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Post by MDG on Feb 27, 2024 9:27:27 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Feb 27, 2024 9:21:43 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Feb 26, 2024 14:53:06 GMT -5
When I was a kid I saw her name in the credits on Metamorpho and for some reason I thought her name was pronounced "fra-DON". The first time I heard someone say "FRAY-dun" I thought "What?!?" and then, "Oh, of course..." Yeah--that's the way I head pronounced it for years
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Post by MDG on Feb 26, 2024 12:44:57 GMT -5
I'm wondering if that photo of Stan wasn't a joking reference to the iconic pin-up of Burt Reynolds in Cosmo back in 1972. The Stan photo must have been around 1981, when the Batman-Hulk tabloid came out. {Spoiler: Click to show} Oh, yeah, it definitely was.
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Post by MDG on Feb 26, 2024 12:38:18 GMT -5
I first noticed her name on a 70s DC mystery story where the narrator POV switched between a brother and sister and the old man who lived next door. She did a great job of establishing how the characters saw each other and the changing viewpoints and expression. I saw her at a show where she was sharing a table with Marie Severin. While I was talking to her, Paul Levitz came by with his son who was probably 10 or 11. Ramona told the kid, "I's very nice to meet you. Tell your dad none of his editors know what they're doing."
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Post by MDG on Feb 26, 2024 12:31:21 GMT -5
... I have to be honest and say that this was almost one of those collections that I jokingly call my "I hate my money purchases". But it isn't actually quite bad enough to truly qualify as one of those. I will keep this book in my collection, because it's a decent compilation of pre-FF #1 comics, but I'm unlikely to re-read any of its contents again. Yeah--I prefer books like this and, for example, the TPB that has the "Origin of Zatanna" stories, than complete collections/long runs of a title. Gives a smattering of what was going on, but doesn't feel like a chore to read.
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Post by MDG on Feb 24, 2024 20:34:28 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Feb 24, 2024 10:46:09 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Feb 23, 2024 21:23:03 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Feb 23, 2024 14:32:26 GMT -5
Justice League of America, despite being DC's leading team book, was incredibly ill-served with being hit with runs from two artists least suited to superhero art. Supposedly, neither Dillin nor Sekowsky ever balked at drawing JLA, which despite its seeming importance for DC, was a hot potato because it was a team book and ergo that much more of a pain to draw. And Dillin had a reputation for getting his work done on time. Sekowsky seemed to be able to compose panels with a lot of figures without making them seem overcrowded. And Dillin had 20 years experience on another team book--Blackhawk. I think Schwartz's only art requirement was, "Can you tell what's going on?"
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Post by MDG on Feb 23, 2024 10:42:55 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Feb 23, 2024 7:38:40 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Feb 22, 2024 15:16:16 GMT -5
Thanks, MDG . Your answers re Marvel mke sense. And I'm glad you reminded me that Andru did metal Men, because there was a title that he seemed just fine on... not too cartoony, goofy and fun. I always enjoyed that. But I'd forgotten that he did the Virus-X serial in Action and went back to take a peek. While I loved that story as a kid, and I realize it is probably unfair to compare his work on the interiors with those Adams covers, he still reuses the same damn facial expression (vacant eyes, frozen grin) whether the mood is meant to be anger, insanity or pathos. On the other hand, Adams' super-serious, grimacing faces on (and in) Weisinger-edited books just made them look even sillier than they might have otherwise.
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Post by MDG on Feb 22, 2024 13:11:20 GMT -5
Don't really have a dog in this fight, as I was never a fan of Ross Andru's art (especially when inked by Esposito), but I mostly read his DC stuff. I could sorta kinda deal with his art on the war books, but when he took over the Flash from Infantino and did a lot of work on Batman in B and B and WF, his art hurt my eyeballs. Ugly layouts, awkward positioning of figures, and nothing suggesting that any character was lean or athletic. What he and Esposito dd to the Flash was unforgivable. ... Most of Andru's work at DC (war, Metal Men, Wonder Woman) was for Kanigher, so i wonder if he picked up Kanigher's seeming dislike for superheroes and that came through. Andru, with Esposito, did some Superman work in the late 60s that I thought was fine (including the Virus X 5-parter).
Spider-Man may have been his first work since the 50s w/o Esposito so it may have looked very different. Also, it seemed when Stan brought new artists on books, he'd have them work with an established layout artist and/or inker to get them into the house style.
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Post by MDG on Feb 22, 2024 12:58:06 GMT -5
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