"If you are inclined to read what Erik Larsen has to say and wish to interact with him via a message board, my best suggestion would be to go to his site.  I don't think the expectation should be that the JBF is one-stop-shopping."

Oh, absolutely. And where should I go to hear what Matt Reed has to say?

Come on guys. Can't we leave it to our host to decide who gets to post and who doesn't?

Are you really in the habit of being so sarcastic after two days here on the forum?  Really?

BTW, I don't know if you noticed, being new here and all, but I'm a moderator.  I think I can safely tell you that we discuss all of this among ourselves with JB.  So when I tell you something, like I did above, you can rest safely in your bed tonight knowing that it has, in fact, been discussed with John. 

Check my join date.

And it looks to me like JB has made his feelings pretty clear on the matter; he's certainly not wild about Larsen, but has made the decision not to ban him. Can't we leave it at that?

Doesn't matter.  19 posts in 4 1/2 years?  Yeah that's a pretty new member where us getting to know you is concerned as well as your ability to be incredibly sarcastic in the span of several posts.

My point still stands.  If you want to talk and interact with Erik Larsen, go to his board.  Don't expect to do it here.

"My point still stands.  If you want to talk and interact with Erik Larsen, go to his board.  Don't expect to do it here."

I never said I "expected" to do it here. I said, until JB decides otherwise, Erik shouldn't be chased off. That ought to be a pretty non-controversial position that should apply whether the name in that sentence is "Matt Reed" or anyone else. Why should it be different for Erik?

Thank goodness we can get back to the proper civil discourse that the  JBF is known for!

JB, very intrigued about your new Angel book. I can hardly wait till you're able to leak some pics.

Matt Adler - The last I checked, Erik Larson is still free to post here and if he doesn't post here anymore it's by his own decision. I've seen this act before from him and it's old.

Casey

Perhaps you should familiarize yourself with the playing field before you start dictating the rules of the game.

I became a Byrne victim with Alpha Flight #1

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I became a Byrne victim with Superman 12 (the Lori Lemaris story).

I think there's a tendency in artists to "loosen up" as they get experienced.  Extreme examples would be Picasso or Bill Sienkievitz.  Once they got established, they felt free to experiment.  I once taught an aestheitcs lesson using Frederick Remington's earlier work and his later.  His later work is more expressive, with more extremes in color and more emotional.  His earlier work is very technical, though a little stiff.  The students (8th graders) almosy all preferred the earlier work.

In comics, artists used to be encouraged to stay on model, and this meant very little expression.  Now, it seems making your own version of a character is encouraged.  It seems to me, when you started out trying to be "on model" there was more room to grow than there would be now.

Pardon my ramblings...