INKTOBER 2018 GALLERY!

This gallery represents my 2018 participation in my first-ever INKTOBER CHALLENGE which provides daily prompts for artists to create an original drawing in ink every day for the entire month of October.

I've never done a challenge like this and surprised myself by completing the entire month without ever missing or skipping a day!  The challenge to myself was to always try to give the prompt a surprise twist of some kind, whether by focusing on a more unusual use of the word or by digging up some obscure character.  Sometimes it was a providential prompt that gave me an excuse for drawing something I've had an itch to do for awhile.  Most of the drawings took about an hour or two.  Some took much longer.  I also experimented with techniques to keep it interesting.  The most common tool I utilized was my Copic sketch marker with the brush tip.   I played with cross-hatching, stippling, and even gray wash with my Copic sketch marker set.  I never planned ahead, but sat down, looked at the prompt, and got to work and my artistic choices were made in the moment.

I had fun and I hope you enjoy viewing my art!

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  DAY 1: POISONOUS

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  DAY 2: TRANQUIL

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  DAY 3: ROASTED

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  DAY 4: SPELL

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  DAY 5: CHICKEN

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  DAY 6: DROOLING

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  DAY 7: EXHAUSTED

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  DAY 8: STAR

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  DAY 9: PRECIOUS

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  DAY 10: FLOWING

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  DAY 11: CRUEL

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  DAY 12: WHALE

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  DAY 13: GUARDED

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  DAY 14: CLOCK

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  DAY 15: WEAK 

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  DAY 16: ANGULAR

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  DAY 17: SWOLLEN

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  DAY 18: BOTTLE

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  DAY 19: SCORCHED

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  DAY 20: BREAKABLE

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  DAY 21: DRAIN

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  DAY 22: EXPENSIVE

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  DAY 23: MUDDY

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  DAY 24: CHOP

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  DAY 25: PRICKLY

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  DAY 26: STRETCH

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  DAY 27: THUNDER

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  DAY 28: GIFT

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  DAY 29: DOUBLE

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  DAY 30: JOLT

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  DAY 31: SLICE

STAR TREK/LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES - A Recipe for Fun

STAR TREK/LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #2
Writer: Chris Roberson
Artists: Jeffrey Moy (pencils) & Philip Moy (inks)
Publisher: IDW Publishing

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Ingredients:


1 Cup – Original Starship Enterprise crew (circa the end of the second season)
1 Cup – Legion of Super-Heroes (circa post-Great Darkness Saga)
1/2 Cup – Tommy Tomorrow and the Space Rangers
1/3 Cup – Borg
1/4 Cup – Khunds
2 Teaspoons – Klingons




Pour all ingredients (except the Original Enterprise crew and Legion of Super-Heroes) into a large mixing bowl.  Amalgamize cross-dimensionally and mix in basic time-travel tropes. 


Let sit until firm.  Once you have built enough anticipation, add in the Enterprise crew and the Legion of Super-Heroes and a dash of cliffhanger and you have one of the most fun comic-book reading experiences an aging fanboy can have.  

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I'm not sure at all how younger readers might respond to this, but I can't imagine anyone who grew up with the old STAR TREK and was reading comics during “The Great Darkness Saga” could have any complaints here.  This is just plain balls-to-the-wall fun and adventure.

Even the art is not horrible, although I won't say it's as great as the material itself deserves, but it is most definitely the best interior TREK art I have come across at IDW.  For the most part, the IDW TREK comics that I have encountered usually have a snazzy and excellent cover and then interior art that ranges from amateurish to just boring.  The Moys do a good job telling the story here visually so that I could believe this was coming from DC and not IDW.

It's a step down from the Phil Jimenez cover art, but it is consistent, clear, and fun with a real sense that they are enjoying telling this story in pictures.  When I get a sense of that from the art, it is infectious and makes me enjoy it all the more.

I don't want to spoil too many details, but the scenario for drawing these two properties together totally makes sense and offers us a glimpse of an amalgamized universe where the continuities of the old DCU and the old TREK universe existed together and splintered off into a very different 23rd Century.  The first 2 issues of this 4-issue mini-series served to establish the mystery of how and why these 2 crews showed up in this alternate universe at the same time.  And we get our pay-off for our patience at the end...but then we have to wait for the next issue to see what happens!

I will offer my guess that the unidentified “Emperor” of the Imperial Planets is not Spock (as I suspect they are trying to give that hint) but actually...Vandal Savage.

We will see very soon.  Great stuff.