SCAPULA -

by admin on January 22nd, 2012

I’ve redesigned Dr. Jeraukov’s facial features recently; unlike the extreme or demented villains and monsters in this series, Jeraukov works best when she’s presented as a normal human being (she is, for the most part). I wasn’t really pleased with the way I drew her face during her last appearance and did what I could to more or less present her as a believable conservative Jewish woman in her forties. What do you think?

We’re also seeing her continuing love of old movies (she’s been seen at this old-timey movie theatre before). Her rant is over “The Fountainhead”, the film version of Ayn Rand’s controversial novel. Whether or not her personal politics follow Objectivism has yet to be seen.

Scapula is still an icky creep.

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VILLAINS & MONSTERS: Birdo

by admin on January 26th, 2012

Possibly the first transvestite in video games, Birdo (who, according to the Super Mario Bros 2 instruction manual, prefers to be called “Birdetta”) was a bizarre boss with a profoundly disturbing facial orifice. If eggs come out of there, does that mean it’s technically a…well, let’s let someone else ponder over that.

“BLOO-O-O-O!”

Birdo ™ and © Nintendo.

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VILLAINS & MONSTERS: Ygor

by admin on January 19th, 2012

A wily, broken-necked schemer and one of Bela Lugosi’s greatest roles, the crooked Ygor was the major villain of my personal favorite Universal Frankenstein film, Son of Frankenstein.

Some time during the retro ‘monster boom’ of the sixties the character got confused with Fritz the hunchbacked lab assistant from Universal’s first Frankenstein movie, and forever after fans have been referring to the hunchback as ‘Igor’.

Ygor ™ and © Universal City Studios, Inc.

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VILLAINS & MONSTERS: Cheetah

by admin on January 12th, 2012

My buddy Ashley requested that I draw this furious, furryous (har har) villain. I agreed because of one simple fact: she’s naked!

Cheetah ™ and © DC Comics.

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VILLAINS & MONSTERS: Johnny (The Room)

by admin on January 5th, 2012

Tommy Wiseau, from his magnum opus The Room, widely acknowledged as one of the worst movies of all time. Why is he here in the Villains and Monsters section? Well…I think he qualifies as a movie monster. He’s bizarre, deformed (kinda…well, I don’t want to look at him), brutish yet tender, misunderstood, wants to be loved, hurt by the world, dies tragically, and his performance invokes horror…does anyone else see the similarities between him and, say, the Frankenstein Monster?

“YOAH TELLING ME A POT!”

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VILLAINS & MONSTERS: Mysterio

by admin on December 29th, 2011

We end the year with one of my all-time favorite supervillains: Mysterio, a bitter, underestimated artist who decided to take revenge against the industry (and the world) by using his skills and imagination to make an identity for himself. Plus you’ve got to love one of the most original designs in all of comics, courtesy of Steve Ditko.