. I know people say "if you dare" when it's something scary. If I scared you away from doing it, I apologize. Seriously, nothing bad is going to happen when you click on that link. It's not some kind of thing like in the movie The Ring where you'll get a message telling you that your going to die in seven days. It's nothing like that. It's just pictures inspired by the show Mad Men. So click on the link. It's fine.

Once again, it's time for the corner that is taking the world by storm! The corner that is making everyone say, "I didn't know a corner could be so good." Lucy's Poetry Corner!!!!!!!

In closing, I would like to share with you a revelation I had the other day: Justin Bieber is the bizzaro Dustin Weaver... Think about it.

Entry 105: S.H.I.E.L.D. # 5

HELLO and HAPPY NEW YEAR!

That's right, Happy. This whole year be happy. Ya think you can manage that? You know what, maybe lets just take it one day at a time.

Anyway, SHIELD #5 is out! Please go get yourself a copy.
read more for a preview of the book and more...

Entry 104: What Ever Happened To D.J. Bryant?

 A few months ago Mome 19 came out. It's an anthology book put out by Fantagraphics full of what you could call "alternative comics" by both new and established artist. And if you picked up #19 you were probably struck by one story in particular: A story inspired by Steve Ditko's "Driven to Destruction" called "Evelyn Dalton-Hoyt" by D.J. Bryant.

 It's a fantastic piece of work. The level of craft that DJ demonstrates in these 21 pages is amazing and humbling. It causes me to look at my own work and wonder, "what the hell am I doing?"

 Here's the first page.

Entry 103: BATMAN-DIABOLIK

 

Here's a page from the ol' sketch book that I decided to through some quick colors on. I think it would be cool to do a crossover between Batman and the Italian comic character Diabolik and set it in the 60's. I've never read a Diabolik comic so my idea of him is completely based off the movie Danger Diabolik. He seems to me to be a lot like Batman, but he's a bad guy, and his sidekick is his hot girlfriend, Eva. I would want Batman to be a "cool version" of the Adam West Batman. Think the Adam West kind of look with a animated series kind of attitude.

Another DC comic, European comic crossover that will never happen, but that I think would be really cool: Superman-Metabaron

And here's Lauren's Poetry Corner!

Entry 102: SHIELD #5 is coming Plus AXE COP!

Hello, friends.

 I make it a point to never start a post on this live journal by apologizing for taking so long to put up a new post. For one thing, it just feels a little presumptuous of me to think that you're waiting on my posts. Also, when I read those kinds of apologies on other blogs it makes me feel like the blogger is losing interest in their blog and it's like if they're not that into it why am I reading it.

  But, guess what, it's been a while since my last post. But I want to talk about my reason for taking so long. Since starting Shield I've developed a pattern. You guys don't know this, but I get each issue of Shield done just in time for it to come out. I finish it and then in a couple weeks it's on the shelf. The book comes out only every 2 months and I'm just fast enough to meet the deadline and it never fails that in the last week or 2 before the deadline I find myself having to crunch a lot of work in. I pull all-nighters, drink energy drinks, get sick, and when it's over I crash. I'm exhausted and need to recover and, instead of getting right into the next issue to avoid this situation again, I rest. And the cycle continues. Also it's during this rest period that I post on my live journal.

 So that's where I'm at right now. Recovering from issue 5 and about to get started on 6. I think I did a good job on issue 5. I can never really tell what I think of something I've worked on till it's printed and I can read it all put together. But right now I feel pretty good about it.
 How bout a little preview:)

 With this page I threw some quick tones on it to help Christina out with deciphering the crazy jungle details.

Here's another Preview.

 So, have you heard of Axe Cop? It's a web-comic by brothers Malachai and Ethan Nicolle. Malachai comes up with the ideas and the story then Ethan draws it. And oh yeah Malachai IS 5 YEARS OLD. That's right, the world finally has a comic written by a 5 year-old and it is glorious. All the wild imagination and idiosyncrasies of a 5 year-old boy translated perfectly by a skilled comic artist. The Nicolle brothers have created a genuinely absurd silly universe.

 Clearly, I'm a fan. So much so that when I heard that Dark Horse Comics was going to publish Axe Cop as a graphic novel and that they would be including pin ups by other artists I thought, how do I get in on this. Since I'm exclusive with Marvel, it took getting legal permission, but they were cool with it. I think Axe Cop has some fans in the Marvel offices.

So here's what I did

 

I had so much fun drawing this stuff because it's crazy fun stuff.

Seriously, you need to check this out. Go to Axe Cop.Com, read the comic, then buy it when Dark Horse releases the collection on December 22nd.

Also, Ethan tells me that the details haven't been worked out yet but it looks like there's going to be a release party here in Portland at Bridge City Comics and that both him and Malachai will be there. I'm going. It's going to be sweet. 

 Another bit of news: Out Law Territory has been delayed! It was supposed to come out October 6th, hell, it was supposed to come out like a year and half ago. It's getting to be ri-god damn-diculous. It's now set to come out December 28. So if you can manage to maintain any interest in seeing They'll Bury You Where You Stand till then, god bless you.

One last thing, I'm going to try out a new feature. I'm calling it "Lauren's Poetry Corner." My fiancee Lauren does some really nice refrigerator poetry and I just think it needs to be seen. So here it is: