With all the recent talk about Watchmen and DC’s new Before Watchmen books, this popped into my head and I had to let it out.
Nite Owl was a little out of shape in the modern sequences…
Pat and Vanna as Nite Owl and Silk Specter, anybody?
Apparently this is all about Nite Owl…
Misc Artwork, Misc Comics | Christopher Jones | 
February 6, 2012 4:44 pm | 
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JLU #43 final page
The folks at the Boosteriffic! Blog (a Booster Gold fan site) reached out to me recently for some comments on my work on Justice League Unlimited #43 which featured both Booster Gold and Blue Beetle, and had a long and twisted path to publication.
You can find my original blog post on the issue and the story behind it here.
Tags: Blue Beetle, Booster Gold, Justice League Unlimited, Pencils
Misc Comics | Christopher Jones | January 15, 2012 12:02 pm | Comments (0)
Gerry Anderson’s UFO
Here’s a glimpse of a comic that never happened, a comic based on Gerry Anderson’s UFO, a 1970 live-action British Sci-Fi series from the same producers as Space: 1999 and Thunderbirds. A comics publisher had secured the rights to a comic book adaptation, and a 7-issue mini-series was mapped out. Issue #0 would have taken place immediately after the TV series, and would have essentially acted as a series finale. Issues #1-6 of the series would have picked up more than a decade later, acting as an epic sequel to the TV show.
The pencils, inks, colors and lettering were completed for the #0 issue, and pencils to #1 were underway when the plug was pulled at the publisher end due to lack of funds – another project that had been expected to fund this one hadn’t been the success that had been hoped for, and the money to produce and publish the mini-series wasn’t there. Valiant efforts to save the project were made, but the whole thing just folded. I’m happy to say I was paid for the work I completed, but I really wanted to see this project reach an audience.
The inks on the book were by Joseph Rubenstein whose work I’d known from everything from the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe to some of John Byrne’s issues of Captain America. The colors were by colorist Matt Webb.
Here’s a taste of the comic that might have been…
 UFO #0 pg 01 pencils |  UFO #0 pg 01 inks |  UFO #0 pg 01 colors |
As I have a copy of the lettered version of this page, here’s a look at what the finished page would have looked like.
UFO #0 pg 01 letters
 UFO #0 pg 02 pencils |  UFO #0 pg 02 inks |  UFO #0 pg 02 colors |
 UFO #0 pg 03 pencils |  UFO #0 pg 03 inks |  UFO #0 pg 03 colors |
 UFO #0 pg 04 pencils |  UFO #0 pg 04 inks |  UFO #0 pg 04 colors |
 UFO #0 pg 05 pencils |  UFO #0 pg 05 inks |  UFO #0 pg 05 colors |
Tags: colors, Gerry Anderson, Inks, Joseph Rubenstein, Matt Webb, Pencils, UFO, unpublished
Misc Comics | Christopher Jones | December 21, 2011 6:30 pm | Comments (0)
Nathan Fillion as Green Lantern
Here’s a nice photo of Nathan Fillion from his recent gig voicing Hal Jordan in Green Lantern: Emerald Nights.
And no, I don’t know why it says “salami” on the music stand his script is on.
Tags: Green Lantern, Nathan Fillion
Misc Comics | Christopher Jones | December 18, 2011 2:01 pm | Comments (2)
Marvel Superhero Squad
Are you familiar with the Marvel Superhero Squad Show? Based on the Marvel Super Hero Squad action figure line from Hasbro, it was a comedy-adventure series that portrayed the Marvel Comics characters in a cartoonish super-deformed-style. Each episode had a “title card” that showed the title of that episode next to a parody cover, based on a classic Marvel Comics cover but depicting characters in the style of the show. I drew several of those for the show’s first season, and I wanted to share some of them with you!
Typically, I would be told what cover I was to parody, and what (if any) characters on the cover were to be substituted with other Superhero Squad characters. I was provided with model sheets for the Superhero Squad animation designs of all the relevant characters, and I then I’d get down to work!
Incredible Hulk #1 cover
The first of these covers was for Superhero Squad episode #4: “Hulk Talk Smack!” The cover to be parodied was The Incredible Hulk #1, the first appearance of the character! The Hulk was to merely be replaced with the Superhero Squad version of the character, but all the other characters depicted were to change. The solder on the left was to become Wolverine, General Ross and Betsy were to become Ironman and The Wasp, the soldier behind them was to become Thor, and Dr. Banner himself was to become The Falcon! They also wanted the rocket-pad background eliminated, and the Hulk figure a little smaller in the frame so it wasn’t “cropped” by the edge of the frame.
 Squad Cover #4 pencils |  Squad Cover #4 Inks |  MSHS Cover #3 Color |
The inks are by me, and the color is by another artist working for Marvel. Click on the color version to see the cover with revised color and complete with logos. One of the issues with these covers is that the “Superhero Squad” logo is very square, which meant it didn’t usually fit well into the space at the top of the cover art.
Squad #4 Title Card
Finally, here’s how the cover appeared in the TV episode, next to the credits for the writer and director. I always thought this was something of an odd format as the story title and other text are fairly small and there’s a LOT of pen space the text and cover art are floating around in. But he, I wasn’t going to complain. It was giving me work!
More Superhero Squad covers soon! As always, questiosn and comments are welcome.
Tags: colors, cover, Hulk, Inks, Marvel, Pencils, Superhero Squad
Misc Comics | Christopher Jones | 12:03 pm | Comments (0)
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