2025 Primaid Baytown Eastern Rim Funny Book & Vintage Con Commission by Pop Mhan

With commission rates skyrocketing and my interest in paying them for corporate-owned characters plummeting, you might be surprised to see that I actually have some brand new art to show off on this blog. This piece offers remedies. Firstly, I'd still kind of like to complete a set of Hyperclan spotlight pieces, but it especially bugged me that I hadn't gotten any of the female members. Heck, Primaid's the second best known member. I mean, I have an Armek because Rick Hoberg wanted to draw a mech, and an A-Mortal because the dude sitting with Tim Vigil did good Halloween stuff. Only Primaid and Protex were in the second big White Martian story arc and fought a member of the DC Trinity. Plus, she just looks cool, and can rarely by seen in full figure on the comics page.

The other motivator was that despite maintaining a career since the '90s on heavy-hitting properties like The Flash, Batgirl, Masters of the Universe, Raven: Daughter of Darkness, Ghost Rider, and a mini-series of The Demon, Pop Mhan still charges perfectly reasonable rates for high quality work. I've dug him since at least The Impulse/Atom Double Shot in '98, plus he co-created Spyboy with the late, great Peter David. He was also a cool guy who talked about the demands of the licensing work that he's been doing more heavily in recent years. He's work on another creator-owned project that he's developing, a sort of younger readers Hellboy, and I hope to see that come to fruition.

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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Still not 100%, and stumbled upon the rare unpublished draft (from a dozen years ago) that doesn't have a freakin' Photobucket watermark visible (it's there, but barely.)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!

• 2019 Connecticut TerrifiCon The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. Professor Albert Wickwire Commission by Rafer Roberts
• 2019 Fandemic Tour Huntsman colors by Daniel Dahl

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?

Artful Mondfay

• 2023 FAN EXPO Chicago Howard the Duck Beverly Switzler Commission by David López (signed by Lea Thompson)
• Void Jam art detail by Jim Starlin and Pablo Villalobos
• Aquaman by Anthony Fowler Jr.
• Green Lantern John Kyle Rayner by Eddie Nuñez

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.

2023 Martian Manhunter commission by Al Barrionuevo

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On the one hand, it's sad that I'm already reaching toward Comic Art Fans on the second day of anniversary blogging. But on the other hand, I was working on the Marco Xavier profile page before hitting a wall and figuring something's better than nothing. I was reorganizing my bookshelves all weekend and only got a few hours sleep. Better luck tomorrow. And anyway, this piece is pretty neat. Besides being an attractive and well realized piece of art, this was produced by Al Barrionuevo, who drew the 2006 One Year Later Martian Manhunter mini-series. That was pretty much all-Coneheadhunter, all the time, so it's nice to have the opportunity to see his take on the classic Silver Age Ajax!

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...

• 2023 Fan Expo New Orleans Darkman Commission by Derec Donovan
• 2023 Fan Expo New Orleans JLA JAM The Flash segment by Derec Donovan
• Image Comics 25th Anniversary Jam Savage Dragon & Friends detail by Evan Dorkin

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...

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2019 Protex Houston Comicpalooza Commission by Ramon Villalobos

There are a number of artists that I've commissioned over the years that I was very impressed with, and yet did not go on to make the splash I'd hoped or expected for them. Ramon Villalobos is right near the top of that list of talents that deserve better careers than they've gotten so far. I think the skills are clearly on display, but he's had far more than his share of bad breaks. Basically, through no fault of his own, the artist was linked to three abusive individuals, leading to the premature cancellations of promising titles such as the 2019 Wildcats revival (meant to spin out of The Wild Storm) and DC/Vertigo's Border Town. He's still had some higher profile projects, including the Secret Wars mini-series E Is For Extinction, the 2016 Nighthawk mini-series with David Walker, and contributing to the event series Original Sins, but it's been too quiet for the better part of a decade.

Anyway, Villalobos hit Houston as part of a stable under a manager, one of the first years where I saw that really becoming a thing at comic conventions (and certainly contributing to the nosebleed rates being commanded these days.) That said, there are benefits to having someone besides the artist handling the workflow, which included encouragement to use screentones in commissions. Man, if I have a kink, it's Zip-A-Tone, which is how I ended up bringing home saucy/Not Safe For Work original manga art by Kimura Tomoe during my one trip to Japan, despite not really being a manga guy (and I really need to rescan those pages from the originals instead of Xeroxes now that I have an 11x17" scanbed.) Blame Paul Gulacy firstly, but I just really love the contrast between the organic line and mechanical precision the process offers.

It's taken me years to final set down the ultimate Hyperclan biographical entry with Protex, both leader and most visible member of one of the rare Martian threats that rates under JLA terms. The character was co-created by Howard Porter, and where on most of the Hyperclan commissions I've gotten, we went more retro, I liked the idea of revisiting Protex through a different Image-caliber Morrison collaborator, Frank Quietly. Obviously Ramon Villalobos has his own vibe, but also obviously, Quietly is an influence on both his style and on his assignments. Protex started out lean, and got mantis-like once he stuck to a purely White Martian form, so it's neat to see this husky take that looks a lot more believable as someone who could wrestle with Superman. Dig on the spaghetti bowl hair, the gleaming liquid paper highlights, those gorgeous hands, the Jim Morrison crotch, and the bonus slavering White Martian head to undercut Protex's posing at divinity. I love this piece so much-- it's one of my favorites-- and I'm just sorry the lengthy wait for the bio also meant sitting on this art. My other regret is that Villalobos did a second commission for me of one of my self-created characters that I'll be holding onto until my dreams of ever realizing published stories about them are fully crushed.

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2023 Fan Expo New Orleans Martian Manhunter figure sketch inks by Tony Kordos

At 2½ years in waiting, this piece's presentation is far from my worst patron offense. I bought a Martian Manhunter figure sketch off eBay a good quarter-century ago, maybe more. I got it cheap and was never 100% sure of its legitimacy, but to quote Sean Connery's character in The Untouchables, "Who would claim to be that who was not?" If you were going to forge a Kevin Maguire drawing, surely you'd pick a more commercial character than J'Onn J'Onzz? Anyway, when I got a Professor Arnold Hugo head sketch from Maguire at Comicpalooza 2014, I asked him about it. He barely looked up from his current drawing to dismissively note words to the effect of "looks like me." Good enough, I figure.

Anyway, I pumped up the contrast on the drawing at a Xerox machine located in a gas station across the street from the comic shop I ran at the time, and used those copies as templates for dozens of Martian Manhunter redesign attempts, none as good as Jim Lee's. Yeah, I don't think that phrasing gets used much, either.

The drawing was so faint, not helped by the cheap acidic paper that it was draw on steadily browning, that I was always afraid of "losing" the image to the elements. Inking in comics is a lost art, and I have much respect for it. That said, I've had some... let's say "misadventures" in my previous inking attempts. One specific piece has been referred to as my personal "Monkey Christ". I've had lousy experiences with seasoned veterans, awesome ones with unknowns, and vice versa. I was precious with my Maguire Manhunter, but I've had opportunities to get the image immortalized by folks who had inked Maguire on Justice League International. For various reasons, I never pulled the trigger.

Finally, I tumbled upon Tony Kordos in NOLA, and I really liked his stuff. Unbeknownst to me, he's a pro who did a fair amount of work at DC during the New 52. He seems to be Paul Pelletier's inker of choice, working over him on such titles as Batman & Robin Eternal, Cyborg, and the Skybound continuation of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero. I told Kordos that he was free to embellish, rather than slavishly reproduced, and I truly loved the modern flourishes that he added to the '80s style original linework. It gives the piece a pop that it didn't have before, and I'd hope Maguire would be as happy with the collaboration as I was. I haven't caught Kordos at any other shows, but I picked up a real inker's showcase since that I hope he'll take a hand in...

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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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2023 Pop Culture Power Show Mongul Commission by Angel Medina

I've been a fan of Angel Medina since his run on Dreadstar with Peter David in the late '80s, and I first got to have a long chat with him at San Diego ComiCon in 2000 (which led to a misadventure at the 1970s Black Panther panel, but that's another story.) There was a long gap before again making his acquaintence, but he was a regular at a small show out of Stafford, Texas; that died and was reborn as "Pop Culture Con." I've seen him a couple times at those, one just last month, plus Fan Expo Chicago in 2023. Most times, I try to pick up something from him, because I'm still enthused about his art. I've mostly gotten away from Martian Manhunter related commissions, but Medina has a long history of working with Jim Starlin and his cosmic creations, particularly Adam Warlock & Thanos (via The Infinity Watch.) I've devoted a disproprtionate amount of space to Mongul the Merciless on this blog for a rather modest connection to Martian Manhunter, but he's one of my favorite DC villains. I only have one other piece of Mongul art, so I could justify another, especially from such an obviously appropriate creator!

Angel Medina Gallery

• 2023 Fan Expo Chicago JLA JAM Black Canary segment by Angel Medina
• Hellcat, Captain America, & Thanos

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...

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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.

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• 2012 Fernus the Burning Space City Con Commission by Mark Nasso
• 2013 Korge, the Last Angry God Commission by Mark Nasso
• 2019 Dawn of the Dead John Amplas as Rico Comicpalooza Commission by Mark Nasso

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!)

2022 Martian Manhunter art by Ryan Kelly

Had a last "October Surprise" kick in the teeth that meant reneging on that bonus post last week. It also ate up my weekend, so podcasting will be a whole other challenge. If things go the way I think they will on Tuesday night, I'll hopefully be of improved spirits, and am more likely to get that done this round. But if things go pear-shaped, I crawl into a bottle and Google "Canadian citizenship process" again.