John Delaney's Sketch of the Week #49

[Colin]

Welcome to "John Delaney's Sketch of the Week"!

The Intro
Out of the kindness of his art, John Delaney is doing something big for the fans - an exclusive weekly sketch for the fans who frequent Toon Zone!

Every week, he will draw a new picture based on the results of the poll. That means that *we* fans choose what the image will be!

The Low Down:
The contest will begin every Monday, and end at 5pm Eastern the following Friday, giving fans a solid five days to choose. You can only vote ONCE! John will then draw the sketch over the weekend and we'll present at the beginning of the following week. The characters must be animation/comic characters drawn in the Animated style, and if you have any requests for future polls, send me an email with your ideas! Keep an eye out on the Comics Forum for all the latest action!

You can also post your thoughts on the poll in this thread.

The Rules:
We ask that all users encourage each other to abide by the rules.

Rule #1
Respect others on the boards. It's one thing to disagree with the opinions of others and discuss it. It's another to insult them by verbally bashing the choices of the poll. Do not insult any choices on the poll.

Rule #2
If rule 1 cannot be adhered to, you will be warned. If the situation happens again, banning will occur. There is no strike three.

Rule #3
The moderators reserve the right to suspend the poll for a week (or more) if they deem that the situation warrants.

Rule #4
Campaigning is allowed and encouraged, but in consideration of everyone with slower connections, all images should be thumbnailed. If an image program is not available to assist in that, then they must be linked to. Any post with images larger than 300 pixels in width, will have to be deleted.

Requests:
Keep on sending requests in!!! If there's a character you'd like to see back on the poll again, send requests for that, too. Please keep in mind, if a character has won a previous poll, he or she is not eligible for future polls (unless certain circumstances apply... i.e. Batman & Superman in a group JL Shot). Send all requests to delaney_requests@toonzone.net (http://forums.toonzone.net/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=5153). Do NOT send them via Private Message. Any requests sent in via Private Message are not considered for the polls.

The Gallery:
Make sure to take a look at the Gallery (http://www.toonzone.net/comics/john-delaney/), which collects all the images done for this poll.

Got all of that? Great! Let the voting begin on "John Delaney's Sketch of the Week"!

[jeffrey 228]

I hope this makes TimTwoFace happy and all, but I voted for Two Face, and I'm a sure he would look good in a drawing since I have been seening quite a few good Batman drawings latly. :)

[StrangerAtaru]

USAGI MUST WIN!!!!!!!!

Sorry for freaking out for a moment, but considering how much trouble I have heard Sailor Moon has had in this poll, she finally deserves one victory. (OK, she is not Minako, but still give the Senshi a break occasionally)

[Dee]

Gee whiz.... theres nothing to really catch my eye in this one... aww man!


D-DOH! I totally didnt see Sideshow Bob! He gets my vote!

hehe, i love him cause he's just so cool! That and his hair reminds me of Weird Al's hehe

[Storm]

Buffy for me :D

[Lucky Bob]

It was a toss-up between Two-Face and Launchpad, but I wanted to see how John would do something early-90's-Disney-style.

I'm weird! :D

[2Divine]

I totally voted for Manji. I would love to see Mr. Delaney's take on the character.

What a bunch of great nominees this week.

If Manji doesn't win, I'll be happy to see whoever does (especially if it's Buffy!). :D

[Parallax]

Man, this week is going to be close...

but hey I voted for Static Shock and you should too. Now vote! For the hamster commands you...

[Ms. Kitty]

WOOOOOH! GO SAMURAI JACK!! :D :D :D :D

[James Harvey]

Wow! Alot of great choices today! Static? Kingpin? Two-Face? Buffy? Man --- who to vote for! I know that we'll get a great pic no matter who the winner is, but...wow...such a hard decision this week. I forgot how trying these polls can be at times. :)

I'll have to take some time to decide my vote.

[Cyber E.]

Like I have any choice *Watchs TimTwoFace bring out his whip*. Two-Face gets my vote, I'd like to see the Delaney version. :D

-aJb

[Barb Gordon]

man, so many cool choices! The Sailor Moon fan in me is jumping around but well...anything Batman related is going to prevail. Go Two Face!!!

~Barb

[Stu]

Gotta go with Kingpin. Hope DD and or Spidey pop up somewhere!

[Viper]

Hmmmm. Not many choices this week. :rolleyes: So, I chose Sideshow Bob. Even though I'm not a big Simpsons fan as I once was, but I still find him as one of the funniest characters of it. Hope he wins.

[nuclear chicken]

Go Samari Jack!! I want to see John draw that. :D

[The Detective]

Wow this is so hard. I have finally narrowed it down to Two-Face and Samaria Jack. Have to think about it some more.

[Dee]

GOOOO SIDESHOW BOB! YEAH!!

http://www.thesimpsons.com/bios/images/bios_townspeople_sideshowbob.gif

[JohnStewart-GL]

I voted for Static but i wouldnt mind seeing Two face or Kingpin win. especially Kingpin seeing as he debuts on the big screen friday.

[Joe Tully]

I narrowed it down to a few and picked Samurai Jack, because I know a few females on the board who would enjoy it. :) I think he's come really close at least once before, anyways, so I figure it's his turn to have a chance.

[Galaxia]

I voted for Sailor Moon, but seeing JD draw Two-Face would be awesome as well :)

[JTurner954]

Without a doubt, Two-Face gets my vote. I'd like to see which version he is drawn as if he wins.

[Mackenzie Rainelle]

Here's to the foolish samurai! ^^

[Theking]

Go, JACK

Love the Samurai

And as of right now he is in a close second. woo hooo

TheKing

[Fireswarm]

I got a go with the Kingpin, Wilson Fisk, reminds me of the time I use to read Spiderman comics

[Calico]

:eek:

what a choice!


Buffy or Two-Face???


I'm gonna need some time to think about this....

[Anarky]

"I'll be BACK! You can't keep the Democrats out of the White House forever. AND WHEN THEY GET IN, I'M BACK ON THE STREETS...WITH ALL MY CRIMINAL BUDDIES!!! BAAAAAAAA-HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA-HAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA"

"Ah the catwalk. The perfect vantage point...for revenge! Hahaha. Ah kettlechips, the perfect sidedish...for revenge!"

"My utopia lays in ruins. And to think, not even a mere ATOM BOMB could fell the chattering cyclops!"

"Oh must you bray night and day over that infernal television?!?!"
Look who's talking Bob. Yeah you used to be on this show.
"Don't remind me. My foolish capering helped destroy more young minds that syphillis and pinball COMBINED!!!"

gotta vote for The Bob. Two-Face will have his day. Let's give Bob his due. He's the greatest character in the Simpson-verse, infinitely funnier than Homer or the other mainstays. bob's the only reason I care about the Simpsons.

[Allen's Nickname.]

I can see a Two-Face drawing in the animated style any day.

Sideshow Bob on the other hand.

Think of it like this. John is an artist. He may work in one style for the most part, but when you vote for a character he doesn’t draw all that much he works hard to do the drawing. He becomes a better artist through the work, and whatever book he draws sells like mad. With good reason. The quality is super-high. Every other artist in the market builds up their mad skillz, become better artists, and makes better comics. Comics sell better; DC and Marvel get more money. (Not to mention the small portion of indies that would sell better.) DC and Marvel awesome, new, and innovative series and make great comics. Comics continue to sell better, and the cycle repeats.

All because you voted for Sideshow Bob.

Vote for Sideshow Bob. Do it for the industry.

[Condiment King]

I definately vote Two-Face. I could have voted for Sideshow Bob or Samuari Jack, but Two-Face, I had to. Just remembering the original two parter on B:TAS, forced me to. This seems like a really slow week. :(

[JDNobodi]

I voted for Sailor Moon.:o Too bad she is losing badly. Anyway, I might as well root for Samurai Jack. GO JACK!!! and ,uh, Sailor Moon.

[TimTwoFace]

I went with Two-Face, of course, though if Sideshow Bob or Launchpad somehow beat my namesake, I wouldn't be TOO...erm...TWO upset. :D

-Tim

[jeffrey 228]

Well that is why I voted for you, because your name is soo popular. :D

[Anarky]

inspiration:

Jay & Sideshow Bob :D
Bob spends his days trying the kill the little twip...just to shut him up.

or

Jay (Sherman) & Sideshow Bob: two of the wittiest characters ever. Picture Jay being a special guest-host on America's Most Wanted, critiquing Bob's latest crimes and gives it his famous review: "IT STINKS!". Bob is watching from one of those coin-op tv sets at some dingy airport, becomes enraged, and seeks to kill The Critic.

or

Silent Bob & Sideshow Bob: Sideshow plans the schemes, Silent has the gear.

anyway: VOTE SIDESHOW BOB FOR MAYOR!!!

[Dee]

You know...


Tommy Lee Jones played 2-face in the movies... and I love Tommy Lee Jones, but i'm still happy with my vote of Sideshow bob hehe

[Donna lady]

http://image1ex.villagephotos.com/1481848.jpg
Now look at all these wonderful, intelligent posts. :D Especially Joe Tully's!


Originally posted by Ms. Kitty
WOOOOOH! GO SAMURAI JACK!!


Originally posted by nuclear chicken
Go Samurai Jack!! I want to see John draw that. :D


Originally posted by Joe Tully
I narrowed it down to a few and picked Samurai Jack, because I know a few females on the board who would enjoy it. :) I think he's come really close at least once before, anyways, so I figure it's his turn to have a chance.


Originally posted by Mackenzie Rainelle
Here's to the foolish samurai! ^^


Originally posted by Theking
Go, JACK
Love the Samurai

How many times has Jack been in a Delaney poll? Five or six at least. But he's never ever won. But despite that, I will keep doggedly voting for him every time.

I beg you, all you undecideds, listen to my heart-felt plea. Pity all us Samurai Jack fans out here. (Especially the Crazy Drooling Fangirls.) We've never seen John Delaney exercise his talent on any character from SJ.

Vote for Samurai Jack, and for the first time ever, let him win!!!
What a wonderful Valentine's Day present that would be!

http://image1ex.villagephotos.com/1556535.jpg

[Greek_Honeybee]

Guess who I voted for! :D

http://jurai-no-kishi.virtue.nu/images/comicjack.jpg

How could you not wanna see Delaney sketch him?

[Theking]

only 6 votes needed to get Jack into first place.

Lets go find those posters.

TheKing

[2Divine]

I'm just curious:

Who's the other BOTI fan who voted for Manji?

[fernie417]

I was going to vote for Samus, but I felt pity for the Samurai Jack fans.

Yay, Jack's tied for first! :D

[Meow]

Sideshow Bob!

[Cogliostro]

I would have voted for Kingpin if he was getting more support but I went with Samurai Jack instead cause I love the show. I'm surprized that Daredevil wasn't in this week's poll hopefully he's in next weeks...

[sKorpia]

I went for Bob just because the Simpsons has had such a distinctive style for years. It'd be interesting to see if it got tweaked, if at all.

[Theking]

Woo Hoo

And I come in this morning and Jack is in first place.

Ohhh Yea

TheKing

[Jin Kazama]

Had to vote for my resident obsession Samurai Jack. Glad to see him winning as well.

Woo!

[Salvor]

Originally posted by Greek_Honeybee
Guess who I voted for! :D

http://jurai-no-kishi.virtue.nu/images/comicjack.jpg

How could you not wanna see Delaney sketch him?
This definitely looks awesome...

But I had to go for Two-Face. It's been too long since I've seen Harvey in the animated comics...

[Viper]

Well, it's mid-week and I see Samurai Jack is in the lead with Two-Face a close second. IMO, it doesn't matter who wins. There wasn't much of a selection for me. :rolleyes:

I still would like to see Sideshow Bob win.

[The Penguin]

"A man's gotta vote his own way and my vote goes to Two-Face."

Batman Forever anyone? I thank you. ;)

[TimTwoFace]

*TUGS AT COLLAR* I don't get no respect, no respect at all. *KEEPS TUGGING*

-Tim

;-Y

(Vote for me! Vote for me!)

[jeffrey 228]

And The cartoond Cartoons have gotten quite boring in these parts for the last serval weeks, and anyway I think that Two Face needs more help here.

[James]

I have this urge to see Two Face. Looking at the ugly spud I have no idea why this must be... :)

[Samurai Kat]

Go Jack! Go Jack! It's your birthday! It's your birthday! :D

[Donna lady]

A vote for Jack is a vote for a Happy Valentine's Day!

Make all the fangirls out there happy!

Vote for Jack! Vote for Jack! VOTE FOR JACK !!

Ahem.

Earlier I had mentioned that we've already had several Batman-related sketches. To be fair, I thought I should go back through the Gallery (http://comics.toonzone.net/john-delaney/) to see just how many Mr. Delaney's already done. I tallied them up. (There's several crossovers. Rather than put them in more than one category, I put crossovers under the category that had more sketches.) Here's my results.
Note: I might have placed some characters in the wrong categories. Please don't kill me if I messed up your favorite! Just a gentle note correcting my mistake would be appreciated.

Batman-related:
sketches # 1, 2, 3(a), 4(a), 5(a), 12, 13(a), 19, 32, 33, 40, 45

Superman-related:
5(b), 16, 21, 30

Other Justice League:
35, 41

Spiderman-related:
4(b), 23, 46

Looney Tunes:
14, 15, 31, 37

Cowboy Bebop:
11, 22, 34, 47

Other anime:
38, 39, 42, 44

Video games:
20, 25

Transformers:
11, 16

Miscellaneous cartoon shows:
7 (Gargoyles), 8 (Freakazoid), 9 (Space Ghost Classic), 29 (Mojo Jojo), 17 (Lion-O - Thundercats), 18 (Zim), 26 (Shredder - TMNT), 36 (Ghostbusters)

Miscellaneous comics:
6 (New Gods), 13(b) (Calvin & Hobbes), 28 (X-Men), 43 (Great Pumpkin)

Miscellaneous, er, character:
24 (Beach Blanket Yoda)

After going through all the sketches, I have come to several conclusions.

1) John Delaney deserves all the praise we can heap upon him. :D

2) There is a deplorable lack of eye candy for women in these sketches. :(

3) Mr. Delaney's sketch of Jack would so rock!! Especially if he did it with Jack's hair down and kimono/gi top ripped off. ;)

4) If Jack wins this week, I hereby promise Mr. Delaney I will vote for the Green Hornet in every available poll thereafter. :D

5) Fans of MiB have been very patient. One of these weeks, very soon, MiB ought to WIN! Just not this week, please!

6) See number 1 above. Repeat weekly. :D


So, please, give the samurai a turn! Vote for Samurai Jack this week!

[Theking]

I don't know Donna...

I thought he looked pretty cool in his gangster outfit

Man I can't belive how many of these Pix John has done for us. Wow!!!!

TheKing

[Greek_Honeybee]

Jack's one of those enviable people that looks good in anything. Either that, or the show's crew is really just that good to make him look good in anything. ;) The raver outfit they had him in is one of my favorites.

And I definitely concur with Donna's conclusion #1! (and #3!)

[Samurai Kat]

Originally posted by Greek_Honeybee
Jack's one of those enviable people that looks good in anything. Either that, or his animators are really just that good to make him look good in anything. ;) The raver outfit they had him in is one of my favorites.

And I definitely concur with Donna's conclusion #1! (and #3!)
Me too I like Jack in his gangster outfit and his rave clothes. :D

[JTurner954]

The way it stands now (40-32), I don't see anyone catching up to Samurai Jack's lead. If Two-Face (runner-up so far) wasn't one of the choices, I would of been undecided between Sideshow Bob and Samurai Jack.

Well, I noticed that Mojo Jojo was the only Cartoon Cartoon character sketched so it seems only fair that Samurai Jack should win.Congratulations to the Samurai Jack fans.

[Singin' Stray Cat]

Gotta go with Jack. Just once I'd like to see him get the Delaney treatment. :D

I agree with all of Donna's conclusions, but especially #2. You know it's true. ;)

(Just kiddin', of course. I always love the sketches.)

[Greek_Honeybee]

Originally posted by JTurner954
I don't see anyone catching up to Samurai Jack's lead. Hmm.. It's still too early to be sure. Jack was about this far behind Two Face at the start of the week, and caught up within a day. Two Face could still make a similar comeback, so I'm not relaxing my hopes yet. :knd1:

[Donna lady]

Originally posted by Donna lady
2) There is a deplorable lack of eye candy for women in these sketches. :(
Maybe I ought to have phrased that "eye candy for folks attracted to the male gender." :confused:

Originally posted by Singin' Stray Cat
Gotta go with Jack. Just once I'd like to see him get the Delaney treatment. :D
I agree with all of Donna's conclusions, but especially #2. You know it's true. ;)
(Just kiddin', of course. I always love the sketches.)
:D :D :D
I want to point out that I don't blame Mr. Delaney one bit. That's what the guy fans want. (I get the feeling that Mr. Delaney enjoys it a little bit too. ;) )
But my reason for pointing this out is simple. Since the Gallery right now has a healthy sampling of Fanservice Femmes, I want everyone to consider voting for Jack in the interests of fairness, balance, equal representation, uh, gender harmony and, er, no new taxes, and, uh, and so forth.

[James Harvey]

I'm surprised to see such low voting numbers for the poll. I don't think this poll will even crack 200 by tomorrow. A bit if a dissapointment, really. Plus, I am (pleasently) surprised to see Samurai Jack in the lead.

[Meow]

Noooo!!! Jack's winning. I'm melting!! I'm meeeeeeltiiiiing!! Oh what a world..what a world....

I should've voted for Two-Face. :p

[samurai_miaka]

Go Samurai Jack!!! :D

[Mattashell]

I voted for Samus. Don't mind me.

[Theking]

Oh yea,

came in this morning and there is a good lead for Jack.

Man very exited about this one.

TheKing

[StrangerAtaru]

I have this strange feeling that the main reason this isn't going over 200 like it used to is because a lot of people don't know about it or don't remember that it is going on. Still, good luck to whomever wins. (until next time, Usagi)

[JTurner954]

I looked back at the posts so far and only one person mentioned the Delaney poll in their signature. Usually more people mention it in their signature so that might have a big part as to why the poll isn't getting as many votes.

[Dee]

Less than an hour left, guys!

[The Landstander]

my last minute vote goes to sideshow bob.

[Meow]

I think you guys are right. People used to be more enthusiastic about promoting the character they wanted to win. Do you guys remember when posters used to go crazy about these contests? They'd change their avatars and put links in their sigs and start up threads to gain support for the character they wanted to win. Nobody ever does it anymore.... Or at least they do it to a much lesser degree.

There's a thread in the Cartoon Cartoon forum urging people to vote for SJ. That obviously has a lot to do with why he's winning. I'm not sure if there are any other threads showing support for the other characters.

So yea, I agree. I think there are just a lot of people who've forgotten about these polls. Heck.. I forgot about them for awhile. This is the first one I've participated in for quite some time.

[Cyber E.]

Well it is past 5:00 and Jack has seemed to beat Two-Face by twelve votes, any moderators want to make it official?

-aJb

[Cogliostro]

Glad to see Jack won, can't wait to see what John does with this sketch but of course it will be great... :D :cool:

[Greek_Honeybee]

Originally posted by Meow
There's a thread in the Cartoon Cartoon forum urging people to vote for SJ. That obviously has a lot to do with why he's winning. I'm not sure if there are any other threads showing support for the other characters.

So yea, I agree. I think there are just a lot of people who've forgotten about these polls. Heck.. I forgot about them for awhile. This is the first one I've participated in for quite some time. Well, Mr. Delaney did take a good, long (well-deserved) vacation from doing these sketches and only just returned a couple weeks ago. That may account for the lack of enthusiasm. It should pick up soon.

Then again, I did see a "Vote For Two Face" thread in the DC Animated Universe board. But no one seemed that interested and a day or so into the poll it fell off the first page.

In any case, Jack's fans have been waiting a long time for this. Whether his popularity is increasing due to his new weeknight run, or the win was just the result of un-interesting competition, I don't care. This is a mighty fine Valentine's Day gift! :D

[Joker21]

VOTE FOR TWO-FACE QUICKLY!!!
VOTE FOR TWO-FACE QUICKLY!!!
VOTE FOR TWO-FACE QUICKLY!!!

[Storm]

Poll Closed

Samurai Jack is the winner!

[Donna lady]

Samurai Jack WINS!

ThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyou!!!

It's a Happy Valentine's Day for Jack's fangirls!

A thank-you cookie goes to everyone who voted for Jack (and better-luck-next-time cookies to the rest of the voters)!

*does happy dance*

[Joker21]

:mad: Aaw Nuts! DOuble Nuts! :(

[Mackenzie Rainelle]

WHOO! The foolish samurai triumphs! *^______^*

[JTurner954]

Congratulations Samurai Jack (Jack- Jack Jack Jack).

[The Penguin]

Well he wasn't my pick, but I have a feeling John can do some cool stuff with Samuri Jack! :cool:

[Viper]

Originally posted by The Penguin
Well he wasn't my pick, but I have a feeling John can do some cool stuff with Samuri Jack! :cool: I absolutely agree. It should be interesting, at least for the drooling fangirls of his anyway. :rolleyes:

Hopefully next week, we'll have something just as good. No offense everybody but nothing seemed to interest me this week. Except for Sideshow Bob. Maybe next time.

[Y.T.]

Hooray for Jack! :D

I only recently registered an account with ToonZone, but I've always checked things out here when I heard that Samurai Jack was among the possibilities for a John DeLaney sketch.

To all you CDFs out there - you think Tom is going to draw Jack BC or HD? ;)

Ooops, I called him Tom before. Well, I fixed it now...

[Donna lady]

Originally posted by Y.T.
Hooray for Jack! :D

I only recently registered an account with ToonZone, but I've always checked things out here when I heard that Samurai Jack was among the possibilities for a Tom DeLaney sketch.

To all you CDFs out there - you think Tom is going to draw Jack BC or HD? ;)
Hey, Y.T.! Good to see you here!
Actually, it's John Delaney. But that's okay. Oh, you fixed it already. Never mind. ;)
I'm so glad that Jack finally won that I myself don't much care how Mr. Delaney's going to draw him. Although I do mildly hope that he doesn't:
(a) put the Scotsman in the pic (I love the Scotsman, he's the only recurring character, but I want to see just Jack, baby, just Jack!)
or (b) draw Jack in women's clothing (e.g., Princess of Hearts :rolleyes: )

Drawing Jack Bare-Chested or Hair Down would certainly be nice, though...
http://image1ex.villagephotos.com/1604964.jpg

[Anarky]

if jd draws jack, he HAS to include Aku...not the scotsman (he sucks)

[Anarky]

Will Bob Ever Win???

[Pilmedium]

I missed this poll. I would have voted for a character that did not interest me significantly, any way.

[The Detective]

Well I never could decide between Jack or Two-Face but I'm glad that Jack won.

[Y.T.]

Originally posted by Anarky
if jd draws jack, he HAS to include Aku...not the scotsman (he sucks)

Yeah, it would look best as an action shot. But not necessarily with Aku - I think Jack hacking up some of those ubiquitous beetle-bots would be cool. :)