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Joe Murray
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| Posted: 21 August 2024 at 8:58pm | IP Logged | 1
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JB inked by Neal Adams would've been a real treat, like Byrne/Simonson.
Another, would have been Gil Kane inked by JB!
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 22 August 2024 at 12:42pm | IP Logged | 2
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I inked some Gil Kane layout pages while still in my fan days. Kane did full sized “thumbnails” as guides for his assistants and my “agent”, John Mansfield, had acquired some. He gave me half a dozen on which to practice my inking—something I would not have agreed to a few years later. They were for an Elongated Man story. No idea what eventually happened to them. (Amusing anecdote: Mike Carlin told me that as a kid he called Ralph Dibney’s alter ego the Flongated Man. Seems that on the stories he saw the first letter in the logo was often partially obscured.)
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Joe Murray
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Oh, interesting, still would have been great to see. Think I remember seeing what might've been a similar time was some inks over Buckler, one was Hercules I believe.
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Joe Smith
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| Posted: 02 September 2024 at 2:44pm | IP Logged | 4
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LINK
I have just seen this….I’ve not been the biggest N.A. fan so far, but this is
now my favorite of his works. Cover for MONSTERS UNLEASHED 3.
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Trevor Smith
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| Posted: 02 September 2024 at 10:31pm | IP Logged | 5
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"...I’ve not been the biggest N.A. fan so far..."
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What? I know art is subjective, but what about Neal's work
is there *not* to like?
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Joe Smith
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| Posted: 03 September 2024 at 7:55am | IP Logged | 6
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Born too late I guess.
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Mark Haslett
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| Posted: 03 September 2024 at 4:26pm | IP Logged | 7
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Rhetorical question: How much space is there between “I’m not the biggest
fan” and “I am the biggest fan”?
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Joe Smith
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| Posted: 03 September 2024 at 4:49pm | IP Logged | 8
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The optics of my statement on a comics forum, especially this one,
understandably oppose my existence as a comics fan.
My first comic was ASM 144 at age 5, and read mostly Spidey Super Stories
, ASM, and Marvel Treasury Editions until I was in my early teens when I
started getting MTU.
No Neal in sight until JB took over comics and I learned that N.A. was a
major influence. It’s only of late that the breadth of his work is readily
available to read in TPB form. So, while I was forced to be a N.A. fan by JB, I
only encountered NA in posts at this forum by JB (where he’d mention a
title that NA worked on and I’d scan the web for an image), scant reprints
with dated writing, and fanzines. I own only one NA TPB to this day; the X-
Men.
Seeing that Man-Thing in a gorgeous color scan is jaw dropping!
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John Byrne
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Neal’s work in the Seventies is my personal preference. Not saying “his old stuff was better”, just that his work on AVENGERS, X-MEN and, of course, Batman stands, for me, as the pinnacle.
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Brian Floyd
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I don't know why, but for some reason I'm not a big fan of his work on AVENGERS. But most definitely am when it comes to X-MEN and Batman. GREEN LANTERN/GREEN ARROW, too. And I am far from a major Hal Jordan fan.
Edited by Brian Floyd on 04 September 2024 at 2:08pm
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John Byrne
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How could I forget GL/GA????That was where I first saw Neal’s work.
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Michael Penn
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There is work in BATMAN: ODYSSEY that is astounding. I wouldn't be surprised at all if Mr. Adams had rated it among his finest work. And I would never presume to dispute that. As a fan, though, what I loved from the start and still love most to this day is his Batman work from over five decades ago.
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