DP in August 2012

We already know Beast Boy (such as he is) is going to have a part to play in Ravagers, but in August, it looks like Gar Logan takes a star turn as the cover model.

Nice pants. These are sure to be all the rage this fall.

THE RAVAGERS #4
Written by HOWARD MACKIE
Art and cover by IAN CHURCHILL and NORM RAPMUND
On sale AUGUST 8 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T
• Betrayal, revelations, blood, and DEATH come to the group as some find themselves powerless to the seductive charms and horrific powers of BROTHER BLOOD.
• RIDGE is prepared as a blood sacrifice to indoctrinate the newest members of Brother Blood’s cult.
• NOT everyone will survive this fatal encounter.


I'm not super-thrilled with "The Culling" to this point, but I am looking forward to these titles - and Ravagers in particular - following said Culling. 

Beast Boy on Young Justice

So I was catching up on my episodes of Young Justice with my kids a few weekends ago and meant to post about episode #21 titled "Image". This episode introduced a young Garfield Logan and his mother. It also put the team into conflict with Psimon and shared a tremendous amount of Miss Martian's secrets.

Over the course of the story, Gar becomes injured and has to receive a blood transfusion. From Miss Martian. The pretense here is that Miss Martian can shapeshift at the cellular level, so her blood cells could shapeshift to match Gar's. Long story short, that sets everything up for Garfield Logan to return as the Changelin- er, Beast Boy.

The second season of Young Justice is given the subtitle of Invasion and propels the storyline forward five years. With that advancement in the story, there is also a change in lineups, with the Young Justice team now including Lagoon Boy, Blue (Jaime Reyes) Beetle, Batgirl, Wonder (Cassie Sandsmark) Girl, Bumblebee and a new Robin (Tim Drake). Oh! And Beast Boy.

From Phil Bourassa's Deviantart page, I found this image, of Beast Boy in full-on Beast Mode (apologies to both Phil and Marshawn Lynch).

Beast Boy joins the Young Justice team for the second season of Young Justice. 

Beast Boy has never been my favorite Doom Patroller, nor Teen Titan, but I do find that I enjoy the character on occassion. Young Justice (so far) is one of those occasions. I like the blend of Changeling costume and more permanent animalistic features. Bourassa's work really updates Gar without making him look any sillier than a green boy who can turn into any animal he can think of should ever be.

AW YEAH ROBOTMAN!!

As promised, here's a bigger, closer look at the Robotman sketch from Franco.


Click, observe, and be awed.

Aw yeah Robotman!

Hi again, my friends and surprise! Hell hasn't frozen over!
Just wanted to really quickly post an image from C2E2.

Franco of "Tiny Titans" and the upcoming "Superman Family Adventures" comic.

I'll post a closer view of the sketch soon, but figured I owed you all a little awesomeness to make up for my extended absence. More very, very soon.

New Year, New Beginning

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

One of my extracurricular activities involves working with a little place known as Back to the Past. One of my cohorts there, Dave, did a pair of articles reflecting the end of 2011 and the start of 2012. He chose to focus on Doom Patrol, The Fugitive, and Captain Marvel. An interesting mix, to be sure, but a fun one nonetheless.

Of the beginning of the Kupperberg-Staton DP, Dave said:  

The group even starts off fighting General Immortus…it really was old home week with the Doom Patrol.

Check out the links and enjoy the read. Here's the beginnings, and for all those completists in the crowd, here's the endings. 

As for the beginnings (definitely prefer those to the endings) I'll be offering up some thoughts on the current My Greatest Adventure series soon. 

Steele. Cliff Steele.

In my spare time (yes, I'm laughing too) I like to check out the cool drawings and other assorted pieces of creative magnificence over on DeviantArt. On one recent expedition, I happened across this brilliant piece and needed to share.

Drawn by A.J. Jothikumar under the handle *hyperjack08, this piece speaks of a different Cliff Steele from another time. Maybe someday we'll see more of Cliff in a setting that would be in line with this image.

For now, however, be sure to check out some of A.J.'s other masterworks!

Beast Boy in the Top 100

My other site (or one of them) on these here internets, CBR, has a Top 100 DC (and also a Top 100 Marvel) characters for 2011 on the Comics Should Be Good blog. Even with minimal exposure throughout the year (unless he popped up in one of the New 52 books I simply am not reading) good ol' Garfield Logan is weighing in at #100.

Snazzy little drawing of Gar from Mike McKone's "Teen Titans" days.

I'm interested to see if we get any more Patrolers on the list. Any thoughts in that direction?

Be sure to check the list out for more fabulous characters.