COMIC TALK

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STRANGE ADVENTURE

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From the Line it is Drawn #189: "It’s Avenger Time…with Finn and Jake! Mash-up a member (or members) of the Avengers with the world of Adventure Time! Black Widow and Marceline, stuff like that. Thanks to the first family of the Line (Thea and her little brood) for the suggestion!".  JohnnyUnusual suggested "Forest Wizard Vs. Dr. Strange" (Dr Strange was an Avenger?).

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LOVEY HAITI

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From The Line It Is Drawn #188: "In honor of his new film next week, it’s Spider-Man team-up time! Just pick a fictional character from any medium you choose (Comic books, movies, TV shows, novels, epic poems, songs, whatever strikes your fancy) to team-up with Spider-Man!" BigMike20X6 suggested "Sister Voodoo".

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30TH CENTURY GIRLS

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From The Line it is Drawn #187: "It’s Spring Break time! So suggest something that a comic book character would do for spring break! Somebody better suggest Batman water skiing!" dranj70 suggested "Legion girls playing volleyball, using Bouncing Boy as the ball". Can you name them all? No fair looking at the tags!

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SAVAGE SPIDER-MAN

From The Line It Is Drawn #186: "In tribute to the passing of the Ultimate Warrior, team-up a comic book character with a famous professional wrestler. It doesn’t have to be the Warrior himself, but I’d imagine that it would be nice if he could appear a few times next week at the very least." Ted_LisaDahlman suggested: "Randy Savage vs. Spider-Man".

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MASH-UPPET

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From The Line It Is Drawn #185: "To celebrate their recent film, team-up or mash-up Muppets with comic book characters!" Ecovore suggested: "Iron Muppets".

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TETSUWAN ATOM

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From The Line it is Drawn #183: "In honor of Yukinori Xum’s 100th edition of The Line it is Drawn (counting his try-out weeks), the topic is Manga/Anime characters drawn in the style of American comic/cartoon characters. Like, what would Goku lok like if he was originally designed in America? Stuff like that". adriantullberg suggested: "Astroboy".

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BROKEBACK HAWKEYE

I'll break this down as succinctly as I can:
Some comic book artists draw female characters quite disrespectfully. Particularly egregious is a pose which has come to known as the "brokeback" in which a woman is drawn twisted so that both her breasts and ass are visible like so:

To demonstrate how ridiculous these drawings are, a movement started (I think by Noelle "Gingerhaze" Stevenson?) wherein artists would draw the male comic book character Hawkeye (from the Avengers) in the same demeaning pose and/or clothing as the woman in one of these illustrations. It came to known as the Hawkeye Initiative.

This week's The Line It Is Drawn was Hawkeye Initiative inspired. B_Granderson suggested Spider-Man as interpreting Guillem March's cover for Catwoman #1 from summer 2011.

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Also, read Nicole Stevenson's fantastic Nimona!

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QUEST FOR HELLBOY

The Line It Is Drawn #179 featured mashups of comic book characters and saturday morning TV shows. BeccaDannysWife suggested: "Jonny Quest’s lost episode… “The Legend of the Hellboy”. Below are the component parts, screencapped from the original JQ cartoon. The challenge was integrating Hellboy in a way that appeared consistant with the cartoon; with dark desaturated colors and some blurring effects.

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FYMS

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Space Cowboy

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From The Line it is Drawn #178: "Every fifty installments, this will be the theme! Mash-up a comic book character and a famous music album cover!" BigMike20X6 suggested: "The Joker on the cover of Steve Miller Band’s The Joker".

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GLPT

So, on the latest episode of the Line it is Drawn, people were asked what romantic pairings of comic book characters they'd like to see. Someone suggested Green Lantern and Photon. Problem: there are 3 or 4 Photons and a grip of GLs (say, 4 main ones?).

Now, I sort of thought the reader was referring to Monica Rambeau and John Stewart, but I kind of felt uncomfortable just naturally assuming it's the 2 African-American characters that should be together. However, I didn't want to short change therealAstrozac, who made the suggestion (although I began to suspect the vagueness of the suggestion was designed to mess with the artist).

At any rate, here are Hal Jordan and Monica Rambeau, followed by the John Stewart variant, and at bottom Hal and the Photon from Youngblood, in honor of the Sochi Olympics.

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If you're wondering what's up with the costume in the top images, it's from a redesign I did a while ago: here.

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COMICS/VIDEO GAMES

From: The Line it is Drawn #176: " Here’s a good one we haven’t done in quite a while (and in fact, I don’t think I’ve ever phrased it exactly like this before) – mash-up comic book characters with notable video games!"

shurwitt suggested: "Dr. Strange in the realm of Q*Bert!".

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MechanisticMoth suggested: "Tintin and Lara Croft".

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HB/WD

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From the Line it is Drawn#179: “Courtesy of a suggestion from our own Daniel Cox, mash-up and/or team-up comic book characters with Hanna-Barbera characters! Here is a list of Hanna-Barbera characters if you’re unfamiliar which cartoons they did.”

joshschr suggested: "Hanna Barbara characters are the Walking Dead!"

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MM & BB

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From the Line it is Drawn #174: “In honor of Matt Fraction’s upcoming gender-swapped take on the Odyssey, switch the genders on a comic book character! Hellgirl, Alan and Markie, Scotia Pilgrim, etc!” gholson suggested: “Big Bardo and Miss Miracle!”

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YUB NUB

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From the Line it is Drawn #173: “In honor of the news that Marvel will be taking making Star Wars comic books in 2015, the theme this week is to team-up or mash-up Star Wars characters and Marvel Comics characters. Ecovore suggested: “Ewoks meet Rocket Raccoon”

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KRYPTONIAN GOTHIC

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From the Line it is Drawn #172: “An oldie but a goodie – mash up comic book characters with famous paintings!” tako1337 suggested: “Superman/Wonder Woman in American Gothic”

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SUPERDICKERY

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WHAT'S UP, DC?

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From The Line it is Drawn #171: “Based on a suggestion by twitter followers Ted and Lisa Dahlman, we’re doing a twist on dream casting for a superhero movie. Now, instead, pick a comic book team or character and a YEAR and our artists would have to come up with dream casting for that character/team for that particular year. To wit, who would be the dream casting for Wolverine in the year 1939? 1957? 1968? 1985? 1992? You get the picture.” Futabakun suggested: “Capt. Carrot & the Zoo Crew in 1945, when animation may have been at its peak!”

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