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Luca Too
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Posted: 25 May 2006 at 6:41am \| IP Logged \| 1

Looking through some Spider-Girl the other day and noticed remarkable similarities between certain panels done by Ron Frenz and those done by Ross Andru in ASM and Giant-Sized in the early 70's.

When does a homage to one of the better Spider-Man artists (Andru) become a blatent rip-off of his work..?

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Posted: 25 May 2006 at 6:59am \| IP Logged \| 2

When the "homages" begin to outnumber the
non-"homages" work.

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Posted: 25 May 2006 at 7:04am \| IP Logged \| 3

But apart from the various covers of yours that are obvious homages to FF#1 etc would you ordinarily do the same with individual panels within a book..?

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Posted: 25 May 2006 at 7:09am \| IP Logged \| 4

Luca, which are the homage panels? I have never noticed them... And I'm currently re-reading the complete run by Andru!
The only homage I have recognized appeared in an issue around #80: Spider-Girl jumps from a building with her classic costume... And Ron Frenz gives a tribute to the last page of AMAZING #252.

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Posted: 25 May 2006 at 7:14am \| IP Logged \| 5

Ron Frenz's art in many places apes the classic Andru perspective shots of Spider-Man head to camera and feet away as well as the distinctively Andru one leg bent web-swinging shots. However on more than one occasion entire panels including the position and placement of goons is too similar to Andru's work to be a coincidence.

I will attempt to scan some examples and post them ASAP.

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Posted: 25 May 2006 at 8:23am \| IP Logged \| 6

Thank you, Luca.

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Posted: 25 May 2006 at 10:38am \| IP Logged \| 7

During Ron Frenz's original run on Amazing, he also paid homage to numerous Ditko and Romita panels.

For example, the cover of ASM # 257 (the Puma attacking Spidey) is based on a panel from Ditko's ASM # 34 (Spidey vs. Kraven).

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Posted: 25 May 2006 at 11:09am \| IP Logged \| 8

I like Ron Frenz's artwork, but he's always aping somebody else's style (Buscema/Kirby on "Thor," for instance). I know he can draw. I would like to see the "real" Ron Frenz.

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Posted: 25 May 2006 at 1:57pm \| IP Logged \| 9

I think a lot of those might just be good Spider-Man poses rather than
deliberate homages, though some might be.

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Posted: 25 May 2006 at 3:50pm \| IP Logged \| 10

I like Ron frenz's SPIDER-GIRL work. I'd be disappointed to learn if a large number of his panels have been "copied" from older books.

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