Posted: 18 September 2018 at 8:00am | IP Logged | 11
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Tony Marin wrote:
...It’s funny I was never a fan of X-Men stuff so I always think of Terry’s inks over Marshall Rogers on Detective Comics before anything else and I recently looked up a reprint of his time on X-Men and I don’t know who at Marvel “remastered” it but it looked terrible, no where near as good as I remembered it... |
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Opinions being what they are, people certainly differ on them, but JB and Terry Austin have been considered one of the great art teams in comics history for a reason.
I can't help but suspect, taking your comments in context in regard to your exchanges with JB over your ink job of his art, that the criticism of those X-Men issues is more of a veiled jab at JB than the ink job. Maybe not, but then you go on and criticize his drawing of Sauron, and your praise of the Neal Adams drawing (which is great), seems to also be a "see, this is how you do it" directed at JB.
I get that you may be hurt that JB has critiqued your inks on his work, but his criticism is valid. I will say, Tony, you do have talent, but I will also say that JB has been at this for more than a little while and knows a thing or two.
When veteran, yet overpowering inkers like Tom Palmer or Jerry Ordway redrew JB, for me as a fan of his art, it's annoying enough. They are clearly skilled professionals, but so is JB, and when he is the penciler, it's HIS art I want to see come through the most. When someone else inks the art, who doesn't have the reputation or cache that those guys have, and changes the pencils so much, it frankly smacks of arrogance that isn't deserved.
As nice as your rendering can be, Tony, I want to see JB's X-MEN, not Tony Marin's X-Men.
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