The Line It Is Drawn: Week 379

This week's The Line It Is Drawn was a theme close to my heart: videogames! I was so enraptured with the suggestions made, that I ended up producing three pieces for this week!

Cyclops and Havok in Super Mario Bros (Super Summers Bros?), as suggested by therealAstrozac


Q*Bert meets Doop, as suggested by BigMike20X6


Magik vs Samus from Metroid as suggested by Brian_Cronin (This one was actually an existing drawing I did last year, but it seemed to fit the theme!)

The Line It Is Drawn: Week 373

This week's The Line It Is Drawn theme was to draw a comic book character as a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes.

I must admit that I'm not really familiar with the Legion of Super-Heroes, but fortunately BigMike20X6 suggested Yakko, Wakko and Dot from Animaniacs (which was a cartoon, but also had a comic book series) who I'm more familiar with!

I thought I would mirror my own ignorance regarding The Legion of Super-Heroes, by having Yakko get mixed-up with Legion, the son of Charles Xavier from the X-men comics.

https://www.cbr.com/legion-of-super-heroes-rejects-gallery/

So long Steve!

Pretty much ever since I started going there regularly since it moved to it's current location on Berwick Street in Soho, Steve Walsh has been working behind the counter at Gosh! Comics. And now he's left and moved to Ireland. It feels like the end of an era.

As well as working at the shop and having an encyclopedic knowledge for comics, Steve also played a large part in building a community around the shop, and in recent years ran the Capers superhero discussion group and, along with Oliver O'Keefe, the monthly comic book reading group Reads. When it became clear that Steve was leaving, Ollie had the idea of commissioning me to draw an illustration that we could give to Steve as a present featuring the various members of the group. I thought it would be a good idea to do it as a homage to a classic comic book cover. Ollie wanted to reference Crisis on Infinite Earths #1, but I suggested Uncanny X-men #138 instead.

Here's the finished piece:



And here's a photo of Steve after we gave it to him:



Good luck in Ireland Steve. And to quote the classic X-men cover-line: "Hope you survive the experience"!

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