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		John Romita, Sr. draws cover of Spider-Man #600. Ask the nerd you're beating up why this is a big deal (latimesblogs.latimes.com)		74
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wildcatfan82		2009-06-30 08:00:32 AM

angrygrizzly: Personally, I'm a Rob Liefeld fan.

Did you see his Captain America? That was just awesome.

Big fan of the tiny feet, eh?

/Tiny, tiny feet...

AnEvilGuest		2009-06-30 08:09:46 AM

Klingon Penis: Freakin' gorgeous cover.

So much better than Greg Land and all these other tracer...er, photo-referencers.

but airbrushing spandex onto light boxed pornography is the finest of fine art!

fudgefactor7		2009-06-30 08:17:35 AM

DarthBrooks: Wake me when Ditko shows up.

THIS.

cleveoh		2009-06-30 08:54:10 AM

Wake me when ~~Ditko~~ Gil Kane shows up.

Well, Zombie Gil Kane, I suppose.

FirstNationalBastard		2009-06-30 09:06:28 AM

I'm glad that Jazzy John is doing another Spidey cover, but why is this a big deal? He just did the non-Obama cover for Amazing Spider-Man #583 earlier this year.

Hell, he's done plenty of Spidey work the the past few years... interiors for issue #500, probably a few more covers... what's the big deal about issue #600?

ClintBartonWannabe		2009-06-30 09:22:59 AM

FirstNationalBastard:

Hell, he's done plenty of Spidey work the the past few years... interiors for issue #500, probably a few more covers... what's the big deal about issue #600?

Because it has two zeros on the right hand end of the number.

AlgertMan		2009-06-30 09:23:58 AM

Why is this news? the man has been doing covers regularly for a while now.

Christian Bale		2009-06-30 09:33:50 AM

uptonogood: Christian Bale: Sweet. I hate the modern superhero comic book drawing style, which == humans with non-human proportions, muscles where there aren't any anatomically, women who look like anime characters, and colorists whose purpose is to use the latest computer technology to cover up the artists' shortcomings.

/off my lawn

uhh ... that cover is colored on a computer.

i'm not a fan of old school comic book art. or the contemporary people much. i just want good illustration. but the old school guys, i hate their style. james jean, i like his art. he never drew many comic panels but the fables panels he did for 1001 nights is pretty damn amazing.

Of course the cover is colored on a computer. I have nothing against colorists using the technology, it's the one area that's improved. But it masks the huge decline in pencillers' competence.

UNC_Samurai		2009-06-30 10:04:45 AM

RevMercutio: GWShenlong05: Great. Using this momentum, maybe they can fire whoever's mailing in the stories now, and re-hire JM DeMatteis or Chris Claremont.

Have you read anything Chris Claremont's written in the last ten years? He's an awful cliche now.

As a mostly DC reader, may I offer you Grant Morrison? We'll trade! Remember his great work on X-Men?

Secular Satanist		2009-06-30 10:05:14 AM

JR SR is one of the best. Give me Gil Kane's pencils and Jr Sr's inks and I'd buy every issue they put out.

Guntram Shatterhand		2009-06-30 10:09:51 AM

I'm surprised he's still alive, but glad. A pretty good artist, IMHO.

a stainless steel rat		2009-06-30 10:18:45 AM

give me John Byrne ( and his giant ego ) along with Terry Austin to ink it..

Rev. Skarekroe		2009-06-30 10:26:59 AM

AlrightGuy: Ditko

Apparently, Ditko doesn't do anything anymore unless it involves Objectivism.

stevetherobot		2009-06-30 10:29:51 AM

I'm not beating him up. He's beating himself up.

/Stop hitting yourself! Stop hitting yourself!

Pyynk		2009-06-30 10:39:35 AM

UNC_Samurai: RevMercutio: GWShenlong05: Great. Using this momentum, maybe they can fire whoever's mailing in the stories now, and re-hire JM DeMatteis or Chris Claremont.

Have you read anything Chris Claremont's written in the last ten years? He's an awful cliche now.

As a mostly DC reader, may I offer you Grant Morrison? We'll trade! Remember his great work on X-Men?

Pssst! As a DC and Marvel fan, DC is definitely getting the stink end of the deal on that one. Sure, Morrison's X-Men blows, but he did All Star Superman. The last good Claremont I can remember was his first run on Excalibur.

Pyynk		2009-06-30 10:41:25 AM

Rev. Skarekroe: AlrightGuy: Ditko

Apparently, Ditko doesn't do anything anymore unless it involves Objectivism.

It's a damn shame about Ditko, his work is so dynamic it even looked good with Charlton's crappy print process.

Pestifer		2009-06-30 11:56:23 AM

I actually got a drawing lesson from Romita once. I did a cover for Savage Sword of Conan, and I'd made the guy too much like the Robert E Howard Conan, and not enough the Marvel character. Romita did a tracing-paper overlay drawing on my painting to show me how to correct it. He's a good guy and an amazing draftsman. I still have that tracing paper.

AdolfOliverPanties		2009-06-30 12:08:08 PM

John Romita Jr did a bang up job on Iron Man back in the 80s. A lot of that had to do with Bob Layton's inks.

Side note: Worked in a comic store back then (I was 17, 18) and I have met both of those guys. JRJr was a hell of a guy. Very nice. Went out to dinner with the gang.

Bob Layton was a madman. I think he may have been doing blow in the bathroom. Paul Smith, who I think followed JRJr on X-Men, rode his freaking Harley into the comic shop. That dude was crazy.

Dhusk		2009-06-30 02:06:45 PM

...and then the nerd's even nerdier dad fires your dad for you beating up his son.

/people really seem to forget who's running the world nowadays...

mrEdude		2009-06-30 02:10:51 PM

i was beside a rack of new comics the other day
and astonished at how awful they look by their covers

lots of sameness and laziness

i43.tinypic.com

theorellior		2009-06-30 03:37:06 PM

angrygrizzly: Personally, I'm a Rob Liefeld fan.

Did you see his Captain America? That was just awesome.

Then there's always Ass-kicking Jesus.

ChimpZealot		2009-06-30 06:14:29 PM

syntaxic: Well, at least it's not Romita Jr. I can't stand that guy's art. I happened to glance at an issue of ASM during the New Ways to Die story arc and for some reason, all the symbiots had gigantic fists for some reason.

Still, nice to see Sr. drawing some stuff.

I actively hated JRJr for the longest time, but his work on Kick-Ass and (to a lesser extent) World War Hulk made me a fan.

ZeroCorpse		2009-06-30 06:41:44 PM

I always loved JRJr's work on Amazing Spider-Man, and his pop did a damn great job, too.

I'm still waiting for a Bill Seinkewicz run on Amazing Spider-Man, though. That would be awesomely weird.