Cyclops | The Tribute

"My name is Scott Summer but am known as Cyclops The Red and field leader of the X-Men."

Cyclops is one of the fictional characters of Marvel superhero the field leader of the group X-Men which created by the writer Stan Lee and artist/co-writer Jack Kirby. It first appeared in the X-Men on September 1963 before he originally dubbed as Slim Summer but later it was change to Scott Summer and Slim become his nickname. Scott was the son of Corsair (not mutant), brother of Havok and Volcan and the father of Cable, Marvel Girl, and X-Man and the widower of Jean Grey and Madelyn Pryor. He had a powerful “Optic Blast” coming from his eyes which always also forcing him to wear specialized glasses and combat visor.

Cyclops was the first recruited student by Professor Charles Xavier and one of the original members of X-Men. In his origin, Scott was boy coming from an Anchorage, Alaska in the United States but his father USAF Major Christopher Summers takes them in their de Havilland Mosquito. His ability is accidentally happening when it strikes in the head upon landing of the parachute under the attack of an alien Shi’ar spaceship, and cause brain damage to him and uncontrolled to his optic blast.

Note: In 2006, this character has been list as the number one in the Top 25 X-Men from the past forty years which rated by IGN.com.

Horror, I did Horror

Back in the eighties one of the many things I wanted to do was to draw comics in the tradition of EC horror comics. I'm going to post a big selection of that work over the next few days as kind of a floating portfolio for a director I'm trying to interest in letting me work for him on a dream "horror" project. I've never tried to get much work in live action, closet to that was art directing Space Jam for a few months, but that's another story. If Frankenstein built an artist to work on movies he would have made me for this project. I'm used to dreams going down in flames, but send a prayer on this one for me.

First up is a story I never finished for no other reason I can rationalize other than I lost momentum due to the length plus a series of delays on my and the original publishers part. It's a fantastic story by Charles Beaumont adapted by Mark Burbey and myself. I disappointed myself by not finishing it, but I imagine it about killed Mark. As it was an amazing coup to get the permission to get this story and he was trying to get into comics writing. Sorry Mark.









Bruce Jones did Horror Comics in an EC twist style in the eighties and I was a dream working for him. I was young and raw but he saw something in me, I was a real honor to work for him alongside Corben, Wrightson, Ploog and many other Horror greats. Sadly my work for him was still formative I was just hitting a groove when Bruce sold his titles to Eclipse comics and where my work was improving, the working conditions were fucked.
The editor Cat Ironwood had a big problem with the objectifying of the female form and clamped down hard on the nudity Bruce encouraged. All the nudity you see here was censored. ( but not Corben's in a previous issue) She called me an encourager of rapists as I had a clothed man and a nude woman in the story and so we had a big fight on this job on every level. I re- wrote the story to make it more cinematically interesting (including adding the guns) and that was a tussle with her and the writer. She even got mad with the panel open the last page of the big guy in the empty street. She wanted to know who he was, convinced I was getting something over on her. All my changes were used by John Carpenter in the movie They Live that was based on this story, including the panel of the girl fucking the alien as the end shot. (Another fight with Cat, she caved on cuting it thank God.) Great choice on his part as the writers original ending was flat. Here are a few pages...

Jumper | World Premiere

"I’m the jumper and going to anywhere is nothing possible for me".

Jumper is a 1992 fictional character based on written novel of Steven Gould which the story tells about a young teenager, Davey. He had special gift which is a genetic abnormality that allows him to teleport himself by using his thoughts. Although at first he doesn’t know how to use his power but later as he familiarized his talent he use it against any criminal activities and to find his long-lost mother. His gifts have existed for centuries that find him in war that has been raging for many years already between the “Jumper” and “Paladins”.

On a film version which going to release on February 14, 2008 of the same title, Hayden Christensen played as “Jumper” (stars on “Awaken” along Jessica Alba). The film has directed by Doug Liman which written in screenplay by David S. Goyer and other stars are Samuel L. Jackson, Rachel Bilson, and Jamie Bell. This film was also “a must seen movie of the year on our favorite movie theater” as the new superhero character that produced by 20^th Century Fox.