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Wallace Sellars
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That Alan Davis can draw...
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Flavio Sapha
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X-MEN: FIRST CLASS #10
Written by Jeff Parker
Penciled by CLAYTON HENRY
Cover by John Romita Jr.
"Hey Cyclops!"
"Huh?"
"Why're ya so dang boring?"
"I dunno."
"Well...if we give ya a whole issue of First Class, do you
promise to be cool?"
"Ok."
"Deal!"
32 PGS./Rated A ...$2.99
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John Byrne
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I love Neal Adams's run on X-MEN but I think he made Magneto too "pretty,"
which sort of stuck in the depiction of him. I think the Kirby Magneto is
more brutish. I would imagine that without his mask, the Kirby Magneto
would be hideous.
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"Hideous" might be a few notches too far, but Kirby's Magneto definitely had
a rougher face, more like a Ben Grimm, boxer's face.
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John Byrne
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Powerful stuff...I can imagine Magneto's unspoken 'Et tu, Brute?' in the
third-from-last panel!
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Not unless the guy he's speaking to was a longtime friend and ally.
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Michael Penn
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Kirby's Magneto is sorta what I wish Darth had looked like under the mask.
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John Byrne
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Darth, like Doom, is a face we should never have seen! Especially since, as
Archie Goodwin noted at the time, he ended up looking like Ray Milland!
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Stephen Robinson
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Darth, like Doom, is a face we should never have seen! Especially since, as
Archie Goodwin noted at the time, he ended up looking like Ray Milland!
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SER: Not to hijack this thread but have we ever been given the "backstory" or "origin" of a mysterious character and been satisfied? Darth Vader, Wolverine, and so on... Maybe, just maybe, we're better off with the mystery preserved.
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Todd Douglas
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QUOTE:
| Has anyone here read X-men (2nd series) #85? It has gorgeous Alan Davis artwork and a story by Davis, scripted by Joe Kelly. |
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Nope. Haven't read it. And those last four words mean I never will. The pages posted here show the issue to be the same ol' same ol' Joe Kelly heavy-handed, "force the situation to get to the conclusion I want," cardboard-characterization claptrap that's also exemplified in the (mysteriously) much-lauded Action Comics #775.
At least it wasn't smothered in his forced "wokka wokka wokka...these are the jokes, folks" so-called humor.
Sad part is, after seeing him and meeting him at San Diego, he seems like a nice enough, cool enough guy. He just can't write comics well.
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Paulo Pereira
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What's Joe Kelly up to these days?
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Todd Douglas
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Practicing the phrase, "You want fries with that?"
But, seriously...apparently, writing for animation (Ben 10 and Chaotic, as well as an episode of the recent FF cartoon) and *shudder* taught/is teaching a college-level course in writing a graphic novel as of the summer.
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Paulo Pereira
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Hmm, I didn't read much of Kelly's work outside of that X-Men run but I wonder if that's why I find Ben 10 unwatchable.
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Todd Douglas
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Ah, frak. Looks like he wrote some of the Heroes online comics, too, providing backstory for the Haitian.
If it's in the hardback collection, I guess I know three installments of one of my Christmas presents that I'll be skipping.
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