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Post by Prince Hal on May 17, 2024 13:39:16 GMT -5
roy Thomas should write a story tying together all the various roy Thomas cameos. I'd buy that in a second Marvel-Roy could team with DC-Roy (after first fighting each other) in "Crisis on Earth-Real." |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on May 17, 2024 13:41:17 GMT -5
roy Thomas should write a story tying together all the various roy Thomas cameos. I'd buy that in a second Marvel-Roy could team with DC-Roy (after first fighting each other) in "Crisis on Earth-Real." Maybe Jean and Dann could form a version of the Lady Liberators to oppose them. -M |
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Post by codystarbuck on May 17, 2024 21:15:31 GMT -5
Marvel-Roy could team with DC-Roy (after first fighting each other) in "Crisis on Earth-Real." Maybe Jean and Dann could form a version of the Lady Liberators to oppose them. -M Assuming the current Mrs Thomas gets along with the former. |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on May 20, 2024 21:41:38 GMT -5
Today is the 113th anniversary of the birth of Gardner Fox, responsible for creating and writing a large chunk of the Golden Age and Silver Age DC Heroes.
-M
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Post by berkley on May 21, 2024 0:23:18 GMT -5
roy Thomas should write a story tying together all the various roy Thomas cameos. I'd buy that in a second Marvel-Roy could team with DC-Roy (after first fighting each other) in "Crisis on Earth-Real."
And they could do an Arak + Conan team-up. Or maybe ... is there an REH character set roughly in Arak's (Carolingian?) era? No one comes to mind off the top of my head - Bran Mak Morn was too early, Solomon Kane too late ... |
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Post by foxley on May 21, 2024 3:35:55 GMT -5
Marvel-Roy could team with DC-Roy (after first fighting each other) in "Crisis on Earth-Real."
And they could do an Arak + Conan team-up. Or maybe ... is there an REH character set roughly in Arak's (Carolingian?) era? No one comes to mind off the top of my head - Bran Mak Morn was too early, Solomon Kane too late ... I think Cormac mac Art is the closest. He is a Gael who joins a band of Danish Vikings during the reign of King Arthur, which would put it somewhere around the 6th Century. (The series is closer to pure historical than fantasy, so Arthur is a illiterate Celtic warlord backed by Lancelot, a renegade Gallo-Roman, and Gwaine, a Celt who apes the Romans. Arthur and co. never actually appear 'on-screen' but form a background to the events of the stories.) |
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Post by driver1980 on May 22, 2024 10:46:11 GMT -5
I saw a Facebook post. I saved the image, but I don’t know how to link to an actual post, I can’t find “Copy Link” or anything (and Twitter seems to be changing daily, I’ve lost interest in knowing what to do there). So, credit for this goes to British Comic Heroes:  Apparently, it’s from The Adventures of Sir Lancelot #2 Annual 1959. Art by R S Embleton. |
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Post by mikelmidnight on May 22, 2024 10:58:32 GMT -5
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Post by kirby101 on May 22, 2024 11:03:07 GMT -5
Here is the page from not a comic, but an illustrated text book.
So what's the theory, Kirby somehow had this obscure British book and copied the small figure for Thor's costume?
Kirby was already drawing a proto-costume for Thor in 1957.
And the winged Viking helmet was not invented in comics.
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Post by driver1980 on May 22, 2024 11:14:51 GMT -5
Ah, I see. Thanks for the clarification, kirby101 |
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Post by kirby101 on May 22, 2024 11:27:17 GMT -5
Ah, I see. Thanks for the clarification, kirby101 I edited, because it was a real illustration, I was wrong about the photo shop.
I want to add that, it is not beyond feasibility, that Kirby had that book and took inspiration from that drawing. He was a voracious reader and used reference where ever he could find it. The Demon's face from Hal Foster is one example.
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Post by driver1980 on May 22, 2024 11:30:49 GMT -5
Ah, I see. Thanks for the clarification, kirby101 I edited, because it was a real illustration, I was wrong about the photo shop.
I want to add that, it is not beyond feasibility, that Kirby had that book and took inspiration from that drawing. He was a voracious reader and used reference where ever he could find it. The Demon's face from Hal Foster is one example.
What made you think it was Photoshop? Not a problem in any way, shape or form, I am merely curious.  I think everything is inspired by well, everything. I mean, unless you’re going back to Babylonian and Mesopotamian myths, because I don’t know if anything predated those, you’re probably not gonna find too much that is original. Just my view. |
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Post by driver1980 on May 22, 2024 11:40:04 GMT -5
Oh, and although the pic I shared was (hopefully) interesting, there’s no anti-Kirby sentiment from me, I promise. I mean, he did the pencils for Super Powers, that alone (one of my favourite series!) makes him worthy of my respect. |
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Post by kirby101 on May 22, 2024 11:46:37 GMT -5
I edited, because it was a real illustration, I was wrong about the photo shop.
I want to add that, it is not beyond feasibility, that Kirby had that book and took inspiration from that drawing. He was a voracious reader and used reference where ever he could find it. The Demon's face from Hal Foster is one example.
What made you think it was Photoshop? Not a problem in any way, shape or form, I am merely curious. I think everything is inspired by well, everything. I mean, unless you’re going back to Babylonian and Mesopotamian myths, because I don’t know if anything predated those, you’re probably not gonna find too much that is original. Just my view. The lines around the dots, and especially the boot straps, looked sharper to me than the rest of the ink lines. Also they don't quite fit the body and go off the form. But seeing how small that figure was in the illustration, those imperfections are understandable. |
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Post by berkley on May 22, 2024 12:51:09 GMT -5
And they could do an Arak + Conan team-up. Or maybe ... is there an REH character set roughly in Arak's (Carolingian?) era? No one comes to mind off the top of my head - Bran Mak Morn was too early, Solomon Kane too late ... I think Cormac mac Art is the closest. He is a Gael who joins a band of Danish Vikings during the reign of King Arthur, which would put it somewhere around the 6th Century. (The series is closer to pure historical than fantasy, so Arthur is a illiterate Celtic warlord backed by Lancelot, a renegade Gallo-Roman, and Gwaine, a Celt who apes the Romans. Arthur and co. never actually appear 'on-screen' but form a background to the events of the stories.) Thanks - this reminds me that I haven't read any of Howard's Cormac mac Art stories. I think I'll add that to my list of 20th-C fantasy I've started doing lately, even if it's more historical fiction, as you say. |
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