Sometimes You Just Want to Draw the Spectre

I listen to The Fire and Water Podcast, hosted by my fellow Kubie Rob Kelly and The Irredeemable Shag. It's a great show, and we occasionally tease each other good-naturedly, even leading to some wackiness like this fake blog I set up. One of their most popular features is their monthly review of the 80's series Who's Who in the DC Universe. They're up to issue 21 which featured a lot of "S" characters. They mentioned the Spectre and it just hit me: I really wanted to draw the Spectre.[image src="http://thomz.com/blogall/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/spectre_pre.png" align="right" border="image_border" link="http://thomz.com/blogall/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/spectre.jpg" alt="Spectre" title="Spectre" lightbox="false" ]

I always dug the Spectre, with his ridiculous costume, crazy powerful powerset, and a comics pedigree that includes Jerry Siegel. The post-Crisis 80's series was one of my favorites and all his stuff is worth checking out, and Brad Meltzer even referenced him in one of his books.

Anyway, I thought he would be a good warm-up sketch. I had a lot of fun with it, and I'll have to do more of these. It was drawn in Manga Studio and colored in Photoshop.