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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2015 22:13:14 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Oct 29, 2015 9:56:32 GMT -5
While I love that folks are hatin' on the '90s here, I initially expected to see more 40s and 50s books, some of which had some pretty badly-done covers...
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Post by Prince Hal on Oct 29, 2015 10:10:45 GMT -5
While I love that folks are hatin' on the '90s here, I initially expected to see more 40s and 50s books, some of which had some pretty badly-done covers... At first glance, I thought this was an underground comic!
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Post by foxley on Oct 29, 2015 15:47:28 GMT -5
Just about any cover from Rock-N-Roll Comics could qualify. Here is a typically awful example:
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2015 15:59:06 GMT -5
Just about any cover from Rock-N-Roll Comics could qualify. Here is a typically awful example: What? That's a perfect capture of what Rod looks like-it's life-like reality is amazing! It's almost photo-quality -M
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2015 16:29:07 GMT -5
I like Kirby but...this is...no.
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 29, 2015 18:11:55 GMT -5
I like Kirby but...this is...no. Sorry man, Kirby has a lifetime " get out of jail free" card.
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 29, 2015 18:12:48 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2015 20:50:10 GMT -5
I like Kirby but...this is...no. His left arm looks like it is positioned all wrong, like it is out of its socket. Gotta love Kirby, and I DO, but his art suffered in later years.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2015 21:50:42 GMT -5
I like Kirby but...this is...no. His left arm looks like it is positioned all wrong, like it is out of its socket. Gotta love Kirby, and I DO, but his art suffered in later years. Exactly...Captain Victory doesn't look so much like a human than he does an unbalanced stack of blocks or a quickly assembled mannequin. Shortcuts with perspective and foreshadowing don't quite work here as they used to for him. His left arm and right hand holding the gun are in positions that no human being could convincingly pull off. His head is so squished between his shoulders he comes across as Quasimodo. Yeah people will say it's unusual for anyone to slam anything that Kirby did but sometimes it's an "Emperor's New Clothes"kind of thing that needs to be said.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2015 21:53:14 GMT -5
I like Kirby but...this is...no. Sorry man, Kirby has a lifetime " get out of jail free" card. Maybe on his early work that he did but not so much on his later stuff. For this cover he "goes to jail with no sign of parole."
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Post by dbutler69 on Oct 30, 2015 7:15:47 GMT -5
Is there anything more generic? Or rip-offish? Spawn meets Batman meets Iron Man with a Werewolf By Night moon in the background. Blah Plus, the title of this story is "Life on the Edge". How original.
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Post by Confessor on Oct 30, 2015 8:01:26 GMT -5
Just about any cover from Rock-N-Roll Comics could qualify. Here is a typically awful example: Good God, yes! They all had awful covers. I remember regularly seeing those comics for sale in one of my favourite second hand record shops down in Brighton in the early '90s and, although I was intrigued by the subject matter on occasion, the covers were so ghastly that they prevented me from even picking up a copy and flipping through it. Just terrible covers.
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Post by Crimebuster on Oct 30, 2015 8:33:55 GMT -5
It's my understanding that Kirby developing some kind of degenerative eye condition in his later life that led to some of the wonky perspective issues at the end of his career. I can't seem to find where I read that, but I've seen it mentioned a couple times.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Oct 30, 2015 8:51:54 GMT -5
I'd heard that as well. I assumed it was common knowledge, but perhaps not.
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