...I know that was a lenthy thread title but I'm all for accuracy.

 Anyway, I haven't bought a lot of new comics in quite a while but recently my girlfriend and I stopped by a comic book shop just to look around. She insisted that I leave with some new comics in my hand but I resisted, not really knowing where to start. Knowing that Green Lantern and Green Arrow are two of my favorite DC characters she grabbed a couple issues of THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD with them on the cover, paid for them, and forced them on me. Obviously, I know how to pick'em.

 So I got home and cracked them open. It seems that they were parts two and three of a teamup story also involving the Phantom Stranger. The story was engaging enough and the art by Doug Braithwaite was pretty good even if it was washed out by a watercolor-style coloring choice that left me a little cold. The three characters that the story focused on seemed pretty well handled and all in all it was a decent, if unspectacular little read.

 What caught my attention though, was an ad on the inside back cover for the Febuary '09 New York Comic Con. The entire page was a Neal Adams pinup featuring Hal Jordan and five other Green Lanterns firing their rings off in every conceivable direction and it was just about the most dynamic thing I've seen in years. The coloring was very well done too: deep, solid colors with modern printing techniques enhancing, and not subverting, the art. I could go on and on all day describing how eye-catching this piece was in microscopic detail but I'll try my best to be brief: This is how these characters should be presented. The other thing that occured to me- and this is more important than anything else I have mentioned- is how well a GL comic with this artwork would play to today's audience. There are a lot of artists from decades past whose  work I greatly admire yet I have to admit would not appeal to a modern mainstream audience today. Neal Adams does not fall into that category, apparently. Not only has he  "still got it", but based on this ad, you could probably put  him on any DC book you choose today, tell people that this is work from a hot, young, new artist named Noobie Yougblood, and the kids would eat it up. I honestly believe that.

Love Adams' work. 

...and whatever happened to the Adams/Miller Batman mini?

Anyone have a pic of the Adams Ad?

Goddamnit, that ol' son-of-a-bitch* can draw!

*Said (or, rather, written) with genuine affection and admiration, of course.