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I always felt this was the best Mike Grell Cover I ever saw.
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I always felt this was the best Mike Grell Cover I ever saw.
**** dude I thought he died or something
Thread title made me think he had passed away! My heart dropped!
(Edited. Yay! He's still alive!)
Grell's Green Arrow was probably the benchmark for the character for the longest time.
And Warlord was one of DC's longest running titles.
[QUOTE=Lee Stone;3722569]Sorry to hear this.
Grell's Green Arrow was probably the benchmark for the character for the longest time.
And Warlord was one of DC's longest running titles.[/QUOTE]
Grell is fine. The OP just worded their title very poorly.
Ya Bastich!! I thought he died!!! My heart sank. I'm glad he's still alive. My favorite Grell cover is Green Arrow #40.
Mike Grell's Green Arrow is something every comic fan should read.
Add me to the list of Mike Grell fans who read the thread title and instantly went into mourning! Grell's Legion work was probably what first interested me in the title/characters and I continued to enjoy his work on Green Lantern/Green Arrow and Warlord. He was one of my favorite artists during that period, and I recently re-read his Green Arrow run and found it even more enjoyable the second time around.
[QUOTE=Elmo;3722474]**** dude I thought he died or something[/QUOTE]
You aren't the only one...
I met him a few times and got his book Sable signed.
A thread title change is probably best.
Like many I was worried when I saw this but glad he is still around. I was looking at a few of my art of George Perez books and getting to order the new artbook of Jim Starlin when I saw this and it made me wonder has there ever been an Art of Mike Grell book?
Yes please change the title of the thread.
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Anyone remember the Remco He-Man-style Grell inspired figures line.
Included Grell creations: Warlord (Travis Morgan) , Deimos, Machiste, and Mikola.
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Can someone please change the title? Or at least make it more accurate to what it is the thread is about. His art. [I]Longbow Hunter[/I] should be required reading for all aspiring artists. As should his early [I]Jon Sable[/I] work.
[QUOTE=superduperman;3722883]Can someone please change the title? Or at least make it more accurate to what it is the thread is about. His art. [I]Longbow Hunter[/I] should be required reading for all aspiring artists. As should his early [I]Jon Sable[/I] work.[/QUOTE]
"A look back at Mike Grell's work".
Go ahead mods!
[QUOTE=Lightning Rider;3722891]"A look back at Mike Grell's work".
Go ahead mods![/QUOTE]
What the heck it got our attention didn't it and long overdue for Grell. I say leave it. In past threads there are those who have knocked Longbow and Warlord. Screw 'em I say.
Looking at the title of this thread, it sounded like he passed away. I guess that didn't happen.
[QUOTE=Sodam Yat;3723076]Looking at the title of this thread, it sounded like he passed away. I guess that didn't happen.[/QUOTE]
Seriously.
Mods might want to edit that one to avoid folks getting confused.
My first Legion comic was Superboy #203, which was Mike Grell's first issue and also the death of Invisible Kid -- really made me sad as a kid to have the starring character of the story die at the end. Anyway, I loved Mike's Legion and Green Lantern/Green Arrow.
I own the full series of Warlord, but I think that DC should do an omnibus of it so we can see it with better printing and paper. Since Warlord has never been reprinted, I'd guess that DC doesn't want to because Mike probably had some kind of ownership stake or profit-sharing arrangement that DC finds to be too generous to make it worth their while. Shame.
Loved his work on LSH. One of my favorite covers is a Warlord cover where Morgan is emerging from a mirror.
[QUOTE=alton;3723001]What the heck it got our attention didn't it and long overdue for Grell. I say leave it. In past threads there are those who have knocked Longbow and Warlord. Screw 'em I say.[/QUOTE]
I'm plenty sure this was not the only way to get posters' attention. And what do a few people not liking Longbow and Warlord have to do with this?
I didn't mean to memorialize him, only to remember an artist who has largely been forgotten. And I think this was his best cover. I was most familir with his bringing back GL/GA from the back pages of The Flash title and into the relauch with issue 90 etc.
[QUOTE=mrbrklyn;3723234]I didn't mean to memorialize him, only to remember an artist who has largely been forgotten. And I think this was his best cover. I was most familir with his bringing back GL/GA from the back pages of The Flash title and into the relauch with issue 90 etc.[/QUOTE]
"A Mike Grell Retrospective...", maybe?
While it might not have been what you intended, my first thought was "Wow. Did he die, and I missed it?"
[QUOTE=Agent Z;3723180]I'm plenty sure this was not the only way to get posters' attention. And what do a few people not liking Longbow and Warlord have to do with this?[/QUOTE]
The fact that this shows people feel otherwise and rightly so. Still a good thread whether or not the title fries fandom OCD.
I don't hear Grell complaining.
[QUOTE=numberthirty;3723144]Seriously.
Mods might want to edit that one to avoid folks getting confused.[/QUOTE]
For luva God just let it go!
Unless CBR has already hired an assassin to aide Mr. Grell's passing into the afterlife, could moderators [B][U]seriously[/U][/B] retitle this thread?
[QUOTE=MajorHoy;3723860]Unless CBR has already hired an assassin to aide Mr. Grell's passing into the afterlife, could moderators [B][U]seriously[/U][/B] retitle this thread?[/QUOTE]
Oh no not you too! Try to stay on topic please. I'm learning more about Grell time at DC I never heard about.
The topic is Grell at DC.
Two great tastes that...
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First, change the title.
Second, one of the first writers who actually gave Oliver Queen some complexity beyond the forced theme O'Neil injected in him.
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@Güicho
I remember the first wave because I had the Warlord and Arak. I don't remember seeing the second wave.
Please change the title of the thread!
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[QUOTE=Kaled;3725120]@Güicho
I remember the first wave because I had the Warlord and Arak. I don't remember seeing the second wave.[/QUOTE]
Did you have the DC/Remco giveaway comic - [url]https://10deb7fbfece20ff53da-95da5b03499e7e5b086c55c243f676a1.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/2c2b5a2735439cae3079ae84625d3a83_xl.jpg[/url]
The line continued even further, there was also [URL="http://www.figurerealm.com/galleries/lostworldofthewarlord/MikolaBrownHorse-Front.jpg"]Horse and Rider sets[/URL] and eventually morphed into adding Warrior Beast, although Grell's Skartaris (AKA "The Lost World of the WARLORD") had some outrageous characters, I don't think any of the later were based on Grell designs. LOL!
They were just aping some goofy Masters of The Universe stuff.
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Warlord and Horse - [url]https://i.imgur.com/glbX0Vg.jpg[/url]
Catalog - [url]http://www.plaidstallions.com/remco/843b.jpg[/url]
Also both Warlord and Deiomos got vehicles - [url]https://i.imgur.com/2l1sZLZ.jpg?1[/url]
Grell is fantastic, and his covers for the recent Percy run of Green Arrow were just fanfreakingtastic, so if anyone wants to start posting some of those!
Well, this thread title got me worried.
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This one is actually not Grell but BWS if I am reading this right
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Grell Pulps:
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Damn you, mrbrklyn! I started breathing again only when I saw that Grell's wikipedia page featured the date of birth and nothing else to its right! :mad:
Anyway, what can I say about Mr. Grell that hasn't already been said or shown?
Oh, right, one thing: because of his immortal [I]Green Arrow[/I] run, I HATE HIM!
I hate him because his portrayal of Oliver Queen forever blocked my ability to be really intrigued by the character when it was handled by any other author after he left.
I hate him because he spoilt me with artwork that looks like it came from Plato's hyperuranium rather than our world and top-notch dialogue that I can still quote word-for-word years after reading it and everything that came after on the pages of the Emerald Archer felt either underwhelming or just too different from the golden standard.
I hate him because he made me care so much for a cast of characters, both established and new, that every other take inevitably feels like inappropriate deviationism or a poor parody of what should be.
I hate him because I once lent his collected run to my best friend (who knew next to nothing about comic book Green Arrow) to show him that there was a lot more to the character than the CW's pseudo-Batman incarnation and once he told me that he had become a fan and asked for more, I realized that I couldn't think of anything else qualitatively on-par to recommend.
The line between love and hate is indeed very thin for fickle creatures like us human beings. ;)
When it comes to Green Arrow, there are two Mike Grells. One is the Green Arrow artist and the other is the Green Arrow writer and they rarely ever meet.
The artist's history with Oliver Queen began soon after he came to DC, in 1974, when he illustrated the hero's back-up feature in ACTION COMICS (starting with issue 440). Elliot S! Maggin was the writer, who developed a close relationship with the Emerald Archer, saying that he gave Oliver his own voice.
Grell's artistic interest in Green Arrow continued when GREEN LANTERN was revived in 1976 and Oliver was the permanent co-star, with Grell as the penciller for the first two years of the new run--but Denny O'Neil was the writer.
And after that, Grell mainly dedicated himself to writing and drawing THE WARLORD, as well as non-DC projects.
Grell the Green Arrow artist meets up with Grell the new Green Arrow writer in 1987, for the three issue prestige format series, GREEN ARROW: THE LONGBOW HUNTERS. But that's where their partnership ends for a number of years, as Mike Grell the writer handles all the stories in the GREEN ARROW ongoing series--an 80 issue run, ending in 1993; whereas, Grell the artist only does some of the covers for that run.
The artist and writer come together again for the four issue limited series GREEN ARROW: THE WONDER YEAR, in 1992-93 . But that was their last peformance together. Mike Grell the Green Arrow artist has only returned to the character recently for the 2013 ARROW series. While Grell the Green Arrow writer has stayed away from the character.
[QUOTE=Jim Kelly;3726853]When it comes to Green Arrow, there are two Mike Grells. One is the Green Arrow artist and the other is the Green Arrow writer and they rarely ever meet.[/QUOTE]
True this. Grell's art has a gloss (great for his Legion work) that seems out of place with the grit and realism of his Green Arrow stories. However, I may not have stuck with warlord had it had a "grittier" artist as my artistic tastes back then were still young and underdeveloped.
The unfortunate thing for Mike Grell at DC was that, other than his very early work and his cover art, he was usually saddled with Vince Colletta as his inker. I think this is because Vinnie was the art director at DC which meant he had his pick of which penciller he could ink and--out of some perversity--he chose to ink Iron Mike. Grell's art benefitted from a slick, tight inking style--which wasn't Colletta. Others like Bob Wiacek or Terry Austin served him better, when Grell didn't have the option to ink his own pencils.