It’s now day 10 of this year’s Jack Kirby Tribute Month, and the prompt for today is Alicia Masters. I drew her previously for last year’s FF-centric Jack Kirby Tribute Month here.
As mentioned in that earlier post, Alicia was first introduced in Fantastic Four #8 as the daughter of the villain Puppet Master. She went on to become a regular supporting character, and the love interest of Ben Grimm, the Thing. As with Betty Ross and Bruce Banner, Alicia provided a bit of brightness in Ben Grimm’s life, despite his being stuck as the Thing.
Alicia was an accomplished sculptor, and often she’d be depicted in her studio working on something, surrounded by other sculptures she’d made. I thought that was a good way to go here too.
I hope you enjoyed my take on Alicia this time. Feel free to return tomorrow to see who’s up next!
The aptly named Masters was in the middle of everything emotional in the F4. I like your take on the cosmic surfboard (it’s not too late for Marvel to name that also) in the background of today’s panel. I do not have a sense of the time line of this, tho. I first assumed the panel is set in the time period of her first appearance in F4. But with the cosmic surfboard, not necessarily so, unless you have given Alicia predictive powers (which could open up a bunch of storylines). Very cool. Thanks, Mark.
I guess this would have to be after the Galactus Trilogy. Maybe sometime in the period between issue #55–65 would work. I’m not about to give her superpowers that Jack or Stan didn’t give her! She was an exceptional person without them.
They actually did give the Surfer’s board a name awhile back! Mike Allred was drawing a Silver Surfer title, and a supporting character during that run, Dawn Greenwood, nicknamed it “Toomie.” As in “to me, my board!”
(…I will pause here for the requisite groan.)
No idea whether they’ve stuck with that subsequently or not, but it kinda worked and was cute for the context of that particular run.