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Josh Goldberg
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Posted: 27 July 2014 at 7:48am | IP Logged | 1  

This just makes me want to reiterate what I said in another thread last night: I'm so glad I don't read modern-day comics.
On the plus side, I've finally realized my lifelong dream of having the physique of a superhero.  I now have the same physique as big fat Benjamin J. Grimm.  And I didn't even have to do anything to achieve it!
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Norman Hardy
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So weird to see, in that Pacheco art, the use of a whole page of old school 4-panel layout to tell what is basically 7 lines of dialogue... and NOTHING else.

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I think it's actually four panels to show Ben getting dressed.

I kinda liked Pacheco's run on FF.
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Shaun Barry
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Nevermind the four panels of Ben Grimm getting dressed...

...what the hell is going on with Johnny Storm's left hand?!?!

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Stephen Robinson
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I see artists are making the same mistake as the Tim Story FF where
Ben Grimm basically looks like the Thing but without the prosthetics (in
other words, not a conventionally attractive man). Kirby drew a very
handsome Ben (as Crystal herself commmented). A slightly beefier
John Hamm would be closer to pre-Thing Ben.

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Rod Taylor! Too old, now, but my "casting" for Ben, like, forever!
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----I've been suggesting for some time that we all use @ for "irony" and/or sarcasm.----JB

I seem to recall this brought up briefly in an episode of Q.I.

I'm sure they said that the use of the character ^ (like quoatation marks) around the sarcastic comment, was acceptable.
However, I note on Wikipedia (spit), they list the backward question mark ⸮ as the indicator, both of irony -and- sarcasm. I presume for the latter it would follow a traditional question mark's usage by apprearing at the end of the sarcastic comment. They also list a bracketed exclamation point as a further option.

Wow, your hair looks lovely


or

^Wow, your hair looks lovely!^.

or


Wow, your hair looks lovely(!)

I favour the middle option, personally.

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I know he was way before their time but when I see Kirby Ben Grimm I immediately think of Nat Pendleton.
One of my favorite supporters.

 



Edited by Doug Centers on 27 July 2014 at 5:55pm
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Jesus Garcia
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Ben with a gut? That drawing made me think of Michael Chiklis with more hair. Perhaps the artist thinks the 2005/2007 Films are on-character.

When I first say Gary Lockwood in ST, the lightbulb on top of my bean lit "Ben Grimm!!!"
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Stephen Churay
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Plus, why do so many colorists not use diffuse highlights for things
that aren't shiny? The leather jacket in panel 4, nice. Johnny's pants in
two? Not so much. Unless I'm misreading the scene and he's wearing
silk pajamas.
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I've been complaining about this for years. In CHAPTER ONE there
was a page with Norman Osborn where he was apparently wearing
green glass pants!

Glass, when required, is another problem. Windex does not exist, as
far as too many colorists are concerned. Windows and mirrors are
fogged, almost every time!
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Yeah, there was a period for about 15 years where this was a real
problem. DC was no better. For a while, it seemed nobody could color
Superman's outfit. Although I have to say, for some reason, your work
seemed to take more of a beating by bad digital color than almost
anyone else. I felt bad for you.

I think it's gotten a lot better over the last few years but with it came
colorists who thought they should have more input to the actual art
than just coloring it.
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