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Adam Schulman
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Beautiful drawing of Storm. Reminds me of how much I miss the Dave Cockrum costume.
Also -- minor observation -- Storm is one of the few female superheroes where it doesn't matter that she's always wearing heels. She's usually flying. In the air, it makes no difference what's on your feet.
On the other hand, back when Catwoman was wearing high heels AND was back to being a burglar (the early 90s), well, I couldn't suspend my disbelief.
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Paul Wills
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Either way, fans would be very happy! Do you prefer working on a series yourself (write pencils inks)? Or do you enjoy it the same (or more) with certain collaborators?
Edited by Paul Wills on 26 August 2018 at 1:38pm
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Rebecca Jansen
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Just reading Spider-Man Chapter One for the first time; written, pencilled, inked and lettered by JB! I think it's fantastic, unfortunately the editor is apologizing for 'mistakes' in the lettercol that aren't even mistakes (and didn't know what upper lower Michigan meant either and so takes a reader from Detroit to some attempt at ridicule over the term... there are two parts to Michigan, an upper and a lower, Detroit is in the lower, and above it is what the reader called upper lower Michigan). The only actual mistake I found was a colorist mistake on the Lizard's wife's clothing. I can really see what is meant by fans looking for supposed 'mistakes' now... I'm glad negative comments didn't stop me getting this series, and I have read most of the Lee Ditko originals. Now there are some Mackie-Byrne Spider-Mans I'll have to catch up on!
I have that one-shot Amalgam Storm-Wonder Woman hybrid coming... should be a lot of fun too (some of the others titles didn't look like my cuppa though, giant-muscles-helium-boobed-heavily-airbrushed-everything-sh iny stuff).
Storm was always so cool, she never needed a trendy 'look', and in comics most of these people got the trends a couple of years after the fact anyway!
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James Woodcock
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Don’t think I’ve ever heard an American use the phrase ‘poor sod’. Made me laugh out loud that did.
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John Byrne
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I'm adopted American, remember. And my first language was the Queen's English!
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John Byrne
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On the other hand, back when Catwoman was wearing high heels AND was back to being a burglar (the early 90s), well, I couldn't suspend my disbelief. ••• Right about then is when you should have stopped reading superhero comics.
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Adam Schulman
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OK, JB. I must know. Where exactly is the line between "you must suspend your disbelief or get out" and "this is stupid"?
Example: we agree that Spider-Man having organic webshooters is stupid, because there's nowhere his body could store all the webbing.
But Catwoman climbing buildings and breaking into them in high heels is somehow not stupid.
Why?
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John Byrne
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Apples and oranges.
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Michael Penn
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In my opinion the difference is between a failure of internal logic versus rejecting the conceits of comicbooks themselves.
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John Byrne
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In my opinion the difference is between a failure of internal logic versus rejecting the conceits of comicbooks themselves. •• Exactly. As readers, we must accept the various absurdities of the concepts, or we must move on. The movies -- more than Spider-Man alone -- have tried to "fix" those absurdities with absurdities of their own.
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Matt Hawes
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"Smallville" on TV was a good example of Hollywood trying to "fix" absurdities from comics with their own. The guys who developed the show for television proudly touted their mission statement of "no flight, no tights" when discussing the series, yet the viewers were to accept that ther invention that the small town was littered with Kryptonite when Clark landed on Earth, mutating all these people in the town, and that somehow Clark rarely, if ever, encountered these mutated people until reaching high school age, and then it was on a weekly basis!!
Ugh.
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Dale E Ingram
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I really love that Storm image.
I can't quite place it, but I think that the combination of the economy of line that you're using there, and the heaviness of the line you're using, gives me a little bit of an Alex Toth vibe when looking at it.
Has your pencil line gotten "heavier" over the years?
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