"President Elect" Barack Obama & More...

Let me begin this entry by saying how proud and excited I am to have Barack Obama elected as the 44th president of the United States of America! Big Ups to Barack, Michelle, Sasha, Malia, David Axelrod, David Plouffe, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, the staffers, the volunteers, and the voters. Together, we put hope above fear and refused to engage in the low-road game our opposition was set on playing. Congratulations to Barack and to America! Here's a hilarious comparison of presidential fist-bumps and my election night drawing of the President Elect...


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This zip never looks right no matter how hi-res I set the scanner, but here's an Iron Man I drew over the summer...


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And I guess you could say I savored 2 very fulfilling endings this week with Bush on his way out and the final volume of "Y : The Last Man" finding its way into my hands. Talk about covering every base and still leaving some pleasant ambiguity... I followed Yorick (along with 355, Dr. Mann, and others) for 5 years and would have found the source of the "Male Plague" to be satisfying enough, but Vaughan really went for broke on every arc's end. This book had something for everyone and it kept giving until the very end. A simple science fiction premise took readers through a "road movie" of a comic that blended espionage, gender studies, romance, comedy, and the surreal into a riveting epic of global consequence. As far as long-running (6 Volumes or more) Vertigo titles, this finale just beats out Gaiman's "Sandman" but falls well short of Alan Moore's "Swamp Thing". But c'mon, comics like this wouldn't even exist if it weren't for Moore so I think that's a rather nice compliment...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_the_last_man

Happy Halloween From Jack Knight!

Happy Halloween, Everyone!
I faced quite the dilemma when my bat-armor rental went down the tubes and the only Punisher shirts at Hot Topic were S and XXL. I was set on being a superhero, If you're me nothing else is even an option. So I got to thinking, "What superhero has the most "non-costume" costume???" I was in trouble, I could think of no one or at least anyone that didn't have some crazy prop or makeup job. Finally, while trolling around the Army surplus store I saw goggles and it all clicked---Jack Knight (Modern Age Starman)! Not only do I think this series is one of the finest pure superhero books of all time, but I think it's an important work with respect to Generation X and the early 90s. Jack was a twenty something guy whose dad (Ted Knight) was the original Starman and whose brother David had taken up that mantle. Jack had no ambition to be a superhero or to really do anything post-college and felt a little bit like the black sheep of his family because of it. But when David was killed and Opal City needed a guardian Jack rose to the occasion and was forced into the family business that just happened to be the superhero business... The rest is history. As far as the 90s go, the only creation that even comes close to him is Hellboy and I'm glad to see Robinson and Harris' run finally being collected in hardcover. They deserve this for the merit of their work and for creating a character that bailed me out of Halloween. Peace!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Knight


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