Only four days left until Free Comic Book Day! I've mentioned before that I'll be at Four Color Fantasies in Rancho Cucamonga, California at the big signing event. Owner Chris Brady has an auction for the Hero Initiative, and I'm donating this Mary Marvel sketch to it. Minus the FCBD countdown balloon, of course.
Woo-hoo! Free Comic Book Day! It's gonna be great!
Once again, She-Hulk would have just been too obvious.
It's no secret that I hate drawing horses. I just can't figure out their anatomy, especially how their legs work. But, when I got a request to draw Valkyrie, something in my head said "Draw Aragorn, her winged horse." I'd already drawn Val once, so I definitely wanted something different. So I went for it.
Admittedly, I cropped the image so you couldn't see much of the legs, but I think I still did some okay work on Aragorn. Val's not bad either. The temptation with her is to draw her in warrior, so itwas nice to show her in a softer moment.
And, as always, click to embiggen!
Sometimes jobs just get away from you. I didn't mean to finish this one so early this morning, but I got up and couldn't help myself. So here's the finished, full-color Hellcat.
Okay, now to draw some Love and Capes. Really.
Today started out with such grand intentions. I was going to draw stuff. But then, pretty quickly, things went off the rails.
It took my forever to dialogue the new Love and Capes page. Then I dealt with some client logo designs and burned some data DVDs for another client. It was sunny, and I felt the siren call of my first Convertible Day. There were a ton of e-mails to return. I finalized Love and Capes #13 with my printer. 
I met with a client. I got an awesome present in the mail. Whew!
I'm only disappointed because yesterday, I put out a call on Twitter for commissions, and I got a bunch of them. It was great, and I was looking forward to tackling them. I figured I'd draw at least three of them today. But life gets in the way, and I managed to do the pencils for one.
But, 
since I don't post a lot of work-in-progress stuff, I thought I'd share this Hellcat commission that I'm working on. I don't do a lot of profiles, but I thought it caught her sense of movement pretty well. If you look, you can see where I originally had her left leg lower. Moving it higher accentuated the pose.
I'll transfer it to good board tomorrow, I think. I should have a new page of Love and Capes on the schedule tomorrow, too. We'll see if I can handle them both.
Anyway, the first image is my col-erase pencil rough (man, I love those things) tightened with mechanical pencil. The second one is the tight pencils, which will be transferred to bristol for inking. And then scanning and coloring.
In my ongoing attempt to make this The Coolest Blog in the Multiverse, and with a tip of the hat to Andy Ihnatko, I'm trying out the WordTwit plugin for my blog. Now, blog posts will be automagically sent to my Twitter feed. You'l be up to your eyebrows
in up-to-the-minute Thom Zahlerishness If that's your thing.
Here's a commission I did for Jon Knutson's Random Acts of Geekery blog. He's a Krypto fan, so I decided to put Superman's real best friend in front of the Doghouse of Solitude. I'm pretty sure the Doghouse in no longer in continuity, but I'm sure DC will fix that soon.
This choice of Huntress was a suggestion from my friend Dee when I was looking to fill out this volume of Powerful Women. It should have occured to me before, though. I bought her first appearance in DC Super Stars Secret Origins or whatever it was called. It was also one of the first times I remember seeing a "behind the scenes" about the creation of a character, complete with sketches and roughs for the cover. That always stuck with me, and I'm sure was one more brick on the road to doing what I do for a living now.
When I was a kid, Battle of the Planets was everyone's plate of awesome. Before I knew about Japanese animation, I still knew there was something different about that cartoon. And I even noticed that the 7-Zark-7 scenes seemed incongruous to the rest of the cartoon.
We used to play G-Force on the playground, too. My friend and I took turns switching between being Jason and Mark, and we'd spin around a basketball pole doing their whirlwind attack.
So anyway, here's Princess from Battle of the Planets.
A while ago I did an Estella Warren caricature that I thought came out really well. I hinted at her shape with color, rather than drawing with complete lines It was a nice effect, and I used it for this image of the Invisible Woman. I wanted to get the impression of invisibility while still, you know, actually drawing something you could see.
I also put her in the John Byrne reverse uniforms that I thought always looked pretty neat. The colors did well with the invisibility effect.
Next up in the Powerful Women #3 parade is Storm. I wanted to experiment with with lighting and weather effects. I drew her in her classic 80's costume, too. I never liked the punk look with the mohawk, and I haven't read much of them since then.