Sunday, October 5, 2008

The Best-Laid Plans of Mice and Men...

I had a full agenda today: Finish two sketches, work on quote for a new client that contacted me on Thursday, sketch out another Christmas Cutie, and sketch a couple of Space Ghost ideas for a commissioned painting. But I went to Home Depot to return something and they had a sale on palm trees. $16.99 for a wide variety of palm trees that are at least 5' tall. So, 2 palm trees, 5 pygmy date palms, and 11 white birds of paradise later, plus planting and watering, we have only a Christmas Cutie. Still need to get the quote done but now the outside of our lanai around the pool looks pretty great! And now it's raining, making anymore gardening interruptions impossible.

This Cutie has gotten herself tangled up in the lights. The background will be a bare tree. This piece will give the taggers a chance to animate the lights so it should be a popular piece. I hope. This was done on 11" x 17" copy paper.
Today's Legion couple is Supergirl (Kara Zor-El/Linda Danvers) and Brainiac 5 (Querl Dox). I always think of their relationship as a crush more than anything else. Most of the relationship was during the Adventure Comics run of the Legion and I can't even recall them kissing. Supergirl did join the Legion for a while during the Levitz/Giffen run and that was fun. The creepiest story though was when Brainy, missing Kara so much, made a Supergirl android while sleepwalking and planned to run away with it, believing it was the real Supergirl. Ugh! Explains a lot about his mental instability that came up later, doesn't it? :)

4 comments:

Royce Thrower said...

I had forgotten about the Supergirl "doll" storyline.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall...

The smarter they are...

"Contest to finish the quote!"

Gene Gonzales said...

"The harder they fail"?

Royce Thrower said...

That is a twelfth level answer if ever I read one.

Any other entries for poor ol' Braniac 5's lapse?

Gary M. Peiffer said...

Gene,

Hey, a Christmas cutie rough out and Palm trees sound like a productive day!

I certainly don't have the Legion history you and Royce have, but if Superman/boy and Supergirl were in the Legion, were Batman and Wonder Woman also in the Legion at one time???

Hey, I am up in New York City and finding it a treat to check out your art while stuck in the hotel!!!

Gary