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You know,, I was never a fan of Sal Buscema's art growing up. His figures always seemed stiff to me, his villains too cartoony. But it's funny how nostalgia changes our views, I recently picked up a trade collecting the original Tombstone storyline, and there was something very comforting and enjoyable about his art, and his very workmanlike approach to panels and storytelling that called back to the Golden Age illustrators. He also had an incredibly respectible 150 issue run - I'm not 100%, but I think that may be a unique accomplishment among Spidey artists.

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It was Roger Stern who fought to bring them together as a couple, a lot of folks behind the scenes objected to it
 
It was Roger Stern who fought to bring them together as a couple, a lot of folks behind the scenes objected to it
They were dumb then. It's much more interesting for them to be a couple (and) have Aunt May around who can both be threatened occasionally or get mad at him for things, or even some other "not punch out people" frustrations to deal with. Of course, I also like Aunt May in the Spider-Verse cartoon, she KNEW, and she was waiting on Miles. That's saying HUGE things about that universe to me. (Also she just seems badass on her own. Not in a punch supervillains way, but in "my son is a hero, and I'm backing him up as best I a mere mortal can!" )
 
I hate to say it, but I was kinda relieved when Aunt May died in the 90's, even if it was just another cheap ploy to sell to collectors.

3 decades of her being frail and old and at death's door was too much.

I appreciate the retcon of her character as ornery and tough starting in JMS's run, but that isn't the May I grew up with.
 
Peter was always worried she would croak from a heart attack if she found out he was Spidey.
 
Aunt May was Spider-man's worst villain for years. She'd psychologically tortured him since he was a child.
 
Why does she understand that reference?
Post-COIE there was a story where she learned she had fake memories and then her true origin as one of the future Titans of Myth.

Many years later (2000-2001, I think) there was another storyline where she was a stand-in for Wonder Woman, and it had some sort of reincarnation/alternate timeline plot where she was tortured, killed and reborn over and over, I think in different identities. It was referenced exactly once afterward, AFAIK, and never brought up again.

I imagine she remembers those events, blissfully unaware how truly complicated her life story is.
 
I’ve always been a Jim Cheung fan.

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So I saw this and almost shared the story of how I debated buying a sketch by him, and in the five minutes between me deciding to buy it and getting online it sold. I was then going to ramble about the fact I had the exact same thing happen with a Larry Elmore piece. But I thought it was a dumb story.

Then Facebook Memories reminded me today is the ten-year anniversary of my Elmore flib.

Synchronicity is a funny thing sometimes.
 
I need to go back and read the Nocenti and Romita Jr. DD comics. I think I was burning out on superhero comics by that time but remember the Romita art, so distinctive, kept me interested. I'm terrible at describing someone's art style but there's no missing Romita during this period.

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He, Silvestri and my fav Mazzuchelli all did really interesting, personal work in the 80s. Later on I feel like mainstream superhero comics became most standardized in their look, later Silvestri barely resembles his best work on X-Men and Wolverine in the 80s/early 90s.

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Voros Voros For me 80s Romita Jr. is his peak work. I think he changed over into what has become his best-known style with his Punisher War Zone work, but it’s just never clicked for me like his 80s work.

i’m also prepared to sell (someone else’s) kidneys to get the last page of Uncanny #182 he did. It was my first superhero comic, and the page that cemented me as a Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD fanboy.
 
This page might have been the most shocking in the 155 issues of G.I.Joe: A Real American Hero!
Art by Larry Hama and Steve Leialoha.

I think it's well established lore now, but that's before most of SnakeEye's origin had been revealed, so if anyone is looking at it and wondering what was shocking, it was the reveal of Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow having the same tattoos.

I love that issue because Snake Eyes shows up to rescue Scarlet, but she's already rescued herself and she kinda rescues him instead
 
I find issue #21 very similar to The Empire Strikes Back with the rescuee being the rescuer and the big familial reveal (Snake-Eyes and Storm Shadow being sword brothers) at the end.

I think issue #26 is actually the best issue out of the whole run because Hama weaves the story together so masterfully.
 
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