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Post by chaykinstevens on Jan 29, 2019 7:47:48 GMT -5
I'm not sure, but might this be the only project Englehart and Gulacy ever worked on together? They worked together on Master of Kung Fu #18 & 19, and on two pages of Heroes For Hope. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2019 22:05:48 GMT -5
I just saw this, it never got beyond the pitch phase (as a DC editor rejected the pitch) but Mark Waid and Mike Wieringo wanted to do an Aquaman one-shot (and possibly ongoing) back in 2003. Comic Book Legends Revealed had a write up about it. It would have been an answer tot heincreasingly grim and gritty portrayals of Aquaman that had proliferated since the 90s. Ringo did this piece that was part of the pitch...  Man, I miss Ringo's work. -M (Waid recently posted the art on his FB page in the aftermath of someone trying to cash in on Ringo's name and a piece of unused art and forging Mike's signature on an altered version of the art he intended to use as a cover for his own project, Mark has chosen to celebrate Ringo's work by showing off pieces of his work and telling stories of their time working together on various projects to counter the negativity of the incident). |
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Post by beccabear67 on Feb 5, 2019 0:57:28 GMT -5
I just went off reading about Mike Wieringo and Mike Parobeck. I actually inked a copy of a Flash page by Wieringo circa 1994 among various samples for DC but really didn't know the names of all the people's works sent to me, I just wanted to show the widest variety of possible assignments from among them. His pencils back then were what you'd call extremely tight or finished, not much needed from an inker other than enhance, don't screw anything up, don't lose anything. I had no idea these guys lived and died... thinking I would probably really like that original fantasy Tellos by 'Ringo and the Justice Society by Parobeck from the looks and sounds of them! I only recently found out Neal Pozner had died way back, when I was in contact with him and his last letter said something about my hearing from Dean Motter about a job by then and then nothing. It crossed a letter I sent saying something hinting strongly how I didn't like Lobo and I assumed maybe that was what I was going to be asked to work on and had just shot my prospects in the foot.  Anyway, all water under the bridge, and my hands are getting shot now anyway. I am glad to learn about the two Mikes whose comics would all be new to me, but sorry they are no longer around. I would've loved an Aquaman like that and I'll bet he would've been fun to ink too! |
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Post by Duragizer on Feb 20, 2019 18:01:55 GMT -5
Kurt Busiek apparently wanted to write an X-Men series set between X-Men #66 & Giant-Size X-Men #1, but Byrne beat him to the punch. Seeing how excellent Untold Tales of Spider-Man was — and how middling X-Men: The Hidden Years was — I'd say we "old school" X-Men fans got the short end of the stick.
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Post by chadwilliam on Feb 20, 2019 23:34:15 GMT -5
rberman's excellent thread on Grant Morrison's All Star Superman run reminded me that Morrison had either an idea for or a plan to do a follow up to All-Star summarized as "Superman vs The Devil". As All-Star Superman is by far my favorite piece of work by Morrison and the only Superman story since Crisis that actually feels like Superman to me, I'd love to see Morrison get around to this one day.
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 21, 2019 23:34:00 GMT -5
Kurt Busiek apparently wanted to write an X-Men series set between X-Men #66 & Giant-Size X-Men #1, but Byrne beat him to the punch. Seeing how excellent Untold Tales of Spider-Man was — and how middling X-Men: The Hidden Years was — I'd say we "old school" X-Men fans got the short end of the stick. I find it interesting that anyone would want to continue the X-men book after #66 since it was a failed book. Those characters were bland and the book needed the infusion of Wolverine, Storm etc to be good. |
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Post by berkley on Feb 22, 2019 1:29:30 GMT -5
Kurt Busiek apparently wanted to write an X-Men series set between X-Men #66 & Giant-Size X-Men #1, but Byrne beat him to the punch. Seeing how excellent Untold Tales of Spider-Man was — and how middling X-Men: The Hidden Years was — I'd say we "old school" X-Men fans got the short end of the stick. I find it interesting that anyone would want to continue the X-men book after #66 since it was a failed book. Those characters were bland and the book needed the infusion of Wolverine, Storm etc to be good. I dunno - I've never felt any great love for the original X-Men but at the same time, I don't feel any disdain for that series either. Possibly everything from that era of Marvel is so drenched in nostalgia for me that I can't really judge. But anyway, even though I like the new Wein/Cockrum X-Men as written and drawn by Claremont and Cockrum, then Byrne, I don't really think of them as an improvement on the original so much as a brand new thing of its own, in spite of the obvious connections. |
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