(top left) Odagawa's pencil art (above) Cover to JLA # 91, vol. 1 by Neal Adams (& Dick Giordano?)
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This was my first effort over Ryan Odagawa but my 28th job for Damon. Ocassionally Damon, and other clients, tinker with different themes. For example, Damon has played with one in the past using golden-age characters. This one initiates a theme for an inter- company team of Damon's choosing that he calls "The Brotherhood" consisting of all black characters. He also asks the artists to loosely use certain published covers as a composition template, in this case a cover of JLA from the '70s. Going clockwise they are: Black Panther, Orpheus, Falcon, Green Lantern (John Stewart), Photon, & Icon. Damon asked me for some minor art corrections such as beefing up Photon's arms, making a larger eye slot for Falcon's mask, adjusting GL's haircut and putting his ring on the correct finger. I inked this 11 X 17 piece with brush, markers & zip but I found the board to not have a good surface since I couldn't peel the unused zip off without the surface of the board lifting so I had to use a glue stick and go back and make some corrections. I finished it on 6/23/05.