Yo Joe!

I haven't posted a Powerful Women image in a while. By the way, I'm still accepting commissions, and if they get in soon, they could also appear in the second edition, which might even be out in time for San Diego depending on how things break.

So, the publisher of the Love and Capes trade, IDW, just got the G.I. Joe license, and that got in my head. I was a big fan of the comic, and have said in many places that the legendary G.I. Joe #21, the silent issue, was one of the huge inspirations for Raider and a bunch of the secret-agent-action stuff that I did before Love and Capes. I've got crazy love for the characters (though not as crazy, or as fun, as the Comics Pants guys). That got me to thinking about the characters like Flash, who I dressed up as for Halloween one year, complete with a custom laser rifle made by my Dad, and Snake-Eyes, and Storm Shadow... and Scarlett.

She was the crossbow-weilding Joe, and I always thought she was cool, both visually and as a character. So I took a run at her for the next sketchbook. The texture of her bodysuit was done in Painter using the chalk brushes, and it came out almost exactly the way I had it in my head.