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Post by humanbelly on Feb 20, 2014 19:22:42 GMT -5
Artists: 4) Gene Colan 3) Ron Lim 2) Neal Adams 1) George Perez Writers: 4) Jim Starlin 3) Joe Casey 2) Peter David 1) Kurt Busiek Peter David-- daggone it, how could I have overlooked him? His long run on The Hulk was the only thing that made the loss of Greenskin's childlike persona bearable, 'cause Peter David was able to make the "Professor" Hulk an interesting fellow in his own right. The book did get bogged down in his pet Pantheon concept, though. He made Genis-vel an interesting guy (or at least made that short iteration of Captain Marvel a good read). X-FACTOR became an unexpectedly decent title in the midst of the egregious, over-blown X-plosion in the 90's. HB (Okay, yes. . . YES. . . I'm ensconced at the snack table at HBGirl's dance studio, selling snacks as part of the fund-raising efforts. And it's not terribly busy this evening. Hence the too-much-HB-contributioning. . . )
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Post by ultron69 on Feb 24, 2014 14:44:22 GMT -5
Artists: 4) Gene Colan 3) Ron Lim 2) Neal Adams 1) George Perez Writers: 4) Jim Starlin 3) Joe Casey 2) Peter David 1) Kurt Busiek Peter David-- daggone it, how could I have overlooked him? His long run on The Hulk was the only thing that made the loss of Greenskin's childlike persona bearable, 'cause Peter David was able to make the "Professor" Hulk an interesting fellow in his own right. The book did get bogged down in his pet Pantheon concept, though. He made Genis-vel an interesting guy (or at least made that short iteration of Captain Marvel a good read). X-FACTOR became an unexpectedly decent title in the midst of the egregious, over-blown X-plosion in the 90's. HB (Okay, yes. . . YES. . . I'm ensconced at the snack table at HBGirl's dance studio, selling snacks as part of the fund-raising efforts. And it's not terribly busy this evening. Hence the too-much-HB-contributioning. . . ) I actually preferred the amoral Mr. Fixit to the good ol' monster-child, though he could be interesting too if handled well.
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Post by sharkar on Mar 4, 2014 10:57:20 GMT -5
Man, they're so similar, aren't they? And yet both are such terrific works of cover art-- it doesn't come across as unoriginal, rather that they're terrific variations on a theme... Re Avengers #57 and X-Men #50 covers: Right--this is a fairly generic pose for the superhero genre. And as is well known, the Avengers #57 cover image was deliberately based on a specific image of the golden age Vision's first appearance (and was probably specifically requested by Roy T. to Big John). At any rate, as Pym so aptly put it, these 2 classic covers are a great set of "bookends!" Loved these two covers back then, and I still do.
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