Model sheet for Nessa, known as the Demon, a.k.a. Smiler. Androgynous characters are rare in Sword and Sorcery, so she’s kind of fun to play around with.
kelly sue celebrates passover the #teamhawkguy way
Hate to say it, but she’s no Kate Bishop.
Don’t you sass me, child.
I’m a 42 year old mother of 2. Yesterday, I *slept in* until 4:30am, got my babies up and fed, planned an Easter brunch menu, finished a batch of rewrites, worked all day writing more comics than you, managed to sneak in 30 minutes on the treadmill and a quick shower before grabbing my hilarious and brilliant husband, two amazing children and double-batch potluck dish and heading to a seder at the home of two of our best friends, where I *rocked* playing with my daughter and her new bow & arrow out on the porch.
Kate Bishop is great. I love Kate. But she’s a fiction, sweetheart, and she’s no fucking me.
The second NON CANON appearance of Una the Blade for my buddy’s online shared-universe anthology http://illyham.livejournal.com/ The kids used to be blue! Color by Mike Birkhofer.
Sadly, Illyham is now defunct. Check the archives though, there are gems from such artists as Rebecca Dart and Tony Cliff!
here’s the variant cover for fearless defenders. I am delighted that these days, I have lots of strong ladies to draw.
oh wow.
I’ve come up with a new plan to get Una the Blade out into the universe. I’m going to collaborate on short stand-alone stories with some of my most talented artist pals. The plan is that each 20-page digital issue will contain a short story drawn by a friend and the rest of the issue will be drawn by me. So far the roster includes:
and a few other possibles yet to be announced.
Me again!
Mutant Women of Earth: How Chris Claremont Reinvented the Female Superhero
This April Brian Wood and Olivier Coipel launch a new X-Men title with a roster of Jubilee, Kitty Pryde, Psylocke, Rachel Grey, Rogue and Storm. That the team is all-female isn’t unusual for a book that isn’t defined along gender-lines. What makes the roster extraordinary is that it’s an all-star line-up. These are first draft X-Men, and the book could easily have added more top picks — Dazzler, Emma Frost, Jean Grey, Magik, Mystique — and still been all-female.
It’s hard to think of any other superhero team with such a strong bench of women, and it’s especially hard to think of another team where so many female characters rose to prominence within the team itself. What these characters have in common is no mystery; they were all written by Chris Claremont, the man whose name is synonymous with “strong female characters.”
![[ Image: A drawing of DC Comics character Donna Troy, a aple skinned woman with long dark hair. She wears a sleeveless black unitard with an asymmetrical red frontpiece that matches her knee-high red boots. A silver metal vambrace and matching armoured sleeve cover her right arm, while a tribal style tattoo decorates her left shoulder. In her hand is an exotic curved sword. ]
lulubonanza:
Donna Troy Redesign by ~tsbranch](http://24.media.tumblr.com/26acc0899ad14637a977b1fab5a1354b/tumblr_mh5wl3QW871qb57azo1_500.jpg)
[ Image: A drawing of DC Comics character Donna Troy, a aple skinned woman with long dark hair. She wears a sleeveless black unitard with an asymmetrical red frontpiece that matches her knee-high red boots. A silver metal vambrace and matching armoured sleeve cover her right arm, while a tribal style tattoo decorates her left shoulder. In her hand is an exotic curved sword. ]
![[ Image: Cover image from Fearless Defenders #1, showing Marvel Comics characters Valkyrie — a muscular nordic woman with pale skin, long blonde hair and sharp bladed weapons — and Misty Knight — an african american woman with big curly hair, hand guns and a cybernetic arm — fighting ninjas and what loo like zombie inhabitants of Asgard. ]
northstarfan:
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“The basic idea of the book is that Valkyrie is choosing a new team of Valkyrior, and she’s been asked to choose all these women from the heroes of Midgard, instead of from Asgard,” he said. “It is going to be a team book. It’ll be an all-female team. But I didn’t want to go into issue #1 and say, ‘here is the team.’ My goal is to take my time in building this team. I want to build it slowly — even after the first arc, the team will not be formed completely.”
- Cullen Bunn
Article is here. GOING RIGHT TO MY PULL BOX WITH DANI MOONSTAR AS A TEAM MEMBER. And a writer who has some great reviews and recs.
I have optimistic hopes! I desperately need to believe in canon that makes Dani Moonstar in character \O/
And, please, Dread Lord Cthulhu, let the events, cross-overs, and drawer-scripts stay away long enough for Cullen Bunn to do his thing and build this book an audience.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md725bRQMG1qdc3mlo1_500.png)
[ Image: Cover image from Fearless Defenders #1, showing Marvel Comics characters Valkyrie — a muscular nordic woman with pale skin, long blonde hair and sharp bladed weapons — and Misty Knight — an african american woman with big curly hair, hand guns and a cybernetic arm — fighting ninjas and what loo like zombie inhabitants of Asgard. ]
“The basic idea of the book is that Valkyrie is choosing a new team of Valkyrior, and she’s been asked to choose all these women from the heroes of Midgard, instead of from Asgard,” he said. “It is going to be a team book. It’ll be an all-female team. But I didn’t want to go into issue #1 and say, ‘here is the team.’ My goal is to take my time in building this team. I want to build it slowly — even after the first arc, the team will not be formed completely.”
- Cullen Bunn
Article is here. GOING RIGHT TO MY PULL BOX WITH DANI MOONSTAR AS A TEAM MEMBER. And a writer who has some great reviews and recs.
I have optimistic hopes! I desperately need to believe in canon that makes Dani Moonstar in character \O/
And, please, Dread Lord Cthulhu, let the events, cross-overs, and drawer-scripts stay away long enough for Cullen Bunn to do his thing and build this book an audience.
[ Description: Two convention sketches of two of Greg Rucka’s character’s: Renee Montoya and Rachel Alves. They’re both arme with guns and looking fierce. ]
I’m passing on NYCC this year, but Michael Lark isn’t. He showed me these two sketches done as commissions in preparation for the show this morning, and I asked if he’d mind my sharing them here.
Obviously, he said yes.
