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I tend to see them as totally different characters.
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I tend to see them as totally different characters.
      
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Robert Bradley
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Speaking of Warlock and Jim Starlin, what does everyone think of characters who are closely associated with one writer? Ambush Bug & Keith Giffen would be another example.
Is this a good thing or a bad thing? I know at one point the Silver Surfer wasn't written by anyone but Stan Lee, but are they any others?
Edited by Robert Bradley on 12 April 2009 at 4:50pm
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Mark Gruenwald did an outstanding job on Quasar!
http://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=25835 &KW=Quasar
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I enjoyed JB's run on The Thing. I wish that series had kept on going. I can't remember, but it seems like he didn't do all 36 issues. JB's work on Marvel Two-In-One was also good, but he didn't get to do the whole series. I also liked Dan Slott's very short lived run on The Thing. It was only 8 issues. However it had some great writing and good humor. That's another series that should have kept on going.
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Robert Bradley
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But neither of those guys were more or less unused by anyone else. Quasar had a stint in the Avengers and the Thing shows up everywhere.
When you see an Ambush Bug story you really don't need to look at the credits to see who the writer is because nobody else touches him. That's the sort of situation I'm referring to.
Is it a good thing?
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Sorry Robert, I didn't understand your earlier question. Unfortunately, I don't have as good a command of the history of comics as you do, so it's difficult for me to come up with choices that have only been touched by one creater (artist, writer or both). Going back to Dreadstar, I think Starlin did the best work on that one. It would have been nice had he stayed on as creator (both artist and writer). Once he dropped the art chores, the book went on a down-hill slide. And once he turned over the writing to PAD, then it became a totally different book. The new world in which Vanth Dreadstar awoke after his two year (?) coma, and his new role in a galaxy that no longer honored him had lots of potential. I wish Starlin (only) had stayed with that new direction. I honestly don't know why Starlin turned the book over to other people, other than to say that he probably just got tired of it. So in answer to your question, if anyone has the chops to stay with a book and make it interesting indefinitely, then I'd say it's a good thing. But if they lose interest or leave for whatever reason, then the book itself morphs into a whole new story. I've only read a handful of issues of Savage Dragon by Erik Larsen, so I can't comment much on that specific book. However, Erik has my respect for perseverance on his own creation. If only Lee & Kirby had worked out their differences and continued to work together indefinitely on the FF!
Edited by Dan Walsh on 12 April 2009 at 5:27pm
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O sweet mama!!! I think I’m just a little bit in love with this one.
And not at all jealous of its owner, not at all... well maybe a little... VERY little... okay just VERY, satisfied! ;) Congrats!
Dan wrote:
“So . . . . I'm going to guess that the recipient of this masterpiece is Joakim Jahlmar?”
Sadly no, Dan (unless someone in here’s buying me mighty expensive gifts).
(And perhaps strangely enough, it’s not even what’s on top of my list if I ever enter the commission game.)
And, this might be a good place to once more mention the upcoming second Warlock Masterworks volume, due in June (I believe, I'm sure Dan will correct that if I'm wrong), featuring the full Starlin run from the 70s, which of course include the MTU issue pencilled by our very own JB.
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Joakim--You are correct it does have the full Starlin run (Strange Tales #178-181 and Warlock #9-15), MTU #55, Avengers Annual #7, and Marvel Two In One Annual #2.
I can honestly say I love every issue (story arc) that is going to be in Vol 2.
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…which of course include the MTU issue pencilled by our very own JB.
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Another one where I was Art Robot only. Starlin had left Warlock out in deep
space where he had grown to gigantic size because "different parts of the
Universe expand at different rates". The MTU story brought him back to
Earth and basically "solved" the problem by having him just shrink back to
normal.
Gotta think Jim had something else in mind!
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Gotta think Jim had something else in mind!
Definitely!
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Killer portrait.
Love how the Kirby Krackle fills the frame.
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