Giant Girl

Avengers Month continues with a final WIP of Giant Girl.

This was a real simple production. I spray painted the F4 movie Invisible Woman red, then added some rubber bands painted blue. Do the face, done! Although I had some problems with the feet. I left the boots as is, with standard super-hero calf-length boots. Then I was checking the latest Marvel Adventures: Avengers book, and noticed that she had these weird tennis shoe things. You would never have known this from the book… Giant Girl is always in the back of group shots, with Cap and Wolverine running around in front of her, so the drawing of her starts at the knees. But we got some recent shots of her at human size, sitting on the couch playing video games with Spider-Man (let me pause and state what a kick-ass book this is), and I saw her shoes. I then leaffed through my collection of the first four and confirmed both of the above statements: you never see the feet, but once, in shadows, one could see the impressions of the shoes. Anyway, I had to shave down the boots and resculpt on the fly.

It’s hard to quantify why Giant Girl works so well in the Adventures book. Jeff Parker has said something like, “Well, Giant Girl would be better than Giant Man, wouldn’t it?” But we know why the Girl is better; because artist Manuel Garcia draws really cute women and Giant Girl has a lot of page real estate devoted to her. The whole Adventures line has great art, and it’s not stylized… hell, in today’s market, the lack of anime styling is a stylization itself. If kids are reading the digests, and I think they are, then Marvel is giving pre-adolescents something to look at without coming close to, you know, 90s-excess Michael Turner art.

Man, I’m really dancing around the term “wank!” And I wanted to say that the art in the Marvel Adventures books were giving kids their first erections. But I don’t think this blog is the place for that kind of talk.


I mean, check that out. Everybody loves Giant Girl.