Anyway, can't have a thread about grandeur and not give a nod to Walt Simonson's Thor--
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That's a great panel. I wish I had that Simonson issue.

Another favorite I grew up with, Keith Pollard, knows how to get the umph in the punches:

Again, sorry I don't know the issue or even the talent involved (looks like Dick Giordano inking for sure), but I love the silence of Batman, once he's invited to some fisticuffs. That's the way a Batman who strikes fear should look when he's coming at you.

isn't that Rich Buckler doing his Neal Adams "impression"?

There's a lot of folks who need to get over Buckler's "impression"s, because the man is a better artist than a plethora of his contemporaries.

And why is Buckler the only artist who gets called foul when he adapts a style of another artist? There's a bunch of good artists who do that, then and now.

Chad, Buckler not only "adapted" the style of other artists, he also swiped extensively. Part of the reason I put "impression" in quotation marks is because quite frankly I suspect his Neal Adams style was a way for him to disguise just how much he swiped from Adams (and Giordano).  And while he constantly imitated other artists' styles and swiped their layouts, he loudly bragged how he was a superior artist to practically anybody else. Including the people he swiped from.

Sure, there are a lot of Neal Adams copies out there. A lot of Buscema copies, Arthur Adams, Jim Lee. Some people even seemed to copy Rob Liefeld. And when they swipe, they get called out, too.

The core of this is that he's a notorious swiper, and adapting his style to other artists just made it easier for him to swipe more extensively and swipe more of the detail of the original work. It made him a more efficient thief.

And he's not the only one people call foul over for adapting somebody else's style. Keith Giffen for one was publicly pilloried for it in the 80s. And Bryan Hitch has had to live down a lot of grief for being an "Alan Davis" clone early on. And a lot of the young guys hired into Image the first years had a "studio" style and had to live that down as they grew into their own. There are degrees, of course, and few as extreme as Buckler.

What I would like to do would be to let them know what I wanted to convey to the reader. (Me)

In my opinion I respectfully disagree. Why not draw a simple sketch and see if it in fact is easily conveyed or not? (Response)
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Because I would be a writer with no art training in composition, structure, figure placement, direction, continuity, mood etc. etc. and the artist is the person who has, you know, artistic talent. Back to the JB 'FIGHT' plot - why should I the writer dictate that they, the artist which punch gets thrown, where it is on the page etc. Let them do that, it's their job and hopefully would increase their enjoyment (Again, JB's because of rather than in spite of comment).

Are artists robots or are they a talented part of the creative process?