What is this? A CROSSOVER episode?? (quick sketch to commit)
Time for another Very Happy Birthday to J.K. Simmons! (Jan. 9, 1955) (click through for largest size)
I was toying with several ideas for this year’s piece, after paying homage to the Farmers Insurance commercials last year. But this was suggested by @dontbearuiner, and it seemed fitting to honor the moment when J.K. Simmons first made an impression on the collective geek consciousness, as J. Jonah Jameson in Raimi’s Spider-Man in 2002. So here we have Ford in full “BRING ME PICTURES OF SPIDER-MAN!” mode, a request that his niblings will be only too happy to fulfill.
(For this I used refs from the 2002 and 2004 movies; pics of guys in suits; refs from Spider-Man comics; refs from the most recent Into the Spider-Verse movie – which is the best and if you haven’t seen it you absolutely must – and from merch for the same, which accounts for the idea of Mabel’s Spider-Gwen hoodie. The background is courtesy of a free halftone texture. I think that’s it?)