Ever Expanding Smallville!

Just announce from DC Entertainment, Smallville Season 11 will take place in comic forum coming this spring! Smallville season 11 will take place where the CW series left off and will first come to digital copy April 13, 2012, and then in print May 16, 2012! The creative team of writer Bryan Q. Miller, cover artist Cat Staggs [who we LOVE!] and interior artist Pere Perez will bring Clark, Lois and friends [and enemies] back to life!

Art by Cat Staggs

 

Comicon 2010: Post Show!

Ok gang, there is some good news and bad news!

The good news; we had a wonderful time at this years Comicon hanging out with the cast of The Variants and meeting artists Jaime Mendoza and of course our favorite artist Cat Staggs!

Artist: Jaime Mendoza

Aaron M picked up a massively awesome signed print of Zatanna by Cat Staggs as well as a series of 8 X Men prints!

Zatanna by Cat Staggs

Art by Cat Staggs

I was fortunate enough to get an 11×14 original inking of the X Men vs.  Dr. Doom from Jaime Mendoza!

Art & Inking by Jaime Mendoza

I also got some great original art from Joe and Ken from The Variants of Storm and Zatanna! Such a deal at a dollar a piece! [to be shown later!]

Ok the bad news; [insert frown face].  MaD did lovely interviews with both The Variants and Cat Staggs…however the sound was not so spectacular amongst the heavy crowd.  However we will indeed post the HELL out of them cause we love ‘em both! [Just waiting for the edit] We hope everyone had a blast at this years  Comicon in Richardson, Texas. We know we did, and can’t wait for the next convention!

Dallas Comicon- Pre-Show!

Ok guys, it’s that time of year again! Comicon @ the Richardson Civic Center, which so happens to be our favorite event in the Dallas- Fort Worth area, has returned!  It is sure to be the best one yet!

As per usual we have our favorites we are excited to see again!

Cat Staggs with Rueben & Aaron M

Last year we had the pleasure of meeting artist Cat Staggs, and this year we will have the opportunity as well to meet, talk, and buy a print or two! You should definitely do the same!

Adam Hughes

We are also excited to see Adam Hughes who will be joining a a great line up of artists as well as a cast of celebs including Charisma Carpenter, Adam West, Daniel Cudmore, and Sean Patrick Flanery! Fun stuff for sure!

And of course the cast of The Variants will be there promoting their web series & hopefully be free to give us a short but always fun interview!  Bring a dollar as Ken and Joe will be doing commissions!

WOOT!


Ace in the Hole!

What member of the Justice League is a descendant of Nostradamus, Leonardo Da Vinci, and alchemist Nicholas Flamel? Our Mutant of the week! Zatanna!

Private Commission by Cat Staggs

Like a virgin mutant, Zatanna Zatara’s powers are genetic.  Usually she casts her spells by speaking backwards but there has been occurrences when she has cast spells without speaking a word.  From 1978-1982 her powers were limited to the four elements but now she is one the most powerful magic users in the DC Universe!
When she is not saving the world with the Justice League she performs as a stage magician.  Her father, John, was also a stage magician and possessed the same powers as Zatanna.  Not only was she childhood friends with Bruce Wayne but her father taught him how to be an escape artist.  She has a really close relationship with Batman but since he is not able to give her the “relationship” she needs they remain close friends.  She has also appeared in the pages of Vertigo’s Hellblazer as John Constantine’s love interest.
You can currently see Zatanna in the pages of Justice League and for a great story arc that features her, check out Identity Crisis!
-Aaron M

Coming Soon! Spider-Man Archives!

spidab-773601Spider-Man Archives was recently released at the end of October by Rittenhouse.  I was curious to see the artwork on these cards since the Fantastic Four Archives were pretty shitty crappy.  I just picked up a pack today and surprisingly the art is good and they resemble the X-Men Archives and Women of Marvel cards which both were great.  Although I am not a huge Spider-Man fan I would definitely recommend picking up this set of cards. And as an added bonus, one of Mutant a Day’s favorite artist, Cat Staggs has done some excellent sketch cards for the series as well! She is indeed an art goddess!

Picture 1

Art by Cats Staggs

-Aaron M.

Conventionally Speaking

Your beautiful, talented & hilarious (and humble, naturally) authors went to the 2009 Comicon in Richardson, TX and had ourselves quite a day.

The convention space was divided up into two main sections, the artist gallery and the dealers room.

The artists were all very willing to sell sketches, take pictures, do signings and generally just get their stuff out to the hungry public.  There were two artists who really lil-bow-wowed us.

The salaciously sapphic Cat Staggs has an amazing eye for the female form.  She has done some beautiful work in the Women of Marvel trading card set which we highly suggest you check out.  In all of her female pieces (honka honka) you’ll notice she goes for the sensual rather than the overtly sexual in a way that you don’t see in most female characters in the comic world.  Really something else.  We would love to see her get her own series, JUST SAYING.  Enjoy our collective sexiness with her royal Catness.

Cat Stags & Mutant A Day

Cat Staggs, Mutant A Day, Aaron

Cat and more Mutant A Day contributers!

Cat and Windiebird

The other artist who really impressed us (and he could press us any way he wants) was Joe Jusko.  His most famous work was done on the 1992 Marvel Masterpiece trading card set although he has done work all over the comic industry for the better part of 30 years.  His colors are rich and thick (and that’s our kind of man) while his lining is complex and realistic.  Very consistent style and always a joy to look at.  And the art isn’t bad either.  Don’t you just want to rip his clothes off?

Joe Jusko & M-A-D

Joe Jusko & Windiebird

Mr. Jusko, Mutant A Day, and Aaron

Mr. Jusko, Mutant A Day, and Aaron

 

The second part of the convention was the dealers room and boy was it a room!   It was much louder and there was SO much to spend money on!  There were bootleg DVDs, decades worth of comic archives and more shirts and Mighty Muggs than you can shake a stick at.(And by stick I mean Mjollnir, and by Mjollnir I mean that hammer is my penis)  They had ALL the nerds covered.  Who fans, Battle Star Galactites, Trekkies, Star Whores, Weeboos and even the Ren Faire crowd.

Seriously, if you could dream it they were selling it.  We had a pretty nice haul ourselves (like every Saturday night around here) and you know we’ll be heading out the next time the convention breezes through town.

Oh! And there was some self-righteous actor from that new Punisher movie or something.  It was kind of hard to tell since he was wearing his sunglasses indoors.  Yeah, it was daytime.  He must be cute because he got a movie deal but we suspect his divine pole-smoking skillz might have played a role in the casting directors decisions.

Because, hello, freshly baked faguette.

That’s about it for our 2009 Richardson Civic Center Comicon coverage and we’ll be seeing you next post!

Keep it dirty.

Mutant A Day