2010 "DC Universe Vol.1: JLA" Martian Manhunter by alexmax

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Just for fun, here's me taking a stab at the DC superheroes in an animated type style. Inspired by the Bruce Timm cartoons and movies, but at the same time trying not to copy them. I had so much fun doing this that I'd like to try doing some other "sets" of characters (hence why I called it Vol. 1!), and put my own spin on some of them.

Of course I had to begin with the JLA, and my favorite JLA lineup is the one from the relaunch in the mid 90's. It had the best contrast of personalities with seasoned veterans, younger heroes, reluctant members, etc.

Here is what I was thinking as I did each design...

Superman: My favorite. More athletic than hulking (so the mild-mannered reporter persona can be believable). The "S Shield" should be as big as possible.

Green Lantern: Kyle Rayner, my second favorite comic character. A cross between his first two looks, kind of like what he has in the comics these days, except I don't like the white gloves and the logo on black. Slimmer, and younger, than any other hero.

Batman: Hard to make Batman look unique. Picked my favorite look for him.

Wonder Woman: Adam Hughes boots, Byrne's bracelets, current belt, big tiara.

The Flash: Wally West. Uncovered eyes to distance him from the JLU design. On the thin side like Kyle, but with muscled legs.

Aquaman: late 90's version. A guy living in the depths of the sea should be huge to withstand that kind of pressure. Monster calves to swim.

Martian Manhunter: More "squared" than the JLU version.

Another one that's been in my drafts folder since 2011, probably because I was going to use the art segments for the various heroes to crossover between my blogs. Despite the watermark, I'd rather just get this posted and move on.

Justice League of America's Vibe #1-3 (April-June, 2013)

Martian Manhunter had a cameo in the debut issue of Vibe's solo book as a head shot in a preview of the upcoming Justice League of America. The following issue, the Alien Atlas stood beside Colonel Steve Trevor, Katana, Vibe, Stargirl, and Hawkman in front of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. for a press conference presided over by President Barack Obama to announce the formation of the J.L.A. A photo of J'Onn also turned up on a corkboard at A.R.G.U.S. in the third issue.

Francisco Ramon was recruited by Agent Dale Gunn of A.R.G.U.S. to serve as the hero Vibe under orders from Director Amanda Waller. Given a costume and the codename "Vibe," Ramon would use his command over vibrational frequencies to detect breaches from other dimensions. He was also secretly expected to be a potential weapon against the Flash, just as the Martian Manhunter was a planned counter against Superman. The J.L.A.'s covert reason for being was to give the United States an option to take on the original Justice League with their own super-heroes, should it prove necessary.

The American League wasn't the only bit of dirty business Amanda Waller was up to, as she also imprisoned super-powered subjects in her underground laboratory dubbed "The Circus." There was already a containment cell that literally had Vibe's name on it if he ever fell out of favor. In her New 52 debut as part of a first issue cameo, captive subject Gypsy looked on from confinement, and wasn't the only such prisoner by a fair margin.

In the following issue, a menacing alien courier roamed the streets of Detroit until he was confronted by Vibe and brought low with the aid of Dale Gunn. It carried a scroll featuring extraterrestrial writing, which was eventually turned over to Waller, who brought it for a visit to the Circus. "...It has your name on it, doesn't it? Written in your language. It's a letter. Someone went to a great deal of trouble getting this to you..." The prisoner asked after the fate of the courier, and explained that the letter was a request from her father to come home. "You seem to prefer a more nomadic existence. That makes you something of a trans-dimensional... Gypsy." Waller wanted the girl to tell her father that she was safe and well cared for, but if he decided to try to take his daughter back, he'd share her "accommodations." Gypsy felt that Waller had no right to keep her, and Amanda agreed, but also noted that some of her superiors would prefer that her holding facility become an abattoir. "I want out! I'll take my chances out there! Please..."

Finally, feedback from a confrontation between Vibe and Kid Flash caused the power dampening generated in some of the Circus' cells to falter, allowing Subject 24 ("Gypsy") access to her abilities. Creating the illusion that she was a guard who had been trapped in her cell, Gypsy lured another guard into freeing her and escaping. The stories were written by Geoff Johns & Andrew Kreisberg & Sterling Gates, with pencil art by Pete Woods & Andres Guinaldo & Fabiano Neves. Yes, that is a lot of names for three issues, isn't it?

2011 HeroesCon Miss Martian commission by Rhiannon Owens

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Still not 100%, and stumbled upon the rare unpublished draft (from a dozen years ago) that doesn't have a freakin' Photobucket watermark visible (it's there, but barely.) Free day for me! This brings me down to just 224 such drafts in various stages of completion, dating back to 2008. So many watermarks.

2018 North Texas Comic Book Show Super Friends Martian Manhunter by Tom Cook

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This is another piece that I've mothballed for so long that virtually all of the particulars are lost to me. I thought at first that I got it at the Amazing Con where much of the J'Onzz Family Portrait Artist Jam was completed, but I don't believe I've held this back for a full decade. I thought maybe a Space City Comic Con, but I think they went defunct in 2016, and it hasn't quite been that long either. I'm taking a guess that it was the same Dallas-adjacent show where I interviewed Jim Starlin, a mere seven years gone. All I remember for sure was that there was a long line to get to one signing (I'm guess the Secret Wars reunion) that stretched in front of a bunch of people's tables all day, and one of them was Tom Cook's.

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Tom Cook is an animator who worked on some many TV cartoons that no Generation X child could possibly escape him. On the super-hero front, he started on Plastic Man in 1979, then did The Kid Super Power Hour with Shazam! from 1981, and Super Friends from 1981-84. Other boy toys included Thundarr, Blackstar, He-Man, She-Ra, and BraveStarr. I picked up a nifty Super Friends character sheet (oooo-- scaaale,) and thought it would be fun for Cook to add J'Onn J'Onzz to their number, since he was one Leaguer that didn't make the animation cut. Well, discounting a few seconds of a 1984 Kenner Super Powers Collection Commercial and my pet theory that El Dorado was an alternate identity like Bloodwynd. So hey, you tell me how that worked out, and feel free to check out some more of today's art posts!

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2016 Cryptozoic DC Comics: Justice League - Model Sheets #MS8 - Martian Manhunter

You might say, "Hey Frank, aren't you glad to have another chase card featuring a classic style J'Onn J'Onzz to help fill out your month of posts?" If you know me at all, positivity is not my default, so who are you and why are you making suppositions on my blog? The base set is only 63 cards with 5 cards per pack and 24 packs per box. That means you're only getting one base set at most per box. The Model Sheets chase subset is one in three packs, so the odds favor your being at least one card short of completion out of a box. These cards are just reprints from the 1980s DC Style Guides, which were already fairly accessible online, have been used constantly on 21st Century licensed merchandise, and they've mostly all been collected in a hardcover edition within the past year (I bought two.) Having familiar stock images (which I'm not even confident are by the same artist) remixed on a trading card is not getting me high. Also, they keep making Manhunter the eighth card in these subsets, despite being one of the seven founding members. It irks.

2016 Cryptozoic DC Comics: Justice League - Blank Cover Box Toppers #BT8 - Martian Manhunter

I knew that I was going to leave the JLX post up overlong, because I wanted to copyedit it to promote on social media, and because I spent too much time writing the dang thing to bury it. I had an early day at work, and figured I'd knock something out in the evening. Then when I got home, I worked on organizing my comic box, then took a "nap" until 11:58 p.m. So I figured as an 11:59 No-Prize "daily" post, here's a mostly blank trading card. Cut. Disposable. Move on.

But wait. This very much had the potential to be annoying, as one of nine chase cards in the subset that come one per box. Further, they're literally in the box, because they measure 3½" X 5", which is too big to fit in a pack but dinky for a postcard, much less the blank sketch covers its emulating. Why would anyone want this atypical, difficult to store nonsense? Oh-- because it has the 1980s Martian Manhunter logo used on his Super Powers figure card and few other places pre-21st Century retro merch. Also, it combines that logo with the short-lived DC "peel" logo, which has its fans. If you're a lettering nerd, this is tough to beat on the obscure combos tip.

JLA JAM Martian Manhunter segment by Larry Stroman

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Like most of your basic Marvel Zombies, I was introduced to Larry Stroman through his 1991 run on X-Factor with Peter David, part of the same "Mutant Genesis" initiative that brought us X-Force and the best-selling single comic book of all time, X-Men #1. I'd started buying that series again because of the dynamic art of Whilce Portacio, but Stroman was not of the reigning styles of his fellows like Jim Lee, Rob Liefeld, or Marc Silvestri. Stroman work was more sophisticated, urbane, and design-oriented, but he was still flashy and detailed enough to hold his own. His run of interiors was a mere ten issues, but remain memorable to this day. Marvel went after big names like Jae Lee and Joe Quesada to fill those shoes. Stroman's follow-up project was meant to be DC's Darkstars, but I understand that he abandoned it after three issues when the offer of an Image book came through, and his replacement Travis Charest provided all the cover even before he took over interiors. As we know, most of the Image Comics founders struggled with deadlines when they also had to run a whole business unto themselves, but the second wave of creators were punished for committing the same sins of the first. Tribe was an interesting book with a lot of neat ideas and potential, but only one issue was released through Image, and only a handful followed elsewhere.

I think Larry Stroman was an extraordinary talent whose influence would have elevated the quality of comic art, if he'd had a greater amount of output an visibility. He could have been the Bill Sienkiewicz of X-Factor, if a few things had gone different ways. Stroman's output after Tribe has been light and not exactly high profile, though I've picked up much of it. I was really excited about the prospect of seeing what he would do with the New 52 Martian Manhunter, and I certainly feel like I checked a box by getting something from him. I understand he made some investments from the money Tribe #1 brought in that sustained him after the market fell out, and you can still get original art from him at shows, if not in comics. I wish things had gone differently, but at the same time, how much longer do you figure we've got, anyway?

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2008 Miss Martian convention sketch by David Baldeón

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2019 San Diego Comic-Con Miss Martian head sketch by Tony Daniel

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Head shot commission of DC Comic's Miss Martian by Tony Daniel. Pen and ink on paper. 9x12 inches.

No one but me is ever going to care if I missed a day on a month long posting attempt, and I wasn't going to just keep vomiting up trading cards to fill space. I'm busy this weekend with my friends doing a local comic convention, and for the first time in a while, I've solicited new Martian Manhunter-related art. I'll probably post something old as part of a "grab bag" of links across my blogs for Monday, and those posts should start trickling in this evening. In the meantime, some M'gann M'orzz content, since I've never given her enough attention.

2014 Houston Comicpalooza Marco Xavier Vulture Jam Sketch Detail by Brian Denham

I've had a busy day posting art across my blogs, so before we get started, you might like to take a look at these...

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Brian Denham was one of the very first artists that I ever commissioned, and the first take home piece, too. I love his work, and wish there was more of it. He used to be a regular at Houston shows, and I think he was living elsewhere in Texas, so I took his presence for granted a little bit. I've been sitting on this piece for eleven years, and I'm not sure if Denham has been back to town since. The previous portions of this jam had all been stacked up more or less vertically on one half of the pages, with the common theme of the subjects having appeared in Vulture tales from House of Mystery. This international criminal organization was routinely undermined by the Manhunter from Mars in his then-new public identity of Marco Xavier. J'onn J'onzz had stolen the identity from a wealthy playboy with ties to Vulture, and as the story progressed, it became clear that Xavier was a much bigger part of the outfit than originally thought. I'd hoped to have a Marco Xavier biographical profile up by now, and hope to work on that throughout September, while tossing off shorter pieces from that period. If all goes according to plan, I'll also have the finished jam up by October. But I've promised less and failed to deliver, so we'll see. I can't say the same for Denham though, as his take on Marco Xavier is the centerpiece of the jam. This is from a color photocopy from before additional contribution were made on top of it, so the colors are a little off, but hopefully they'll be better represented in the final scan. There's a sense of finality that comes from finally releasing these aging pieces and collecting them with others that are over a decade old. I wish that were not the case, but again, we'll see what the future holds...

Brian Denham

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2014 Houston Comicpalooza Abba Sulkar, Shtarker, & Grosse Vulture Jam Sketch Detail by Isaiah Broussard

Sorry for the missed post last week. I kept figuring I'd do another minor character spotlight from the Vulture period, but I had a lot of running around to do, and I'm still low on gas. I'm also sorry for sitting on another piece of art for a decade, long enough that the specific show I got it at is a best guess. I wish at least one of these guys had dated their contribution.

I'm confident that Isaiah Broussard drew Perkins Preston near the start of the 2014-2016 JLI, Saturnians, & Other Friends Artist Jam, which means Comicpalooza, and Elongated Man at or near the end of the 2015-2017 Martian Manhunter Comrades Jam, most probably at Charlotte HeroesCon 2017. I didn't think that I started this jam at the same show as the earliest attempts, so now I'm wondering if it was the 2015 Space City Comic Con, or maybe that year's Comicpalooza? But I already laid claim to the date/show on other posts, so...

I also can't recall if Broussard was the first or second contributor to this one, but given the other subject, probably second. Anyway, I dug what he did with Abba Sulkar and his minions, and having the lot of them helped a lot with the ultimate scale of the piece. Sulkar is a normal-sized dude, while Shtarker & Grosse were Martian Manhunter-sized. When you start putting characters in front or behind them, it shows just how titanic most of these menaces were. Looking forward to you folks seeing the final two(?) characters, but I'll probably start offering segments from another jam in the lead up to the blog's 18th anniversary in September, when I do the full reveal of many/most of these long-mothballed pieces. And with any luck, by October I can get to the last of my Broussard commissions, although that one's not even comics related.

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2014 Houston Comicpalooza "The Martian Double-Cross!" Robot Vulture Jam Sketch Detail by Chad Townsend

Back to the theme of my being a terrible patron who sits on art pieces for eleven years at a time, I believe that this is my only work from Chad Townsend, so watch me forget that I have another before posting it in 2032. Also as per recent practice, I gave the subject a profile page last week under the title The Vile Menagerie: MANHUNTER'S DOOM. I used the actual story title and dubbed it a robot here, because the tale was exceptionally vague about this thing. Mr. V claims that this creation would be "Manhunter's Doom" at one point, which has a bit more vim than "suitable opponent," but it's a painful reach for a name. The story also never states explicitly that this is an automaton, which might explain how it ended up with a featureless duckbill head shape and runs on fire? Anyway, I'm glad that Townsend made it friendly with that salutation, and worked the fire core into the art. You'll note that he was squeezed into a corner and benhind a larger jam element, so he did a great job working within limited space. This turned out pretty great actually, so hopefully I did get something else that I'll tumble uponm later.

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2014 Houston Comicpalooza Crime Goliath Monster-Man Vulture Jam Sketch Detail by Johnny J. Segura III

I'd hoped to do a story post of some kind tonight, but I'm still juggling super-involved projects at work and in podcasting, so we'll fall back on another belated art post. I don't feel quite as bad about this one, because Johnny's one of my favorite and most frequested artists to commission, and I have gotten stuff from him since this decade-plus-old detail. Except now that I think about it, I don't think any of that material has been posted by me either, so hopefully he snapped a pic and put it in Snapchat or something. Is Snapchat still a thing? Was it in 2014, even? Speaking of oldies, here's a Monster-Man from a 1967 story that I brought up last week.

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2014 Houston Comicpalooza The Manhunter Monster Vulture Jam Sketch Detail by Chris Foreman

Okay, we're back on "stuff I could have posted eleven years ago." At least I had the foresight to feature one of Chris Foreman's two jam contributions in the year that it was produced, even though that one remains unfinished, whereas this was one of the first that I managed to have completed... so I could sit on it in it's entirety for no good reason. Maybe I was going to run it some October for Halloween because villains or maybe I wanted to do encyclopedia entries for each subject? Motivation lost to time and inertia, I'm afraid. It's a shame too because, on pure technique, this was my favorite of the Foreman pieces I had commissioned (or otherwise posted from online finds.) I just like the energy of the '90s Image feathering.

Anyway, I dubbed this character one of "The Vulture Monsters" when I did a write-up that probably also served as Foreman's reference, but they never had a proper name. When Enrique “Quique” Alcatena drew them, I just referenced the story title "The Manhunter Monster!" I figured to do the same here, referencing the monster's sole comics appearance in House of Mystery #169 (September, 1967.) As you can tell, this image was incorporated into a preexisting collaboration, third in a series, and I expect to get them all online this year. In the meantime, here's some more places on this site and beyond to see his work...

Chris Foreman

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2016 N'or Cott Houston Comicpalooza Commission by Tommy Duy Nguyen

I was trying to deduce why I sat on this peachy piece for a bit shy of a decade, besides my usual being a certified idiot. At first I figured that it was too good a piece to throw out cold, so maybe I was waiting on a spotlight month, or it got pushed out by a series of jam piece sections? The best conclusion I could come to is that, like Rick Hoberg's Armek, I was squirreling it away for a second volume of Who's Who in Martian Manhunter that I'll certainly never get around to. That's a shame, because he was a promising comic artist who would have probably appreciated what little exposure this sad little blog of mine could have offered. He even gave me a free Stranger Things print as a thank you for getting two pieces from him that year. Oh yeah, at least I did something right and posted his Michael Biehn as Corporal Dwayne Hicks Space City Comic Con Commission in a timely fashion for the 30th Anniversary of Aliens, which also turned out freakin' sweet! Anyway, I really dig this take on N'or Cott, who maybe cleared the low bar of being J'Onn's greatest any of the 1970s, with the only competition being his partner in war crime R'es Eda or I guess The Thythen. Of the three, I certainly wish N'or Cott had more life in him, especially as rendered by Tommy Nguyen (and of course, Michael Netzer!)

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2015 The Cobra-Beast Space City Comic Con Jam Sketch Detail by Mark Nasso

As I work through the bottleneck of my comic art commissions, some of these lengthy deferrals make zero sense to me, this one being a prime example. I had an encyclopedia entry for The Cobra-Beast written in 2014, a year before I got this art, using that entry's image as the artist's reference. Speaking of, I've gotten a bunch of stuff from Mark Nasso, so he's not one of those unattributable creators that I can't track down. Even though I couldn't find it tonight, I'm confident I have a scanned jpeg of this portion somewhere, it's on an unpublished draft life of un-posted art, and I started drafting this post on 9/27/2018. Finally, while there are still contributions to this jam that do fall under some of these categories, this was one of the first such large scale collaborations that was finished years ago, so I've had plenty of time to track down the details. I guess my sorry excuse is that the pencil parts didn't 100% photocopy? Gah-- I suck.

So here's a new scan taken directly from the original art (though I did leave the bag on it.) I used to see Mark at most local comic shows, but even before COVID, Houston cons started to stink so bad that it was easy to stop going. On the rare instances when I reaffirm that bias personally, I haven't seen him around. But a lot of the guys I used to get pieces from have drifted away. Probably sitting on their stuff for a decade doesn't help.

Mark Nasso

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2018 Houston Comicpalooza Miss Martian commission by Eva “Rexevabonita” Bonita

My appetite for reading corporate comics, much less blogging about their intellectual property, is at a lifetime low. I've made no secret about the fact that one of the main reasons I'm still posting on a semi-regular basis is to "keep the seat warm" for when I try to get all the art commissions I've been hoarding for a decade out onto the internets. I feel guilt about this, and I'm sure at this point, a lot of the less experienced artist of that time would rather not have their awkward early stuff out there now that the exposure won't do them any good. Again, I'm sorry, but I'm sure at least some of them will look back fondly on pieces that I was and remain happy with.

It took a minute to sort through which social media the artist formerly signing as “rexevabonita” was still active on, but I got a list together at the footer if you'd like to peruse her contemporary work. She had more of a manga feel, which she leaned into, away from the regular comic shows into the anime ones. Being an old super-hero dude, that translated to me into M'gann M'orzz, the most manga of Martians in Manhunter's sphere. Also, she might have picked the Young Justice cartoon character out of a stack of reference options. Look, I was old then, and my memory isn't going to sharpen +7 years.

Another reason why I sat on a lot of this art is because I used to have to resize the originals on Xerox machines at Kinkos/FedEx Express, then scan the often lousy reproductions at home. This piece did not fare well under that process, as a full color work on textured board with subtle elements. Thankfully, I now have an 11x17" bed to directly scan on, and it really brings out what an appealing piece this is. I especially dig the white-out tracing of the skirt and the smirk! Glad you finally get to see it, too! I also got her to do Batman at the same show...

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“‘J’ is for JLA / Justice League of America Jam”

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I'm coming late to an early week, so we're going zero effort. I'm not putting in any work, and that includes posting any original art that I at least labored to pay for. But I'm sure the owner of this piece paid handsomely across the nine years it took to complete! Featuring the work of Aaron Lopresti, Cully Hamner, Dave Johnson, Tom Cook, Barry Kitson, Scott Kolins, Andrew Robinson, Mike Grell, Trevor Von Eeden, and Kevin Maguire on Martian ManHunter, as lovely as it is, the patron has to weep a bit that Pat Broderick drew the wrong "Atom" character (and he has history with both-- c'mon man!)

2015-2017 Martian Manhunter Comrades Jam

Another funny one where all the individual parts have been posted online since 2019, but I waited a half decade to offer the combined piece as a whole. My explanation is that I intended this to be the "front cover" for the second volume of Who's Who in Martian Manhunter, with 2014-2016 JLI, Saturnians, & Other Friends Artist Jam on the back, but that's simply never going to happen. It's been eight years. I'm calling the time of death. Anyway, it's also amusing because this jam only took two years to complete, a short turnaround for such a long delay. It spanned an awful lot of conventions though, including a HeroesCon and a couple of Comicpaloozas, but the majority was done at just one of two years' worth of the now defunct Amazing Houston. Here's another cute thing: in the years between efforts, I had the same artist do two different Green Lanterns on as many jams without realizing it. On the plus side, the colors on the original FedEx Xerox were all washed out, but the direct scan from tonight improves on it. In the no laughing matter department, contributing artists Allen Bellman (a Golden Age great) and Adrian Nelson (one of my favorites and most oft-requested over the years) have passed away in the interim.

2015-2017 Martian Manhunter Comrades Jam

• 2015 The Atom (Ray Palmer) Amazing Houston Comic Con Jam Sketch Detail by Atom Todd
• 2015 Bloodwynd Amazing Houston Comic Con Jam Sketch Detail by Oliver Banks
• 2017 Elongated Man Jam Sketch Detail by Isaiah Broussard
• 2015 Glenn Gammeron Amazing Houston Comic Con Jam Sketch Detail by Adrian Nelson
• 2016 Green Lantern John Stewart Amazing Houston Comic Con Jam Sketch Detail by Eddie Nuñez
• 2015 Gypsy Amazing Houston Comic Con Jam Sketch Detail by Brent Peeples
• 2015 L-Ron Amazing Houston Comic Con Jam Sketch Detail by Ali Morgainne
• 2015 Miss Martian Amazing Houston Comic Con Jam Sketch by Mark Bagley
• 2015 Oberon Amazing Houston Comic Con Jam Sketch Detail by Johnny J. Segura III
• 2017 The Ray Comicpalooza convention Jam Sketch Detail by Jason Scholte
• 2017 Roh Kar Jam Sketch Detail by Allen Bellman
• 2016 Steel (Hank Heywood III) Amazing Houston Comic Con Jam Sketch Detail by Allen Adams III
• 2015 Vibe Amazing Houston Comic Con Jam Sketch Detail by Brian Salinas
• 2015 The Vixen Amazing Houston Comic Con Jam Sketch Detail by Brad Garneau
• 2016 Zatanna Comicpalooza convention Jam Sketch Detail by Garrett Gainey

2014-2023 Martian Manhunter Foes Convention Sketch Jam

As with the 2014 Martian Manhunter Villains Comicpalooza Jam, this was a set of pieces from a variety of artists mixing head shots with busts with figures in a way that kind of gets away from my preference of the subjects seeming to inhabit the same space, and which I sat on without posting for a decade. The big difference is that this one wasn't completed in 2014, but just last year, so I have a better excuse. Also, my scanner bed at home isn't quite 11x17", so to get more/all of the image up, I had to go digging for my FedEx Office printed copy. Given the chaotic nature of the piece, I think it comes together in the end, thanks especially to the artists who put in extra effort to provide bridging and filling elements. I'd love to say that this was the last jam in need of completion, but that would be a lie, so the saga continues until at least 2025. But I do have several more jams done to post over the next year, including one that I haven't even teased yet for the 70th anniversary...

2014-2023 Martian Manhunter Foes Convention Sketch Jam

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