From the Big Box: Steverino's Random Read

Hey, Everybody! It's android time.

I, STEVERINO have reached into the

Big Box and pulled out the strange and very slick:

Bruce Wayne: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Vol 1, No 1, April 1996

Published by Marvel under the AMALGAM banner

(That's DC meets Marvel folks)

Writer:Chuck Dixon  Penciler:Cary Nord  Inker:Mark Pennington  

Lettering:Richard Starkings/Comicraft  Colorist:Steve Buccellato

That's a lot of credits. Well they deserve a lot of credit.

Fantasy or not this book and story line was outstanding.

I'll focus on this comic for now.

First off Amalgam Comics combines the best of the 

DC/Marvel heroes and bad guys.

It seems that the Green Skull (Lex luthor+Red skull)

is finally cornered by Bruce Wayne and his army.

Wayne has risen to the top of S.H.I.E.L.D. at this point

and wants revenge on Green Skull for knocking off his parents

who were also agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. years ago.

Sergeant Rock and Nick Fury who head the force can not stop him

so they back him up. 

Unknown to Bruce we've already seen Skulls daughter (with Lois Lane) 

Selina Luthor as Madame Cat (Cat Woman+Viper) kill him to take power and lead the evil HYDRA group. Hail HYDRA.

 

The war is in fact on.

Wayne, Moonwing (Nightwing+Moon Knight) and

Black Bat (Batgirl+Black Cat) leave a paralyzed

Tony Stark to man the helicarrier

and go off to kick some butt. Wayne doesn't make it. He's instead knocked out of the air by a crashing jets

explosion leaving Moonwing alone

(I guess Black Bat stood by and watched)

to fight off old friend Jason Todd now known as

Deathlok (Robin+Midnight).

He can't so Fury and Rock shoot Deathlok from the air

killing him... again. 

 

In the back no less. Ouch. By the way, Green Skull activated

 the Planetsmasher program some time before he was killed.

While this goes on Wayne meets Nuke (bane+Nuke of Earth-616)

and yes he screws with his venom supply and wins...again.

Knowing the tell-tail signs of this weapons activation Bruce chides

"We see this through to the end." They know the weapon is going to the critical point and do in fact reach the control level.

Girl hits man with whip, man grabs whip and flings girl

 into computer bank. KRAASH.

"Show me how to shut this weapon down." Grunts Wayne.

"HAHAHA! I can't! No one can! Isn't it rich?" smiles Selina.

Fury, Rock and yes GREEN SKULL look on helplessly. Oh my.

Clap. Clap. Well done Amalgam. This was so much fun.

From the cool new/old heroes

to their costumes to a one shot story-line

that gives us a past that never was and a present that would be very

interesting indeed.  I loved the whole idea.

Look at the scans. Oustanding artwork.

It's a comic book line designed to give us

a mind break from the norm.

This android would like to see a revision of this line

with these two comic big boys working together again this century.

I must show you Baron Zero (Baron von Strucker+Mr. Freeze).

I have to say it. How cool is he?

This is the android known as STEVERINO chillin' out until next week. 

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Mark D Velard

We're about to blow your mind.

Monday, December, 21st

Mark D. Velard

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The Art of: Christopher Chamberlain

It's your pal WIT with more great artwork.

This time around I'm bringing you Canadian talent

Christopher Chamberlain

http://www.c21.deviantart.com/

http://www.comicspace.com/christopherchamberlain

        Born in the great white north of Canada sometime in the last millennium, Christopher was caught many times by his parents

marking on the walls of the igloo while knocking over vases.

Eventually he turned to paper and other discarded items that took to being marked. Since then a few people have had him create some cartoons and drawings for their picture books. Christopher is always willing to scrawl on some paper for people.

Enjoy the next five pieces of art as Chris shows off:

"Our Hero"

I love this stuff.

The only thing better would be a drawing of me

trying to figure out the universe...oh, wait...

Throw your hats onto the ice folks.

Christopher Chamberlain has the hat trick.

Talent, Story telling ability, and a drawing of me to brag about.

Comic Creators United looks forward to seeing more of Chris and his

fine work on this blog and out in the world of art.

Thanks my friend. Come back soon.

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Christopher Chamberlain: Artwork

Coming Sunday, December, 13th:
  
The Art of: Christopher Chamberlain

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wrobbert cartoons by wrobbert

Hello Gang. Wit here. I'm Back from a deep space adventure
and I brought you a gift.

I present to you an outstanding cartoon strip that's
in a world of its own:

wrobbert cartoons by wrobbert

http://www.wrobbertcartoons.com/

twitter.com/wrobbertcartoon 

wrobbertcartoons@yahoo.com

WROBBERT BIO
I am 48 years old and started out animating as a kid looking forward to spending my life on it.
 When I couldn't afford college I started experimenting with animation
and learning as best I could on my own.
Claymation was the direction I wanted to take.
During this period I discovered comic strips
which I've been doing ever since.
I love cartooning though I still feel the itch to animate (I periodically do simple motion graphics for a digital advertising signage network in Georgia). I have larger plans for wrobbert cartoons like
 animation and products but it's slow going.
I've tried several strips over the years usually working
on each until I got tired of spending time on a non-winner
at which time it was "back to the old drawing board". It's been fun.
I live with my wife Tami-Lin and Granddaughter Angelina in Florida.

SYNOPSIS
Ah, wrobbert cartoons. They have a life of their own.
They tease me and have been known to hold character meetings of their own. One character in particular
likes to explore as much of the
wrobbert cartoons world as as I do. He (like me)
likes not knowing what he'll find in the next five minutes.
There are also plenty of characters that don't realize
what and where they are.
A seven foot tall door cleaning monster, a talking coffee mug,
a scientific friend with a hat fetish or an unexpected
Wiffle Ball game in your closet with a bunch of monsters
 is all in a day's fun.
 All I do is plunk down a few black lines and
smoosh on some color to show you where these characters
are and what they're doing.

THE HISTORY OF WROBBERT CARTOONS
I love history. It's full of so many characters.
I have read that for some creators who deal with characters those characters can be very real. So much so that stories
can sometimes seemingly write themselves
(to a degree). Stories literally can unfold on their own
and in my case it's not uncommon for me to just be sitting there
during moments like these with a big silly grin on my face.
I'm glad my wife understands....

I got tired of trying to come up with a clever premise or
something that's easily recognized
that worked so I decided to think the opposite
and get rid of any premise" altogether. One thought I had was
"What part of comic strips that I see a lot do I hate?"
and what came to mind was the part of certain strips where
the characters are aware that they are cartoons
and know that they are in a strip. Bill Watterson even flirted
with this idea early on with Calvin and his editors nixed it.
 He said he was glad he didn't do it. I don't know why I felt that way,
but I did. So I set out on the challenge to create a strip
around this "self aware" idea....

At this point I knew that my characters weren't going
to leave me alone and it slowly dawned on me
after seeing Monsters, Inc.
 that the characters in the movie were living a lot like my characters.
 On their own. All of a sudden my characters
were holding meetings of their own,
having writing sessions to help me out and
producing their own yearly awards show
amongst many other things and I was enjoying the ride.
They also tease me about my cartooning abilities
which made me laugh because they were right....
For now I'll just sit back and watch them and lay down
some black lines to show you where they are and what they're doing.
My characters have never made me laugh out loud until now.
I guess they all had to gang up on me for that to happen.
I hope you get a laugh, too. -wrobbert

We do and can't wait to see what they do next. 
I think something just climbed out of your ear. Don't let it get away.
Come back soon, Wrobbert  and bring your world of fun.
This planet I must visit.

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Wrobbert cross over toon revealed

WROBBERT CARTOON WELCOMES WIT

wrobbert cartoons is the place where all wrobbert's characters live.

They have a life of their own.

A big THANK YOU goes out to the great WROBBERT.

 Come back soon. 

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Guest Artist "Wrobbert Cartoons"

Coming Saturday, December 5th

WROBBERT CARTOONS

This is just a tease.
See the second half of this historic crossover
12-5-09.
See the strange and off-the-wall fun that takes place as you'll meet
wrobbert and enter his rather large mind.
Read his bio and view his cast of characters in action.
BE THERE!!!

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