Tuesday, December 19, 2023

Batman Smells


For The Line It Is Drawn December 18th, 2023:

Happy Holidays, everyone! Tell us a comic book character as well as a holiday motif you'd like to see said comic book character appear in! Emma Frost meets Frosty the Snowman? Santa and Son of Satan fight some bad guys? Doc Ock and Aunt May under the mistletoe? So on and so forth!

Twitter follower @daviddwwilliams suggested: Batman and Robin from the Batman and Robin version of Jingle Bells.

Check out the other Liners' holiday pieces here!

--B


Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Batman Versus Godzilla!


For The Line It Is Drawn December 11th, 2023:

In honor of both Godzilla Minus One and Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, let's see Godzilla take control over some classic comic book covers.

Twitter follower @KeithAlanMorgan suggested Batman 104.

Check out the other Liners' Godzilla pieces here!

--B

Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Wolverine Versus Snake Eyes


For The Line It Is Drawn December 4th, 2023:

In honor of Image's new Hasbro "Energon Universe," suggest a comic book character teaming up with either a Transformer character or a G.I. Joe character...or both!

Twitter follower @werehawk1 suggestion of Snake Eyes versus Wolverine.

Check out the other Liners' Energon Universe pieces here!

--B

Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Thanksgiving Left Overs!



Here's some The Line It Is Drawn pieces I didn't get to this year:

October 16- Suggest a superhero or villain that you'd like to see depicted as a horror icon. Twitter follower, @MalcolmCKnox  suggested MODOK as Frankenstein!

October 23- Name a comic book character that you'd like to see drawn as a zombie.  Twitter follower, @CraigJoly suggested Juggernaut!

That's all I could do!  Check out more leftovers from the Liners here.

--B

Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Duck Avenger!


For The Line It Is Drawn November 20th, 2023:

In honor of Disney's Wish, celebrating Disney's 100th anniversary, suggest a famous comic book cover featuring Disney's animated characters.
Twitter follower @MisterBigRed1 suggested: Daredevil #86 with Donald Duck in his superhero identity Duck Avenger and Peg Leg Pete.

Check out the other Liners' Disney pieces here!

--B

Thursday, November 16, 2023

Ulik The Troll As A Troll


For The Line It Is Drawn November 13th, 2023:

In honor of the release of the new Trolls movie, suggest a comic book character (or characters) that you would like to see depicted as a troll.
Twitter follower, ScottFry78 suggested: Ulik the Troll!

Check out the other Liners' Troll pieces here!

--B

Surfin' with the Purrgils


For The Line It Is Drawn October 3rd, 2023:

In honor of the season finale of Star Wars: Ahsoka, team-up or mash-up comic book characters with Star Wars: Rebels characters
Line Editor Brian_Cronin suggested: Silver Surfer and Purrgils

Check out the other Liners' Star Wars: Rebels pieces here!

--B

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Hot Vs. Cold


For The Line It Is Drawn September 25th, 2023:

Based on a David Winters' suggestion, in honor of the new Mortal Kombat game, suggest a comic character and a Mortal Kombat character that you'd like to see our artists draw fighting each other.

Twitter follower, @Aaronmec98 suggested: Sub-Zero vs The Human Torch

Check out the other Liners' Mortal Kombat pieces here!

--B

Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Hanna Barbera's Lone Wolf And Cub

 


 For The Line It Is Drawn September 11th, 2023:

A classic Line theme, the topic is Manga/Anime characters drawn in the style of American comic/cartoon characters. Like, what would Goku lok like if he was originally designed in America? Stuff like that.

Twitter follower, @ErichMees suggested Lone Wolf and Cub as designed by Hanna-Barbera.

Check out the other Liners' Americanized pieces here!

--B

Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Sidekicks


 For The Line It Is Drawn August 21st, 2023:

In honor of the new Disney+ Star Wars series, Ahsoka, team-up or mash-up Ahsoka with comic book characters.

Twitter follower, pasanov suggested: This ought to be a must, Ahsoka and another famous dual wielder - Nightwing.

Check out the other Liners' Ahsoka pieces here!

--B

Tuesday, August 15, 2023

WatchTMNT


For The Line It Is Drawn August 14th, 2023:

In honor of the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, let's see some famous comic book cover homages featuring TMNT characters

Twitter follower, @BigMike20X6 suggested: Watchmen #1 with a pizza instead of the Smiley badge

Check out the other Liners' TMNT pieces here!

--B

Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Heroes For Hire


For The Line It Is Drawn August 7th, 2023:

In honor of the late, great Paul Reubens, team-up comic book characters with Pee-wee Herman.

Twitter follower, @KeithAlanMorgan suggested: The new Heroes for Hire: Pee-Wee Herman and Power Man.

Check out the other Liners' Pee Wee pieces here!

--B

Tuesday, August 1, 2023

B.A.R.B.I.E.


For The Line It Is Drawn July 31st, 2023:

With Barbie-mania upon us, mash-up Barbie and a superhero, so instead of, like, Lawyer Barbie, it's Green Lantern Barbie, etc.

Twitter follower, @MisterDoctor5 suggested: B.A.R.B.I.E. (Barbie and M.O.D.O.K. mash-up)

Check out the other Liners' Barbie pieces here!

--B


Monday, July 31, 2023

About Me


A thingy that I had to do for a team building workshop at work.

--B

Tuesday, July 25, 2023

A Nightmare On Elm Street Before Christmas


For The Line It Is Drawn July 24th, 2023:

With the talk of Barbie and Oppenheimer mashed up as Barbieheimer, mash-up two films!

Twitter follower, BigMike20X6 suggested Nightmare on Elm Street Before Christmas

Check out the other Liners' mash-up pieces here!

--B

Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Mary Worth, Cosmic Advisor


For The Line It Is Drawn July 17th, 2023:

We've done comic book characters in the style of newspaper comic strips, but let's reverse it! Suggest a famous comic strip and our artists will draw them like a comic book (whether a particular artist or a type of comic book). They're bursting out of the strip format! Snoopy as a Jack Kirby character, Garfield as a Mike Mignola character, etc.

Twitter follower, Keith Alan Morgan suggested Jack Kirby's Mary Worth. It could also be Marc Lighter's suggestion of Mary Worth in Fourth World Style.

Check out the other Liners' mash-up pieces here!

--B

What If Ghost Rider and Aunt May Had A Baby?

For The Line It Is Drawn July 10th, 2023:

With the debut of Wonder Woman's daughter, Trinity, it's time for one of our favorite Line themes, What if ___ and ____ had a baby? Name two comic book characters and our artists will draw their offspring/gene splicing!

Twitter follower,  Michael Heide @MichaelHeide7 suggestion of Ghost Rider and Aunt May.

Check out the other Liners' baby pieces here!

--B

Wednesday, July 5, 2023

Blog Headers




Blog headers from the past few years!

--B

Tuesday, July 4, 2023

Indiana Jones And The Hidden City Of K'un-Lun!

For The Line It Is Drawn July 3rd, 2023:

In honor of the new Indiana Jones film, suggest a new comic book-inspired Indy movie by simply stating "Indiana Jones and (you fill in the name of a notable comic book story)". So, Indiana Jones and the Crisis on Infinite Earths, Indiana Jones and the Dark Phoenix Saga, Indiana Jones and the Coming of Galactus, etc.

Twitter follower, @Gordon432 suggestion of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of K'un-L'un.

Check out the other Liners' Indy pieces here!

--B

Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Torch And Subby



For The Line It Is Drawn June 26th, 2023:

In honor of the new Secret Invasion Disney+ series, a noir retelling of a big comic book crossover, name a comic book crossover that you'd like to see done in a very different genre/scale. Crisis on Infinite Earths...on Ice? So on, so forth.

Twitter follower, KeithAlanMorgan suggested The Sub-Mariner vs the original Human Torch as a Punch & Judy style puppet show

Check out the other Liners' genre-bending pieces here

--B

Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Flash Toitles


For The Line It Is Drawn June 19th, 2023:

In honor of the new Flash movie, suggest an alternate dimension DC hero for Flash to run into.

Twitter follower, @shurwitt suggestion of Fastback, the Crash and the Terrific Whatzit.

Check out the other Liners Flash pieces here

--B

Tuesday, June 20, 2023

RIP John Romita


For The Line It Is Drawn June 19th, 2023:

This is a special Line it is Drawn in honor of the passing of comic book icon, John Romita Sr.

Check out the other Liners' Romita memorial pieces here

--B

Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Tickle Me Darkseid



For The Line It Is Drawn June 12th, 2023:

In honor of the new Transformers movie, team-up or mash-up a comic character with a famous toy. It can be a toy that has had its own comic, like the Micronauts & Transformers, or it can just be any toy (Thanos and Hungry Hungry Hippos try to collect Infinity Stones, for instance)

Twitter follower, @MisterBigRed1 suggested Tickle me Darkseid and @daviddwwilliams suggested The Thing and a pet rock.

Check out the other Liners famous toy pieces here

--B

Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Spider-Mans



For The Line It Is Drawn June 5th, 2023:

In honor of the new Into the Spider-Verse, suggest an alternate dimension Spider-Man (it can be an anthopormorphic animal like Spider-Ham, or really ANYthing, honestly).

Twitter follower, Johnny Unusual (@JohnnyUnusual) suggested Jazz Spider-Man! Ted Dahlman (@TedDahlman) suggested Spider-Blob (the X-Men villain).

Check out the other Liners Spider-verse pieces here

--B


Tuesday, May 30, 2023

BatMerMan


For The Line It Is Drawn May 29th, 2023:

In honor of The Little Mermaid, let's do a new MerMay! Name a comic book character you'd like to see drawn as a mermaid.

Twitter follower, Juan Carlos Barbosa aka El Tío Travsam (@travsam) suggested Batman.

Check out the other Liners mermay pieces here

--B

Tuesday, May 23, 2023

The Rich and the Raving!


For The Line It Is Drawn May 22nd, 2023:

In honor of Fast X, name a fictional vehicle and our artists will draw said vehicle in some crazy Fast and Furious style hijinks.

Twitter follower, Big Mike Shirley (@BigMike20X6) suggested: Rich Uncle Pennybags driving the car token from Monopoly.


Check out the other Liners F&F pieces here

--B

Tuesday, May 16, 2023

The Replacement Avengers!


For The Line It Is Drawn May 15th, 2023:

In honor of the launch of Avengers #1, our own Rod Allen thought it would be fun for people to suggest odd new Avengers rosters. Name four heroes you'd like to see form a new Avengers lineup (if our artists feel like it, they might draw more than four, but I don't feel right asking them to draw more than four).

Twitter follower, Adrian Tullberg's (@adriantullberg) suggested:

-War Machine
-Monica Rambeu
-U.SAgent
-Thunderstrike
Code name; the Replacements.

Check out the other Liners Avengers line-ups here

--B

Monday, May 8, 2023

Dark Side Of The Bifrost


For The Line It Is Drawn May 8th, 2023:

I keep losing track of this one, it's so popular that I try to spread it out to every 50 Lines. I'm a bit late on it this year, but the theme is comic book characters on famous music album covers!

Twitter follower,  Werehawk (@werehawk1) suggested Heimdall on Dark Side of the Moon.  Check out the other Liners album covers here

--B

Thursday, May 4, 2023

Monday, May 1, 2023

GOTG Visit Alderaan


For The Line It Is Drawn May 1st, 2023:

In honor of the release of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, have the Guardians show up to save the day on a planet from fiction (including stuff like fictional versions of Mars or other real planets)

Twitter follower,  Keith Alan Morgan (@KeithAlanMorgan) suggested Alderaan.  Check out the other Liners GOTG pieces here

--B

Monday, April 24, 2023

This Man... This Monster At The End Of This Book!


For The Line It Is Drawn April 24th, 2023:

In honor of the movie version of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, the theme is superhero's children's books! Little House on Krypton, Are You There God? It's Me, Rogue. Stuff like that.

Twitter follower,  David Williams' (@daviddwwilliams) suggestion: The Monster at the End of This Book featuring The Thing.    Check out the other Liners children's book mash-ups here!

--B

Monday, April 17, 2023

Stark Gets Some Help

 


For The Line It Is Drawn April 17th, 2023:
A Line classic! Mash up comic book characters with a fairy tale!

Twitter follower, Big Mike Shirley (@BigMike20X6) suggested: Instead of helping the Shoemaker, the Elves help Iron Man with his Armor.   Check out the other Liners fairy tales here!

--B

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Happy Monthiversary: April!


 With a little help from Tallulah!  Love you!

--B

Monday, April 10, 2023

EXTREME Nancy!


For The Line It Is Drawn April 9th, 2023:
"In the Style of." You name a comic character and then name the artist you want to see that character drawn in. For instance, "Superman, in the style of Charles Schulz" or "Calvin and Hobbes, in the style of Bill Sienkiewicz." Stuff like that. The more offbeat the better!

Twitter follower, TheZMage, suggested: Nancy in the style of Rob Liefield.  Check out the other Liners homages here!

--B

Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Friday, March 31, 2023

So Long, MMM 2023!

 

 Thanks to everyone for another fun March MODOK Madness!  Big ups to my blog partner, Pedro, for the amazing work you've done this year!  And here's to all the people who submitted their astonishing MODOK pieces!  Keep them coming next year.  A big thank you to Brian Cronin for hosting a MMM week at CBR's The Line It Is Drawn!  Awesome work as always.

We'll see you next March!  Thanks again!

--B