Power Girl by Jason Worthington

This was supposed to be yesterday's post, but my family is out of town and after I got home from work I crashed and took a nap instead of writing a blog post. I woke up long enough to eat some dinner, then I went back to sleep for the night. This morning I've been trying to get some housework done, but I figured I could get a post written during break time.

I picked up this Power Girl sketch from the Cryptozoic DC Comics: Justice League set on eBay a while back. The seller had it posted without the artist name listed, and I went to Cryptozoic's Facebook page and found this card's picture in their photo album previewing some of the sketches in the product. I let the seller know that Jason Worthington was the artist. They thanked me and updated the listing, but their price was still higher than I wanted to pay.

After a few auction cycles, the seller ran a sale on their listings and I grabbed this one up. It's my first sketch from Worthington. His Facebook page isn't all that active, but he does seem to post a little more often on Instagram. He's got a DeviantArt profile, too, but it looks like it's been a while since that was updated.

This is a pretty cool sketch. I like Worthington's use of bright colors in his work, and the linework is pretty nice as well. I'm glad I was able to add this one to my Power Girl sketch collection.

Pack of the Day 107: Cryptozoic DC Comics: The Women of Legend Box Break

Continuing with the Dave & Adam's Card World order I made recently, here is another box of comic character cards I opened up. This time it's Cryptozoic's DC Comics: The Women of Legend. There isn't a lot of hit potential in the product, but there are a couple of chase sets, a parallel, an elusive fabricated memorabilia set, and a sketch card in every box.

The base cards featured new art commissioned specifically for the set, which is a lot better than rehashed art from some other source. Many of the base card artists are pretty well-known on the sketch-card circuit. I just wish that Cryptozoic would have credited each artist on the back of their cards. Many I recognize anyway, like that Katie Cook (starting to think it might not be done by her) art in the lower right, but I don't know all of them. 

You get two cards each from the chase sets, Katie Cook's Sticker Collection and Gail's Picks. Katie Cook's Sticker collection features stickers made from art by Katie Cook, whose sketch cards tend to go for a whole lot. She does a bunch of My Little Pony stuff, too. Gail's Picks is a set that features some of comic book writer Gail Simone's favorite characters. Gail's Picks are printed on sparkly foil stock. My only complaint is that these are only seeded two per box, so it will take a few boxes to complete each set.

There's only one parallel of this set. The parallel cards are printed on holofoil stock, and you get six per box. The reason for the seeding on the parallels and inserts is that Cryptozoic wanted to make sure that you got a full set of inserts and parallels if you purchased a 12-box case. That promise excluded the Totally Fabricated costume relic card set, which was seeded about 1.5 cards per case.

The big draw in this set is the sketch cards, and I definitely got a good one in my box. This is a sketch of Batwoman done by artist Jason Worthington. With this sketch and the two sketches from my box of DC Comics: Super-Villains I feel like I did really well on this order. I probably didn't break even from a financial standpoint, but I got some pretty good stuff for my collection. I believe the only thing remaining from my Dave & Adam's order is a box of Donruss basketball. That set is full of inserts, so it will be a really long post to write. We'll see if I get around to it. The scans from my last box of Donruss basketball are still sitting in my Scans folder.