I am loving this weeks contest, don't know how I will pick one to vote for.
I am loving this weeks contest, don't know how I will pick one to vote for.
There came a time when the Old Gods died! The Brave died with the Cunning! The Noble perished locked in battle with unleashed Evil! It was the last day for them! An ancient era was passing in fiery holocaust!
There are so many options for covers. Some pretty well known characters who've not yet been chosen! It is a great contest so far.
Every day is a gift, not a given right.
Original join date: 11/23/2004
Eclectic Connoisseur of all things written, drawn, or imaginatively created.
Yeah! And a good looking issue that was.
Covers for that issue, 8, 9, and 10 were also by Chaykin. Michael Golden did a few lovely covers, and of course John Byrne did the scripts/layouts for the first two issues (and an awesome in-house ad for the book that gave us a look at Indy’s office).
The creative teams on that book were pretty inconsistent though, which I’m sure led to its demise.
Considering the fantasy aspects of RotLA and its sequels, the writers could have easily written stories that played better to Ditko's strength, like like psychedelic illusions brought on by toad poison in the Amazon or hypnotic manipulation by the medicine men of some lost tribe. Wasted opportunity.
"How does the Green Goblin have anything to do with Herpes?" - The Dying Detective
Hillary was right!
I like Steve Ditko. I did NOT like him on this book.
One artist that stood out to me back then was Kerry Gammill. I think he had a real sense of what made Indy work; his style evoked the pulp era feeling while being really crisp and fresh. I enjoyed his body of work on the book.
My blushes. I was just trying to think of something not-superhero, so it would be a bit more of a challenge, and as it happened this collection was sitting by the desk here in the office, which got me thinking about private eyes. But that seemed too easy, and then I thought of the hat thing. So there you have it.
It certainly has been a lot of fun. You all have really surpassed my expectations. It's going to be a difficult choice!
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«It's like kids trying to write stories for adults or something.»
There is an huge difference among write a good story and try to write a great one.
«Heroism is not about being perfect or always winning, but breathing hope into the hopeless.»
Batman's world isn't realistic. It's grounded in psychological realism… In real life, Batman's crusade would be a horrible idea.[…] But in the world Batman inhabits, it not only makes sense, it's absolutely the right thing to do.
Fedoras weren't originally a private eye thing. That's something that has come out afterwards, out of film noir. Originally, the first popular user was Sarah Bernhardt, and up until the mid-20s it was primarily a woman's headgear, and specifically a signum of early feminism and the suffragette movement.
Which means I have a little list of characters I'd like to see rocking fedoras…
(This also means one of the few fashion mistakes in the Wonder Woman movie. It's not Steve who should wear a fedora—it's Diana, or even better, Etta!)
«Speaking generally, it is because of the desire of the tragic poets for the marvellous that so varied and inconsistent an account of Medea has been given out» (Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History [4.56.1])