I love the character and attitude that artist David Lafuente puts into his comics pages! This week saw the release of the fifth and final issue of Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K. Assassin, which features another deliciously dynamic cover by Lafuente. David Lafuente is from Spain and currently lives in London where he’s working on his next big project, a creator-owned series for Image Comics called The Ludocrats with fellow creators Kieron Gillen and Jim Rossignol.
Lafuente first cut his teeth in the mainstream comics world on the 2008-09 Hellcat mini-series with writer/artist Kathryn Immonen, then worked with Brian M. Bendis on the Ultimate Spider-Man relaunch. Some of my favorite art by David Lafuente is his interior work on the All-New Doop series in 2014 with Doop’s creator’s Peter Milligan & Mike Allred; check out those beautiful pages above!
Other notable works include Batman Eternal, Batgirl, Neli Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book, and The Runaways.
You can follow David Lafuente and see his art process on his tumblr page here.
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By Steve Morris
Neverendingly working Newsarama blogger Graeme McMillan has spotted a change in Marvel’s solicitations. Now, this may have come about as a result of a delay in art, or it may have come about because we exist in a cosmic tapestry, stitched and unstitched by the tapestrier, as may be their will or wont. But basically, issue #17 of Wolverine & The X-Men is going to kick aside the worthless cud like this ‘Wolverine’ feller out the way, in favour of an ALL-DOOP issue. Yes!
Doop, if you’ll recall, was created by Peter Milligan and Mike Allred during their run on X-Force/X-Statix, and is an all-knowing doopish green blob of infinity. He’s most recently been seen as part of Jason Aaron’s Wolverine-as-a-teacher series, in his new role as religious studies tutor:
All very well and good, I suppose. But what makes this news a bolt of blob-based brilliance is the surprise reveal that this issue will be drawn by co-creator Mike Allred. Grab your pom-poms, people. MIKE! ALLRED! Returns to Doop!
The issue will be released towards the end of September. Let’s celebrate by remembering the time Doop destroyed that jerk Thor.
How is this a story?
Awesome news. X-Force/X-Statix is one of the best things Marvel did last decade.
It was last decade… right?
YAY DOOP WOO!
At least as imporant as Allred: Milligan!
I wonder… do Doop fans deliberately mistype Marvel URLs so they see Doop on the 404 error page?
Marvel has a web site?
Marvel is about to sell me their first comic in several years.
“How is this a story?”
Doop-doop-doopdoop!
I’m about to be dooped into buy a 3.99 comic.
This is a super-dooper comments thread
I did an issue of X-Statix once…Doop is surprisingly hard to draw…!
Does Allred own any of the Doop intellectual property?
@pulphope, why did you decide go work for the Big Two, knowing there miserable track recorders with creator rights?
(i ask this as a long time fan)
JG: Speaking for Pulphope here, who is perfectly capable to answer this question himself, but what is wrong with working for the big two knowing where things stand and getting a reasonable paycheck for doing WFH work? When you ALSO, as Pulphope does, constantly create your own work?
I think it’s a balance of original and WFH that makes a successful career. Certainly nowadays it seems that doing original stuff as a portfolio piece for a more lucrative job in animation or TV is generally the way to go.
Also, who WOULDN’T want to work with Peter Milligan on something? That’s the dream!