My first proper exposure to Jae Lee was on his work on Batman/ Superman and it blew me away and seeing where he came from artistically is just astonishing. Crazy how he just completely bucks all rules when it comes to comic creation
I love Jae. He and I grew up in the same neighborhood in Fairfax, Virginia. He used to hang out with my next door neighbor. I was in the same grade as Jae's older brother and got to know Jae too. His early amateur work was great. It was so exciting for us when he made it in the industry.
His current work in Secret Six (the Vampirella spin off by Priest) is absolutely to die for beautiful. It's the polar opposite of this but yet keeps a lot of the same stylisms, like the heavy use of shadow and design within those shadows.
No disrespect to Jae Lee, but I was all about the Super Patriot/Die Hard fight. Part 2 is probably still my favorite cover ever. Also, just recently discovered your guys channel, been watching it for about a week. Excellent content.
I adore Jae Lee, he is one of my favorite artists of all time. His art work on Dark Tower, when he begin changing his art style was when I discovered him. Many people seem to enjoy his earlier stuff. For me, that more minimalist gothic style is what does it.
I randomly bought issue 2 when I was 10 and I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I'd never seen art like that in a comic before. The closet comparison I could make at the time was Stephen Gammell's illustrations from the Scary Stories to Tell in The Dark children's books, lol. That was definitely a comic I wouldn't let my mom see me reading!
I collected everything Transformers from Marvel through to Dreamwave and early IDW and Jae Lee's Transformers/GI Joe series is my favorite Transformers art by a long way.
I was a little older (20s) and found this stuff to be way too ridiculous - yet loved Trailer Trash by Roy Tompkins, Panter's Jimbo, Steven, Reid Fleming, etc. which were, in their own ways, just as juvenile, dark and absurd. Of course, now I love these Extreme Grim'n'Gritty books for what they are - "they can't hurt me anymore"
The ONLY other artist that comes even close to Jae Lees style is Mark Texeria and they are still different. I LOVE Jae Lees style! He drew everything all evil! I met him as well such a cool dude too!!! 🤘🏼
I was never more excited by any comics than I was by this series. I also loved his Hell shock books. His early stuff was just so energetic. When he changed his style, I felt like all of his characters where depressed & boring.
I like this old work (prior to 1993) than the one he evolved right now. I have read in article before that he gravitated towards a more photo-realistic rendition of characters. In my own opinion, he should have stick with this art-style and evolved from this. I would have imagined if Rob liefeld, larry stroman, or frank miller for example changed to a more realistic one then we have missed an art style that is so unique. His work now which is more of the same with a lot of artists. Still good but not different. I have not collected any of his work after he changed his style. That is only my take.
Hey guys. Found your channel about 2 months ago and have been addicted to the content. Just amazing stuff. I love all of it. Besides your patreons and merch is there a way to give a one time donation like on twitch?
Good old times. You gives think like me: comics with bulls*** stories, but amazing drawings and energy. That's just impossible to not get excited about it.
3:46 That is not where the nipples are on the Human body^^ ...unless, you are Marky Mark^^ ....all those nip slips. Gotta do a few myself. And Perspective be damned^^ hahahha.... oh man, this is when you start mission backgrounds.
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The commentary makes these videos so great in addition to appreciating Jae's dramatic turn here.
My first proper exposure to Jae Lee was on his work on Batman/ Superman and it blew me away and seeing where he came from artistically is just astonishing. Crazy how he just completely bucks all rules when it comes to comic creation
I love Jae. He and I grew up in the same neighborhood in Fairfax, Virginia. He used to hang out with my next door neighbor. I was in the same grade as Jae's older brother and got to know Jae too. His early amateur work was great. It was so exciting for us when he made it in the industry.
I love both Jae Lee's early work as well as his later! ...and a heck of a nice guy!
His current work in Secret Six (the Vampirella spin off by Priest) is absolutely to die for beautiful. It's the polar opposite of this but yet keeps a lot of the same stylisms, like the heavy use of shadow and design within those shadows.
@@chad8767 I had to look that up. Its Scared Six and yes its Beautiful!!!
You guys need to dig out the 3 issues of Spider-Man Jae Lee did. They were insane looking.
Yes i have them, thier my favorite art in a comic book
No disrespect to Jae Lee, but I was all about the Super Patriot/Die Hard fight. Part 2 is probably still my favorite cover ever.
Also, just recently discovered your guys channel, been watching it for about a week. Excellent content.
It was absolutely great, loved it too! Sadly I recently find out that Johnson never liked SuperPatriot design..
I adore Jae Lee, he is one of my favorite artists of all time. His art work on Dark Tower, when he begin changing his art style was when I discovered him. Many people seem to enjoy his earlier stuff. For me, that more minimalist gothic style is what does it.
I live both styles! I find his newer stuff more sophisticated, but damn his early stuff is highly energetic
I remember being blown away by these jagged black shapes, and all these years later it's still shocking to the senses. Total legend
not gonna lie - i LOVED Jae Lee's art style for these books back in the day
JAE LEE is one of the best!!! Thanks for covering his YB: STRIKEFILE, guys!🙏👍👌
I randomly bought issue 2 when I was 10 and I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I'd never seen art like that in a comic before. The closet comparison I could make at the time was Stephen Gammell's illustrations from the Scary Stories to Tell in The Dark children's books, lol. That was definitely a comic I wouldn't let my mom see me reading!
The .marvel namor run he did was awesome I also love the transformers/gi Joe mini series,and lets not forget that beautiful dark tower art
I collected everything Transformers from Marvel through to Dreamwave and early IDW and Jae Lee's Transformers/GI Joe series is my favorite Transformers art by a long way.
I was a little older (20s) and found this stuff to be way too ridiculous - yet loved Trailer Trash by Roy Tompkins, Panter's Jimbo, Steven, Reid Fleming, etc. which were, in their own ways, just as juvenile, dark and absurd.
Of course, now I love these Extreme Grim'n'Gritty books for what they are - "they can't hurt me anymore"
Come for the outlaw comics, stay for the Al Simmons “Nip slip”.
The ONLY other artist that comes even close to Jae Lees style is Mark Texeria and they are still different. I LOVE Jae Lees style! He drew everything all evil! I met him as well such a cool dude too!!! 🤘🏼
Y’all should totally do Lee’s Inhumans.
I was never more excited by any comics than I was by this series. I also loved his Hell shock books. His early stuff was just so energetic. When he changed his style, I felt like all of his characters where depressed & boring.
Amazing. I think I was the only kid that didn’t like Lees’s style back then or at least it felt like it haha. Still respect the man and his influence.
funny - there's a six panel page right there when you flip after you said we won't see any!
I noticed that too and it gave me a laugh.
I like this old work (prior to 1993) than the one he evolved right now. I have read in article before that he gravitated towards a more photo-realistic rendition of characters. In my own opinion, he should have stick with this art-style and evolved from this. I would have imagined if Rob liefeld, larry stroman, or frank miller for example changed to a more realistic one then we have missed an art style that is so unique. His work now which is more of the same with a lot of artists. Still good but not different. I have not collected any of his work after he changed his style. That is only my take.
Hey guys. Found your channel about 2 months ago and have been addicted to the content. Just amazing stuff. I love all of it. Besides your patreons and merch is there a way to give a one time donation like on twitch?
Man I grew up buying these. I loved them and the whole gen x stuff. Deathblow wetworks spawn
Good old times.
You gives think like me: comics with bulls*** stories, but amazing drawings and energy. That's just impossible to not get excited about it.
These 3 are like a nightmare on acid visually. WC Trilogy was cool too but much tamer
I feel like Jae Lee is STILL idiosyncratic.
This is a book I would have avoided at the time though I really liked the Namor run.
@@fad23 Loved his Namor run!
3:46 That is not where the nipples are on the Human body^^
...unless, you are Marky Mark^^ ....all those nip slips. Gotta do a few myself. And Perspective be damned^^ hahahha.... oh man, this is when you start mission backgrounds.
Great work in those comics. Do you guys have Instagram?
They do !
I want a Sentry movie.
most of the youngblood stuff was trash. but Jae Lee doing Chapel was the best.
Nothing but respect for MY PRESIDENT! PRESIDENT CHAPEL!!
These are still the coolest comics ever. Lee's Hellschock series was so disappointing after this.