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Post by kirby101 on Oct 11, 2023 20:47:53 GMT -5
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Post by jester on Oct 11, 2023 20:57:45 GMT -5
That's awful. My condolences to his loved ones.
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Post by shaxper on Oct 11, 2023 21:18:16 GMT -5
Just read this myself. Only 71. Far too young.
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Post by tarkintino on Oct 11, 2023 22:35:46 GMT -5
So very, very sad.
Of his volume of work, I will always love his run on the Legion of Super-Heroes. He's on the Mount Rushmore for those who had a signficent creative impact on the Legion concept.
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Post by spoon on Oct 11, 2023 22:36:09 GMT -5
So sad. It's a shock, because it's so sudden.
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Post by commond on Oct 11, 2023 22:49:00 GMT -5
Thanks for the laughs.
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Post by berkley on Oct 11, 2023 23:28:19 GMT -5
70 feels very young to go, these days. I enjoyed his artwork for Marvel in the 70s and also liked what I saw of his work for DC in the 1980s, e.g. the Great Darkness story in the Legion. I would have loved to see him do a longer run on the Defenders, especially with Mike Royer's inks. Or anything for 70s Marvel superhero, really. I'd rank him among my favourite superhero artists, though that would be based on a relatively small number of comics, as far as my own experience with his work goes. I haven't seen much of his work after the early '80s so no opinion on the Munoz controversy.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Oct 12, 2023 2:10:44 GMT -5
Damn, the news broke in the middle of the night (or rather very early morning) my time, so this was some real sad news to wake up to.
Loved so much of his work, esp. on Legion and Dr. Fate, and yes 71 is way too young. Condolences to his family, friends and other loved ones.
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Post by driver1980 on Oct 12, 2023 6:06:13 GMT -5
RIP to him. So much great work.
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Post by dbutler69 on Oct 12, 2023 6:30:00 GMT -5
Shocking and sad news. And yes, way too young.
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Post by Cei-U! on Oct 12, 2023 6:38:35 GMT -5
I'm not especially fond of his work (with a handful of exceptions) but I'm sad to hear of his passing nonetheless. Condolences to his family, friends and fans.
Cei-U!
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Post by commond on Oct 12, 2023 7:14:39 GMT -5
Giffen & DeMatteis' Justice League was one of the first comics I fell in love with and remains one of the cornerstones of my fandom. Recently, I've been reading some of the other work they did together like their Defenders mini-series and their Hero Squared series, which are told in a similar vein. They never fail to make me laugh. I have mixed feelings about Five Years Later, but I think the next time I read it that I may feel differently about it. I actually loved it the first time I read it and disliked it the second time through. I might read some of his work I haven't touched on before as a tribute to him.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2023 7:14:46 GMT -5
Sometimes there’s a creator who just has that extra special meaning for you, and Giffen was that for me growing up.
Largely it was his run on the Legion with Levitz. Imagine being a young reader just really getting into comics more seriously and the Great Darkness Saga is the kind of stuff you get introduced to. That Legion run to me is one of the high points of the Bronze Age, right up there with Wolfman/Perez Titans, Claremont/Byrne X-Men, etc.
But I also love stuff that’s funny in a crazy way, and Ambush Bug was another big favorite. Giffen had such a wit about him. His similar treatment of the Legion of Substitute-Heroes in their Special is one of the funniest things I’ve ever read. Polar Boy complaining because Infectious Lass accidentally changed Color Boy’s gender was priceless (not to mention Stone Boy stuck head first in the ground).
And on that note, who could have been a better guest artist on Nexus than Giffen for some issues where the Badger guested? That just fit perfectly somehow.
Before the whole Munoz thing and the stylized art he did following that, he really drew some lovely more traditional epic style stuff with the Legion. It culminated for me in this huge poster (very long horizontal style) that basically featured every Legion of Super-Heroes character to date. And it was an amazing finished product, I had it on my bedroom wall as a kid, favorite poster ever.
My folks for a very special birthday surprise ordered up a Giffen sketch commission for me decades ago. I asked for my two favorite Legionnaires (Brainiac-5 and Mon-El) plus Badger crashing the party and somehow in possession of a Legion flight ring. He did such a cool job, even threw Proty into the scene which was an added perfect touch.
This news is so sad to me, and RIP indeed to a guy who certainly had a big part in making comics special for me as a kid.
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Post by MDG on Oct 12, 2023 9:55:08 GMT -5
I may have more to say later--gotta get to work--but Giffen was probably my favorite mainstream artist of the 80s; maybe favorite mainstream artist post-1970. If it wasn't for him, I would've given up on DC many years earlier. In the grim 'n gritty 80s, he was a much-needed source of humor as well as artistic innovator. On things like JL and Legionnaires 3, the rare comic auteur who provided neither the final art nor the final words.
Admittedly, I had a hard time w/ things like Heckler, Trencher, and Legion Five Years Later, though I loved the way they looked.
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Post by kirby101 on Oct 12, 2023 10:45:25 GMT -5
He and Dan Didio did a short lived OMAC series that was as close to feeling like a Kirby book as anyone else had done. I was sorry to see it go.  |
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