So, i'm actually serious about this "becoming a successful writer" thing

Getting pages back from a "script" (it was more like thumbnails and glorified chicken scratch) you wrote is a great feeling. Yeah, this ball is rolling. :) x 10000000

Artwork by my friend Chris.

Let us talk about Avengers Vs. X-Men

Okay, i've seen the teasers, i've seen the covers, i've read the preview, i'm ready to start analyzing Marvel's forthcoming mega-event "Avengers Vs. X-Men," or its abbreviation, AvX. The solicits make it out to be pretty much a child's dream come true with the two premier Marvel super teams duking it out for some reason. Or, the Phoenix Force is coming back, whatever. Either way, it's a brilliant and tragically easy marketing plan: Pit your franchises against each other. People invested in both will buy. Organize two teams and give them something to fight over. It's a sporting event. It's football, it's mma, it's.......WAR!!!!

Okay, these came out today:

Good. Cyclops challenging Captain America as the alpha male of the Marvel U might be the most intriguing selling point of this series.

This is whatever. No real conflict between these two, just the two big guys on each team getting matched up. Should be a good brawl though.

I'm psyched for this. Good clash of characters who don't immediately come to mind as dance partners. This should be very entertaining, and Luke Cage deserves a big ass fight like this. This is Luke Cage making the jump from preliminary fighter to main card fighter. Excellent. 

Cringe worthy dialogue...eh.

This should be fun.

The First Graphic Novel I Ever Wrote: "The Civil War A-B-C Book" By Theodore Nicholas Hood

Someday this will sell for MILLIONS of dollars on ebay. The early work of an EISNER AWARD WINNING CREATIVE GENIUS WHEN HE WAS A CHILD GENIUS. Well, it probably won't go down like that, but who knows? Either way, I thought it'd be neat to share some of my old work. This was done in 5th grade as part of an assignment for Mr. Dwyer; who was an awesome. awesome teacher. I would have been 11 years old, so that was 14 (!) years ago. Either way, I rocked out on this, got a pretty good grade, and to this day, it ain't so bad. Of course, neither my hand writing nor my art has evolved since then, in fact it has likely gotten worse, but every person I show this too gets a good chuckle out of it, and, I do too. It's hilarious. Here's a sample:

The Cover. I ripped off the warning at the bottom from Captain Underpants :) #goodartistssteal

My rendition of Abraham Lincoln. Check out that sick thunderbolt from the heavens.

My depiction of Bull Run. I drew some wicked violent battle scenes. I'm surprised they didn't put me in the special ed classes for this.

Frederick F***ing Douglass.

This is just awesome. Note the smart usage of black and white.

I had my limitations however. Apparently I couldn't pull off drawing the state of Texas, when there was likely plenty of maps available at John Muir Elementary. Even Mr. Dwyer saw through my bullshit.

Such epic storytelling on display.

Back cover. TFBI Warning! I think that stood for "Ted Federal Bureau Of Investigation" but i'm not quite sure. Watch out. Also: "Ted Hood Productions" hahahahha

I hope this made someone laugh.

More adventures on the internet from this week...

:)

Oh yeah, this happened

so good, more on this story as it develops...i'm such a troll. :)

on another note, i don't know if i'll be able to wait till the end of the year to do a  "top facebook and twitter" post...we'll see. maybe half year awards are in order.