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Mike O'Brien
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Damn!  I know who else we won't be standing next to next time!

 

No, I kid, I kid!

 

Hm... the thought of Tim and I at an old folks home... holy cow!  Wish Uatu and Me still existed - I think that's the set up for a hilarious episode!!

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Thread drift is getting kinda... incestuous these days.
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To get back on track......Let me say without taking anything away from J.B.'s Action or Doom work right now but i agree that his Demon pencils are just so amazingly beautiful they would translate great without being inked at all.

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I personally like Mr. Byrne's work the best when he inks his own stuff. The criticisms of his inking come from fanatics on the dc boards who probably never even buy the comics. Where is their published artwork?
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I can't say that I have enjoyed anyone's inks over JB's own -- the recent issues of Doom Patrol and the Larry Stucker Hawkman stuff was good though.  I did love Ordway on the FF and Palmer on Hidden Years but I've come to like JB's own inks the best.  I am really looking forward to seeing what Dan Green does with BOTH this Wednesday.
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While JB's inks on Namor are superb, I guess I would prefer to see someone else ink his pencils.  I wish that Next Men and Generations 3 series had a "cleaner" look to them.

Scott - I'm surprised you didn't mention Terry Austin's work.
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Wilson -- oops!  I meant to say the recent issues inked by Terry Austin on Doom Patrol.  I also meant BOTD, not BOTH (I'm having some major brain fog these days -- I just completed 88 weeks of a medical therapy so my memory and typing skills are not what they used to be -- docs say it will take time) I agree on Namor -- something about the duo-shade paper too.  The work just shined.  It looks even better in black and white, like the OMAC series.
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Interesting - I never really cared for Terry Austin's inks, especially the past
few years. I think he makes the art look too "sterile". Plus it's hard for me to
look past all of the broken lines he leaves. I get the impression that if I used
a Fill tool in Photoshop on one of hs figures it would bleed out of the line
breaks and fill the whole page.
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I'm not as big a fan of Austin over JB as I used to be. To me, his FF covers look extremely different than when he inked JB on X-Men. My favorites from the two are " The Last Galactus Story" and SUPERMAN 1-3. The recent DOOM PATROL comes in at a close second.
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I always prefer JB's inks - I don't have the artisitic chops to tell
you why, except to say that the inks are most faithful to what we
see in the pencils. There is so much conveyed in facial
expressions that sometimes can get lost in the hands of an
inker who is not on the same page as the rest of the team.

But I have to say I am really enjoying all of the art on Doom
Patrol, Blood of the Demon and Action Comics. It's good to see
the different contributions each artist brings to the table.
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I wish that Next Men and Generations 3 series had a "cleaner" look to them.

Woah, what?  I thought John's inking on Generations 3 to be among the best he's ever done.  I don't know how he could get any "cleaner" than that. 

In particular, the first 3-4 issues I thought were absolutely stunning.  In my opinion, it's the best Byrne artwork (layouts + pencils + inking) to date.

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Huh - and for me G3 (alongside Lab Rats #4-8) falls in that 10% of JB's inks
that I _didn't_ like. I just didn't like the thick lines like looked liked they were
inked with a Sharpie. I'm assuming that Next Men was inked with a brush,
and I really liked that look better.
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