Princesses of Mars, Part Nineteen

Sooner or later, the Mars Rover will find their palaces. Meanwhile, here are what some artists think they look like.

By Rafa Schneider

By John Byrne

By Randy Green

Fantastic Friday!

They'll always be the First Family of Comics! (Fantastic Four portraits by John Byrne.)

Wonder Woman Wednesday!

Wonder Woman wasn't the first female superhero, but she's the greatest. Here she is, as portrayed by three great artists.

By John Byrne

By Jose Luis Garcia Lopez

By Jim Lee

Happy Easter!

Peggy Castle is standing in for the Easter Bunny this year at Shades of Gray!

Princesses of Mars: Part Eighteen

It's been entirely too long since we've been to Mars to catch up with the beautiful and deadly princesses who roam the red plains.



By Will Meugniot



By Will Meugniot

By Will Meugniot

By Thomas Yeates

By Thomas Yeates

By Thomas Yeates

In memory of Paul Ryan

Comic book artist Paul Ryan passed away on March 6, 2016. Here's a gallery of his artwork in remembrance.

Paul Ryan's first major comics work was co-creating the criminally under-appreciated characters of DP7 (for Marvel's ill-fated New Universe line in 1986). From there, he went onto illustrate Thor, Fantastic Four, and other titles for Marvel. He eventually moved onto DC where he primarily illustrated Superman and Batman stories. Since 2005, Ryan had also worked on and off on the Phantom daily newspaper strip, as well as providing covers for the Scandinavian editions of Phantom comic books.

Attack of the Mummy!

She was part of an expedition that callously violated the tomb of an ancient king. Now she pays the price....

The pictures above were publicity stills for Hammer's "The Mummy's Shroud," a pretty bad movie with one of the worst mummy costumes ever seen in a motion picture not made in someone's back yard. Those are still some pretty cool and scary photos, (The victim is Maggie Kimberly.)

If you like mummies and Egyptian-themed horror, you need to check out these four anthologies that I contributed to/co-edited for NUELOW Games. Each of them contains neat black-and-white horror comics, as well as roleplaying rules designed to bring a flavor of ancient Egypt to your d20 System games.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Felicia Farr offers you her heart on this Valentine's Day...

Welcome to 2016!

Rochelle Hudson streamed her way into 2016... how about you?

It's almost 2016!

Carole Lombard has a holiday message for our German-speaking (and/or reading) neighbors, especially those who still have a week's worth of Christmas celebrations ahead of them.