Oh yeah, this is the comic that I drew that convinced me that I should do everything with thin lines. I really liked how this one came out, especially Johnny’s face. So that’s when I started down a horrible comics path. I’ll stick to inking attempts from here on out, no fears (a little fear).
One thing I love about this picture – it gives me no end of pleasure to draw the weird things as mundane. The fact that I can draw Pete just sitting on the wall? It’s this one action that makes an unfamiliar viewer ask a hoard of questions. In order to answer them, you really need to meet the character (be it in movie, comic, etc.). And to make you wonder, I just had to doodle this sketch.
There’s no doubt that I love the duality that comes with being a costumed hero/totally (I swear) normal guy. I think I love it more when great abilities are pedestrian. That Johnny doesn’t care that Pete’s sticking to his wall, and Pete does it just because it’s in his nature now. It crosses a line when Peter Parker stops caring that his friend is on fire, which places being a normal human well behind him. There’s something so compelling in asking these characters to live human lives when, no matter their biology, they are something outside of human. At least on a societal level. It’s something that they can no longer succeed at, but because they’re mobbed by us (no superior for our sapien) the only choice they’re left with is to blend in. Otherwise how can they hope to protect their loved ones? Or even begin relationships? Unless you have the chutzpah and abandon of Mr. Storm, you’re probably going to hide behind some reporters’ glasses.
Thanks for stopping!
