The Black Beetle by Steve Bryant

I'm sneaking this one in under the wire. After having been Twartless for two consecutive weeks, I wanted to try something special for Francesco's Black Beetle and decided to work up a full-color magazine cover.

I struggled with it , remembering that I absolutely suck when it comes to color. In the end, I went with what I'm comfortable with and opted for a b/w version of the piece.

While trying to develop a theme for the piece, I googled a bunch of pulps and found that "Satan" pops up a lot and the character of "Sister Satan" just made me laugh (although the adventure's title probably owes as much to Stan Lee as it does to the pulps).

A big thanks to Francesco for letting me have so much fun with such a terrific character.

Black Beetle by Ramón Pérez

here i go - sneaking in again last minute. actually i fudged the post time...otherwise i would have been overlapping johnny recon...

(btw fantastic piece m!tch - where do you find the time. damn)

anyway, here's my addition to the fantastic line-up of renditions starring francesco's pulp hero. i want to own a comic starting this guy. hell, i'd love to draw a comic starring this guy :)

enough babbling, it's bedtime...

g'night.

TORPEDO by Mr. Hawthorne

Before any of you accuse me of being too ambitious for painting my entry this week, remember that Bernet and Toth both drew TORPEDO. Wasn't shit I was gonna do with just ink that was gonna come close to what those two masters, both artistic heroes of mine, did. So, I did some shuckin' and jivin' and hoped for the best...

Also, sorry for the bad scan.

Mike