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Mark Haslett
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Posted: 22 January 2024 at 6:26pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

I’ll never get the common trope of having shirts and pants so tight that
every micrometer of muscle definition is revealed, but emblems and boots
are sticking out 1-2 inches like they’re made of foam rubber.
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Francesco Cipparone
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Posted: 22 January 2024 at 6:50pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply

What I still have a hard time wrapping my head around is if you are going to base a piece upon an artist's work and have that artist's name attached to it, if the artist is still alive should he or she not be consulted in the very least? All it takes is a phone call or an email. In my opinion, lazy on DC's part. I'll be honest JB, surprised me that you had not been notified of it's existence. Is this common place?
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Michael Hogan
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Posted: 22 January 2024 at 8:56pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply

While the face is not too bad, IMHO, it is NOWHERE NEAR
what JB drew. JB drew the handsomest Man of Steel I have
ever seen...better looking than JLGL or Neal Admas, even.
I think Christopher Reeve would've been flattered by JB's
art.

That being said, I've seen a lot worse representations,
both in print and on collectibles. The current trend tends
to have Superman scowling. That figure does evoke that
last page of the limited series, though.
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Paul Wills
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Posted: 22 January 2024 at 10:30pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply

Yeah, that face has no traces of George Reeves or Christopher Reeve
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Posted: 22 January 2024 at 11:02pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply

“I’ve seen a lot worse” falls somewhere short of a sterling endorsement!
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Gundars Berzins
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Posted: 22 January 2024 at 11:34pm | IP Logged | 6 post reply

Coincidentally I just add this one next to the "Invincible" one.

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Peter Martin
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Posted: 23 January 2024 at 2:40am | IP Logged | 7 post reply

Not a fan of the darker shade of the cape, but apart from that, that one is pretty good.
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Athanasios Kollias
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Posted: 23 January 2024 at 5:05am | IP Logged | 8 post reply

Re: the "Man of Steel" statue: I took a look at the actual JB image, and I can see why the sculptor went with some aspects that seem off with the statue (ie the ears, which don't seem to me per JB's usual style). But, it has missed the hair and face by a lot, which is the most important part, imo. The unnecessary seams all around and the altered S-shield don't help at all. If they are supposed to be doing a JB inspired statue, they  should never change those important details.

The one above perplexes me. Is it supposed to be Reeve? Is it based on someone's work? And I agree the darker red on the inside of the cape is redundant...
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Vinny Valenti
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Posted: 23 January 2024 at 2:35pm | IP Logged | 9 post reply

The worst part is the changed expression. JB's is one of hope and determination - this statue instead has a sour puss.
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John Byrne
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Posted: 23 January 2024 at 2:49pm | IP Logged | 10 post reply

One of these days I’ll have to dig out my remaining Sculpy (probably hard as a rock) and try my hand at a version of my Superman’s face.
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Posted: 23 January 2024 at 3:07pm | IP Logged | 11 post reply

PS: as much as I now wish I had not taken on the project, there is still a deep thrill to typing the words “my Superman”.
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Posted: 23 January 2024 at 3:17pm | IP Logged | 12 post reply

PPS: poking around Google I find many (many!) “reviews” of my work on Superman, ranging from “it sucks” to “greatest of all time”.

Neither of those is entirely true, but what strikes me is that these opinions are still being expressed now, almost forty years after the fact.

Move on, people. My Superman has been almost entirely erased. Really. Nothing to see here!

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