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John Byrne
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Joined: 11 May 2005 Posts: 133244
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Posted: 26 January 2016 at 11:03am | IP Logged | 1
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There is an innocence and nostalgia required for Superboy that has made the character impossible to depict effectively for more than 30 years now. The push would be to find the "edge" for him, which wouldn't work.•• The idiot squad would also demand the character age in real time, and, knowing DC, they would do it.
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Paul Go Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 19 April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 1394
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Posted: 26 January 2016 at 11:24am | IP Logged | 2
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Joyous.
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Michael Arndt Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 26 April 2004 Posts: 8565
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Posted: 26 January 2016 at 6:08pm | IP Logged | 3
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I love it when a commission makes me smile big.
Great looking all the way around. Love how JB draws dogs.
Congrats to the commissioner.
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Joe Alexander Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 18 November 2010 Location: United States Posts: 572
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Posted: 07 February 2016 at 5:49pm | IP Logged | 4
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I am late to the party but I just have to say how much I love this!! I am one of those who was under the false impression that JB was not a fan of Superboy, so I never expected to see his take on them in a commission. So glad I was wrong. Not sure what is going on with me lately, but I've had a major feeling of nostalgia the last few years for Superboy and Krypto and I'm always seeking out any images of them. This is absolutely my favorite I have ever seen. Just love everything about it. Really enjoy the details of Smallville in the background. Awesome!
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Josh Goldberg Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 25 October 2005 Location: United States Posts: 2079
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Posted: 07 February 2016 at 6:59pm | IP Logged | 5
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"The SUPERBOY TV show in the 1980s was Superboy in name only. He was more 'young Superman'..." **** I've long wondered about that. Wondered if what the Salkinds really wanted was to do a Superman show, but only having the rights to Superboy at that time, made it as much like Superman as possible while still being able to call it "Superboy".
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Josh Goldberg Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 25 October 2005 Location: United States Posts: 2079
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Posted: 07 February 2016 at 7:06pm | IP Logged | 6
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"There is an innocence and nostalgia required for Superboy that has made the character impossible to depict effectively for more than 30 years now." ****
Boy, did that statement make me flashback to my youth.
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Shane Matlock Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 12 August 2012 Location: United States Posts: 1760
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Posted: 07 February 2016 at 7:09pm | IP Logged | 7
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Love the sense of depth in this one. Having the figures with darker lines gives it a three-dimensional feel. I've noticed you doing this in commissions and it works really well.
Edited by Shane Matlock on 07 February 2016 at 7:10pm
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Wallace Sellars Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 01 May 2004 Location: United States Posts: 17698
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Posted: 07 February 2016 at 9:14pm | IP Logged | 8
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JB does a good job of drawing Superboy as a boy, and not a man with a boy's face.
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Josh Goldberg Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 25 October 2005 Location: United States Posts: 2079
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Posted: 07 February 2016 at 9:29pm | IP Logged | 9
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JB also does that well with Spider-Man. Conveying the character's youth through body size/proportion and body language, while still keeping him an impressive superhero. And all this with a character whose entire head is covered in a mask, so the artist can't show his youthful face to help convey that image.
Edited by Josh Goldberg on 07 February 2016 at 9:31pm
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Trevor Smith Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 21 September 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 3540
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Posted: 08 February 2016 at 12:53am | IP Logged | 10
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Re: that Superman Family cover - I like speed/motion lines, but that cover seems a bit too busy with them.
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Brian Hague Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 14 November 2006 Posts: 8515
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Posted: 08 February 2016 at 10:16am | IP Logged | 11
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Garcia-Lopez seems to be trying to put across what Superboy is doing as it is done in the comic, but without multiple panels or thought balloons to do it. In the story, a helicopter's blade come off and Superboy cannot simply catch them because they will shear and fly into pieces. He decides the best way to stop the rotation is to run in place on top of the rotors, using his feet as brakes to cushion and slow the spin so they can be caught safely.
That's a lot of activity to try to put across in a single image. I think Garcia-Lopez did it as well as it could be done, and still managed to convey a powerful picture of our hero, and his father's pride in his son.
The story inside, by the way, is Cary Bates and Joe Staton's "The Shadow of Jor-El," a touchstone issue for those who felt the Superman mythos had become too heavy with mentions of Krypton. Pa Kent feels Superboy has been spending too much time downstairs in the basement with the Kryptonian mind-prober ray (first seen in 1960) reliving his memories as an infant with his parents and reveling in the accomplishments of his scientist father. Feeling himself a man of comparatively few accomplishments, Jonathan Kent fears his son will think little of him in the years to come. Later in the story, a series of earthquakes hit Smallville. Jonathan discovers the source, but Superboy is busy helping countless others. He knows that if he places himself in danger and calls out to his son, Superboy will not only hear him, he will prioritize his call for help above all the others and come rushing to him. The plan works and Superboy is able to neutralize the quakes by disposing of the meteorite causing them. Jonathan then gently chastises the boy for placing his own concerns and loved ones above those of everyone else. The two walk off together with Jonathan's sense of himself reassured, knowing he's doing a good job raising his son and preparing him for the future.
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Bill Catellier Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 08 February 2016 at 1:33pm | IP Logged | 12
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Love this! Growing up I always preferred Superboy to Superman. Reading his adventures with the LSH etc. It wasn't till JB's post crisis Superman that I truly got into the adult hero.
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