Post by humanbelly on Sept 6, 2015 19:08:17 GMT -5
Say, real quick--
Does anyone besides me ever check in on the still-rumbling-along Spidey newspaper strip by Stan & Larry Lieber (daily) and Stan & Alex Saviuk/Joe Sinnott (Sundays)? Myself, I don't follow it closely, 'cause. . . well, it's not great by any stretch. I guess it hangs on by being sort of a comfortable, inoffensive curiosity-- and it's kind of a landmark on the comics page, I suppose.
They did just finish a storyline with MaryJane (still married in the strip-- that's one HUGE plus!) filming a superhero film as "Marvella". . . and the Black Widow gets involved. It caught my eye yesterday and today because they've just started a Sub-Mariner storyline, and Namor is sporting his old blue/black vested togs that Reed designed for him back in the Bronze Age-- my personal favorite look for Subby.
But Good-night Irene-- the average of the combined ages of these creators is 81.5 years old! With Saviuk (at 63) being young enough to be the SON of any of the other three!! And it's definitely a creaky endeavor. Lieber's pencils were always serviceable at best, and they've lost an edge-- but they're not awful, just "enh". Stan's plotting/scripting (assuming he does it himself) tends to be clunky and shallow, and a little tedious. He's been doing it for over 20 years, but I just don't think he's ever had a good feel for how a daily strip needs to be paced to keep it moving in sustained, tiny increments of plot. Alex S honestly seems to me to have dropped off more than I would expect. He always, to my eye, had issues with symmetry-- especially in angled views-- and that's become much more pronounced. There's also a problem with foreshortening and 3/4 views being out of whack that is very similar to Carmine Infantino's much later work. In a way, I think Joe's inks on the Sunday strip may still be the strongest contribution. Definitely not the artist he once was-- but there were aspects of today's strip that, to my eye, were clearly carried by Joe's well-placed embellishment (Namor's face, in particular).
So-- I may well be the only person left in America who pays any mind to this strip at all, but I thought, heck, let me put it out there!
HB
Does anyone besides me ever check in on the still-rumbling-along Spidey newspaper strip by Stan & Larry Lieber (daily) and Stan & Alex Saviuk/Joe Sinnott (Sundays)? Myself, I don't follow it closely, 'cause. . . well, it's not great by any stretch. I guess it hangs on by being sort of a comfortable, inoffensive curiosity-- and it's kind of a landmark on the comics page, I suppose.
They did just finish a storyline with MaryJane (still married in the strip-- that's one HUGE plus!) filming a superhero film as "Marvella". . . and the Black Widow gets involved. It caught my eye yesterday and today because they've just started a Sub-Mariner storyline, and Namor is sporting his old blue/black vested togs that Reed designed for him back in the Bronze Age-- my personal favorite look for Subby.
But Good-night Irene-- the average of the combined ages of these creators is 81.5 years old! With Saviuk (at 63) being young enough to be the SON of any of the other three!! And it's definitely a creaky endeavor. Lieber's pencils were always serviceable at best, and they've lost an edge-- but they're not awful, just "enh". Stan's plotting/scripting (assuming he does it himself) tends to be clunky and shallow, and a little tedious. He's been doing it for over 20 years, but I just don't think he's ever had a good feel for how a daily strip needs to be paced to keep it moving in sustained, tiny increments of plot. Alex S honestly seems to me to have dropped off more than I would expect. He always, to my eye, had issues with symmetry-- especially in angled views-- and that's become much more pronounced. There's also a problem with foreshortening and 3/4 views being out of whack that is very similar to Carmine Infantino's much later work. In a way, I think Joe's inks on the Sunday strip may still be the strongest contribution. Definitely not the artist he once was-- but there were aspects of today's strip that, to my eye, were clearly carried by Joe's well-placed embellishment (Namor's face, in particular).
So-- I may well be the only person left in America who pays any mind to this strip at all, but I thought, heck, let me put it out there!
HB
?), and then he was easily subdued whilst discombobulated. But there's no question that we had at least one insta-rust incident in that brief-ish period when Tony was sporting the boxy golden armor--- that's exactly the image that comes to my mind.