This Scarlet Witch pin-up that I got fell into the "Sure, why not?" department since it wasn't much. Like many pin-ups, the pose was probably referenced (or even lightboxed?) from a modeling photo.



I don't know the artist. The signature sigil is enlarged below. Someone suggested to me that it may be an amateur rather than a professional, given that he chose a pose that obscured the hands and feet,which are notoriously difficult to draw. I'm in no position to say otherwise.

Next up, a pair of pages from 1999's Batman and Superman: World’s Finest with art by Dave Taylor and Robert Campanella. One page today:



And the final version:

Jessica Jones' eponymous "mature" noir series was followed by The Pulse, an all-ages book that integrated her more fully into the Marvel Universe through the eyes of a Daily Bugle tabloid insert. The series ran 14 issues plus a special and saw Jessica having a baby with Luke Cage. I got a page from #3 (2004). It's by Mark Bagley and Scott Hanna.



And the finished version. Police Detective Gans is investigating a murder at the Daily Bugle and gets into an argument with Ben Urich. Jessica shows up at the end to interrupt:

I loved Alias, as well, but I was disappointed with The Pulse. It just felt to me like it lost too much being watered down to all-ages friendly.

It was a whole different vibe to Alias, for sure, but I remember liking The Pulse a whole lot. Mind you, I don't think I've read it since it was coming out, so...what's that? 15 years ago? But I remember it being pretty good.

I bought Page 15 from Cloak and Dagger #7 (1990) by Mike Vosburg and Barb Rausch. Terry Austin was writing at this point.



It bears perhaps a little explaining if you want to know what's going on here. As a result of the X-Men event Inferno, Tyrone (Cloak) was swallowed by his own cloak while fighting demons. The cloak then entered the possession of the villainess Ecstasy, who had previously rivalled Cloak for control of the Dark Dimension. For some reason, when Esctasy wears the Cloak, it barely cloaks her privates, and little else.



But Ecstasy has her own troubles; she's a rival drug dealer (dealing Ecstasy, a euphoric amphetamine derivative) to Kingpin. So Kingpin has sent an assassin with the improbable name of "The Disciplinarian" to assassinate her. He has time-stop abilities and can be seen in the last panel here, approaching Ecstasy's hotel penthouse suite as he throws off his overcoat.



This issue has two other parallel plot lines. In one, Dagger, still blind from the events of Inferno, and her priest uncle/guardian are caught in a bank heist/hostage situation by some toughs led by a Scarlet Pimpernel clone, the Crimson Daffodil, who looks like Clark Gable in a Dread Pirate Roberts mask and has hypnosis powers. Dagger is also periodically ill from not having Tyrone around to safely discharge her excess light power into periodically, reminiscent of what happened to Dazzler in Ann Nocenti's Beauty and the Beast mini-series a few years previous.

Finally, quite a bit of this issue shows Tyrone living an idyllic fantasy life of being a family man with a wife and kids in the suburbs. He sees an attractive woman at the grocery store and later realizes that she is Vanna White from the TV show "Wheel of Fortune." This is his first clue that he is not experiencing reality. Sounds a lot like "For the Man Who Has Everything."

The following issue is a battle royale at the bank in which Tyrone escapes from the cloak to challenge Esctasy for control of it while Crimson Daffodil, Dagger, and The Disciplinarian duke it out. Someone called Mayhem shows up too. After that's all satisfactorily resolved, the good guys return to Father Bowen's church and get accosted by a motley crew of villains including Hulk, Fenris, Hydro-Man, Jester, and Rock, as part of the Acts of Vengeance event.