The Legion of Super-Heroes, in its earliest days, was pure fun and adventure (how suiting that it’s first run as a series was in Adventure Comics). What it also had was potential. Being set in the 30th century, it fit…
Category: Science Fiction
Fiction based on imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social or environmental changes, frequently portraying space or time travel and life on other planets.
Webboid Evolution Part 1
One seed for what grew into Webboids began in the 1950s and 1960s with a number of Artifical Intelligences (“AIs”) that appeared in books and media at the time. Robbie the Robot (from Forbidden Planet), Gort (from The Day the…
Webboids!
This is a test page done a few years ago; the Webboid character is a morphed version of the 3D model “Chibi-Boy”, while the test page was assembled in Comic Life on an iPad. The Webboid featured in this sample…
Long Live the Legion
In 1958, DC Comics introduced The Legion of Super-Heroes to the world in Adventure Comics #247. I first encountered the group in 1961, and for me they were a game-changer. No longer limited to one or two super-heroes in a…
Retro Science Fiction
Very, very loosely inspired by “The Space Ship Under the Apple Tree” series of children’s books by Louis Slobodkin. The scene here uses models from two talented DAZ Published Artists, the “Toon Rocket” model from 3djoji and “Humble Homestead in the…