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Published: 2011-10-20 17:40:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 1298; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 19
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Dazzler was one of my favourite marvel comics back in the day. Personally I feel that since then she has been treated quite badly. So here is my attempt to show some love.Obviously this is an attempt at eighties Dazzler complete with KISS style makeup - not one of the more recent versions like that especially unfortunate costume that it looked like someone had torn the crotch out of...
I'm on facebook now and also have a facebook page for my art there.Β It is probably the best place to get hold of me these days if anybody wants me for anything.Β Let me know if you want to be friends or like me and have me like you back whatever.
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She has this Mona Lisa smile ...there's something goin on round her mind we can only guess
You did this since 2011 Β and you'd gone a long way simce then on your artworks Β but i particularly like this.
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Thanks!Β There are a lot of things I would do differently now but it is still a picture a like and was really proud of at the time!
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we learn new things and techniques through time.but what we did before was a step forward.keep it up
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love Marvel, when you look how many films they have made..and look at the list on there website they have only used like 3% of them....
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I'd just love to see a Black Panther movie instead of another Spider-Man one...
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there defo, not enough super hero women, what luv to see more...may be a few lead roles
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You did a nice job with Dazzler. The only thing that I would consider is to spend more time on eye lashes. They are big and spidery, which makes them a little distracting. That being said, you do an amazing job with digital portraits!
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Yeah - I drew the eyelashes on their own layer over the top of the others so I could paint without blurring or smudging them. In hindsight they didn't end up blended into the picture very well and that probably wasn't the best way of doing them. I just hoped nobody would notice but it was only a matter of time...
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Lol, yea it was me
I think they would have been okay if they were thinner.
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I say you should feel proud! 
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Overall, your portraits are great. I can see what you mean about Alison Blair; the muscles of the face are very well depicted. I'm sure your just keep getting better.
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I would like to say it took a lot of effort but it didn't actually take me long once I got my head in the right gear. I had been meaning to do it since Jack Crowder posted some Dazzler stuff a while back.
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Good thing there are days like that where everything clicks. Dazzler is fun to do; her power effects are so colorful like xmas lights. I have a page with her in my web comic and a deleted scene with her that I might do with the comic is finished.
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Sometimes people just put ideas in my head and I know now that I'm going to be making a Dazzler for the top of this years Christmas tree...
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She'd make a good angel. Plenty of Barbie dolls could be converted into a good Dazzler.
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Alison Blaire is a kind and compassionate woman of conscience. A real sweetheart of a girl. You captured her perfectly.
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I read a lot of comics and I did my best!
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And your best was good enough.
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There's a feeling here.
Like a humbling sensitivity.
Dazzler playing her hometown sort of deal.
Lovely work.
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I know what you mean and I like that myself - but that isn't the look I originally intended. I was going for a slightly arrogant and garish eighties look but also a bit Debbie Harry, you know? But I'm now liking this digital art and being able to effortlessly hack away with whatever colours take my fancy and this is where I decided I was content.
I think she does look a bit more 'veteran' than I planned but whatever. Dazzler was already a rock star before she was an X-Man...
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I find it very charming.
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Nice to hear from you again! I hope you are well, and yes, I think I am quite pleased with that picture myself!
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haha no problem 
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I saw my mom today and she had some kind of flu. She coughed all over me. I have a feeling I'm going to be sick myself soon...
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yeah i have flu :S
haha we all be sick X3
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Well get well soon! I know I'm bored of it already...
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I can see it now..."Dazzler's All Hallows Eve Spook-tacular!" Some cheesy rubber bats, cloth ghosts on strings, an Alice Cooper call-in, and a live performance with special guest Peter Kriss.
Amazing work, even though she was birthed as Disco's deathrattle was released, she gets no respect. She is up there with Powerman and Iron Fist, and Shang Chi.
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It is really bizarre what comics actually made it to the UK in those days. We had Dazzler, who I loved. Power Man and Iron Fist was another comic that I was able to get hold of and that I really enjoyed. A lot of stuff people online take for granted I'm pretty much oblivious to.
Personally I thought Power Man and Iron Fist was the most underrated comic ever and I couldn't believe it when it originally got cancelled. You had two really likeable characters that were pretty much complete opposites - the streetwise Luke Cage and the monastic Daniel Rand - and the way they played off each other was the kind of stuff that has been at the heart of all great drama and comedy. Plus, you know, kung fu and super villains and all kinds of awesome stuff! And while it lasted it had some decent writers and artists. They seem to be making a bit of a comeback now and I have been glad to see them again but that they went for so many years without the respect they deserved was ridiculous in my opinion.
I think I get too emotional about this stuff sometimes...
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Oh you are not the only one. I love me some Rom, Spaceknight. I get emotional about that too.
They have gotten the modern Iron Fist right, but as for Luke Cage, they have tried to make him more of a bad ass, and he was already one even wearing the tiara, and yellow silk shirt. They made him a family man, and that's not Luke Cage. Luke and Misty Knight is where it was at. It's just giving Bendis control over a character that would have been better in someone elses hands, but he isn't. I am really in love with that era of Marvel. Pure entertainment.
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I have mixed feelings about Bendis. I really enjoyed Powers when I first read it and I think Bendis is a great writer. But I'm not comfortable with taking comics characters that I have loved since I was a kid and changing them to suit. I'm not happy with re-boots or re-writes or ret-cons or whatever. If somebody has awesome and original ideas for a character then I think they should go and make an awesome and original character rather than screwing over my cherished childhood memories. I loved the Joss Whedon run on Astonishing X-Men - it was a fresh take and great writing but he didn't screw about with any of the characters, in fact he seemed to be aware of a lot of facts that other writers had forgotten over the years.
If it was up to me then Bendis wouldn't be allowed near any Marvel characters if he is just going to turn them into his characters regardless of how talented he is.
And as nostalgic as I am about that era, and as much as there have been more recent comics that I enjoyed, every time I go back and read my old comics I do think Marvel overall had better writers back in those days. Serously - Fear Itself or Civil War vs Secret Wars?
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You and me both about Bendis. When he was doing Powers, it was a breath of fresh air, now that he is the number 3 or so, at Marvel it's just in bad taste. He wanted to take Spider-Woman and make her a jaded, grimmicing woman that was totally unpleasent, but what we got was Jessica Jones, and her comic Alias. Bendis' use of confusing double page splashes, and his death grip on the Avengers has soured me to his work. I read his Ultimate Spider-Man, but when he just started rehasing the same old plots, just with a little twist, I just punched out, and left that hot mess behind. I have given up on his Marvel work, and creator owned work. Like the book "Scarlet", which just isn't for me. I have the Omnibus of Whedon's Astonishing X-Men, it's an amazing work that was Kitty Pride's story, but the whole story about the X-Men as a whole, that covers everything about them, without resorting it to be a scheme by Magneto.
I knew about the Marvel history all the way back to it's birth when I read Civil War. I knew that New York City was flooded by Namor, attacked by Magneto, Galactus, pretty much everyone else in the universe, so a bar room brawl between the facist pro-registration Ironman crew vs the anti-registration Captain America crew brings out the "9/11" heroes to make Cap feel bad, and lead to him dying in his own book, which was BS, as was Spider-Man's unmasking, and leading to the One More Day crapfest, as well as the New Warriors "killing kids" thing that started it all. I can't abide by that. Civil War wasn't a story, it was an event, and a horrible one at that. Bendis' "Secret War" was a painted mess, that made no sense. "Fear Itself" just like ever other event sense "Sinestro Corp War" I didn't read.
It's hillarious, in a awesome way, that "Secret Wars" the first intercompany crossover that started it all(that did it better than Crisis: On Infinite Earths) was meant to promote toys. It was one big advertisement. Same thing with Rom, Spaceknight. Which was an epic story of war and love, and loss, that lasted long past the toys popularity that is one encompassing tale, that has a true ending.
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Some great comics have been born from the silliest tie-ins. Rom was good stuff. I thought the original Secret Wars was OK but Secret Wars II was great. The stuff at the start where Spiderman was trying to teach the Beyonder about toilets and Power Man and Iron Fist were trying to teach him about money was comedy gold. And it worked up some proper drama towards the end with the Molecule Mans breakdown and Phoenix prepared to destroy the universe to take down the Beyonder.
If you remember toys called zoids we had a tie-in comic in the UK that was absolutely great and featured writers like Grant Morrison. The UK transformers comics also had great writers and artists.
And then you have Civil War that was supposedly put together by the best minds in the business specifically as a landmark comics event and was in fact absolute pants...
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I never read Secret Wars II. I think I shall see if I can find a cheap collection of the stories. The only Secret Wars II tie in I read was the Rom tie-in, where the Beyonder granted Rick Jones, and Rom's Girlfriend Brandy their wishes, but they gave them up to give a little traumatized girl back her parents.
I have heard of Zoids, and know of Morrison's involvement, alot of the UK robot comics are better than anything America could produce.
That's the thing about Civil War, it got TV exposure here in the states, sales where big, but it was a hack story, that just kicked off a running nightmare over at Marvel Comics. It led to event, after event, after event. A cycle that still hasn't stopped. The Marvel of yore may have had a prick in charge, Jim Shooter, but he was a creative prick. Started doing Legion of Superheroes at 14. Created some good characters. Helped usher in a good era at Marvel creative wise, internal politics is a whole other story.
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As a fan I thought Jim Shooter was great and it was a great time for Marvel, but I have heard that people had very different opinions of him.
Secret Wars II came at a great time for Marvel. I felt the company fell into a slump in later years but at the time there was a lot of really creative output. A lot of the characters and events that continue to define the Marvel universe came about at that time. The New Mutants, which used to be my favourite comic, was pretty much at its peak. And the various writers and artists just went with the cross over and did their bit. It didn't seem forced and everyone at Marvel seemed enthusiastic to play their part in their own way. The various comics were all integral parts of the story and felt like they were part of something big.
Compare that to Fear Itself where many of the cross over comics have been struggling to participate without actually impacting on the plot in any way because they didn't have any mandate to affect the continuity of the main comics - so basically utterly pointless before you even begin reading. And also pants.
It isn't just nostalgia - I came across my copies of the Secret Wars II era comics a few months back and read them and still found them enjoyable, If you can get some kind of reprint I would recommend it.
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Yeah the more that comes out about Jim Shooter the more it seems like he was some kind of Doctor Doom level bad guy, that ruled with a iron fist.
That enthusiasm is portrayed to be honest, but really is marketing propaganda, I am beginning to think in the comic book climate we are in, Secret Wars would haven't been as good as it was in it's intial release. If it came out today it'd be edited and written to death, and that's just a shame.
I think Secret Wars II still holds up, and that's coming from the era, and one tie-in issue alone. So I have confidence in it.
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I'm standing by Secret Wars II but the original Secret Wars, although it wasn't bad, was for the most part just going through the motions.
I don't think it would be any better or worse today, but I do think if it was done today there would be several months worth of Secret Wars, Secret Wars: Frontline, Secret Wars: Fallout one-shots, prologue, prequel and epilogue one shots, What If the Punisher Killed the Beyonder one shots, marvel handbook updates, marvel handbook update appendixes, Marvel Zombies vs Secret Wars, three spin off series featuring Deadpool and another four starring Wolverine...
And basically everyone would be thoroughly sick of it within a few weeks and bitch about it for the rest of the duration even without reading a single comic. I honestly believe that and I'm sure it isn't the best way of doing things.
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Well I shall seek out the Secret Wars II collection post haste, since it ranks so highley to you. I have heard people pick it apart, but I never saw a reason, it's sad when their first complaint is that the beyonder had a geri curl. That's just a nit picking argument if I have ever seen one.
Marvel tends to beat things to death, they milk things, and in the long run, it's detrimental to their brand name. Though DC did similar with the Flashpoint tie-ins, they are just copying Marvel at this point. Just like with Marvel, DC is now using that "anger is better than apathy" approach to comic book making. They'd sooner piss off the fans, than make product that was quality, and spoke for itself. I would rather go back to the 70's Marvel mindset, before everything started to turn dark in the 80's, and into the 90's.
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Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying it was a spectacular comic. I'm just citing it as an example of how not to fail hard at crossovers. Marvel had a lot of somehow likeable characters at the time and they had some solid writers. The whole thing had a tight plot with overall continuity and there wasn't a lot of superfluous tie-in comics (again I'm comparing that to Fear Itself, where I believe I have so far noticed Wolverine doing completely different and entirely redundant things in at least five different titles). It wasn't groundbreaking or industry changing or an all-time classic - just a reasonably entertaining and enjoyable read.
I didn't have a geri curl problem - I believe at the time I had a mullet and I recall thinking that the Beyonder was really cool and that if I was omnipotent then that was exactly how I would look.
I certainly loved the 70's Marvel stuff - Marvel UK was still reprinting that stuff years later during my childhood and I read a lot of it. I think the early part of the 80's was a great time for Marvel and by the mid 80's I was able to get hold of imported US comics. The Uncanny X-Men and the New Mutants especially had a lot of memorable story lines during that era and the later additions to the mutant franchise like X-Factor and Excalibur started off really well. Out of the US stuff it was mostly the X-comics that I really got into at that time and have tried to keep up with. Personally I think they peaked around the time of Fall of the Mutants and started to go to crap after Inferno.
Towards the end of the 80's all the Marvel stuff did get depressing for some reason. Captain America quit over ethics and was replaced by an asshole, the Hulk became a wife beater and so on, I don't know what the need for all that was. All round the writing and art was getting a lot more slipshod. Heading towards the nineties and the Liefeld era I gave up on pretty much all the super-hero comics and was just getting the core X-Men stuff - and that was only because I found it hard to lose track of those characters.
I think I finally gave up on those in about 1991. I was disgusted by all the new #1 issues every month, all the chrome variant covers, all the goddamn belts and pouches and especially all the pointless new bad guys that showed up in every issue of every comic with increasingly stupid names and gimmicks just to get beaten up in an utterly pointless punchfest while all the female characters posed and pouted like anatomically incorrect porn stars. And so I then did without mainstream US comics for about 10 years.
I started reading the X-books again in about 2001 when Grant Morrison started his run on New X-Men. Although I had given up on US Marvel I was still reading UK comics and some US indie comics and my best friend still worked in a comics shop. It was something that I heard about and that grabbed my interest. Since then I have tried to keep up with the various X-books which I have felt have very much had their ups and downs. I have gotten various other comics that caught my interest. I have read a lot more without buying them - mostly during cross overs when I'm trying to keep up with what is going on (or just when I'm enjoying being really outraged and appalled by how bad they are).
That pretty much covers my opinions of Marvel over the years. I haven't ever read much DC stuff - just Doom Patrol and a few other things. I didn't get hold of any DC comics as a kid and I never got into any of the characters. They never had any equivalent of Marvel UK.
I think originally I had some sort of a point but I wrote more than I intended and have forgotten what it was. I do that sometimes - sorry!
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Hey don't be sorry, I liked your views on Marvel, and how you've seen them in your time. I just saw that they are releasing a colletion of all 9 "Secret Wars II" issues, in a soft cover, where as the Omnibus that collects the 9 issues, and all the tie-ins is going for like $100 USD, but I might look into getting that for myself.
I used was am a huge X-Men fan, I always though Magneto was the coolest, and when he "had amnesia" and joined the X-Men under the name of Joseph and wore the X-Men Ringer Uniform I loved the stories, then it turned out he was a clone, they moved away from the characters I loved, Maggot, Cecila Reyes, Cannonball, Marrow. They where great characters, and interesting. I get mocked for liking them, but to me, these where my X-Men. I dipped my toes in the X-Men pool off and on while mean while I read some of DC's "Nightwing" which I really liked. It was Grant Morrison's New X-Men that got me into comics again in a big way. I got the first issue he did 114 at a convention and me and my father where at a fast food joint one of the guys from the back saw my comics, and was stunned that this is what the X-Men look like, he hadn't read them in years, and was amazed that Beast actually looked like an animal, he had to go out and get them himself. I tried to stay with X-Men after Morrison left, but just couldn't I wandered over to DC, stayed there for a while, but deep down I was always with the Independent Comics Market. Corporate characters that have decades of back history are not my bread and butter.
I guess I just expect more from the so called professional community. Some creators take on comics, and do wonderful jobs, like Jonathan Hickman's "FF" the best take on the Fantastic Four ever, in my opinion. He took elements that not only utilized the Fantastic Four's history, but made Reed Richards the best he has ever been.
Since DC doesn't seem to be your thing I shall suggest the following books: DC: The New Frontier, massive undertaking by a writer artist that covers over a decade of the DC Universe from the end of the Golden Age to the dawining of the space race, it's a great character study of how the DC Universe should be, but sadly isn't; JSA: The Golden Age, roughly in the same vain as New Frontier but focusing on the heroes from the WW2 era of heroes, it's got a "SE7EN" atmosphere to it; Grant Morrison's Animal Man, a family hero with stories that tackle social issues, and the metaphysical; The Worlds Greatest Super-Heroes, it's a collection of 5 or so stories that are written by Paul Dini who wrote the Batman: The Animated Series, and it's fully painted by Alex Ross who did Marvels, it's truly iconic characters that look great; Batman: HUSH, okay this is a cheesy tale that is a lot of action, but it's pretty much the essential Comic Book Popcorn movie, Batman takes on pretty much everyone of his rogues; last, but not least you must get, DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore, it collects his classic Superman stories Whatever Happend To The Man of Tomorrow?/For the man who has everthing/and Superman meets Swampthing, as well as Batman: The Killing Joke which looks great, but just doesn't carry the same weight as it does for others.
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I'm fairly sure the make-up is the intellectual property of and copyrighted to Marvel Comics. Although they might prefer to forget that these days...
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