Wondering Woman

Not a very charasmatic pose or anything, but there she is none the less!

Small update to her costume.  Kinda like it.

Cliff Chiang is doing some sweet, simple and smart storytelling in the new 52 WW title.  Brian (100 bullets, read it!) Azzarello writes.

Hawk and Dove

More of just a sketch.

Hawk and Dove...  War and Peace!

Once was a pair of brothers:  One, a hot-head, the other a meeker pacifist (hawk and dove... get it?), now is a boy and girl pair... The original hawk, not sure about the girl... supposedly dating Deadman...?

This New 52 title is brought to us by Sterling Gates (awesome name) and the ever notorious, Rob Liefeld, whom got his start in comics back in the late 80's on this EXACT title... interesting.

Danananananananana Batman!

If it wasn't ninja turtles, it was batman that got me drawing, and still does today.

The sample pages I'm working on just so happen to be from a Batman script.  This image is NOT from those pages.

I'll file this under "Batman" and leave "detective comics" for later, so I can draw more Batmans.  Drawing more Batmans is always good.

Scott Snyder writes Batman (Liking his Swamp Thing a whole lot!) and comic book hero of mine, Greg Capullo draws.  I'll be honest, never read much Spawn, but his X-force had a BIG impact on me.  (Hmmm... I guess I really liked his houdini arc and Angela Mini aswell...)

Just grifterin'

So to people that do know... they've eliminated the old wildstorm comic line (home of the Wildc.a.t.s.) and folded them into the "New 52."

Grifter, former member of the Wildc.a.t.s. is a character who really looked cool in the 90's... but wow, that was a long time ago now.  lol.  Anyway, he's back, he's seein' aliens, and solving problems with bullets.  And a kevlar vest that looks like a back-catchers pads.

Brought to us by these good folks:
Written by Nathan Edmonson and art byCAFU

Teen Titans

The junior versions/sidekicks of most of DC's hotshots get together, play clubhouse and thwart some crime.  Or evil science.

Was a big tim drake fan in the day.  Good times.

Scott Lobdell and Brett Booth (wow, Backlash flashback!) bring these kids together again.

Lights, camera... Action Comics!

Action Comics!  Makes sense as a first addition... considering that Superman's first appearance was in the very first issue in 1937.  Changed everything.

This superman, is much more akin to THAT superman, and less to the one we're used to today.  He's now (and again) spry, fearless, has no real idea what he's truly capable of and out for social justice!  Grant Morrison and Rags Morales spearhead this series (with a little help from some friends). 

Should be fun!

    Honestly, I've always been one-foot in when it comes to comic book artwork.  Odd since it the first thing I was ever any good at.  Turns out, in time I found out I was good at alot of things, and that really distracted me, atleast from drawing.  For better or worse.  A long time ago I dabbled in some art communities online, but for the better part of the last 5 or so years, I haven't really drawn much of anything at all.  Even though I had alot of support and encouragement from a fantastic array of people (fans, other amateur artists and a select group of professional ones too).  Funny , I guess I had some lessons to learn before I could return.

     Fast forward.

     So then DC Comics' concocts an ambitious "New 52" relaunch/reboot/retcon their ENTIRE company wide line of comic books.  I've always been a DC fan, and so this had me really interested. Turns out not every title is for me (duh), but there's definitely an energy there, and it made me physically get up and actually visit a comic book store again.  I then bought singles or monthlies.  The only comics I've bought in the last 8-10 years have been trades/graphic novels... so it's interesting to have the craving to get the comic book as it comes out and not when its collected later down the line.  It's been fun...to be part of that... newness. A newness and energy I thought comics had lost for me.  SO not only did it get me collecting again (sorry bank account) but it got me drawing again like crazy.  

     I figured it brought me back to drawing, I should maybe repay the favour.

     So... I'm going to take a marathon run at drawing all of the New 52 characters (which are the same old characters but you know... newer-ish).  Some of the redesigns are... interesting, we'll say, and then some are pitch perfect.   

     Now some entries will be just sketches and some will be formal finished comic book pieces, there won't be EXACTLY 52 posts, there will no doubt be more.  But what it will be is a test.  Will I succeed or... will this be another long, incomplete monster blog...?

     Guess we'll see!

     Enjoy!

     -Benjamin Tiesma

     (NOT a professional comic book artist...yet)