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Stephen Churay
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The Hulk artist thread got me wondering about his place in the
pantheon of comic artists. My personal thoughts are that he's a solid
inker, a fair penciler, but one of the journeymen that could be counted
on to deliver in a crunch for a fill in or a short run. Sort of the George
Tuska of the 80's. How about your's?
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Joe Aten
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I have good memories of Al's work on the West Coast Avengers regular series. The WCA was one of the first books I remeber reading when I first became a collector, and was a favorite book for a long time. I pored over that first issue many, many times. He and Joe Sinnott were a great team.
As an inker I like his work, but I did not care for his inks over JB on Lost Generation or Spider-Man Chapter One. Just my personal preference, but JB is JB's best inker.
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Robert Bradley
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I first became aware of Al Milgrom's art when he was the artist for Captain Marvel and the Guardians of the Galaxy (in Marvel Presents) back in the '70s.
I'm not a fan of his pencils (even the Milgrom/Sinnott team on West Coast Avengers didn't work for me), but I like his inks, especially over his pal Jim Starlin.
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Robert Bradley
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My favorite inker for Milgrom was Klaus Janson -
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Armindo Macieira
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Didn't like him as penciler.
Don't have an opinion about him as an inker. I guess he was okay...
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Brad Brickley
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He helped to bring out Firestrom, one of my favorites. So he's good to go in my book! I've always enjoyed his art.
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Brian Miller
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Don't like his pencils. Way too stiff. I sorta have a fondness for his AVENGERS/WCA with Sinnott, but it's more for the stories than the art. As far as inking, don't like it. Except for: 
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Carmen Bernardo
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I recall Milgrom working on Ed Hannigan's pencils in Spectacular Spider-Man during the mid-1980s before Sal Buscema's classic stint, and his artwork on Secret Wars II. As I see it, he was a competent artist in his own right, but quite rough on his inks. I had seen worse since then to know that he at least had the basics down for his job. If there was any groan-inducing scenes that he ever drew, it was during that climax issue of SW2 in which the Beyonder rips a strip of Earth's crust away like someone was peeling an apple. It was more the writing of that scene (Holy Silver Age, Batman!) than anything in how Milgrom drew it.
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Derek Cavin
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Better inker than penciler. I always thought that as a penciler his characters looked stiff, as if they were posing for the shot rather than natural movement. I do own a Al Bigley/Al Milgrom Batman 11 x 17 drawing.
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Joe Hollon
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Al Milgrom's name pops up in the credits of a whole bunch of comics that I've enjoyed over the years. He's alright in my book!!!!!
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Paulo Pereira
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Not really a fan of his work, usually, whether it be inking or pencilling, but I really liked his work on INCREDIBLE HULK VS SUPERMAN. There was also an image in the ROM thread that I like.
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Eric Smearman
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Milgrom gets a "thumbs up" from for Firestorm alone. I also find him to
be a solid penciller and inker and a strong storyteller.
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