And today I learned that Larry Hama has been writing a new Joe series for IDW that continues where the original left...
And today I learned that Larry Hama has been writing a new Joe series for IDW that continues where the original left off. I thought they just did shitty retcons. And he's still political.
shame about the art
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ReplyDeleteAlso, as much as I love his writing for GIJOE, Nth Man is my favorite. I wish they would release that as a trade.
This is GI Joe 190 from this year and I believe he picked up at 156 from the original, so that's about three years.
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Graham Cracker Comics here I come...
ReplyDeleteLooks like the artist is trying to do a Buckingham impersonation. It really comes out in the third image on that page.
A lot of people are these days. It's School of Bryan Hitch.
ReplyDeleteMost comic artists right now are School of Hitch, School of Paul Dini or (still) School of Jim Lee.
This is better than a Jim Lee rip off, so I'll take it.
ReplyDeleteI could do with some Steve Leialoha in my GIJOE. Even a passable impersonation would do nicely. Still my favorite artist from the series.
ReplyDeleteY'know what was great? The Jae Lee Transformers/GI Joe
ReplyDeleteOnce Jae Lee moved passed his Image roots he really blossomed as an artist, getting all weird and wonderful.
ReplyDeleteHad to google that. Wow. Jae Lee has always been pretty great.
ReplyDeleteMichael Golden didn't do any Joe stuff beyond Year Book 2, but I would just page through it slowly all the time. I picked up The 'Nam just because of his art.
ReplyDeleteThe 'Nam had some choice issues in it. Not a lot, but some seriously interesting issues, particularly for the time.
ReplyDeleteHe should have always done the kinda cartoony faces instead of trying for realism. And his ability to draw weapons and gear is top notch. Mixing those two things was what I liked.
ReplyDeleteJust remembered that Liefeld ripped off Golden's Roadblock. Even copying, Rob couldn't draw a straight gun barrel.
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Casey Garske He had a wonderful feel for shadows when he was trying, but, kinda like Howard Chaykin, he never managed to do what most great comic artists do which is find a "stock face" (Byrne, Kirby, Mignola, Otomo) that works that they can stick on anyone at any angle, so it was like in each panel he had to draw the face from scratch or observation and with comic book deadlines that's a harsh mistress.
ReplyDeleteCasey Garske Holy shit, you're right. and then when I was a kid I went and drew a copy of that Liefield cover...
ReplyDeleteI swear they put those two pictures side by side in a Marvel Annual around 1991. The caption was something about Cable taking fashion tips from an unknown merc.
ReplyDeleteLiefeld's swiping is old news at this point, surely. Pretty much every panel of Cable from New Mutants #87 was straight traced from John Byrne's Superman #4.
ReplyDeleteJohn Byrne creates a throwaway "guy with guns" character, Liefeld builds a whole career off that rickety foundation.
James Olchak The swiping's old news, it's just I remember both the Roadblock image and the Cable image clearly from the first time around and never put 2 and 2 together. HOWEVER if this devolves into us complaining about Rob Liefeld then all will have been lost. He is a horror, let us move on..
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