Paul from Children of Light will be guest-starring in his 1st crossover. Mel Todd is working on an ambitious new comic starring characters from various Christian comics. I bet he'll get farther than Image United! Go Mel Todd!

comic review: Holy Terror

When I first flipped through it last year on the shelf, I was pretty impressed, thinking "Frank still got it", due to pages like this:

I didn't know a lot going into it, only that Frank Miller is a legendary comic book creator, known for having re-defined Batman and Daredevil for a generation, and creating Sin City. Apparently this book was originally supposed to be a Batman story about fighting al-queda. Turned into generic Batman & Catwoman archetypes fighting generic Muslim extremist archetypes.

I might have sounded like a fool to the comic shop owner when I remarked how awesome the book looked. In hindsight, I was only right about the first half of the book. For the first part, the art was gritty, but dynamic, with a great white ink effect of a rainstorm throughout. About halfway through...I don't know what to say. I would never normally have the arrogance to say I could do better than an artist of Frank's reputation, but...

I don't like to say negative things about a creator's work. It was just too much difference in quality, I've never seen anything like this before. I feel confused. The story even started off strong with a fun (and maybe a little disturbing) Cat and Bat...I mean Fixer chase across the city rooftops. They quickly discover suicide bombings all over the city, and it gets pretty cliche' from there. I can only compare the story to a loved one who loses their mind in old age. Choose to remember the good times when they were young, forget the bad.

Going to go read the Dark Knight Returns and pretend this didn't happen.

New pages!

Been a long time! Got a lettering gig for upcoming Revelators comics, so I'll be busy with that for a while. I managed to finish this page a few weeks ago (12), and following are 2 guest pages by Mike Auban!

I'm only showing the pages here in order, but unlettered. I'd like to do all the lettering all at once to keep it consistent.

Enjoy!

side job

I had the privilege of lettering another issue of Mark Melton's Angeldreams comic. We just finished issue 5, and it looks awesome!

Pick up a few issues if you can, and support indie comics!

New CoL page, 11, I think.

Not lettered yet, I'm thinking of foregoing lettering until print. That way, I can do it all at once and keep everything straight. Also, to make you buy the book, hehe!

tease

Here's a great piece of art from my friend Mark Melton! He does a great comic called Angeldreams you should check out.

I've been finishing up a project for Social Sump the past few weeks. The plan is to get back into some Children of Light stuff pretty quick. I'll show you another preview soon, promise!