Where you are is what you eat.
Tuesday, January 18th, 2011
I thought this was a fun little picture of Spider-Man when I drew it and since I knew you wouldn’t really be able to see it clearly in the finished strip, I decided to save the inks separately so I could maybe do something else with it.
Then I remembered there are a lot of you out there who are more talented at coloring than I am or who perhaps just enjoy coloring things.
All of that is to say if you’d like to have a go at coloring Spidey I am happy to facilitate that, so drop me an email or a comment here with your email address if you’d like the hi-res version to Photoshop up or if you’d just like to print out and have a go at it with your crayons.
Speaking of Spider-Man..
I think I read more Spidey comics over the weekend than I read in all of 2010 combined. Spider-Man is a character I love, but I don’t know if I’ve really actively enjoyed reading his comics regularly since the Todd McFarlane/Erik Larsen days of my youth.
I’m pretty sure I thought this was as cool as comics could possibly get at the time.
I know that for a long time all of the comics I made as a teenager were basically “Revenge of the Sinister Six” but with my characters instead of Spidey and his rogues. “Savage Stick Man” facing off against his arch-enemy “Kabuki” (not that one) and five other terrible teenage ideas, etc. (I promise I’m just as embarrassed writing that as you are reading it.)
I’ve been in and out since “Brand New Day” started, basically only picking up the issues by artists I really liked (Marcos Martin and Joe Quinones, for instance) and not getting too involved in the story of the big status quo change. The issues I read for the most part managed to be pretty enjoyable on top of the great art, but for whatever reason they didn’t really do much for me or more importantly for Spider-Man. They weren’t fun enough for me to just enjoy as “fun” comics (which are fun), and they weren’t substantive enough for me to feel like they’d really been worth my time. The only thing I can think to relate it to is treading water; you’re staying afloat, but it’s no way to live your life.
I’d been hearing really good things about “The Gauntlet” & “Grim Hunt” storylines, so I thought, “Okay, let’s see how this goes”, but after reading them, I’m still not sure what I think.
Usually the opposite is true, but I actually think I might have liked this better if I’d been reading it as it came out instead of all at once. I think having a week or two between issues might have given me more time to ruminate on what had happened in the individual issues more and expend a little more mental energy thinking about what was going to happen. Of course, there’s no way to know now if that would have made a difference one way or another.
How about you guys and gals, any of you reading Spider-Man?
