QUOTE: Yeah, it's a terrible thing to compliment John on good work.  How dare people express what they feel!

Eh, human nature.  You want to add to the discussion - not parrot it, y'know?

That said, nice work JB!  Particularly the second one.  (Even with the inferior Wolverine costume... :-)  )

QUOTE: When buying a commission, part of the fun is to see how the finished product turns out.

Agreed.  When I put in for mine (the JSA/Galactus one), I wanted Dr. Fate and Canary, but asked JB to pick the other three characters to have that much more JB in there.  (He picked Spectre, Flash and Hawkman, which I was more than happy with... until I realized we had 2/3 of the "JSA Big Three."  Fortunately, he was kind enough to let me add in Green Lantern late in the game.) 

About the only downside to owning a JB commission is that it's hard to stop at one!  I keep hoping that someone else will have ideas similar to mine but no one ever does...

Dave Phelps wrote: Eh, human nature.  You want to add to the discussion - not parrot it, y'know?

I'd hardly call people expressing the same feeling "parroting", Dave.  That has a negative connotation to me, as if people are required to say the same thing and are only doing so because others have.  Anywho, it was just in the way Trevor said what he did, not that fact that he normally chooses not to post in commission threads.

Coolnress! Don't know which version I prefer, actually!

Then several months went by, before the issue came out. In the meanwhile I was working on POWERMAN & IRON FIST and not giving a whole lot of thought to the last issue of IF. I didn't get bundles in those days, so I had to wait like everybody else for the issue to turn up in my LCS. It did, and this was the first time I saw the finished product. To my surprise, in the panel where Jean manifest the Phoenix Effect, Dave had not just put the Effect in around her, he'd redrawn the whole panel, so that's a Cockrum Phoenix and a Cockrum Scott Summers making their dramatic entrance. Wolverine was no longer in the buff, but I had indicated him wearing his usual headgear, which is what I had understood would be the case, and Dave had redrawn this as Logan's uncovered head.

This made me notice something else. I stood in the comic shop flipping thru the pages, and slowly realized Dave had redrawn almost every X-Men face in the book! So, when you look at that issue, in most panels in which they appear, it's not my Nightcrawler, not my Colossus, not my Storm, etc. Just from the neck up, but it seemed to me like Dave had made himself a whole lot of extra work. Especially since I had already been tapped to succeed him on UNCANNY, and the characters would end up having my faces anyway.

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I've wondered about this from the first page.