{"id":2610,"date":"2010-12-08T16:19:28","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T20:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=2610"},"modified":"2010-12-09T22:31:12","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T02:31:12","slug":"superhero-pinup-polaris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=2610","title":{"rendered":"Superhero Pinup: Polaris"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve got a new policy for end-of-the-day sketching: if it takes me more than about thirty seconds to decide what to draw, I’m just gonna randomly grab an old issue of The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe<\/em> and do a mini-pinup of one of the characters. I really enjoy drawing them and they sell really well at conventions, so why not?<\/p>\n

A few nights ago this happened and I grabbed issue #8:\u00a0 N-P. I’ve already done a pinup of Nightcrawler, and I was trying to decide between the precious few other A-listers here (Power Man, Nick Fury and The Punisher) when my wife cut in and started giving me grief about how I never draw women.\u00a0 And she’s totally right.\u00a0 So, I started looking through for female supeheroes to draw….and the pickings were pretty slim.Nekra? Nikki? C’mon. The wife, though, spotted Polaris<\/a> and suggested I draw her<\/em> because she had a “cool costume” and “a bat shape on her va-jay-jay.” So that settled it. Here’s Polaris:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I didn’t know anything about Polaris, but apparently she’s from Uncanny X-Men<\/em> #49 and has Magneto-like powers. I can’t figure out if she was created by Don Heck or by Werner Roth, but man that costume is total Ditko–from that pointy Dr. Strange collar to the weird spider web-y pattern in the collar and down her legs.\u00a0 I guess that’s why I gave her “Ditko hands.” I’m guessing, based on the more modern images of her that turn up on a Google image search, that after her encounter with the X-Men, she became a high-priced call girl.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The original art for this is for sale here<\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve got a new policy for end-of-the-day sketching: if it takes me more than about thirty seconds to decide what to draw, I’m just gonna randomly grab an old issue of The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe and do a mini-pinup of one of the characters. I really enjoy drawing them and they sell … <\/p>\n

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