As previously mentioned, I tried to complete the
Image Comics 25th Anniversary Jam over the weekend of the 2017 Heroes Convention. The piece went home with artist Evan Dorkin, who did an extraordinary of expanding and solidifying the overall... er... image, though I have to date only shown off the
Background Roughs. After I got the finished linework back, against the advisement of Dorkin, I began to get the figures colored in 2019. Then COVID happened, which was still casting its shadow during Image's 30th anniversary celebration last year, meaning I'm still working on the those colors six years later. Further, production of the Spawnometer podcast has slowed to just a few times a year, leading me to neglect the related blog and sit on completed art elements. All caught up? Okay, so Daniel Dahl did a wonderful job of fleshing out
Gilbert “Beto” Hernandez's sketch of Rob Liefeld's
Supreme, and gave his brother
Jaime “Xaime” Hernandez the same treatment on Whilce Portacio's
Fortress. As much as I enjoyed my themed misadventure of having creator-owned comics pioneers draw the Image founders' characters, I really feel like the colors took the project to another level, and I have to thank talents like Daniel Dahl for providing for and proving that to be true.
Daniel Dahl
