#Tom Smith

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X-Men 30th Anniversary poster by Greg Capullo with colors by Tom Smith (1993)

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This has long been a favourite commission, one of the first I had done, and I got REALLY lucky in finding Mitch Ballard as he knew exactly how to translate what I was asking for, in a suitably comic appropriate way, and this is a classic example.

I'd asked for Deathstroke having captured Dick Grayson's Robin, circa New Teen Titans era, and posing with his catch like the big-game hunter Slade had been, maybe with Robin caught in a net or something, but Mitch had a much better idea (Which is why you should always let the artist have their say)

So Slade has indeed captured Robin, and is probably having his photo taken with his prize trophy. The plaque above the fireplace reserved for, presumably, Robin's mounted head, was a nice macabre implication without going TOO far. This is something that could easily have been a genuine cover or a splash page in the 80's.

But one thing I especially liked (which isn't always obvious from the scan quality I could originally post) and made me realise that it was lucky I'd found Mitch, was just how ANGRY he made Dick. The Teen Wonder may be pretty helpless right now, but it os clear he is NOT going to make ANYTHING easy for Slade.

(The annoyance/anger is something I instantly realised I wanted to see in my captive Robin's and so became a regular addition to my commission description, but Mitch is the one who made me realise that)

Dick is tensed up and leaning away to get as much distance between him and Slade as he can whilst tied up and with a rope around his neck, plus he is probably working away at whatever his binding his wrists as hard as he can.

I mean, just check out that GLARE! He is working on several shades of payback on Slade right this moment!

And here it is with colours by Tom Smith, one of George Perez's preferred colourists.

[strawberrycarat]

Look, I loved season 1 Mysaria, but in season 2 my girl couldn’t even properly give Daemon good names to kill Aemond... Like all those years as the White Worm without the right contacts to hire competent people? 😭🖐

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Dom news— a couple of weeks ago, Dom was invited along with his friend Andy Burrows, who is the illustrious drummer with the 00s indie band Razorlight (now reunited with their classic lineup), for an interview with BBC Radio 2’s Edith Bowman, who was sitting in on Jo Whiley's show, obviously to talk about the new Razorlight album Planet Nowhere since that’s just come out. Edith also knows Andy personally, she’s been interviewing the band for the last 20 years, and also is married to Tom Smith from Editors, who is also in a creative project with Andy called Smith and Burrows. So Edith is super casual and comfortable with them, and when Andy showed up for the interview, she mentioned that the original idea was for him to bring his friend and fellow drummer Dom Howard from Muse along: they had been hanging out and watching a film the previous night, and at the end of it, Dom had just gone, you know what, naaaahh; and decided not to come in with Andy the next morning.

I meant to clip that and post it here, since the interview is only available for the next 1 week or so, but my laptop has decided to die so tragically to the point where I could not edit and submit my radio show yesterday (annoying and tragic the way things can suddenly decide they don't want to work when 12 hours ago they were fine). So I am stuck at the moment. Anyway, you lose nothing because there was indeed no Dom present. Or we may have had a question or two about what's going on with Muse right now.

Here's the listen back link for the next few days. If someone else wants to clip the audio the interview starts around the 40-minute mark and ends at 1h10m-ish, they mention Dom around the 44th minute and at the end, where they cracked open a soundtrack vinyl on air and dedicated that to Dom, so there.

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

The Horror of Frankenstein | 1970 — BTS

[louisupdates]

tomsmithmusic: I took this pic of my little sister with @Louis_Tomlinson at @glastonbury 9 years ago today

[posted 26.6.2024]

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Doodles of some personal favs

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“By my Father’s beard — — This is INTOLERABLE!”, by George Perez, with Inks by Al Vey, Colors by Tom Smith, Letters by Richard Starkings, and a Script by Kurt Busiek.

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The Order #6 (2002)

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Tom Smith (Editors) · Hurricane Festival 2024

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Nightwing by George Pérez (penciller) & Tom Smith (colours)

[fuck-you-upmusicbracket]

Lost Like Us (Lost Frequencies)

So lift it up like you want/They'll never hear you if you hide/It doesn't matter who you loved last night/It doesn't matter who you love

"Makes me feel accepted on such a fundemental level that i want to cry"

A Boy And His Frog (Tom Smith)

What can I say without you there to guide me?/How else am I supposed to give?/How can I sing without you there beside me?/How else am I supposed to live/You could never just do the expected/I was just an idea in a bog/But you sewed up your dream and we made quite a team/Jim and Kermit, a boy and his frog

“Tender, Muppet-y devastation.”

Poll Runner: No celebrity death has fucked me up as badly as Jim Henson’s, and I wasn’t even alive for it.

A Boy and His Frog submitted by @sub-ignis

[wonderwomanart]

Wonder Woman & Ares by George Pérez & Tom Smith

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2000's Avengers Vol.3 #26 (LGY : #441) cover by penciller Stuart Immonen, inker George Pérez (R.I.P.) and colorist Tom Smith.

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Countdown to the 60th anniversary rewatch | 2.02: Tooth And Claw

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Superman and his new toys, from the cover to JLA/Avengers #4 (February, 2004). Pencils and inks by George Perez, colors by Tom Smith.