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Batman vs. Bane
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Raphael # 1 (8404) brushwork. I was surprised how quick and easy it
was to ink this piece (on my parents' kitchen table) while I was in
town for the Pittsburgh Comic Con in 2000. I've always thought McDaniel's
work would be fun to ink, and I was right. Looking back, I think I
should've made the feathering on the torso part of his costume thicker,
so it doesn't match his arm hair so much. Now it looks like a hairy
shirt. Live and learn...
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Doctor
Doom
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Raphael # 3 (8408). To me, Paul Ryan's take on Doom here recalls the
great work Keith Pollard did on the Fantastic Four. So I dug up FF
# 200 to get a feel for it, deciding to give it the appropriate Joe
Sinnott treatment. Studying Sinnott's work, I marveled at how he inked
EVERYTHING with a brush! Even Doom's mask! And with such wide brush
strokes! So I did the what I could to match Sinnott who, despite whatever
penciller he was given, kept the FF's look consistent throughout the
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Avengers Assemble!
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Raphael
# 1 (8404), Brush, #104 quill (chain mail) and .04 rapidograph pen
(for tight facial details) When I saw Steve's great recreation of
one of his earlier Avengers cover (with the Vision added by request),
I begged for him to let me ink it! Turned out, begging wasn't necessary,
as he was curious how I'd interpret it as well. I really was apprehensive
and probably held back because each line was so perfect. I only got
indulgent on the Black Knight's helmet and chain mail.
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Speedball
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Raphael
# 1 (8404) Brush and #104 quill. Mark Bagley seems forever tied to
the Steve Ditko-designed Speedball, as he actually made Speedy cool
in the first two years of the fondly-remembered New Warriors. The
paper Bagley used must not've been meant to ink on, as it bled like
a stuck pig when ink was applied. I spent more time touching it up
than inking, with considerable amounts of whiteout involved.
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Penciller: Mark Bagley
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Sandman and Sandy
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Raphael
# 2 (8404) Brush, # 22 quill and rapidographs and ship curves (for
airships and missiles). Made a full-size copy of a page from Kirby's
1978 Masterworks Portfolio, then laid over frosted acetate. Acetate
takes longer to dry, so you gotta be careful. This was printed a tiny
trading-card size in The Jack Kirby Collector # 28, but nonetheless,
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Iron Man
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# 1 8404, #104 Hunt Quill, .03 rapidograph & Prismacolor PC1067
pencil (Cool gray 90%) for jet exhaust. I was kinda shocked to see
Grell do a superhero after years of earthbound heroes, but this was
done during his writing stint on I.M. Like a lot of pencillers, he
usually inks himself, so some of the shading had these unique Grell
effects that I had slight trouble interpreting. I added a few squiggly
shine effects on his limbs to break up the orderly shadows.
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Batman & Superman
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Not Cully Hamner's usual
style, but a nice simple animation look, in keeping with the Justice
League cartoon. The body language on both characters says it all.
For the handful of people who don't already know, Cully is a member
of Atlanta's Gaijin Studios. He was also one of the first pros who
gave me encouragement when I was starting out. After complaining
about a then-recent comic where the inker butchered his pencils,
Cully told me "Wish you'd have inked it." Thanks, Cully.
** I recently thought
all my copies of this piece were lost in a move. This piece is taken
from the only photocopy I had. Unfortunately, it stuck to another
one underneath and some of the toner bled through, necessitating
the extensive white out. **
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