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Jason Schulman
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I can't believe I never caught the McFarlane rips of JB. I could always catch Liefeld copying real artists, but McFarlane's rips somehow escaped me.

I think my favorite "punch artist" is Gil Kane. Kane made fight scenes look like as orchestrated as ballet -- he was that good.
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The ultra-violence by Darrow in Hard Boiled is just insane. 
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That Black Canary art is sweet!
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If you like knock-drag-out fights, you should check out last month's Birds of Prey (issue #106). The Birds take on the Secret Six in an absolute slugfest, with Big Barda vs. Knockout in the main event:



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I had McFarlane in a little higher account...
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Was it Keith Pollard in the Steve Englehart run on FF in the 80s who did a bunch of homage panels to all kinds of different artists? I recall at the time not being offended by it, but it seemed a waste of the man's talent somehow to have everything just be a reminder of others' work.
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Don Zomberg
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Man, McFarlane is an awesome tracer!
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Armindo Macieira
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Not even that awesome.

I was never a fan of McFarlane... I'm too much of an old school kinda guy... his oversized muscles and exagerated poses were the spawn (no pun intended) of a whole new breed of artists that gave us the infamous "nineties-style" in comics. 

He did revamped Spider-Man's web thou, we have to give him that.



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Armindo: He did revamped Spider-Man's web thou, we have to give him that.

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If you are talking about that chunky web design, you're wrong. Michael Golden was drawing it that way YEARS before McFarlane.

Example:
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Armindo Macieira
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well... then he's left with little to show...

 
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Does anyone have the that VHS comic artist interview series? McFarlane is interviewed on one of them and he admits he copied the "spaghetti webbing" from Michael Golden.
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Wonder if "Patience is a Virue" can be read among the spaghetti?
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