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Rick Whiting
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This mini series is one of the few "mature readers" labeled superhero titles from DC and Marvel that I have read and enjoyed.
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Brian Miller
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One of my favorites
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Vinny Valenti
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| Posted: 01 May 2025 at 12:28pm | IP Logged | 3
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It’s inexcusable to me that I don’t own a page from this.
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John Byrne
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I don’t think I do either, Vinny!
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Brandon Carter
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| Posted: 01 May 2025 at 2:56pm | IP Logged | 5
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Doing a color edition was DC’s condition for allowing the black and white version.This was frustrating for me, as it meant I had to modify what I had planned. ******* JB, back when you were doing commissions, I know you approached that art differently, as it was not intended to be colored and published. OMAC seems like a somewhat rare kind of case, as it was published in black and white but intended to later be published in color. How did your OMAC art differ from the art of your other comic projects of that time?
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John Byrne
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Originally, my plan was to immerse myself in the brilliant craftint work Wally Wood had done for MAD, where he had used the grays to define forms without holding lines. But when DC informed me they wanted stats of the pages before the grays were added, that became impossible. So OMAC ended up being conventional black and white drawings with grays added.
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Mark Haslett
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That is a HUGE change!
How easy it is to imagine the amazing version that could have been!
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Brandon Carter
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Alex Ross did a 64 page painted Fantastic Four hardcover for Marvel in 2022. More recently Fantagraphics issued an expanded edition hardcover of 352 pages that includes the original painted story, pages of Alex Ross's sketches, pages of inks, and even color guides. Over the last several years, DC had put out quite a few deluxe hardcovers of its older material so it would not surprise me too much (well, maybe a little) if DC were to issue a deluxe OMAC edition that included the original black and white version along with the never before seen color version in the same volume!
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John Byrne
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Alex Ross did a 64 page painted Fantastic Four hardcover for Marvel in 2022.••• Wasn’t that for Abrams (not JJ!)? They are licensing properties from Marvel.
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Brian Hughes
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I'd even settle for a compact edition.
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Brandon Carter
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Wasn’t that for Abrams (not JJ!)? They are licensing properties from Marvel.
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You are correct! Both the original and the expanded edition are from Marvel Arts, which are said to be a new collaborative line of books between Marvel Comics and Abrams Comicarts. I can't find that Fantagraphics has anything to do with the expanded edition so I probably confused it in my mind with something else. Coincidentally*, the Mighty Marvel Calendar Book: A Visual History: the Marvel Comics Calendar Book:1975-1981, which I ordered this week from Amazon is also an Abrams publication.
*Probably not so coincidental since Amazon most likely showed me the listing for the calendar book after I ordered the Fantastic Four book.
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