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Rhyno posted:Are you sure it was Art Adams? As far as I have seen the only life size SG stand up available to us was drawn by J Scott Cambell. It could have been, since Campbell's style is so heavily influenced by Adams. But it may not have been Squirrel Girl at all (although Adams did draw a Squirrel Girl variant cover recently). I remember Ms. Marvel (Kamala) and Spider-Gwen for sure, and I was almost positive they were drawn by Adams. Campbell's faces and proportions are somewhat more exaggerated in a cartoony way. I'll check tomorrow and report back.
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Lurdiak posted:The superhero with the power of shooting guns. And being a country and western singer/guitarist.
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I think Howard Chaykin might have been the best artist of the '80s, but sadly, he's older and his stuff isn't as good as it used to be. And even if Frank Miller hadn't gone crazy, his art has taken a major turn for the worse. I think the old-school creator who is still the most "with it," who has changed with the times, stayed relevant and good, works steadily, and never burned any bridges, is Keith Giffen.
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Jun 8, 2016 04:18
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I loved that page and that whole story, where Jack became friends not only with Wesley Dodds (after a lifetime of thinking the JSA were mostly silly, corny old men), but also his life partner Dian Belmont, who was already one of Jack's favorite writers. And at the end, the gift they gave him was so generous and meaningful, it was really touching. Starman made me cry more different times than all other comics put together. I got to meet Tony Harris at a convention last month, and I told him how much that book meant to me, especially when it was the only constant in my life from 10th grade to graduate school.
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Jun 18, 2016 23:27
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bobkatt013 posted:I thought she was punished with ugliness due to being dissected and then put together? The secret agent who gets powers is from the comic book and was based on Angelina Jolie Jaiying (Dichen Lachmann, aka Sierra from Dollhouse) was dissected and put back together. She was Skye/Daisy/Quake's mom, and she was still beautiful, despite superficial scars. Raina (Ruth Negga, aka Tulip from Preacher) was turned into an ugly porcupine-lady from exposure to the Terrigen Mist. She was the one who worked with the Clairvoyant first, and then with Skye/Daisy/Quake's dad.
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Sep 23, 2016 12:53
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Beautiful. Do you know who drew it?
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redbackground posted:Mark Brooks; it was a variant cover for PL #1 last year, but it seemed appropriate. Thank you!
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Benito Cereno posted:There are a lot of really great colorists out there these days. To get a variety of styles, I would look at Jordie Bellaire, Nathan Fairbairn, Dave Stewart, Rico Renzi, Elizabeth Breitweiser, Dave McCaig, Dean White, Lee Loughridge, Jose Villarubia, Matt Wilson, Nick Filardi, and Tamra Bonvillain. A great list of colorists (I'm familiar with several of them), but I'd also add in Laura Martin and Laura Allred.
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Jan 8, 2017 20:14
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Rhyno posted:It astonishes me how much Charest grew as an artist over such a short time. Check out his work on Wildcats from 1999 or so. Truly amazing stuff. Charest's work on Wildcats is stunning stuff. Apparently he's really slow, but I'd love to see more art from him in that style. Is he French or from somewhere else in Europe? I wonder why he hasn't done anything in so long, unless he has been working on European comics this whole time.
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site posted:Bannon definitely looks like a supervillain I think he looks like alcoholic Mark Hamill.
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Feb 6, 2017 22:10
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NorgLyle posted:Has Jim Lee done an Archangel design? His original look was very obviously pure Simonson and most of the later versions are heavily inspired by that design. Aside from Grifter's awesome (though impractical) mask, I always loved Spartan's original costume that Lee designed. He looked a bit like a '40s throwback patriotic pulp hero, all red, white, and blue, with the jodhpurs. I liked his red mask that was open for his red hair at the top. Every time I see the Rebirth version of Wally West, I do a double-take since his face and mask look identical to early '90s Spartan. But since you mentioned Psylocke, I miss her pre-Lee costume with the purple armor one-piece over the pink bodysuit, with a purple cape, hood, and mask that was open at the top for her purple hair to spill out. That's one of my favorite costumes of all time.
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May 1, 2017 04:07
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NorgLyle posted:One of Lee's like visual design tics that I was already having a problem with by the time Wild CATS came along was his love for headsocks or big stupid sideburns. I'm guessing that he thinks cheeks are boring in character close ups and likes to give the face some kind of extra widgets to give him something to draw when you zoom in on someone's screaming head (as comic books tend to do quite frequently). I still have a soft spot for the Wildcats, not just because I loved the Alan Moore and Joe Casey runs, but because I own these Airmax original custom action figures: http://www.toymania.com/customcorner/cc16/wildani.shtml I think Airmax (the customizer) did a great job simplifying Lee's designs and getting them into more of a classic Bruce Timm style.
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Growing up, I was never a big fan of Disney cartoons. They always seemed so corny and cutesy compared to Looney Tunes. Mickey had zero personality, and Donald was always an angry rear end in a top hat. But somehow I ended up with a copy of the Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold comic, and I always thought it was pretty impressive, and not at all like anything Disney-related I had ever seen before. It's long-gone now, but I've since realized it was by Carl Barks. Is that considered a classic, or does it have any kind of reputation at all?
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May 6, 2017 16:21
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Rhyno posted:It already happened and people seemed to hate it. Aside from outliers like Jose Ladronn on Cable in the late '90s and what Tom Scioli is doing today, who else?
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Someone must have posted a sample a few pages back, because it looked familiar, but I am reading the Bug: The Adventures of Forager TPB and absolutely blown away by the Midnight back-up by James Harvey. Mike Allred is my favorite artist, but Bug's weird Kirby pastiche didn't do anything for me. Midnight, on the other hand, for just being a handful of pages, is taking as long to read and longer to fully parse and appreciate than all six issues of Bug. The layouts are inspired and insane, taking full advantage of what you CAN do with sequential art, just that hardly anyone bothers or thinks of it. Harvey makes me think of Windsor McCay, Chris Ware, and Matt Wagner on some of his most experimental Grendel work. I'm not familiar with him at all, but I hope he has more work like this to discover. The whole story is only 12 pages, and you can probably Google it to find it on Imgur, but I removed the link. I also read the first volume of Cave Carson Has a Cybernetic Eye, and thought it was mostly forgettable, but Tom Scioli's Super Powers backup was far more interesting in every way. I hope Young Animal keeps including these offbeat backup features. Also, I remember from DC Who's Who back in the '80s that Midnight (a Jack Cole creation) looked a hell of a lot like The Spirit, just with a matching blue trench coat. Did Harvey create this current look for him, or does that go back too? Big Bad Voodoo Lou fucked around with this message at 19:14 on May 6, 2018 |
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May 6, 2018 14:17
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Teenage Fansub posted:From the links at the bottom, that someone is also hosting full comics. gently caress 'em. I didn't even notice that! Sorry, I will remove the link.
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May 6, 2018 19:14
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Synthbuttrange posted:Check out his stuff then: Teenage Fansub posted:drat. Benito Cereno posted:Harvey definitely changes a lot of things about Midnight, including his costume and his secret identity. The first chapter of the story also shows that he killed off Midnight's sidekicks and destroyed his trademark weapon from the Golden Age comics. Nice write-up, Benito! Very strange that Harvey made the changes he did, but I kinda liked Midnight's new costume. I've been Googling and trying to find more of Harvey's work over the last day, and I'm incredibly blown away by that M83 piece. I love the few songs I've heard by them (him?), so I'm more inspired than ever to dig deeper. And I want to find more amazing artwork from Harvey! I have a feeling I'll start obsessing over his work like Allred, Cooke, Piskor, and Scioli, especially if he brings his unique style to more mainstream characters.
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May 7, 2018 05:44
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Teenage Fansub posted:I loved his I Am Robin covers/designs. He also did interiors for one of the issues. Blown away. Thanks for posting those!
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May 7, 2018 06:13
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Jordan7hm posted:this is some drat good taste. I agree that the coolest thing about those Bug books, which were actually pretty good, was Harvey's work on the backups. Thank you! I definitely prefer more "low-key" artists these days -- David Aja, Steve Lieber, and Sean Phillips also rank high up there for me, compared to being obsessed with Arthur Adams, J. Scott Campbell, and Jim Lee as a teenager in the '90s. (Although I still appreciate Adams and Campbell these days.)
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May 9, 2018 05:31
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Death Ray posted:Mmm... nope! The title may not have "force" in the name, but I seem to recall it had some technological/computer theme. Force Works? Digitek? Mys-Tech? Genetix?
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Death Ray posted:Ding ding ding! I think it's Genetix!
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Man, that looks great! Too bad it isn't on Hoopla.
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That made me think of Maul from the Wildcats, who also got dumber as he got bigger and stronger, but could also shrink himself into a little, wizened old man to become a scientific genius.
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Jonny Nox posted:I ran this down with my kids the other day: 
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BiggerBoat posted:Was poking around a little and ran across an artist named "Jock" who's done some really cool covers. I'd never heard of him Jock is incredible. He's Scottish, and I believe his real name is Mark Simpson. I met him at MegaCon earlier this year and got him to sign my five TPBs of The Losers, the Vertigo "action movie on paper" series he drew with writer Andy Diggle. It was adapted into a very decent action movie starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Idris Elba, Zoe Saldana, Chris Evans, and Jason Patric (slightly before most of them blew up), but it came out the same summer as The A-Team and The Expendables, so it bombed. The comic was really good, though. His covers are really something special, though. I think he was charging people a little extra to sign that iconic Detective Comics cover with the Joker made of bats. He drew a special cover for Action Comics #1000 that was exclusive to London's Forbidden Planet store, but I would have chosen it over all the covers that were released in the U.S.. Someone brought it to the signing, and I was jealous, it was so nice. Oh, and he was hired to do concept art for The Last Jedi, including Luke in his robes. My buddy brought him the Last Jedi oversized art book to sign, and he was pretty surprised anyone realized he worked on the movie, so he got chatty and said he didn't even know some of his designs got used until he saw the film in theaters. Very cool, nice guy.
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Rhyno posted:Related: Chris Evans is so goddamned good in that flick. . The best. I never saw the Fantastic Four movies (never been an FF fan), but The Losers was when I knew Evans was going to be a mega-star, and well-deserving of it.
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What is the general reputation of Stjepan Sejic? Gail Simone has been posting some of his art on Twitter, and it seems great to me -- all his people are very attractive, but he draws everyone with unique body types, incredible facial expressions like Kevin Maguire on his best day, and a real eye for detail with clothing and costumes. I see he's doing some DC work now, but he got popular doing a BDSM romance comic called Sunstone. Is it just plain porn, or is there any literary/artistic merit to it, beyond just sexy art? From what I've seen of his artwork, there's a lot more substance than one-trick cheesecake artists like J. Scott Campbell.
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zoux posted:Yeah he's kind of the anti-Quitely in that everyone he draws is a beautiful person. I'm probably pointing out the obvious but each cover is a decade of Marvel history starting in the 30s in the top left and going clockwise around and then to the center to finish with the '10s. Stuff like this is why Noto is probably my third-favorite artist in all of comics, after Allred and Cooke. So glad I got to meet him before he went to Marvel and exploded, and that I got a Blue Beetle head sketch from him.
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