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Shaun Barry
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(Always nice to see some old Keith Pollard work... certainly one of the great unsung heroes of comics art!)
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John Byrne
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…certainly one of the great unsung heroes of comics art!
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Definitely!
Some of you may not know this, but Keith and I were up for the regular penciling gig on AMAZING SPIDER-MAN at the same time. I was not really familiar with his work, and I was insanely jealous when he got picked over me -- until I saw the pages. Then I knew the right man had gotten the job.
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Greg Woronchak
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Spider-Man does of course not fake anything.
Unless he's really tired, and just wants to get some sleep (sorry <g>)....
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Flavio Sapha
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I knew the right man had gotten the job.
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At the time, I had a hard time wrapping my brain around the notion that this guy was at least as good as JB, already my favorite artist.
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Andrew W. Farago
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I'm not a really big fan of Pollard's Spider-Man, but I loved his late 1980s run on the Fantastic Four with Joe Sinnott as his inker. Sinnott improves everyone's art, I'm sure, but he and Pollard just looked great on that book.
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Paulo Pereira
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My intro to Pollard was through his Thor. I was never a huge fan, but he did some solid work. I particularly dig this cover--
And this one.
I also like his signature (I wonder if it's a customized stamp?)
Edited by Paulo Pereira on 03 July 2009 at 3:21pm
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Shaun Barry
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Yup. I'd qualify that as "grandeur!" You certainly don't see many poses like that anymore!
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Chad Carter
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Probably one of the greatest superhero fights of all time is from TALES OF SUSPENSE ish 82, between Sub-Mariner and Iron Man.
The legend is that Gene Colan came down with the flu (thus the reason the first two pages of the story are Colan's art) and then Jack Kirby pinch-hit the rest of the art in, like, a weekend or something.
I'm sure Dick Ayers, inking, did more than his fair share too.
I love the desperation of these blows, Iron Man's lunging punch, then his wild clubbing at Namor to keep the upper hand. The second panel's blow is even more convincing in a "real" way because of the savagery of it, lacking even the pretense of formality.
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Ted Pugliese
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I can't even find a word to describe the energy in Gil Kane's work.
The closest I get is 'favorite'.
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Ted Pugliese
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That Batman page above is actually Neal Adams from an old Power Records release.
Absolutely correct. The first comic I ever owned, the second I ever read, and my first Batman (1975). I can clearly remember the Joker saying, "I'm stuck in the mud down here."
It is reprinted in Volume 3 of the HCs, so I sold it recently. I do not keep anything anymore, but maybe I should have. I miss having that book because it was the first comic I owned.
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Ted Pugliese
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Brian Miller
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Man, I wish I still had that.
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