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Vinny Valenti
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Posted: 27 November 2014 at 5:47pm | IP Logged | 1  

How did it come about that Dan Green became your inker
on ASM and BOTD? I remember when BOTD was first
announced that I commented that Green would be the
perfect choice for inker. Bud De LaRosa was chosen
instead, who I felt did a fairly decent Dan Green
impersonation with the inks....and then eventually Green
himself became inker. Dan Green doesn't mesh well with
certain pencilers, but I've found him to be your best inker
(when you employ other inkers), and his line was perfect for
they style of stories BOTD had - I especially remember the
demon disembowelment scene.

I know that inkers are sometimes chosen by the artist and
other times by the editor, so I was curious how we ended
up with this perfect matchup!
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Posted: 27 November 2014 at 5:49pm | IP Logged | 2  

There was a lot of shuffling as I recall, and both times I was lucky enough to end up with Dan.
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Joe Hollon
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Posted: 27 November 2014 at 7:56pm | IP Logged | 3  

JB is definitely JB's best inker but in recent years, Dan Green has been my favorite if JB is doing pencils only.  
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Vinny Valenti
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Posted: 27 November 2014 at 8:09pm | IP Logged | 4  

Agreed. It's funny how both JB and Green changed their
respective styles over the past 30 years, but they still
remained compatible. Green's inks over JB's AVENGERS
run in the 70's were also quite good, and I actually preferred
it over Terry Austin's of the same time period. Green has his
own style for sure, but he seemed to remain inline with JB's
own inking line. He never altered the pencils in any negative
way......everything was still clearly JB, which a "garnish" of
Green, which is more than I can say for many of his other
inkers. His "chaotic" line doesn't go well over somebody
tight like Jim Lee or Joe Maduriera, but it was the perfect fit
for JB's BOTD. He complemented the book's tone.
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Posted: 28 November 2014 at 6:23am | IP Logged | 5  

…everything was still clearly JB, [with] a "garnish" of Green…

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I am so going to steal this line! A good inker adds "garnish" to the pencils -- s/he enhances, but does not alter!

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Steven Legge
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Carmen Bernardo
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Green works well with other artists, too. His inks over John Romita Jr's pencils in those issues of Uncanny X-Men which maintained my interest in the characters after JB and Dave Cockrum left were among the best work he did, to my recollection.
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Vinny Valenti
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Yep, I liked him over Marc Silvestri, also. He goes well over kinetic
pencillers. Which could explain why his one time inking Jim Lee just
didn't work out that well.
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