Tom Beland writes another Marvel book

[the4thpip]

... and it looks like a hoot!

http://www.newsarama.com/marvelnew/Dec07/covers/ffisladelamuerte.jpg


FANTASTIC FOUR: ¡ISLA DE LA MUERTE! ONE-SHOT
Written by TOM BELAND Art & Cover by JUAN DOE
Puerto Rico...island of beauty, intrigue and, for one ever-lovin', blue-eyed visitor…a pile full of danger! Ben Grimm has been keeping a secret from his teammates for years. But when Reed, Sue and Johnny investigate, the mystery brings them to the tropics, face-to-face with an old nemesis and a monstrous creature known as…EL CHUPACABRAS!! All we can say is, "¡¡QUE EL MÍO SEA MARVEL!!"
48 PGS./Rated A …$3.99

[NickThompson]

Juan Doe did those really good covers for the 198 mini, which makes this book all the more tempting.

[TSSTGtombeland]

If you like his cover... the interior pages are going to rock your world. Serious. I'm getting a poster-sized print of his cover for my office. He did an amazing job on this book. Hope you all enjoy it.

[the4thpip]

If you like his cover... the interior pages are going to rock your world. Serious. I'm getting a poster-sized print of his cover for my office. He did an amazing job on this book. Hope you all enjoy it.

Hey Tom!

Good as the art looks here, I would love to see you do a Marvel or DC book where you do both art and writing, like Peter Bagge's Megalomanical Spider-Man or Jim Mahfood's Generation X Underground Special.

[TSSTGtombeland]

Hey Tom!

Good as the art looks here, I would love to see you do a Marvel or DC book where you do both art and writing, like Peter Bagge's Megalomanical Spider-Man or Jim Mahfood's Generation X Underground Special.

I guess I'd like to, in some degree... however, I really am loving the writing side of comics. It's interesting to have a scene in your mind and then seeing those panels interpreted from another person. I'll see the pages in a BATMAN ANIMATED view, but then I'll see it from a reality-based vision and it's very cool to see.

Sean Phillips, for instance, when he drew my SPIDER-MAN UNLIMITED story or Cory Walker on WEB OF ROMANCE. Because of their talents, they could take the story much further than I could've. They can go with a myriad of angles and are much better draftsmen than I am.

The only advantage I'd have over them, if any, would be I'm more expressive when it comes to faces. Because I'm more of a cartoonist than an illustrator, I really focus on trying to get the expressions of my characters during a scene.

Juan's style is an animated style too, so I think we're very close from the vision of the script to the vision of the page. But, again, those scenic shots he's putting down are incredible.