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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2014 16:10:16 GMT -5
Mike Grell was one of my favorite artists in the 70's. I loved his work on The Legion/Warlord/Green Lantern/Green Arrow at DC. He also did a handful of Aquaman & Batman stories that were great.
I also loved his Jon Sable series at First.
His Green Arrow work is my favorite.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on May 5, 2014 16:27:08 GMT -5
Warlord, by a significant margin. What was that book with a catwoman-type lead? Wasn't that Mike Grell? I liked that, too.
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Post by foxley on May 5, 2014 16:38:00 GMT -5
Do you mean Maggie the Cat? That was a mini-series that spun-off from Jon Sable, Freelance, but it was cut short and ended after two issues with no resolution.
I love most of Grell's work. My favourite is probably Warlord, but I also love Jon Sable, Green Arrow, James Bond: Permission to Die (anyone else remember that?), Shaman's Tears... I could go on and on about Grell.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 5, 2014 16:50:01 GMT -5
Probably Jon Sable. I think he'd loosened up a bit over where he was in Warlord. I'm a huge fan of Grell's...at least as much for his writing as his art.
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Post by Crimebuster on May 5, 2014 17:01:46 GMT -5
I'm a big Grell fan. I love Warlord.
But, I would actually have it third on my list behind Green Arrow and Jon Sable. My favorite Warlord stuff came after Grell left, ironically. The issues where his wife was ghost writing it and he was just doing the covers is probably my favorite period. I like the earlier stuff in the #1-39 range or so, the art is great, but I think the stories got better once Sharon Grell took over the writing.
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 5, 2014 17:03:04 GMT -5
Loved his early Green Arrow (a character I'd never really got into before) and Warlord. Jon Sable is definitely on my 'gotta read that some day' list
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Post by paulie on May 5, 2014 17:04:35 GMT -5
Green Arrow but just bought about 100+ issues of Warlord so this might change in a few months!
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2014 17:14:07 GMT -5
Warlord, undoubtedly. Especially love his splash pages.  |
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Post by Icctrombone on May 5, 2014 18:33:00 GMT -5
Warlord. He did Starslayer for First comics too, which was a sort of copy of Warlord.
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Post by MWGallaher on May 5, 2014 20:39:09 GMT -5
I remember liking the clean look of his early Aquaman stories, and then his Legion work. I think his Warlord art was his peak, with its Russ Manning-esque fashions for women and the fantasy setting. When he moved on to more realistic settings like Sable and Green Arrow, I thought his weak--heck, often bizarre!--figure work didn't serve the material, nor did his inability to draw convincing real-world garb (seriously, a man in a Grell suit looks like he's been keeping it wadded up in a lunch box for a week!). But that didn't stop me from buying Sable and GA for a large part of their runs; I think I gave up on Sable some time after Grell relinquished the art chores, but I kept with GA through the end.
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Post by fanboystranger on May 5, 2014 23:44:50 GMT -5
Jon Sable for me.
One of the things that I love about Grell's work is that he truly is a consummate storyteller. He's known for the adventure elements in his comics, but he's spectacular at depicting other types of action, from eating to conversations to seduction. So many artists can't these days can't draw a figure walking down the street without it looking like a fight scene. Take that Batman/Catwoman seduction scene from the first issue of the New 52 Catwoman series-- it was supposed to be about sex, but it looked like any number of generic fight scenes. Now consider Grell's moments of seduction-- there's a truly romantic atmosphere and powerful storytelling that sets the scene perfectly. It's such a rare gift, which is why Mike is rightfully considered a master. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 6, 2014 6:06:03 GMT -5
The unrebooted Warlord is probably my favorite, but there are many other gems by Grell: the origin story of Jon Sable, Starslayer #1, and the three-part James Bond story he did for Eclipse.
His stint on the Tarzan Sunday page was also pretty decent!
I'm sorry to hear that Grell killed Travis Morgan in the most recent Warlord series. Better that Grell do it than some other writer, though, if Morgan had to die at all.
Oh and, fanboy stranger: very well said.
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Post by Dizzy D on May 6, 2014 6:18:44 GMT -5
Jon Sable: I've only read little of his Green Arrow and no Warlord at all, while I have Jon Sable nearly complete.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 6, 2014 6:23:17 GMT -5
I'm sorry to hear that Grell killed Travis Morgan in the most recent Warlord series. Better that Grell do it than some other writer, though, if Morgan had to die at all. Bummer. |
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Post by paulie on May 6, 2014 8:43:43 GMT -5
Warlord, undoubtedly. Especially love his splash pages. I believe the two page splashes were a constant throughout the series. In fact, I think they were a part of every issue right up until the end (#133). |
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