Why is Amazing Spider-man 300 going for so much?

[joecgcmaniac]

I might be alone but I like Larsen & Bagley artwork

 

Me too....you are not alone!

 

Same. I am still trying to get my hands on 9.8's of ASM 346&347

+1

 

Larsen was a bit shaggy, but both guys drew a nice clean panel, and the art never took me out of the story.

 

My only real problem with Larsen is that he hated Venom (so he draws Spidey...?) and made him look as unrealistically clownish as he felt he could get away with. This isn't supposition, he said so himself.

 

Venom was not ever meant to be a slobbering, "gigantic mouth full of different sized teeth pointing in all directions", green glop drooling monstrosity. If the being that confronted MJ in #299 had looked like the one on the cover of #347, she would have ended up laughing hysterically, not traumatized to the point of forgetting who she was.

 

It was ridiculous, and Bagley merely carried on the silliness, though toned down a bit.

 

The perfect expression of Venom will always be the cover of #316.

 

Exactly how he was always supposed to look.

 

[joecgcmaniac]

And not like this...

 

[B-Smooth]

And not like this...

 

Aye. That second one is friggin ridiculous.

[joecgcmaniac]

And not like this...

 

Aye. That second one is friggin ridiculous.

 

 

At least Bagley brought him back to "mostly" normal version.

 

Although it looked like Venom got into Hulk Hogan and Lex Luger's steroid stashes.

 

[MetalPSI]

I might be alone but I like Larsen & Bagley artwork

 

Me too....you are not alone!

 

Same. I am still trying to get my hands on 9.8's of ASM 346&347

+1

 

Larsen was a bit shaggy, but both guys drew a nice clean panel, and the art never took me out of the story.

 

My only real problem with Larsen is that he hated Venom (so he draws Spidey...?) and made him look as unrealistically clownish as he felt he could get away with. This isn't supposition, he said so himself.

 

Venom was not ever meant to be a slobbering, "gigantic mouth full of different sized teeth pointing in all directions", green glop drooling monstrosity. If the being that confronted MJ in #299 had looked like the one on the cover of #347, she would have ended up laughing hysterically, not traumatized to the point of forgetting who she was.

 

It was ridiculous, and Bagley merely carried on the silliness, though toned down a bit.

 

The perfect expression of Venom will always be the cover of #316.

 

I dunno, I kinda like the out of proportion mouth and eyes done by Larsen. I am not by any means a huge Venom fan, but somehow those books drew me to him. I suppose issues 346 and 347 being the first two comics I ever owned probably has something to do with it.

[chrisco37]

I might be alone but I like Larsen & Bagley artwork

 

Neither was very good on ASM. I did, however, really like Bagley's stuff in Ultimate Spider Man (especially when he was inked by Art Thibert). I thought his art went great with the story.

 

 

[500Club]

I might be alone but I like Larsen & Bagley artwork

 

Me too....you are not alone!

 

Same. I am still trying to get my hands on 9.8's of ASM 346&347

+1

 

Larsen was a bit shaggy, but both guys drew a nice clean panel, and the art never took me out of the story.

 

My only real problem with Larsen is that he hated Venom (so he draws Spidey...?) and made him look as unrealistically clownish as he felt he could get away with. This isn't supposition, he said so himself.

 

 

The perfect expression of Venom will always be the cover of #316.

I completely agree.

 

It's been years since I read the interview with Larsen where he described his dislike for Venom, and his subsequent decision to draw him as a grotesque caricature. An old issue of CBA, maybe...?

[RockMyAmadeus]

I might be alone but I like Larsen & Bagley artwork

 

Me too....you are not alone!

 

Same. I am still trying to get my hands on 9.8's of ASM 346&347

+1

 

Larsen was a bit shaggy, but both guys drew a nice clean panel, and the art never took me out of the story.

 

My only real problem with Larsen is that he hated Venom (so he draws Spidey...?) and made him look as unrealistically clownish as he felt he could get away with. This isn't supposition, he said so himself.

 

 

The perfect expression of Venom will always be the cover of #316.

I completely agree.

 

It's been years since I read the interview with Larsen where he described his dislike for Venom, and his subsequent decision to draw him as a grotesque caricature. An old issue of CBA, maybe...?

 

Yeah, that sounds about right....

[oceanavekid]

i'll always prefer carnage over venom