Back before the Turtles -- or perhaps more correctly, the Turtles BUSINESS -- took over our lives, Kevin Eastman and I would often draw just for fun (imagine that!). This drawing (penciled by me, inked and colored by Kevin) was one of those done to amuse ourselves, as an affectionate homage to/parody of Jack Kirby's cover drawing for Marvel Comics' "Amazing Fantasy" #15, which featured the first appearance of Spider-Man.
(Spider-Man and "Amazing Fantasy" are ® and © Marvel Comics.)
I'm having fun picking up the reins of my "Blast from the Past" project, and while looking through the old BftP's to make sure I don't duplicate my efforts, it occurred to me that when I was doing BftP before, it was on the Planet Racers website where it was "view only", as opposed to this blog, which allows comments. That made me wonder if it might be fun to repost all of those old BftP entries on this new blog, so people could have the option to comment on those pieces of artwork/history. What say you? -- PL
HAHAHAHA, great drawing
ReplyDeleteA repost could be useful just because... Well, at least I never followed BftP :)
- Patrik
Repost, duh.
ReplyDelete-Shirley McLaine
Love this one, Peter!
ReplyDelete- Austin V
Repost 'em!!!
ReplyDeleteHurrah!
Awesome cover parody!
-Dinoff-
Oh my gawd-- I *love* this pic--lol!
ReplyDeleteActually, Spidey looks a little small alongside Leo, but that's okay cuz who wants to look at Spider Man when we could look at Leonardo? =oD
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Oh yes, reposting the BftP here would be lots of fun.
I vote "aye!"
~Donna
I love this piece! Nothing like a parody to make you smile.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't mind you reposting the art from BftP, so long as it's interspersed between stuff we haven't seen before. I know I prefer feedback on my art, so if it was me, I'd definitely repost old stuff.
I vote repost!
ReplyDeleteI love this peice. My good friend Brian is a HUGE spidy fan, and a TMNT fan (He's one of the two guys I work with on the podcast that did the turtles special last year) and I am so going to have to send him this link!
Sarah HW
I think repostin would be good, altho I did follow those posts in BftP too. This piece is great looking, altho as GreenWillow said, Spidey does look a bit small.
ReplyDelete-Topi Väisänen
Hey Pete,
ReplyDeleteI vote for repost :).
Also, a while back i asked if the Utrom Robot Walkers that look suspiciously like Krangs Bubble Walker where designed first and just never used in the Mirage comic.
If you have any old design sketches of either proto UTrom Bodies, or possible designs for Krangs various bodies, I'd love to see 'em....
Amazing Art, and yes please repost the old stuff so we can all talk about it with you.
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" Neil V said...
ReplyDeleteHey Pete,
I vote for repost :).
Also, a while back i asked if the Utrom Robot Walkers that look suspiciously like Krangs Bubble Walker where designed first and just never used in the Mirage comic.
If you have any old design sketches of either proto UTrom Bodies, or possible designs for Krangs various bodies, I'd love to see 'em...."
Neil, I don't think Kevin and I ever designed any type of "Personal Mobility Unit" for the Utroms back in Volume 1 other than the "Terminator"-inspired exoskeletons. It's possible that Jim Lawson was inspired by the old "Krang's Bubble Walker" when he designed the Utrom robot walkers, but I can't say for certain. He's never mentioned it, in any event.
If I find any sketches of Utrom proto-PMUs, I'll certainly post them. -- PL
Hmmm... I guess I'd better start re-posting those old "Blast(s) from the Past"! -- PL
ReplyDelete-->> .. think it's a much more lucid and darker version of this piece.
ReplyDeleteI mean the feeling and moosd is much more clear than the one Ryan posted months back.
>v<
I love parodies. The whole daredevil spin on the TMNT origin is great. Stick/Splinter, hand/foot, the truck and the man being saved. I love that Casey and Raph joke about Iron Man in the Raph one shot.
ReplyDeleteWhat was used to color this???
ReplyDeleteThanks, Gavin.
I'm pretty sure Kevin used Dr. Martin's dyes on this piece. -- PL
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