dennisculver will be at Emerald City Comicon this weekend!

You can find me with my Portland allies at the Periscope Studios booth #222 

Finally Oakland and Portland united for the common good of comics!

I’ll have prints and books for sale and I’ll also be taking commissions:

Single character 9x12 bw for $40.

If you’d like to preorder a sketch or want multiple characters email me dculver at gmail.

So, Culve’s and I realized after the long delay on the Puzzler we’re both too crazy busy to do the redesigns every couple of weeks.  Redesigning, while a tonne of fun, is also a lot of extra work.  We talked about it and decided we’re going to keep doing a SuperVillain every couple of weeks, but the redesign is now optional.

With that said, our next challenge (which will sprawl over a number of weeks):

THE LEGION OF DOOM!

And First up:

SINESTRO!

Okay, this week is going to be a bit more abstract, so hold onto your hats.

In 1967 during season 2 of the Adam West Batman TV series veteran actor Maurice Evans (best known as Doctor Zaius from Planet of the Apes) was called to fill the void left by Frank Gorshin (as Gorshin was in a contract dispute with the Producers).  Evans character, the Puzzler, was designed to fit a script originally written for Gorshin’s Riddler.  And, thus, Batman matched wits with the Puzzler, a villain who was particularly fond of Shakespeare and Aviation (obviously the specific narrative device used for the Riddler script, conveniently substituted into the Puzzler’s character).

Personally, I always dug the episode (especially the hilarious escape from the hot air balloon), but I always thought Evans attire could have used a pinch more ‘umph’. 

So, this week’s Showdown Maurice Evans as the Puzzler!