JL #42 "Universal Heroes!" COLORIZED version

Presenting----
last year's "Universal Heroes" JLA adventure, digitally colorized for modern audience enjoyment!

Last year I uploaded the "original" black and white version.
This year, I've "colorized" it. Let me know what you think!

And to help celebrate the occasion, cyber-buddy Ashton Burge provided this super-cool "variant cover" illustration. Thanks, pal! It's awesome!!

Happy Halloween, everybody!

JL #42 "Universal Heroes!" Afterward

So that was fun, wasn't it? Believe it or not, this story has been in the pipeline for nearly two years! I think I seriously started working on it in early 2014 to have it finished for Halloween 2014, then Halloween 2015, and now Valentines' Day 2016!

JL #42 "Universal Heroes"

illustration & colors by Andy Kappellusch

JL #42 "Universal Heroes" Forward (2)

So let's keep talking about Universal Monsters.....

JL #42 "Universal Heroes" Forward (1)

Well here we are, fellow ghoulies, about to get to the long-awaited but long-delayed "Universal Heroes" issue of my Justice League!

But before we get to it, let's talk about the story-behind-the-story.

Happy Halloween 2015

About two years ago I started planning a certain Justice League story for my comic-book universe. I wanted to do an adaptation of an old SUPER FRIENDS comic where the DC super-heroes meet some of the classic Universal Monsters (#10).

When I mentioned the story to my collaborator, Andy Kapellusch, he, too was enthusiastic about working on it. Eventually I decided which members of the JLA should be involved, and which "monsters" should be involved, and I wrote the story. Andy graciously volunteered to draw the story, and we were all set.

Or so we thought.