Overheard at the Comic Shop

"So, characters that are female or gay men get the butt shot?"

Take Your Child to Work

With George Lucas's insistence on updating Star Wars every few years, it's just a matter of time before he realizes that with so many of the characters under masks, he can pretty much re-write the dialogue of the movie to keep with the times. What I expect to see coming to a theater near you…

Doctor Who tartans

A while back a book about Scottish tartans inspired me to try my hand at creating some originals of my own. For inspiration, I turned to Doctor Who, as the distinctive costuming, especially in the original series, seemed to naturally lend itself to visuals that were both recognizable but different from the source material.

I've got them set as rotating desktop pictures, so one can "regenerate" into the next in proper order. There will eventually be at least one for each Doctor (maybe I'll give a shot at companions next), but as they've been in the works for well over a year, I figured waiting until all of them were complete might mean they're never actual seen by anyone else. More to come as they're done…

The obvious element to draw from for Four was his scarves. The more recognizable multi-colored above, and the later Tom Baker years below.

 

Five might be my favorite so far.

Six. A tartan within a tartan. I don't know which is uglier; the inspiration or the tartanized form. (Yes, that's a word.)

Seven. From the original series, the McCoy ones are probably the ones that I'm least familiar with. I'll update this if something doesn't strike me as quite right after I watch them again.