"Mission iPod-able" ("Mission Impossible 3")
Pencil Marks: Even though it was cancelled a year before I was born, I always associate "Mission Impossible" with Peter Graves, Martin Landau, and that killer theme song by Lalo Schifrin. What I don't associate it with is an actor whose past involves acting wild to spastic levels on national television, pressing his based-on-a-science-fiction-novel religious beliefs on other people (and telling them they're wrong for having faith someplace else), and being bone-headed enough to pick Joey from "Dawson's Creek" over Nicole Kidman! That's not Ethan Hunt to me. Never has, never will. And even though I wound up seeing the flick anyhow, it was only because I have the opposite respect for Seymour Hoffman and Ving Rhames. Now those two are fine actors!
Anyhow, I decided the best visual of the 'movie' version of M.I. was to homage Tommy's scene in the first film where he's hanging down from the ceiling getting a wedgie. But mark my words - Mission Impossible 4? I'm going to be drawing Peter Graves in it! - Jake
Ink Smudges:
While Jake laments on an actor's personal life, I tend to be a bit less celebrity obsessed and just focus on the guy's professional contributions. And aside from Cocktail, Mr. Cruise hasn't disappointed me yet.
Anyhow, onto the task at hand. These Mission Impossible films have always gone a little overboard on the whole "product placement" kick. Having a character drink a soda in a film is fine, but when that character only drinks Coca-Cola every chance they get, and then starts wearing nothing by Nike, you know the producers were looking for a little extra cash. So taking that theme with the lovely picture Jake provided me with, I added a few little "touches" of my own.
To tell the truth though, there are a few things about the finished pic that I'm not liking, even though I did them. While for the most part I feel the pic is well colored, the background came out seeming too much like an aquarium. But it was really the only color that fit, in relation to all the other colors already in the finished work. - Tony