Author: Gary

Meet The New Cowl

Not quite the same as the old cowl.

It’s a quiet time here at Earth-Prime – the Bloodlines annotations are done, I’m sorting out putting together some new shelving for my comic boxes, and gearing up to start the Millennium annotations in the new year – so I thought I’d hone my Sketch Up skills a little more by re-doing Batman’s cowl. The first version was drawn on by hand; the second version was modelled in Sketch Up and was better, but I wasn’t really happy with it. So here’s a comparison between version two on the left, and version three on the right:

Subtle changes apart from the ears but I’m liking it. Shame I didn’t get it done before my end of year post in a couple of days where I’m still using version two.

Now if only I can get better at hair . . .

Boy Wonders Part 2

Fellow blogger Dale from Mr Morbid’s House of Fun (and major comment contributor on this blog) read the last Lego webcomic Boy Wonders and suggested that Nightwing be able to respond; I suggested to Dale that he come up with something and, in his own inimitable style, he scripted the following:

Cheers, Dale!

Merry Christmas!

Here’s hoping Santa brings you what you want, and maybe not what you deserve!

Justice League Of America Boot Quiz

As I mentioned in a comment on Mark Perigard‘s blog the other day, I’m still collecting olf Justice League of America and Green Lantern issues from the 60s and 70s, and recently picked up JLoA #113 and #114, two of the 100 Page Giants that DC were doing in the mid-70s.

Flipping through the issue made me realise just how different things are these days, over 40 years later. As well as an all new story featuring the League, a Justice Society reprint and another reprint from an early issue of JLoA (the classic Crisis on Earth-Three), #113 also had a handful of other . . . errr . . . features like the quiz about which boots the League members wear.

Seriously – this was a big enough deal that it was promoted on the cover!!

I’m guessing this was long before DC started bragging that comics weren’t just for kids.

Of course, I can’t mention this without offering you the chance to compete, so here’s the quiz – remember, you need to think as though you’re reading this in 1975. Answers after the fold.

Have your guesses ready? Click below for the answers.

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