Nick Marino

THAT'S A WRAP! Goodbye, Green Thursdays. I won't miss you. And I mean that in the most affectionate way.

Don't get me wrong. I loved drawing and posting these Green Lantern sketches. I especially loved dreaming up the things I'd do with a Power Ring (I'm gonna let you guess which ones are my own personal fantasies!!!). But I'm sick of these doodles. They've been drawn for nearly five months now and it's time for me to move on.

Thx for following along! If you want more stick figure art from moi, don't worry -- there's my weekly Stick Cats webcomic and I'm always posting random stick figures when the mood strikes me.

- Schlurp Lantern on Tumblr
- Schlurp Lantern on deviantART
- Schlurp Lantern on Flickr

This Green Thursdays is inspired by two different things.

First up is Give Me Back My Wig by Hound Dog Taylor and the HouseRockers. It's a boogie blues song by the masters of funky, sloppy electric blues. Great stuff.

Second up is an experience from my teenage years. Back in the 90s, wig companies used to offer free "wig previews" -- you send them a photo of your face, and they'd use whatever old school image editing program they used back then to make a digital print out of you "trying on" four of the wigs. My friend Josiah sent away for one of those freebies, and I'll tell you what...

He looked damn good in those wigs. My favorite was the curly blonde.

- Wig Lantern on Tumblr
- Wig Lantern on deviantART
- Wig Lantern on Flickr

Green Thursdays gets messy!! I mean, seriously, wouldn't you do the same?

You're in some remote corner of space... there's no baddie to battle and you've really gotta drop one. It's tough pooping in space without the comforts of home (Earth, that is). So you make yourself a little green energy toilet and relax your bowels.

AHHHHHHHHHH. Yes.

Now that's the Green Lantern way.

- Poop Lantern on deviantART
- Poop Lantern on Tumblr
- Poop Lantern on Flickr

Not only is this the sickest (in as many meanings of the word as possible) of my Green Thursdays sketches... it's also animated!!! And if you like still images, don't worry -- I've got one of those as well.

And what's that you say? You prefer little animated gifs? I gotcha covered:

I mean, look, let's be honest -- if you had a Power Ring and you could do whatever you wanted with it, you can't tell me you wouldn't at least TRY to give yourself a big glowing green penis. Just for a second. Behind closed doors. While staring in the mirror. Recording yourself with a webcam.

- NSFW Lantern (animated) on deviantART
- NSFW Lantern (not animated) on deviantART
- NSFW Lantern on Flickr

YEEAAHHH! And now the fun Green Thursdays begin!!! First up, is this, uhhh... romantic sketch depicting Green Lantern with his imaginary lover.

The boob'd stick figure is something I first drew for my girlfriend a few years back and she got a kick out of it. I kept drawing them, and eventually they worked their way into my gallery piece that's on display tomorrow night at the Sugar Factory art show. And I'm going to post my scan of said gallery piece tomorrow here on the blog.

MORE STICK FIGURES + MORE BOOBS = MORE FUN.

- Babe Lantern on deviantART
- Babe Lantern on Flickr

I'm baaaaack! I took a brief hiatus to go to SPACE and give a talk and make a video and then to catch up on Super Haters. And thusly Green Thursdays has returned.

Not much to say this week except that it's the last week of Green Lantern where I feel like I'm dealing with conceptually tame or potentially uninteresting material. But... this sketch makes me think of this: "ROWR! ROWR! Like a Dungeon Dragon!"

- Sharp Teeth Lantern on deviantART
- Sharp Teeth Lantern on Flickr

A completely nonsensical Green Thursdays entry considering Green Lantern flies everywhere.

On the flip, there's only one more boring sketch (next week) and then shit starts to get really weird!!!!!1111111

- Parachute Lantern on deviantART
- Parachute Lantern on Flickr

Green Thursdays RETURNS! I know I skipped last week... I wasn't really feeling it, so I took the week off. BUT I'M BACK -- GET TO THA CHOPPA!!!

- Muscle Lantern on deviantART
- Muscle Lantern on Flickr
- Muscle Lantern on Tumblr

AHHHH it's so clever I can barely stand it!!! He's creating his own logo with the power ring!! OMG! WTF! FTW! LOLCATS!!!

Anyway, I'm feeling a bit uninspired today, so that's why you're getting Logo Lantern. Don't get me wrong -- I think Logo Lantern is sweet. In fact, it's one of my favorites of the Green Thursdays series. It just requires minimum work on my part, so that makes it easy on me.

BTW, this was the first Green Lantern stick figure sketch I did, and I think it best captures the emotions I'm trying to encapsulate with this series -- clueless idiocy and indifferent sarcasm.

- Logo Lantern on deviantART
- Logo Lantern on Flickr
- Logo Lantern on Tumblr

Awwww yeah! $240 worth of pudding! Awww yeah!! Waitaminute... wrong topic. This is more like $240,000 worth of solid emerald and jade jewelry.

And while I'm diverging... why did Chuck Norris stop making martial arts movies? I mean, I know war is almost always a part of his flicks, but I prefer the ones that are street fighting / martial arts as opposed to the ones in a war (and it's almost always Vietnam-esque) setting. WHAT'S THE DEAL, CHUCK? He was on a tear for a few years there, putting out some awesome martial arts b-movies in the late 70s / early 80s.

Oh well. Sometimes I get my Green Thursdays confused with other stuff. My bad. ("You got Chuck Norris film commentary in my Green Thursdays! You got Green Lantern stick figure in my Chuck Norris movie rant!")

- Bling Lantern on deviantART
- Bling Lantern on Flickr