I think I suggested this a while ago...

Some pictures posted on the City of Heroes website Forums suggest upcoming changes for Issue 16.

Nice, but, I dunno. The graphics still look so 5 years ago. I've really come to enjoy the graphics for Champions Online. I even suspended my COH account because, well, I was bored. Still, we'll see. Maybe we'll see what happens as more info gets released.

Captain America WIP

For some reason, Renderosity won't let me post my image, so lemme post it here!

I'm really enamored by the James Johnson figure for Poser and I've started creating various Poser figures based on Golden Age heroes. I started with Namor and the Golden Age Blue Beetle, and now here's Captain America. I'm still wrestling with parts of it (like the pants poking thru the boots) but the general look is pretty good. Not crazy about the shield, but maybe I can find a better version. Also, since I started this in DS3, I wasn't able to pwToon like I normally would have since it hasn't been updated for DS3 yet. Only a matter of time...

It's just such a funny thing tho'... Years of using Poser and DAZ Studio and I always used it for creating my own characters, many of which I haven't even posted anywhere just for copyright protection purposes. Now all of a sudden I've got this figure and all I want to do is make figures of Namor and Cap and a bunch of others. It's just funny, that's all...

Ted Cassidy's got some moves...!

Seriously, Ted Cassidy exemplified to me how, no matter what cool skills or talents you might have, once people see you one, limited way, it's tough to break out and show what else you've got.

More Ted Cassidy goodness.

Since Newsarama won't let me post...

...I just wanted to link to this Alex Ross image which seems to be channeling more of Ross' "Kingdom Come" Captain Marvel.

Also, wanted to point out that this Captain Future is based on this one but not this one.

Since Newsarama won't let me post...

... I wanted to point out that, based on the background described in their article, the Iron Man 2 Whiplash has more in common with Omega Red (with his Russian background and whip-like weapons protruding from his forearms) than with the original Whiplash (now known in the comics as Blacklash).

Newsarama's WordPress app doesn't like me for some reason and won't let me post.

They're just trying to keep me from linking to my Blog here.

BTW, Mickey Rourke reminds me a bit of Robert Shaw in that image as Quint in "Jaws". Maybe there'll be a scene where he tells Tony Stark how he got some of those scars.

Gulliver

Gulliver's one of my oldest characters; the idea for him hit me when I was quite young. Initially inspired by a poster I saw in Macy's at Herald Square for the Disney cartoon, "Gulliver Mickey".

I recently saw Ray Harryhausen's "Three Worlds of Gulliver" for the first time, and it drove me to polish off my character portrait and publish it here. Gulliver first appeared in this image, but that was several versions of DAZ Studio ago.

Don't be surprised to see more of him, he said cryptically...

Not dead...

... just had nothing worth saying, I guess.