Marvel Essential - killing time, social distancing 2 2

[AndrewCup]

Anyone else taken up my new hobby?  Coloring in my Essential X-Men.  Here is my #98 cover.  Popped some TOOL into the CD player - yea, I’m a little older - and away I went. Thought it came out pretty cool if I do say so myself.

[steveinthecity]

That turned out nice.  Neat idea, but I could never make myself color in a page.  I'd have to make a photocopy and use that. 

[Ken Aldred]

33 minutes ago, AndrewCup said:

 Popped some TOOL into the CD player - yea, I’m a little older

Nothing wrong with listening to Tool.  Great band, and nice colouring.

[AndrewCup]

Ken - I meant that I was using a CD player!

[AndrewCup]

Ok, another cover in the books. The classic X-Men #94 and the nefarious Count Nefaria!  

[Comics4All]

11 hours ago, AndrewCup said:

Ok, another cover in the books. The classic X-Men #94 and the nefarious Count Nefaria!  

I always said these for great for coloring books!

 

[Jeffro.]

15 hours ago, Ken Aldred said:

16 hours ago, AndrewCup said:

 Popped some TOOL into the CD player - yea, I’m a little older

Nothing wrong with listening to Tool.  Great band, and nice colouring.

Listening to Tool - Good
Being a tool - Not so good

[Ken Aldred]

19 hours ago, AndrewCup said:

Ken - I meant that I was using a CD player!

I know.  Nothing wrong with those silvery discs. I believe a lot of the younger listeners out there prefer something called 'vinyl' these days.  I'm a bit out of touch and I should look into this, as apparently the medium has superior sound quality.

[Ken Aldred]

4 hours ago, Jëffrö... said:

Listening to Tool - Good
Being a tool - Not so good

Yup.  There's the problem about wearing a Tool T-shirt.  The ambiguity.

Edited April 20, 2020 by Ken Aldred

[AndrewCup]

I’ve been working on this one for a while - there is a lot going on. This is the splash page for the All New All Different X-Men #107. In this issue I feel that the splash page is nicer than the cover.  It looks like Cockrum was having a lot of fun because right after the splash, it opens to a double page splash On the next 2 pegs, which I haven’t started yet.  Do any of you boardies own the original art to these gorgeous pages?  

In the next issue, #108 John Byrne takes over as artist - I wonder if Cockrum was trying to hit it out of the park in his last issue?

[Ken Aldred]

That was one of the best issues Dave Cockrum ever illustrated, with the Legion of Super-Heroes analogues in the Imperial Guard, and I also suspect that he enjoyed working on it.

[MGsimba77]

...Incase this turns into a dirty meme thread I'll get this in before it's too late

Pretty damn good facsimile my friend! Bravo! What materials are you using?This is an old snapshot but still think it works for comparison 

 

[Buzzetta]

I think you are doing a pretty damn good job to be honest.

[AndrewCup]

Thanks, MGsimba77 & Buzzetta.  I stole my kids Crayola Twistables. 

[KirbyJack]

20 hours ago, Ken Aldred said:

That was one of the best issues Dave Cockrum ever illustrated, with the Legion of Super-Heroes analogues in the Imperial Guard, and I also suspect that he enjoyed working on it.

The second issue of X-Men I ever bought. The first was a reprint issue (Grotesk!); I loved them both, and would have bought them regularly.

But those two were the only copies I ever saw for sale. My local sources did not carry them.

[Ken Aldred]

1 hour ago, KirbyJack said:

The second issue of X-Men I ever bought. The first was a reprint issue (Grotesk!); I loved them both, and would have bought them regularly.

But those two were the only copies I ever saw for sale. My local sources did not carry them.

I had to wait a couple of years to get a copy, as it was one of the issues that wasn't distributed to the UK at the time.

(102 to 107, IIRC.)

[AndrewCup]

X-men #104 “The Gentleman’s Name is Magneto”.  Starting work on the big splash page!  It’s 7pgs into the book. Our heroes have traveled to the island of Dr. MacTaggerts Laboratory, only to be confronted by a purple & red Magneto - who is bent on world domination!  I’m in the middle of this page. My red Crayola has run dry - as I rummage thru my children’s rooms for a replacement, I thought it might be interesting to show you this at its mid-stage.  

[oldbsturgeon]

On 4/23/2020 at 4:05 PM, AndrewCup said:

I’ve been working on this one for a while - there is a lot going on. This is the splash page for the All New All Different X-Men #107. In this issue I feel that the splash page is nicer than the cover.  It looks like Cockrum was having a lot of fun because right after the splash, it opens to a double page splash On the next 2 pegs, which I haven’t started yet.  Do any of you boardies own the original art to these gorgeous pages?  

In the next issue, #108 John Byrne takes over as artist - I wonder if Cockrum was trying to hit it out of the park in his last issue?

Wow, I think you would make a good colorist. 
this one is really nice and all with just crayola too

[MGsimba77]

Esposito who?  Keep up the good work! 

You gonna do the X-men 133 page with Wolverine in the sewer? Is it even available for coloring?

[AndrewCup]

5 hours ago, MGsimba77 said:

Esposito who?  Keep up the good work! 

You gonna do the X-men 133 page with Wolverine in the sewer? Is it even available for coloring?

I won’t be able to as this collection contains only up to #119 (vol. 1).  When I finish this volume, I’ll start the next - LOL 

I’m sure #133 would be in vol 2!