Is This What Wagner Had in Mind?

In the comments threads, blog reader Dan mentioned some characters he'd like to see me take a stab at. Or is that "at which he'd like me to take a stab?" Anyway, he mentioned Valkyrie, and that stuck in my head.

I was a DC boy, but knew the Marvels okay. Mostly because they had more cartoons, I suppose, with Fantastic Four (and yes, I knew HERBIE wasn't a real member), Spider-Woman, Hulk and Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends. Well, and the Thing cartoon where he became a teenager and had the thing ring. More odd was that Franklin Richards became a girl as I remember, yet Reed wasn't trying to fix that. Maybe he always wanted a girl.

Anyway, while I didn't read many Marvels, there was one that kept cropping up: The Defenders. I don't know why. I think my brother John got it. And I remember winning a copy at the Timberlake Family Day picnic, back when comics were on newsstands and they could comp out their returnable inventory. And I still have one of those Giant Size Treasury Editions of it. So, more than the rest of the Marvel Universe, I knew Nighthawk, Hellcat, and Valkyrie and whoever else was part of that non-team at the time.

So, I did a run a Valkyrie. I liked her classic costume and not that metallic body suit. I always liked that she was a warrior, but had hair drape over one eye because, darn it, she was such a good warrior that depth perception was completely unnecessary. And she fought in sandals. I think it works pretty well.
 
 Dan also suggested that I send him the piece when it was done and bill Prilosec. That's a great idea, if I still had their billing info. Unfortunately, they replaced my artwork with some guy named Brett Favre in their ads. Maybe with him retiring they'll bring my art out of mothballs, but I'm going to guess not. So, unless that happens, Dan, you'll have to buy it off the Commissions page. Sorry.