Earlier this week I penciled a whole bunch of things, the first of which I’ll be coloring and typesetting this weekend. Here’s the work in progress – the raw sumi ink, sans digital coloring. Enjoy!

Beware the Scorpion, one of Spidey’s truly lame opponents. It’s sad, too. I mean, he’s a genetically enhanced super-criminal with an acid spitting bionic tail. Come on Scorpion, you sound so cool! Too bad you never deliver the goods.

Oh well, more ink your viewing pleasure, dear readers:

Kraven the Hunter is one of the few primary Spider-Man villains who isn’t based on some sort of creature (Dr. Octopus, The Scorpion, The Vulture, The Rhino, I could go on), and yet he’s all about creatures. I always had a tough time taking him seriously, perhaps because he looked like a circus strongman in the 1990’s Spider-Man series. Still, this was really fun to do, and the piece has earned a place in my Characters section. Nice to take a piece from sketch to final once again, it’s been a while. Enjoy!

By the by, the font used is called Croteau, and it’s available at the fantastically redesigned MyFonts.com.

I felt a bit guilty about my last post. I like Captain America well enough, I don’t wish him dead. Seemed rather extreme, so I thought I’d give him the edge in this one:

Hey all! Just a quick post to prove I’m still alive and kicking. While my 9-5 has been incredibly busy as of late, I’ve been doing what I can to keep sketching and producing at night.

As I’ve never a big Captain America fanatic, I don’t quite know why he and Red Skull keep battling in my mind. Still, had to do something about it. Sorry, Cap – Red Skull won this time. Apologies for the violence of this one, it’s not my usual! I really wanted to break out my red ink, and well, look what happened…

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Okay, in reality, I’m not being sponsored by anyone, but I did want to share an indispensable tool I’ve been using with you all. It’s called Dropbox, and it’s pretty darn cool. In short, it makes your files accessible from wherever you go. I’ve been using it to keep files synchronized between my iMac and my MacBook, and I don’t think I could do without it anymore. I could go on and on about it, but that’s no good for a blog post on my homepage, so I made a dedicated page for it. Who knows, maybe this will be the first in a series of technology recommendations, and that page on the left will become a repository for useful, fun software and services. We’ll see.

Anyway, if you want to give it a shot, I ask that you read my Recommendations page first. If you sign up using the information on that page, we can both benefit and get some extra storage out of it!

This week I was once again featured on Robert Goodin’s Covered Blog. This go round, I reworked Green Lantern #122 from 1979, original cover by Dick Giordano. You can see the post on Covered, or right here. First up is my cover, followed by Giordano’s original from 30 years ago. Hope you enjoy!

So I recently upgraded from my original, first generation iPhone to a shnazzy new iPhone 3G S, and that meant that my old dock would no longer fit my phone. When contemplating the cost of a new dock, Mel and I realized it would be cheaper and a heck of a lot cooler to build a dock of our own! That’s where this sweet diecast 1966 Adam West style Batmobile came in (I assure you, I paid super-cheap TJ Maxx price!). Combine that with a dock adapter, an iPhone cable, and a few hours of ingenuity, whaddya get? A Mel Chao/Mark Grambau original BATMODOCK!  Begin geeky adoration…NOW!