Tag: The Invisible Woman

It’s the Ones You Don’t See That You Gotta Look out For!

Day Two of this year’s Jack Kir­by Trib­ute Month (curat­ed by Howard Simp­son), and the whole month is ded­i­cat­ed to Fan­tas­tic Four-relat­ed char­ac­ters. Today’s prompt is Sue Storm Richards, the Invis­i­ble Woman!

Sue has a unique role in the Fan­tas­tic Four. She kind of acts as the emo­tion­al cen­ter or heart of the group. When Reed Richards would get too car­ried away in his head with his own thoughts, she could bring him back to earth and ground him. And he always trust­ed her to do that. When Ben Grimm would some­times get angry or depressed, she knew what to say to bring him back again. And when her younger broth­er John­ny would get hot-head­ed or too out-of-con­trol, she knew how to rein him in also. It’s kind of a sub­tle role, but an impor­tant one.

Ini­tial­ly after their flight through the cos­mic rays, Sue only had the pow­er of invis­i­bil­i­ty. But I think Jack and Stan soon real­ized that was­n’t enough for their nar­ra­tive needs, and gave her the sec­ondary pow­er to gen­er­ate force fields. Often those pow­ers have been used in large­ly a defen­sive way, but dur­ing John Byrne’s run on Fan­tas­tic Four, he came up with some inno­v­a­tive uses for her pow­ers that showed once and for all that she could hold her own with any­one else.

Feel free to come by 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.