Tag: Mr. Fantastic

“That’s Just Too Fantastic!”

It’s August, which means it’s Jack Kir­by Trib­ute Month again! Cre­at­ed by Howard Simp­son, this year’s prompts are all Fan­tas­tic Four-relat­ed. And things are kick­ing off with none oth­er than Mr. Fan­tas­tic himself!

Trans­formed like the oth­er mem­bers of the quar­tet by an encounter with cos­mic rays on a rock­et trip into orbit, Reed Richards is the leader of the Fan­tas­tic Four, and one of the most bril­liant minds in the Mar­vel Comics Uni­verse. He took the stretch­ing pow­ers he gained and found inno­v­a­tive ways to use them, not just in deal­ing with men­aces encoun­tered by the Fan­tas­tic Four, but even in his every­day work in his lab. Not hav­ing his unique abil­i­ties, most sci­en­tists would prob­a­bly find it phys­i­cal­ly dif­fi­cult to work on some of the equip­ment he designed.

Tune in again tomor­row to see who’s next!

…And an Encore!

Well, we just com­plet­ed anoth­er Jack Kir­by Trib­ute Month (curat­ed and cre­at­ed by Howard Simp­son). I guess you could call this the bonus round. Like last year, I decid­ed to try to assem­ble all of these into one, big image. With the excep­tion of yes­ter­day’s “wild card” round, which was not a Jack Kir­by cre­ation, so it does­n’t belong here. Plus 30 images just group togeth­er a lot eas­i­er than 31!

See­ing all of these togeth­er, I’m struck by how busy the end result is! There’s a lot going on. I guess that’s a result of my try­ing to give each pan­el a sense of nar­ra­tive, as if they were each ran­dom­ly plucked from the midst of larg­er stories.

A lot­ta work there! See­ing them all togeth­er makes me real­ize that. But it’s cool see­ing them all in this context.

Will I do this again next year? We’ll see. I may tweak my process a lit­tle bit. I did this year, by adding the nar­ra­tive aspect.

I hope you’ve enjoyed this trip with me, found it fun and inspirational.