Ant Man and Wasp

Just wanted to revisit one of my favorite comic book couples.  Really loved drawing them in Thor: The Mighty Avenger.

BLACK WIDOW

Costume tweak just for kicks. Widow is definitely due for a new costume-- but I'm not so sure going more realistic or the Avengers movie route is the way to go. This is an update of sorts to my old Widow design seen HERE.

Wasp

Uh oh - someone's in the doghouse!

HAWKEYE (Shh. It's really Bullseye)

Okay, I'm sure there a ton of folks who could explain this better but... currently in the Marvel Universe there's a group of villains that have teamed up under the leadership of Norman Osborn (The former Green Goblin/current Iron Patriot) who have disguised themselves as members of The Avengers. They call themselves The Dark Avengers. Still following?
Anyway, the Daredevil baddie Bullseye is now dressing up as Hawkeye.

That's what you see above. Well, my first attempt at drawing him anyway:)

Marvel Adventures Super Heroes #20 (anatomy of a cover)

Marvel Adventures Super Heroes #20, which I posted the solicitation info about yesterday, will be my first cover work work for Marvel Comics, and hopefully not my last, so I thought I'd post a bit of the process that went in to making it today.

Here is the first pass at a rough layout. My Editor Nate Cosby had asked for a shot of the Vision tearing a car in half. Sounds easy enough, right?

After it was decided that neither of the first two thumbnails were working I took another shot and came up with these two.

I guess you can tell which one we went with because below are my finished pencils. These are considerably tighter than I generally prefer to work since I wanted this to be JUST right. I even went out and took a bunch of reference photos of my car since I wanted to, though it may not all be 100% correct, make the car parts as believable as possible in each stage.
And here are the finished inks.

I was a little worried, after taking a step back from the finished piece for a bit, that the Vision's cape could easily be mistaken for the car door, not to mention the amount of confusion that could be caused by the number of times I made the decision to leave lines open, so I worked up this quick little color comp.

Obviously it's crudely simple but it's main purpose was to help separate objects on the page.

All this piece needed now was some killer color work by Veronica Gandini, which you can see at the top of this post, and the final logo and design work.

I was afraid I may had gone a bit overboard on the dramatic lighting here. Vero really made it all work though by using bold colors to help sell the moment, without making it too creepy.

All said, I'm pretty dang happy with how it turned out. And it was a ton of fun to work on to boot!! Be sure to pick up a copy when it hits stands on February 10th. The issue is written by Paul Tobin after all, so I'm sure it'll be a hoot.

Wizard World Chicago: Mockingbird

Be sure to stop back by later today for all the info on pre-ordering sketches for the Windy City Comicon.
Have a great weekend, folks!

Hawkeye

Ronin vs Echo

Ronin and Echo suggest having a great weekend... or they'll stab you.  No joke.  

Planet Comicon: Hawkeye & Mockingbird

Man. I could draw Mockingbird all day. What a wonderfully simple costume.

Thanks again, Ed.

Have a great weekend, folks.