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Power Rangers – Blue Ranger

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Aug 062014
 

Avast me mateys! It be time for a new mash-up! Yar! Why be I talkin’ like a pirate? Yar! No idea! Lettin’ us be gettin’ to the mash-up then! Yar…

It’s another Rangery Wednesday of the Power variety today. Remember that you can totally enlarge a picture if you click on it.

Here’s Cyran as the Blue Ranger. His short limbs always make poses like this interesting. And by interesting I mean a challenge. He looks really happy though doesn’t he?

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That’s it for this week. Next week is another rainbow ranger. But which one? Would it be easier to guess if I told you, it was gonna be Deema dressing up? Share your guesses in the comments.

Guardians of the Galaxy Rocks!

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Aug 042014
 

Sorry folks, I’m super tired today. A weekend of self-loathing and doubt (more so than usual) culminated in a sleepless night last night. I’m going to keep this post brief as a result.

The one high point of my weekend was seeing Guardians of the Galaxy on Friday. The movie was excellent and I daresay it’s my favorite Marvel movie yet. It was a wonderful blend of action, humor and sympathetic characters. I can’t wait to see it again…and again.

I don’t think it’ll be a surprise when I tell you that Rocket Raccoon was my favorite character. The little guy is just full of win. I’m looking forward to hearing Bradley Cooper’s take on the character (I saw the movie in French). There was one elderly woman in the theatre who laughed with delight every time he was on-screen, so I know I’m not the only Rocket fan in the room. By all reports, he’s going to be a big moneymaker for Marvel this year.

The plot is nothing groundbreaking. It’s really all about the characters here.Still, there’s some development in this movie that puts a lot of what’s been seen in prior Marvel movies into context. There are scenes here that are almost essential for the non-comics fan to follow what’s been going on and what’s coming up.

Marvel has proven that they know what they’re doing on the big screen. Guardians was probably their riskiest move yet and they pulled it off really well. With Ant-Man and Dr. Strange on the horizon (and rumors of Black Panther and the Inhumans a little further out), it was important for Marvel to prove that people could be receptive to a movie that doesn’t feature Captain America, Thor or Iron Man. Given how much I enjoyed Guardians, I’m a lot more optimistic about their future non-Avengers endeavors.

In other news, I’m down to three-day weekends for the month of August. The funny thing is I did more drawing in my three-day weekend than I did in either of my four-day weekends. The last few weekends I would draw a new mash-up, a flashback and one strip and then have to draw my second strip during the week. This past weekend, I got all my required work done so my weeknights will be free to work on other projects.

Anyhoo, that’s all for now. Have a good week folks!

Flashback Friday – Hulk

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Aug 012014
 

Hey there kool kats and kittens! It’s that time again so I’m taking a little break from drawing a new flashback to post this week’s installment.

Didn’t we just do an Avengers flashback a couple of weeks ago? Well it’s time for another one now!

It’s not easy being green. Especially when you’re normally brown. Just ask Barnaby who’s dressing up as the Incredible Hulk this week. It takes a lot of green fur paint and that stuff’s a real pain to wash out. The character builds don’t really look good with excessive musculature so I left Barnaby’s proportions as they are.

HulkHere’s a comparison with the original mash-up. It’s good enough for the time. The simple costume worked well with what I was doing at the time.

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And so that’s it. Next week, Sass is going to be back in one of my favorite of the original mash-ups!

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