On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Seemed like a lot of people were doing exactly what the title said...

( Specifics and other thoughts after the cut )

So. The Marvel comics are getting caught up with the TV operation. After a fashion.

Looks like at least Fitz-616 will be getting his brave little monkey! Fitz-199999 will be eating his heart out if he ever finds out. ;-)

So I've been fiddling in Adobe Illustrator tonight. Half-tempted to revert back to CorelDRAW instead for this sort of thing, but never mind that for the moment.

This afternoon and evening, I spent part of the time fiddling with that Helicarrier tech art from the Marvel Universe Handbook from 1983. The working assumption being, if its length was about the same as a Nimitz-class CVN, what should its internal structures be expected to look like?

( Screengrabs after the cut! )

Some quick thoughts early in the morning...( Read more... )
More as it comes to mind.

Whether that mind is mine or one or more of yours...?

And kicked off by seeing Captain America: the Winter Soldier on Friday night.

Let me leave it at this for now: it was worth the time and the money.

More as it comes to mind.

To further enhance the sense of scale re: Nimitz-class aircraft carriers vs. the SHIELD Helicarrier class depicted in the Marvel Universe Handbook by Eliot R. Brown. Assumes that the length of both vessel classes are equivalent. Graphic cross-section of Nimitz-class CVN is derived from the Hampton Roads Daily Press web feature on the USS George W.H. Bush.

Source URL for the Daily Press cross-section graphic: http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-cvn77-01,0,5744629.htmlstory
( Techno-graphics after the cut! )

Is it wrong that, when I learned that Fitz' full first name is "Leopold", I immediately leaped to thinking of the orchestra conductor that Bugs Bunny impersonated in order to effect Giovanni Jones' doom in "Long-Haired Hare"?

(For some reason, I mixed up the doomed Mr. Jones with the conductor at first.)

Two things I came across recently:

1. A little thing on the Robot 6 blog on comicbookresources.com about architectural drawings tied to the series Locke and Key. The series isn't exactly my cuppa, but I know some of you out there have a love for it. So.

2. I'd heard that a Haynes-issue book on the Death Star and related space hardware from Star Wars was in the works for a couple of months. It's on my own "want list". Spotted it recently at a couple of local booksellers. If you want a sense of why I'd like to have it in my genre tech art reading collection, here you go, courtesy of io9.com.

3. One more thing I'd like to see done?

A SHIELD Agents' Orientation Manual. Preferred candidates to contribute material, be it text or artwork to include the following:

• Jonathan Hickman
• Geoffrey Mandel
• Jayse Hansen
• Eliot R. Brown

Complete with a history of known Helicarrier classes to date, details of the old SHIELD NYC HQ bases(the first one under the barber shop, and the skyscraper that formed one of the key venues of Nick Fury vs. SHIELD), and an assortment of the other gadgetry in the arsenal. And if they want to throw in the Urbis Immortalis under Rome as designed by Dustin Weaver, go for it.

Just saying.

...as I just saw the Winter Soldier trailer.

My compliments to the responsible parties.

So...did those boats get names to go with their pennant numbers?

Spotted this over at Screenrant today.

Which now has me somewhat more curious than I already was as of this morning.

Personally, I stick with the assumption that SHIELD already has a few metric tonnes of stuff going on off-camera between episodes and movies. What that stuff is might be worth a couple of movies off to one side. Coulson's team isn't the only thing in progress. It can't be.

Now back to finding that missing paperwork of mine...