WOW! I didn't even know this was coming today! I nearly passed out when I started reading the description.

Seven characters on a 11x17 is risky (especially with MODOK and Doughboy), but I knew JB could handle it as he is the King in my eyes.

I can't believe how great this turned out. Zola looks better than he ever has, and the look on Doughboys face is perfect.

I always wanted to see MODOK and Zola with Doughboy team up, so why not have them go aganist my favorite team? Also, why not have JB draw them? Besides Kirby, who has ever had a better handle on Marvel characters? Nobody.

Thank you JB! You hit this one out of the park.

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To a large extent, I still rely on Kirby's "building block" approach to both technology and architecture. Also, my years of 3D modeling taught me that repeated elements can add a sense of "realism" to such things.

Usually, then, I lay out my perspective grid, and then rough in geometric shapes, "piling" them one on top of the other, as I would with building block. When that's done, I do a second pass, to tighten certain elements, and finally pick up the pen and the set square to start inking,

Altho, that is not, in and of itself, reason to assume I drew him there! One of the frustrating things about doing those covers was that, after a promising start with lots of characters on the first few, after a while the "cast list" started to thin out, as Gruenie became less and less sure just who would be in a particular volume. Eventually it became impossible for me to "fill up" the cover, as I had on the early issues and, worse, if Mark decided someone should be in the issue who was not on the list he'd given me, HE would draw that figure in the background! Mark was a competent artist, but our styles, even buried under Reubenstein's inks, were not exactly interchangeable!

Congratulations, Benny.

Love it whenever JB gets the chance to draw my favorite superheroes. Really like the Invisible Woman pelting MODOK with invisible spheres and the look on his face.

Is there really not another?

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Before I requested this to Jim Warden, I looked through every single commission in the gallery to see all your renditions of Arnim Zola. That was the only one I found.