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John Byrne
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Posted: 26 January 2016 at 11:03am | IP Logged | 1 post reply

There is an innocence and nostalgia required for Superboy that has made the character impossible to depict effectively for more than 30 years now. The push would be to find the "edge" for him, which wouldn't work.

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The idiot squad would also demand the character age in real time, and, knowing DC, they would do it.

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Paul Go
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Posted: 26 January 2016 at 11:24am | IP Logged | 2 post reply

Joyous.
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Michael Arndt
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I love it when a commission makes me smile big.

Great looking all the way around. Love how JB draws dogs.

Congrats to the commissioner.
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Joe Alexander
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I am late to the party but I just have to say how much I
love this!! I am one of those who was under the false
impression that JB was not a fan of Superboy, so I never
expected to see his take on them in a commission. So glad I
was wrong. Not sure what is going on with me lately, but
I've had a major feeling of nostalgia the last few years
for Superboy and Krypto and I'm always seeking out any
images of them. This is absolutely my favorite I have ever
seen. Just love everything about it. Really enjoy the
details of Smallville in the background. Awesome!
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Josh Goldberg
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"The SUPERBOY TV show in the 1980s was Superboy in name only. He was more 'young Superman'..."
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I've long wondered about that.  Wondered if what the Salkinds really wanted was to do a Superman show, but only having the rights to Superboy at that time, made it as much like Superman as possible while still being able to call it "Superboy".
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Josh Goldberg
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"There is an innocence and nostalgia required for Superboy that has made the character impossible to depict effectively for more than 30 years now."
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Boy, did that statement make me flashback to my youth.

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Shane Matlock
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Posted: 07 February 2016 at 7:09pm | IP Logged | 7 post reply

Love the sense of depth in this one. Having the figures with darker lines gives it a three-dimensional feel. I've noticed you doing this in commissions and it works really well. 

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Wallace Sellars
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JB does a good job of drawing Superboy as a boy, and not a man with a
boy's face.
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Josh Goldberg
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JB also does that well with Spider-Man.  Conveying the character's youth through body size/proportion and body language, while still keeping him an impressive superhero.  And all this with a character whose entire head is covered in a mask, so the artist can't show his youthful face to help convey that image.

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Trevor Smith
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Re: that Superman Family cover - I like speed/motion
lines, but that cover seems a bit too busy with them.
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Brian Hague
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Garcia-Lopez seems to be trying to put across what Superboy is doing as it is done in the comic, but without multiple panels or thought balloons to do it. In the story, a helicopter's blade come off and Superboy cannot simply catch them because they will shear and fly into pieces. He decides the best way to stop the rotation is to run in place on top of the rotors, using his feet as brakes to cushion and slow the spin so they can be caught safely.

That's a lot of activity to try to put across in a single image. I think Garcia-Lopez did it as well as it could be done, and still managed to convey a powerful picture of our hero, and his father's pride in his son.

The story inside, by the way, is Cary Bates and Joe Staton's "The Shadow of Jor-El," a touchstone issue for those who felt the Superman mythos had become too heavy with mentions of Krypton. Pa Kent feels Superboy has been spending too much time downstairs in the basement with the Kryptonian mind-prober ray (first seen in 1960) reliving his memories as an infant with his parents and reveling in the accomplishments of his scientist father. Feeling himself a man of comparatively few accomplishments, Jonathan Kent fears his son will think little of him in the years to come. Later in the story, a series of earthquakes hit Smallville. Jonathan discovers the source, but Superboy is busy helping countless others. He knows that if he places himself in danger and calls out to his son, Superboy will not only hear him, he will prioritize his call for help above all the others and come rushing to him. The plan works and Superboy is able to neutralize the quakes by disposing of the meteorite causing them. Jonathan then gently chastises the boy for placing his own concerns and loved ones above those of everyone else. The two walk off together with Jonathan's sense of himself reassured, knowing he's doing a good job raising his son and preparing him for the future. 

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Bill Catellier
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Love this!   Growing up I always preferred Superboy to Superman.  Reading his adventures with the LSH etc.  It wasn't till JB's post crisis Superman that I truly got into the adult hero. 
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