Comic Book Haikus - June 2011 Issues

Finesse Action Figure

My 2nd custom of the Avengers Academy team.  Finesse was created by using a Marvel Legends Psylocke base, Marvel Legends Maria Hill head, with Marvel Legends Elektra hands.  The mask and hair was sculpted with wooden dowels for the night sticks.

Check out my buddy Alex's Finesse sketch here.

 

 

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Mettle Action Figure

If you have listened to any of the episodes of Earth's Mightiest Podcast you would know that I really enjoy reading Avengers Academy.  So here's my 1st custom from the teen Avengers team, Mettle.  Mettle was made by using a Legendary Comic Book Heroes Savage Dragon with a Marvel Legends Taskmaster head.  The head and legs needed some sculpting.

   

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Baroness Action Figure v2

Got a commission to do another Marvel Legends scale Baroness based off the Baroness I made before. This time Baroness was made with a DC Universe Donna Troy with a Marvel Legends Domino arms.

 

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Heroes Con 2011 signatures and sketches

June 3-5 was Heroes Con in Charlotte, NC.  It was a pretty amazing con and got to meet a bunch of artists and writers.  I'm definitely going to go back every year when I can.

So day 1 I was on a mission to get signatures and sketches in all my binds.  Took me most of the day and a few trips back and forth to my car carrying these books around.  My shoulder was killing me afterwards.

Annihilation: Conquest Bind - Sketch and signature by Mike Lilly.  Signatures of Scott Hanna and Bob Almond

Civil War Vol. 1 Bind - Signatures from Scott Hanna, Dexter Vines, and Laura Martin

Civil War Vol. 2 Bind - Sketch and Signature from Scott Hanna. Signatures from Dexter Vines and Tim Townsend

Incredible Hercules Bind - Sketch/Signatures from Clayton Henry, David A. Williams, Ed McGuinness, and Chris Haley. Signature from Gabriel Hardman.

Chaos War Bind - Sketch/Signature from Tommy Lee Edwards, Bob McLeod, Brandon Peterson, Dan Panosian, and Ed McGuiness.  Signatures from Rick Ketchum

Immortal Iron Fist Bind - Signature from Matt Fraction

X-men: Second Coming Bind - Signatures from Brian Reber, Matt Wilson, and Matt Fraction

So yeah it was both awesome and exhausting.  It was pretty funny that Brandon Peterson started drawing a Black Bolt in my Chaos War bind.  Not wanting to pull out my inner nerd voice Black Bolt wasn't in Chaos War! I asked nicely "Was Black Bolt in Chaos War?"  He replied back saying "Aw crap no he isn't is he?" so he just drew a word bubble on Black Bolt saying "I was in War of Kings."  

And finally I got a great sketch on a blank #9 issue of Darkwing Duck from James Silvani.  He made me a Nightcrawler Darkwing Duck.

Nightcrawler Darkwing Duck

Samus Action Figure Redesign

So there was a custom contest on Figure Realm to make an armored character.  I decided I was going to  make Samus from Metroid but with some slight changes. I wanted make it so she doesn't have super huge shoulder pads anymore. The base was made from an Iron Man Movie (Wave 1 Walmart Exclusive) Iron Man - Stealth Operations suit.  The shoulder pads were made from modified ML Ant Man helmets. The gun came from some random transformer gun I had lying around. Everything else was sculpted.  The forums voted it to be a 3.05 out of 5.  Not my best work, but it was still fun to make.  

 

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Comic Book Haikus - May 2011 Issues