The panel featuring the Daily Bugle reminds me of the opening credits for Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest. Also, I love McLeod's inking in this issue. He help gives Mary Jane a tinge of classic Romita that would sadly disappear when he took total control of the art.. After that MJ would look more like Tammy Faye-Baker than the iconic classic Romita MJ..
Great episode. Really interesting to see McFarlane's art subdued if I can say - the faces, for the most part, don't even remotely remind me of later McFarlane. Even some of the body proportions and structure. Interesting stuff. On the "24-issue run", I'd say Bagley's Ultimate Spider-Man keeps it fresh for the most part. I'd say his first 40 issues are his best, then it becomes kind of same-y (it is still fantastic, but nothing really chages/ he doesn't grow with the art, if that makes sense) but the around the 80/ 90 issue, it becomes fantastic again, until he leaves the series in issue 115. Stuart Immonen takes over and it's awesome. He's divisive but I think he's fantastic on the run. Great energy in his art.
Bob McLeod. One of Marvel´s best inkers in the 70-90´s, but his drawing-/ inking style is also very dominant (in a soft way). A better counterpart to McFarlane´s Spider-Man series, to study his artistic evolution, would have been The Incredible Hulk, Vol.1 issue 340-343 (1988), probably the 1st time he ever inked his own pencils in a series - and it still looks a bit un-evolved (but cool, nonetheless), he nearly uses no shadow effects at all. Two years later, over his Amazing SM run, his artwork clearly had become so much more solid + self-confident.
Another great video guys! I got this comic straight out of the newsagents when first released (sadly sold for peanuts and long gone now) so this resonates a lot of nostalgia with me. Seeing it again now though it's clear to to me that Bob McLeod did a LOT of heavy lifting on the inks here. Really enjoyed the points you were making regarding the nuts and bolts skills as an illustrator required to be a jobbing comicbook artist and the trails of pulling off accurate long range 3 piont perspective. Funny that you mentioned that end sequence, even as a kid I was confused by it, looked to me that this new shadowey villain would turn invisible whenever he put his hands together!😂 Don't know if you have covered Todd's work on Batman: Year 2 yet? Definitely worth disecting his work on that serial IMO.
I bought that one off the rack too. My mom mindlessly doodled on the cover in red marker while she was on the phone.
McFarlane for me is this example of, do whatever it takes to get it done, his perspective lines are all over the place but his people are gorgeous.
Chance is Web Of Spider-man #15, he's also in the Daredevil #246 - really good cover! I actually really liked the character!
Catching that Otomo pull is badass.
I believe Hulk 341 or 342 would have come out the same month, so he was definitely doing
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The panel featuring the Daily Bugle reminds me of the opening credits for Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest. Also, I love McLeod's inking in this issue. He help gives Mary Jane a tinge of classic Romita that would sadly disappear when he took total control of the art.. After that MJ would look more like Tammy Faye-Baker than the iconic classic Romita MJ..
Simonson pretty closely follows that pattern. 30 issues as writer/artist on Thor
Great episode. Really interesting to see McFarlane's art subdued if I can say - the faces, for the most part, don't even remotely remind me of later McFarlane. Even some of the body proportions and structure. Interesting stuff.
On the "24-issue run", I'd say Bagley's Ultimate Spider-Man keeps it fresh for the most part. I'd say his first 40 issues are his best, then it becomes kind of same-y (it is still fantastic, but nothing really chages/ he doesn't grow with the art, if that makes sense) but the around the 80/ 90 issue, it becomes fantastic again, until he leaves the series in issue 115.
Stuart Immonen takes over and it's awesome. He's divisive but I think he's fantastic on the run. Great energy in his art.
In the name of "Bob" ... appreciated the quick ref to Church of the Subgenius.
This book made an appearance in the 1988 film: "Elvira Mistress of the Dark"
Close, that was Amazing Spider-man 299. and I think it gets tore up
Bob McLeod. One of Marvel´s best inkers in the 70-90´s, but his drawing-/ inking style is also very dominant (in a soft way).
A better counterpart to McFarlane´s Spider-Man series, to study his artistic evolution, would have been The Incredible Hulk, Vol.1 issue 340-343 (1988), probably the 1st time he ever inked his own pencils in a series - and it still looks a bit un-evolved (but cool, nonetheless), he nearly uses no shadow effects at all. Two years later, over his Amazing SM run, his artwork clearly had become so much more solid + self-confident.
Another great video guys! I got this comic straight out of the newsagents when first released (sadly sold for peanuts and long gone now) so this resonates a lot of nostalgia with me. Seeing it again now though it's clear to to me that Bob McLeod did a LOT of heavy lifting on the inks here. Really enjoyed the points you were making regarding the nuts and bolts skills as an illustrator required to be a jobbing comicbook artist and the trails of pulling off accurate long range 3 piont perspective. Funny that you mentioned that end sequence, even as a kid I was confused by it, looked to me that this new shadowey villain would turn invisible whenever he put his hands together!😂 Don't know if you have covered Todd's work on Batman: Year 2 yet? Definitely worth disecting his work on that serial IMO.
Yep the boat is an Akira swipe, The Comics Journal had it in an issue I think.
second appearance of Chance. He first appeared in Web of Spiderman
You guys are the best. Keep it up.
the vampire boy in Salems Lot, lol
Re: that New Universe ad…It really looks like Jon Bogdanove to me
Amazing 1st pun intended McFarlane
Yes it is. McFarlane was born to draw Spider-Man. Get him and Dave M. back to do a run set in late 80s continuity and style. No brainer.
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I'll say, Todd McFarlane is the best Spider-Man comic artist ever!