NUMBUH FIVE GETS MAD COSPLAY

Listen to that crowd cheer for some Numbuh Five! Is it me  or is Numbuh Five getting some  mad  cosplay lately?

A DC COMICS GUIDE WITH STYLE

I gots a lotsa books:

Not like

Mr. Sedelmaier

gots books:

But I got books.

Like these:

WAIT, 

WHAT'S THAT UP TOP?

Oh, that?

That's

THIS:

The 1982 DC Comics

Style Guide.

I found it in a used-book store

in White Plains

many moons ago.

For ten bucks!

I KNOW, RIGHT?!?

RIGHT?!

For those not familiar,

a style-guide

is given to licensees

to set a standard for how characters are to be drawn.

A licensee can either use

the artwork right out of the book

to put on t-shirts, keychains, mugs, etc,

or use them as model sheets for their 

own artists to create new art.

(although that artwork has to be approved

by the company creating the style guide)

The artwork in

this guide was created by

the mighty

George Perez,

who knows a thing or 

two hundred thousand

about drawing comic books.

Being from the early eighties,

it's a bit dated:

Here's an example of Lois nowadays:

 I know, right?

Anyway,

the binder is filled with

really fun 

and

cheesy

stuff:

 Such an awesome score.

But to be completely honest...

I've always been a

Marvel

guy.

SCORE: ORIGINAL BRUCE TIMM SKETCH!

You know me.

I'm not shy.

I'll go up and ask

ANYONE

to draw me a picture.

But I'm not quite sure why I

never asked this guy:

Uh-huh.

Bruce Timm.

The man that

re-invented 

the sooper hero

cartoon when he created

Batman: The Animated Series.

He made a show that was

ART

instead of just a 

toy commercial

(which was unheard of at the time)

When I came to LA 

to make my first pilot for 

Cartoon Network

I used to see Mr. Timm sitting outside

the building doodling in his sketchbook.

I always wanted to introduce myself

 but I never did.

So I never got a drawing from him.

UNTIL LAST WEEK!

My kids' school had their annual soopergiant 

silent auction

and look what was there:

PERFECT!

AMAZING!

GORGEOUS!

AND

NO

ONE

WAS

BIDDING

ON

IT

!!!!!!

So I got this 

original marker sketch

of

Harley Quinn 

for

NOT

a million dollars...

NOT

$200,000...

But

forty bucks.

$40!

What fools 

these mortals be.

In other news,

if you wanna learn more about

Bruce Timm 

and his work,

this book is

kinda awesome:

THE SECRET CHAPTER OF THE HUMAN DIVISION

So as I mentioned in

my last post,

I got to hang out with

Hugo Award winning

sci-fi author

ninja

mallet of loving correction

wielding

John Scalzi

while he was in town

promoting

this:

Which is the 

fifth sequel to

this:

But

The Human Division

was published a little differently

than the others.

Once a week,

from 

January 15th

to

April 9th

a new chapter

was released digitally

for

99 cents.

And every Tuesday,

for 13 weeks,

I parked myself at my favorite

Mexican lunch spot

with a spicy

burrito Massiel

con pollo,

a Jarritos soda

and 

a chapter of 

awesomeness.

But now it's over

and

Tuesdays feel kinda

empty.

Fortunately,

Mr. Scalzi has announced

that he'll be writing a follow up to

The Human Division.

But that's

SO FAR AWAY!!!

So what did I do?

I asked him to 

write me a 

five sentence

chapter

of 

The Human Division 

in my sketchbook.

AND HE DID!

The story is,

of course,

THRILLING

EXCITING

and

filled

with

AWESOME.

See?

Wait...

Look closer:

Yup.

This is perhaps

one of the 

coolest things

that has ever happened

to me.

THANK YOU,

MR. SCALZI!

FYI:

The

hardcover

edition of

The Human Division

is out 

NOW.

Go get it.

And please

shut up

and

go see

Mr. Scalzi

while he's on tour!

SCALZI AND ME

You know I love me some

John Scalzi.

And you know I love me some

Felicia Day.

So the other day whilst

Felicia was recording

Angela for 

Fish Hooks:

We somehow hit on the subject of 

Mr. Scalzi,

whom she is good friends with.

I let slip that I had never actually met him in person

but had indeed made his

List of Awesome People Who

Are Awesomely Awesome. 

Shocked that we hadn't met,

Felicia immediately texted John

to see if he wanted to swing by the recording studio

since he just so happened to be in town promoting

this:

(more on that later)

Mr. Scalzi couldn't make it

but asked if I wanted to drive down to 

Redondo Beach and hang out

before his

book signing.

Um...

...

...

YES!

And hang we did!

We chatted about all nature of things

for a sooper long time

(books, KND, movies, stoopid people, etc)

and as expected,

he's a really

sooper

nice,

smart

and

FUNNY

guy!

He even bought me

a bottle of water!

(he had a diet Mexican soda)

And eventually

 it was time for his reading.

Mr. Scalzi read a chapter from

The Human Division...

And a brilliant

must-read

post from his long-running

blog

WHATEVER

called

WHO GETS TO BE A GEEK?

ANYONE WHO WANTS TO BE

But what was the

bestest

best

part

of meeting

Mr. Scalzi?

When he wrote me

my very own

chapter of 

THE HUMAN DIVISION

in my 

sketchbook:

But ima 

save 

THAT

for 

my next post!

FISH PROM IS ON!

Did you go to  PROM?
I didn't.
I took the train into downtown  Philadelphia to skateboard and buy punk rock records like these:

To be honest,  I don't feel like I missed  anything.
But I would have TOTALLY MISSED OUT on prom if it had  been like THIS:

That's right! The  FISH HOOKS season two finale is this Friday night May 17th at 9:30/8:30c
Getcha fancies on and  WATCH!

VOICE ACTING WITH DAVE WITTENBERG

This is what happens when you ask sooper-pro voice actor singer dancer Tap Out tee shirt model DAVE WITTENBERG (Kakashi, Numbuh 74.239) what it would sound like if he was  giving online voice acting lessons: That is all.