May 3, 2012

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The Best of Valiant – Shadowman #8

Key books – Shadowman #8 The Intro of Master Darque I plan on highlighting some of my favorite Valiant books and moments for you to enjoy in my The Best of Valiant series. So please enjoy my first offering. The are many Key books in the Valiant Universe, but one of my favorites has to […]

April 9, 2012

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Aram vs Gilad page 2

A quick follow up – Arm vs Gilly

As I listened back to the OTV podcast about the Valiant Royal Rumble I was thinking about the final bout, Arm vs. Gilly.

One of my MAIN points was that Gilly could not deliver the knock out blow while Arm could. Let’s bring in some photo evidence.

February 19, 2012

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Mouse Guard sketch by David Petersen

Is That the Lead Singer From Weezer?

For me, Mouse Guard is what the medium is all about. Visually telling a story. Capturing a feel, a vibe that adds to the understanding of the story.

Check out the David Petersen Mouse Guard Sketch, to be auctioned to benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

October 23, 2011

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Zombie Usagi Yojimbo Sketch by Stan Sakai

A Zombie Animorph?

Zombies Animorphs? I could write tons about this guy and have in other locations on this thing that Al Gore invented. This dude, Stan Sakai.  At this time I will say the following. If you really “put a gun to my head” and made me choose who is my absolute favorite dude at SDCC…… I […]

July 24, 2011

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SDCC 2011 Poker Night

SDCC 2011 Poker Night. Ok, Poker. Blood did a great job up setting it up, getting the tables ready and setting up the rules. We had to divide the peeps into 2 tables, we at our table called ourselves the “fun table”. The Fun table included (with seating order): Me, then to my left, Fred […]

July 23, 2011

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Valiant Jeopardy 2011

I want to start with my favorite time, and now firmly entrenched as the #1 (non-family-related) day I look forward to ever year, The Thurs. night Jeopardy Poker night at my homie Blood’s casa. We got the Valiant Jeopardy game started pretty quickly. I had created 2 rounds and a tie-breaker, tie maker (What up […]

July 22, 2011

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The Most Fun Place at SDCC?

The Most Fun place at SDCC? The Bongo booth is one of the funnest places to go at SDCC. Why? The people there are all very cool. Some booths, (at times it can feel like a bunch of booths) the people there are not that friendly. They are not necessarily mean, but maybe overwhelmed (understandable), […]

July 22, 2011

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FCF Sketches SDCC 2011 Day #1 -Making the Rounds

Here we go….. So Tues. morning I head over to the show with my boy Blood. After waiting in a few lines and walking around a bit, kinda taking it all in I decide it’s time to get started. So I leave the homies, Sean had joined us at this time, and head out to […]

July 19, 2011

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Not all Sketches are Equal

Sketch Types I have learned that there is a grip of variance in getting sketches.  Most of the times I drop off the board and pick it up later.  But sometimes they are ready to sketch right then. When someone is going to sketch right then, there are positives and slightly negatives. Positive: I am […]

June 2, 2011

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Why Fighting Cystic Fibrosis Sketches?

So Why am I involved in the Fighting Cystic Fibrosis sketches charity work?  It all goes back to my good friend Chris Scott.  I met Chris (Knightt) on the Valiantfans.com message board.  Unfortunately his daughter Alyssa (you can read her story here) has Cystic Fibrosis.  Now I did not really know anything about CF before […]