General Marvel Legends

My Spidey '77 arrived yesterday. Not much to note, since I have the Japanese version from a couple years ago. They're essentially the same, just new head and overlays. I have no real attachment to this version of Spidey, but I do have vague memories of the Electric Company Spider-Man. I wonder if they'd ever release that version. They could probably reuse this body, though the EC version looks thinner in Google images. But he'd need a new head with smaller eyes, and a slightly different spider logo.
 
RichardSimmonsRobot said:
I can respect Alan Davis' artistic ability and ability to fluidly pose human figures. I just find his overall aesthetic boring. Like someone got their style directly from artistic anatomy books and kept that through their career. It's well drawn for what would be a 1970's aesthetic no doubt, I just find it lacks a certain type of energy that I enjoy: visuals that both club you over the head and can progress the story. Davis is obviously very talented on the visual storytelling side to convey what's happening, it just doesn't wow me much. Both the Kubert brothers have contributed a massive amount to the X-Men books over the years. They have decent "comic anatomy" but they pull off some very high energy shots. Andy seems the more measured in his depictions, which I loved for the team books, while Adam did some wild things with perspectives and action shots in the Wolverine books following the loss of his adamantium, and I loved them both for different reasons.
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Yeah I loved Adam Kubert’s run on Wolverine. He’s probably my favorite artist of the 1990’s thanks to his work on Ghost Rider, Wolverine and Captain America. And I feel like he can honestly draw circles around his contemporaries like Jim Lee, Mark Bagley, John Romita Jr and Todd McFarlane.


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Stoopid_Sandwich said:
Yeah I loved Adam Kubert’s run on Wolverine. He’s probably my favorite artist of the 1990’s thanks to his work on Ghost Rider, Wolverine and Captain America. And I feel like he can honestly draw circles around his contemporaries like Jim Lee, Mark Bagley, John Romita Jr and Todd McFarlane.
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I think it's Adam that did Wolverine and Andy that did Ghost Rider and Captain America.?

They're both pretty great.
 
NORM said:
My Spidey '77 arrived yesterday. Not much to note, since I have the Japanese version from a couple years ago.
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What's the difference between these figures? The 77 Spidey is from the TV show, but I guess I was under the impression that the first Japanese figure was from the TV show too.
 
yojoebro82 said:
What's the difference between these figures? The 77 Spidey is from the TV show, but I guess I was under the impression that the first Japanese figure was from the TV show too.
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I think they're same figure, but new head and such. 77 American Spider-Man had a very different mask from the Japanese Spider-Man
 
yojoebro82 said:
I think it's Adam that did Wolverine and Andy that did Ghost Rider and Captain America.?

They're both pretty great.
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Huh I guess I was wrong. When it comes to the Heroes Reborn Era but Adam definitely drew Captain America a little in the 90’s. Maybe I’m confusing this run with the Onslaught era stuff. And when it comes to the ghost rider books, Adam drew issues 1-10 of Spirits of Vengeance which was the Ghost Rider/Johnny Blaze book


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Stoopid_Sandwich said:
Yeah I loved Adam Kubert’s run on Wolverine. He’s probably my favorite artist of the 1990’s thanks to his work on Ghost Rider, Wolverine and Captain America. And I feel like he can honestly draw circles around his contemporaries like Jim Lee, Mark Bagley, John Romita Jr and Todd McFarlane.
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Wow tjat is quite a take. I like some of what the Kubert's bring to the table but their inability to draw unique faces was always such a huge drawback for me. Andy especially with out colors it can be genuinely impossible to tell characters apart.
 
My favorite artist of all time, comic or otherwise, is Mike Mignola, and though he didn't do much interior X stuff, this pin-up has been seared into my brain since I first saw it as a youth and just stared at it until it was burned into my retinas.

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More recently I've been falling in love with his X-Men Classic covers.

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Mignola’s line and composition are so distinct and recognizable. I don’t know him as an X-Men artist, but seeing them in his style is not at all disappointing.
 
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