Showing posts with label Marc Silvestri. Show all posts
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Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Spawnometer 0:0:3:8: WildC.A.T.s vs. Cyberforce: Killer Instinct

Spawn #38 &
WildC.A.T.s: Covert Action Teams #5-9
& Cyberforce #0-3 (1993-1994)


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Spawn #38

by Todd McFarlane & Julia Simmons & Tony Daniel & Kevin Conrad

"Mind Games"
Dedicated To: Marv Wolfman
My name is Frederick Willheim, and I was born in Geneva, Switzerland... Anna. Intelligent. Caring. Beautiful... she did me the honor of becoming my wife... Her health then declined rapidly... I then focused solely on studying neurology, and vowed to save her or die trying.

Learning of my research, the U.S. Army invited me to head up their Cybernetic Simian project.

When the Cy-Gor moved of its own free will... I've had a stroke... I cannot reach her. My Anna... The beast... It hasn't eaten. It will escape... It will want my Anna...

WildC.A.T.s: Covert Action Teams #5-9

by Jim Lee with Brandon Choi, Scott Williams, & Co.


Cyberforce #0-3 & (1993-1994)

by Marc Silvestri & Eric Silvestri with Walter Simonson



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Spawning Ground


Al Simmons, Cogliostro, Cy-Gor, Cyberforce, Cybernet, Jim Lee, Marc Silvestri, Spawn, Spawn Podcast, Stormwatch, Todd McFarlane, Travis Charest, WildC.A.T.s, Wildstorm
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Sunday, September 25, 2022

2019 TERRIFICon Witchblade colors by Paul Mounts

It's been over a year since my last update post on this jam, begun in 2017 for the 25th anniversary of Image Comics, and almost completely missing the entire year of the 30th anniversary, a hell of a thing for a piece intended to be completed in a single weekend. I started out with such good intention in January. Anyway, setting aside any Image Comics lateness jokes, here is the first of the figures I got colored after getting the finished art back from Evan Dorkin. He'd warned me against getting additional colors as a threat to the integrity of the piece. Obviously, the central Spawn figure was colored by Joseph Michael Linsner from the beginning, but even one addition would be a commitment to doing many more. Further, depending on the coloring, the inks could easily be marred.

I debated on the matter for a while, but ultimately I felt like the piece would feel incomplete with one color figure. As important as Spawn is to Image and to myself, this is an image representing the full stable. At minimum, I wanted the founders' characters to get the same treatment. So, while on a road trip to visit friends in Canada and Boston, we made a detour to Connecticut, where I ended up running into Dr. Anj ahead of schedule. It was a fun mid-sized con hosted by a sprawling casino with a nice showing of actual comics talent, but I only had one day to spare for the show. I had specific things I wanted done and plenty of options, but oddly I think this is the first effort from that show to get posted. Most of the rest were more personal, or for other projects even further from fruition.

Paul Mounts was one of the first "name" comics colorists that I knew of. He had colored most of Marvel Comics' trading card sets in the late '80s & early '90s, a huge deal to that generation of fans, which got him notices in Wizard Magazine. He later colored nearly 100 issues of Fantastic Four, including the runs of the Waid/Wieringo and Hickman, the first volume of The Ultimates, and the run of Immortal Hulk. He even has an Image connection through work on Brigade, The Tenth, and Tellos. I recall particularly liking his flesh tones, so Witchblade was a natural choice.

Mounts shared Dorkin's reservations about the potential for inks running, and those concerns proved to be well founded. With the tools available at the con, the coloring ran into problems, and the attempted fixes are readily apparent. I still really like the tones throughout the piece, like the insectoid chrysalis yellow-brown within the gauntlet, and the shading in the hair. Obviously I worried that other colorists would have similar issues, but if anything, the flaws here encouraged me to get more coloring done to minimize the distraction. Blessedly, so far so good on later efforts, and I really prefer the piece with the colors. The question at this point is how far out to extend the color, as most of the main figures are done at this point. Blame COVID, poor convention scheduling in my area, and skyrocketing original art prices for this still being a work in progress.
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Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Spawnometer 0:0:2:5: Image Zero

Spawn #25 &
Image Zero #0 &
Image X-Month &
Operation: Urban Storm &


EXtra-Image Presents:

Shadowhawk: Out of the Shadows


EXtra-Image Presents:

The Savage Dragon: Baptism of Fire



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Spawn #25

by Todd McFarlane & Marc Silvestri & Matt Banning & Billy Tan

"Tremors"
Dedicated To: Spirit of Independence
Not Overtkill. Not SPAWN. Not GOD. NOTHING'S going to save Vito!

You people have become LAZY! Always turning to me for help. Well I don't have the answers. I can't solve ALL your problems. I've got a few of my own.

It wasn't long ago that Vito forced me to be his guinea pig... The combination of chemicals, microsurgery, who knows what sort of radiation and anti-rejection drugs transformed me.

Image Zero #0

by Rob Liefeld & Art Thibert; Jim Lee & Brandon Choi & Scott Williams; Todd McFarlane & Dan Panosian; Erik Larsen; Marc Silvestri; Jim Valentino & Christopher Ivy; and Whilce Portacio


Extra-Image: Shadowhawk (1992)

by Jim Valentino


Operation: Urban Storm

featuring Shadowhawk, Savage Dragon, & Stormwatch


Shadowhawk #0 (1994)

by Rob Liefeld & Karl Alstaetter & Robert Napton


Cyberforce #8 (1994)

by Eric Silvestri & Todd McFarlane & Greg Capullo & Mark Pennington & John Cleary


Youngblood #9 (1994)

by Jim Valentino & Dan Fraga


Savage Dragon #13 (1994)

by Jim Lee & Brandon Choi & Richard Bennett & Alex Garner & Dan Panosian & Scott Williams


WildC.A.T.s: Covert Action Teams #14 (1994)

by Erik Larsen


Stupid #1 (1993)

by Hilary Barta


Splitting Image #1-2 (1993)

by Don Simpson


The Savage Dragon vs. The Savage Megaton Man #1 (1993)

by Erik Larsen & Don Simpson


Image is Everything

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Al Simmons, Bloodstrike, Brass, Cyberforce, Erik Larsen, Extra-Image Presents, Greg Capullo, Jim Lee, Jim Valentino, Marc Silvestri, Megaton Man, Rob Liefeld, Savage Dragon, Shadowhawk, Spawn, Spawn Podcast, Stormwatch, SuperPatriot, Terry Fitzgerald, Todd McFarlane, Tony Twist, Tremor, Vanguard, Wanda Blake, Whilce Portacio, WildC.A.T.s, Wildstorm, Youngblood,
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Wednesday, April 29, 2020

2017 Heroes Convention Witchblade Jam Figure by Tim Vigil



While a case could be made for The Darkness and, I guess, Cyberforce, we all know Marc Silvestri's most famous character was the one he had the least to do with, Sara Pezzini. It's Michael Turner's signature property too, despite forming a whole company around trying to recreate his biggest splash (Fathom pun!) As much as I seemed to avoid including female characters in this jam (but ethics in comic book historical accuracy,) this one was a no-brainer. Also one of the easiest combinations of property and contributor, since Tim Vigil was the artist on the infamous adults only pornographic splatter horror super-hero comic Faust (a likely but unacknowledged influence on Spawn and maybe Shadowhawk.) Vigil likes drawing sexy bad girls in skimpy (okay, preferably no) outfits and ultra-violent anti-heroes with pokey parts (double entendre!) It turned out great and necessarily fast (Vigil's turnaround is almost always less than an hour,) so Vigil was invaluable in helping to make up for lost time. I tried to go with exclusively "new" commission artists for this jam, but Vigil was one of the two exceptions, and I had no regrets with either.
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Sunday, September 9, 2018

Spawnometer 0:0:1:2: Cyberforce

Spawn #12 &
Cyberforce #1-4 (1992)


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Spawn #12

by Todd McFarlane

"Flashback" Part 1
Dedicated To: Shel Dorf
Do you, Wanda Catherine Blake, take this man...

Washington, D.C. The office of Jason Wynn, C.I.A.

In a major coup for Paramount, studio executives have purchased the film rights to Mark Curtis' bestseller, "Courageous Ambitions: The Al Simmons Story."

Cyberforce #1-4 (1992)

by Marc Silvestri & Eric Silvestri

"The Tin Men of War"
The spirit with no fear of man or his machines. The spirit of the bear. The spirit that will guide the hands... of RIPCLAW.

Big crowd, tough talk, looking out for this guy ain't gonna be easy... This city ain't ready for a mutant mayor. Ain't ready for mutants period.

Velocity... we'll be back. You can run... but you can't hide... from Cyberdata.


Image is Everything

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