if you don't know, now you know- Jock on Detective Comics

No secret on our major Jock-age on the maddening, visceral art steez of Jock and hyped to learn via DC Source that he will be returning as regular artist to Detective Comics with another Vertigo-alum, Scott Snyder (American Vampire).  I took a "break" on the book since Rucka, JHWIII and Jock finished their thang on Batwoman, but with this ill news-- looks like I among many of you will be batarang'n myself back in November. 

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SDCC 2010, Ch. 9 - Enter Jock and Voltron hearts Blair Butler

As if my days down at the Con could not get any better. On the next to last day of SDCC, I was lucky enough to meet Mark Simpson aka Jock at the DC booth. I was roaming around DC and noticed that the British comic book artist of The Losers & Lenny Zero fame, was signing/sketching until 4 o'clock. I look at my watch and noticed that the big hand was pointing at 12 o'clock & the short hand was at 4. HOT DINGLEBERRIES ON A PLATTER BATWOMAN!!!


So I make like the Tasmanian Devil, scurry around the booth and I find him. Kudos to the DC worker for letting me be the last fan after the cut-off time. What was even more cooler was Jock himself taking the time to talk with me and draw me a sketch. It was a sincere joy to meet with him as he was a very gracious person and seemed genuinely happy to be at SDCC. Some tidbits of what we talked about: a) he enjoyed the movie version The Losers b) he's currently working on a creator-owned 6-issue mini-series, re-teaming with none other than The Losers writer, Andy Diggle. The tentative title of the series is Switchback and they are currently shopping around for a publisher. Thank you much Mr. Jock for taking the time out of your busy day. Here is the uber*cool sketch he drew.


One of the randomly funny moments walking around the San Diego exhibition hall was catching Voltron getting friendly with geek-girl cutie, Blair Butler of Attack of the Show! & Fresh Ink. Check out the intimate moments they share, reminiscent of a geeky Joannie loves Cha-Chi or a newfound nerdy-power couple version of Branjelina. You heard it here first!!!

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They Make Good Dwa-rings Brah:January 2010

These artists set off 2010 with a bang. Here's the Top 7 artists for the month of January (Rhyme Tyme Edition):


7. Scott Clark / Justice League:Cry for Justice #6
Scottie hot to trottie, props for making Prometheus a bad-ass and Donna Troy a hottie


6. Gary Frank / Superman, Secret Origin #4
Gary, it's quite amazing with your likeness of Chris Reeve…lemme be frank, Gary - kinda scary


5. Jock / Detective Comics #861
Jock taking over the Dark Knight Family on the Gotham City block. Not at all bad, I ain't sad


4. Salvador Larroca / Invincible Iron Man #22
Your art is so beautiful Mr. Larroca, I kinda wanna choke 'ya


3. Francis Manapul / Adventure Comics #6
Oh Franny, your art's so fine, you art's so find it blows my mind, Franny!!!


2. Roberto De La Torre #504
The gorgeous creations from De La Torre perfectly capturing the dark and gritty Daredevil story




1. Doug Mahnke / Green Lantern #50
Doug taking over the top spot making others shrug, you have a right to be smug

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New Trailer from The Losers!

 
Master illustrator, Jock (Detective Comics, Losers) just tweeted exclusive new footage from The Losers flick set to hit us this Spring.  How fab is it to have full-on support from the original creators to rep the authenticity of this adaptation (say, in comparison to all Alan Moore inspired films-- not hating, just saying).

The hilarious scene of Jensen's (Chris Evans- Fantastic Four, Push)standoff is captured as I imagined it.  From the looks of things-- I expect only brilliance from this cinematic monster's big screen translation.

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Dime Pieces

Dime Pieces will feature comic book artist's pieces/sketches they are currently working on or just doing just for fun.


This beautiful rendition of Deadpool & Moon Knight is from the team of Mike Choi (pencils) & Sonia Oback (colors). This engaged duo most recently have been the artists for the X-Force title up until the current Necrosha story-arc. With all due respect to Clayton Crain, I hope Choi & Oback jump back on the X-Men's black op's squad soon.


One of the best Bat-Books out there - check that - one of the best DC books is Detective Comics by current creators, Greg Rucka (writer) & JH Williams III (artist). While the incomparable Rucka is staying on, JHWIII stunning run is coming to an end. I was saddened for all about 3.5 seconds because taking over is Jock (The Losers, Scalped-covers). As you can see from the forthcoming double-page cover for Detective Comics #861, the quality of art will not suffer.

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if you don't know, now you know- Detective Comics

Thanks to Jock (The Losers, Green Arrow) via Twitpic for this fresh, stupid-fly ink finish of Batman. This may be speculation, but from the upper-left hand corner it looks like this may very well be a panel for his upcoming run on Detective Comics with the mad-genius of Greg Rucka.

We are emo like a mofo...

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Life Imitates Art- The Losers

Thanks to twitpic via Andy Diggle, got this shot of Zoe Saldana all fitted up on set in Puerto Rico for her role in the next big comics to screen hit- The Losers.

Zoe's portrayal of Uhura in last year's blockbuster Star Trek,  made men and women drool at the like's of her Dominican, Lebanese, Indian, Irish, Jamaican-mix and definitely showcased her ability to keep it sexy with a nasty edge-- which should be more than needed for her role as Aisha.

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