That was misleading, I admit. I don’t know how to co-create comic books. Not that this ever stops me, I charge right into working with other cartoonists to bring new books and characters into existence, hoping I’ll figure it out on the way. This subject comes up regularly at Periscope Studio, of which I’m a [...]

Today I’m putting up a pretty big batch, from my years on X-Men First Class. I put some brief descriptions above each file. These are easy to track down issues of if you want to see how they turned out, most excellently drawn by Roger Cruz. If you only saw the movie, sorry, it doesn’t [...]

I’ve gone back and added a couple of Fantastic Four issues to the All Ages script section (link is in header), including the tribute to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. In Supernatural and SuperScience, I’ve put in a couple of scripts from when Marvel was about to launch New Universal with Warren Ellis writing. The point [...]

I’ve been meaning to do this forever. Instead of going through and finding a few scripts whenever someone writes and requests them, I’m putting up a resource page that will have several to choose from. It’s up there in the header, that link that says SCRIPTS! I’m starting today with a few scripts from the [...]

*Nuts! I thought I had this set to post today, automagically. Anyway. The big showdown between the future Agents of Atlas and mysterious bad guys (and a mutated Cosmonaut dog) comes to a head in Washington, DC! Points to any old school Marvel readers who know where that biker gang is from. Going back over [...]

We’re almost done- in this penultimate chapter Jimmy Woo’s team venture behind the Iron Curtain to get a peek at the Soviet space program. Space nerds will note the appearance of an historical figure; Marvel nerds will note an early appearance of the Red Ghost. (I, of course, am both kinds of nerd)- JP ——————————————————————————————————— [...]

“The Liar and the Truthteller” “Brain tissue?” asked Venus, clearly repulsed. “Yes- a brilliant if crude solution,” replied Marvel Boy as he looked at the machine that had been influencing their dreaming minds. “Earth simply doesn’t have very sophisticated means of computing yet. Your greatest computer is the size of a small house and can [...]

As you may have guessed, these posts were pre-set to go up while I’ve been out of town. I just got back and found out the sad news about Dave Stevens. I want to write about him, but I’m not up to it yet so I’m going to keep running the serial until it’s done [...]

Today’s has another appearance of a Golden Age Timely character, and a ghost pirate! Also a clue that you don’t need to solve. -JP ___________________________________________________________________________ The chalky hand holding the dagger pushed through the water towards Venus. She darted from her position to another section of the pilot house. More shapes arose from the black, [...]

The rebus image in today’s excerpt was part of a clue that led players to IGN.com for a clue. Golden Age Comics fans will also notice the appearance of a sea-faring Timely character. On to our story… ______________________________________________________________ Jimmy Woo’s arms and legs wouldn’t budge. He had never frozen in fear before, and he was [...]

Okay, I’m leaving out the Mr. Lao bits today- they come across as confusing out of context. Also, if you read the text pages of the Agents of Atlas miniseries, you’ll catch parts of this serial that were referred to. Back to our story!-JP ______________________________________________________________ “What’s shakin’ Bob. Are those slide-rule jockeys hep on how [...]

In 2006 The Agents of Atlas miniseries was approved and my editors and I immediately saw the uphill battle we would have in getting the book noticed. Not only was it full of characters who hadn’t seen the light of day in decades, but the Marvel Machine was gearing up completely to push the big [...]

We’re back, and picking back up at… SHOT CALLIN’ Do you really have to pick shots? Think hard on this one. Do you really have a good sense of what will make a good picture, or do you just feel like you’re supposed to do it because it’s your job? Because it’s not, necessarily. You [...]

Okay, ‘pologies to those of you who expected this earlier in the week. That Real World keeps interfering. But I also promised the SCAD students who heard the version of this lecture with all of the insightful “Um”s in it that I would put a more solid translation up by now. I still don’t have [...]

Today. I just found out that tomorrow morning the city leaf-sweepers will be coming around, so I used all my blogging time today to rake leaves into the street. So I’ll start cleaning up my writing notes from the SCAD talk and put them up tomorrow. As I watch hundreds of pounds of leaves whoosh [...]