Another art batch since I’m too sick to do layout work today… Roll call:

• Beyonder
• Cyclops (Classic)
• Fantomex
• Green Goblin I
• Human Torch II
• Jean Grey
• Kraven
• Living Eraser
• Mysterio (two pieces, too – classic Ditko shots)
• Nick Fury
• Punisher (everything should be repaired now, I think)
• Sean Cassidy (Banshee) and Emma Frost now share a widescreen illo
• Spot
• Thing (Modern)
• Thundra (a higher quality version of the official illo – and yes, she’s on the long lost of people we just have to rewrite)
• Titan (of the Shi’ar Imperial Guard)
• Venom (yep, again)
• Vindicator (Heather Hudson) (same as Thundra)
• Wolverine (a good shot of the costume he had in his very first appearance)
• The widescreen illos for Cassandra Craft have been rebuilt and she even got an extra one, because I looooove my Seven Soldiers writeups.

Though of course, with about 4,000 entries, those batches are drops in the ocean I’m still happy to pretify things up with crisp, vivid high-quality pictures.

Another Marvel art pack, as I start mass-mutating the layouts of the entries themselves on the next site. How long will the latter take largely depends on how many typos, unclear bits, small formatting issues, etc. I decide to fix as I churn through the entries.

As usual with image packs all peekchurs are high-quality, though they vary in use – from banners to break up text with breather spaces, to illustrations of an important aspect of the character, to definitive main shots of the character. Roll call:

• Angel (classic) (same first illo with a better colouring)
• Belladonna (same first illo with a better colouring; and colour rebalanced body shot)
• Angel (Archangel)
• Bishop (X-Men)
• Cannonball (early)
• Professor X and Jean Grey now share a new widescreen illo. Charles also has a new vertical illo in pencil.
• Icemaster (the Hostess strips refugee)
• Cyclops (early)
• White Dragon II
• Kangaroo I
• Quicksilver
• Silver Surfer (yes, again. He does look fascinating.)
• Spider-Man (from a very old poster book)
• Silvermane
• Spider-Man 2099
• Smasher III (the Shi’ar Imperial Guard one)
• Ultimate Spider-Man (it’s a very Spider-man pack)
• Vermin
• Vulture I

Another art pack just like the previous ones:

• Angel (early)
• Banshee (Sean Cassidy)
• Black Panther
• Captain Marvel I (one of my favourite shots)
• Carnage (again)
• Dormammu
• Green Goblin I
• Ikaris
• Jean Grey
• Leader
• Ms. Marvel II (early)
• Rocket Racer
• Sabretooth (two pieces)
• Spider-Man
• Spider-Woman I (two pieces)
• Tarantula II
• Thing (classic) (again)
• Tinkerer
• Vulture II
• Morbius (early)
• Hussar
• Captain America
• Frank Drake
• Medusa

A new batch of art content – same sources, same high quality and about the same size as the last one. New and/or recreated art for:

• Apocalypse
• Beast (Early)
• Black Cat (Early)
• Black Panther
• Black Tom Cassidy
• Carnage
• Dr. Strange
• The Falcon (mainstream Marvel Universe)
• Galactus
• Gibbon
• Gremlin III
• The Kingpin
• Rhino
• Shadowcat – the first shot was an average Internet picture and has been replaced by the same picture, but with the normal WORG quality
• Silver Surfer
• Sinister
• Valkyrie
• Vulture I
• Wolverine (again)

Both the new site and the main script to redo the layout of the entries have hit the ’90% done’ mark by Christmas – though of course that is always the most dangerous point for a project to be at. The release hoped to take place for the New Year is now likely to take place in January, but of course further delays are a definite possibility.

• ART – This batch almost solely consists of new high-quality art, chiefly for Marvel characters. It is taken from various hardback encyclopaedias from Marvel and DK, and when all is said and done I hope to have a bit more than 400 illustrations from those sources. Note that several illustrations in this batch are replacement for material lost in a previous crash — and that some of the entries gaining more and better art really oughta be redone. Roll call:
  • Captain Marvel III (Genis Vell)
  • Doctor Octopus
  • Thing (modern), Invisible Woman (current), Mister Fantastic and the Human Torch entries now have a shared group shot
  • Hammerhead
  • The Kingpin
  • Lion God (this one from a comic, not a hardback)
  • Loki
  • Maggie Sawyer
  • Molecule Man
  • Namor the Sub-Mariner
  • The Punisher (one more repaired widescreen shot and two more column illos. Yes, I think Bradstreet does the definitive portrayals of Frank)
  • Rachel Summers (her entry as Phoenix II)
  • Rogue (current) (including some shots provided by Gareth)
  • Sabretooth
  • Kitty Pryde / Shadowcat
  • The Silver Surfer (also one of the coolest pictures of that character, ever)
  • Storm of Wakanda
  • Thanos of Titan
  • The Thing (classic)
  • Thor
  • Tombstone
  • The Two-Gun Kid
  • Wolverine
  • Will o’ the Wisp
• WORG PATROL. Some lite copy-editing in the Rogue writeup. Clarifications and copy editing for the Blue Blaze, Double Dragon, Scott James, Blistik, the Lion God. Somehow the typos are easier to catch when viewing texts in the new layout, which is both a good and a bad thing.