The official J Scott Campbell Appreciation/Discussion Thread 12 12

[cujobyte]

Nice books Rock!!!! 

[pkpickard]

X-Men Gold 1 - any bets on how long it takes to sell out?

[UnboxingTreasures]

Snagged my 3 copies of the A,B and C unsigned sets this morning!

That virgin cover is aMAZing

[UnboxingTreasures]

4 minutes ago, pkpickard said:

X-Men Gold 1 - any bets on how long it takes to sell out?

I'd say an hour.

[kevhtx]

3 minutes ago, pkpickard said:

X-Men Gold 1 - any bets on how long it takes to sell out?

I snagged 2 unsigned sets. I bet those go within an hour or 2.

[Doktor]

I snagged 1 unsigned set. I'm not specing them tho. Just for the personal collection. 

[kevhtx]

2 minutes ago, Doktor said:

I snagged 1 unsigned set. I'm not specing them tho. Just for the personal collection. 

I usually buy one for PC, sell the other to offset at least some of the cost.

I also do this to give me a bit of a better chance to get a NM/M.

Edited March 18, 2017 by kevhtx

[Sandflea]

1 minute ago, Doktor said:

I snagged 1 unsigned set. I'm not specing them tho. Just for the personal collection. 

+1

[pkpickard]

4 minutes ago, kevhtx said:

I snagged 2 unsigned sets. I bet those go within an hour or 2.

I did exactly the same.  I know Rich Henn was planning on 10 sets for CGC SS treatment.  JSC has an incentive variant coming up for X-Men Gold 3, which I've also got on order.  Hoping it's as good as these.  

 

Edited March 18, 2017 by pkpickard
(Edited because my use of personal pronouns was confusing.)

[Doktor]

Just now, kevhtx said:

I usually buy one for PC, sell the other to offset cost.

+1

I contemplated doing that but opted not to. I prefer just buying my personal collection copies tho. 

[Praxis52]

Just got my copies (3 set unsigned).  Can't wait to get them in my hands?!

[ickwinzs]

I almost forgot about these today, but I got my unsigned set in also a,b and c

[kevhtx]

Not sure when it happened, but ABC sets are already sold out. Both signed and unsigned.

[pkpickard]

5 minutes ago, kevhtx said:

Not sure when it happened, but ABC sets are already sold out. Both signed and unsigned.

So about 90 minutes (ish) - a bit faster than Elektra?

[Mean_Green]

Picked up 2 sets signed, hoping some remarking might occur. Best looking cover in a while from JSC.

[aka Rick1]

The complete sets are nice, 'tho I wonder with all of the character manipulation / changes on the covers, what the actual original artwork looks like in terms of overlays / patches since many of the central characters remain the same in common where others change.

[ygogolak]

20 minutes ago, aka Rick1 said:

The complete sets are nice, 'tho I wonder with all of the character manipulation / changes on the covers, what the actual original artwork looks like in terms of overlays / patches since many of the central characters remain the same in common where others change.

It's digital I'm sure.

[combiner1]

8 hours ago, ygogolak said:

It's digital I'm sure.

I don't know if it's digital.... if you look at JSC's Facebook page or twitter.... you see some pictures of sketches for those three covers.....

 

If I was a superstar artist with nothing else to do all day, I would be doing three cover sketch too

[ygogolak]

1 hour ago, combiner11 said:

I don't know if it's digital.... if you look at JSC's Facebook page or twitter.... you see some pictures of sketches for those three covers.....

 

If I was a superstar artist with nothing else to do all day, I would be doing three cover sketch too

Yes, usually they sketch out the idea by hand. They need that for approval anyway.

[Doktor]

Likely the major differences in the line work is a mixture of pencil/pen & digital. Like Wolverine/Old Man Logan's head/torso (mask vs no mask, jacket vs spandex) were scanned at different phases & stuff was digitally colored & changed then, while JSC finished doing additional line work as it went & stuff was photoshopped together. I don't know if there'd ever be "TRUE" original art for this since there's different changes in line work throughout. Some that are different on every single one & some that don't change at all except for minor variations that are also still probably done via digital coloring. 

For instance: Rachel's cloak in the current era team vs no cloak on the 80's and a different mask & hair & no spikes in the 70's. Colossus with shoulder pads vs no shoulder pads. Kitty's 3 different hair styles. Even Storm's face/eyes looks slightly different on the  80's version than the current & the 70's. In addition to the totally different hair style. Almost like a different head was drawn for the 80's version and photoshopped in place of the one for the current & the 70's versions. Hell, the only 2 that really didn't change are Colossus (except for the shoulder pads) and Nightcrawler (slight change in his hair on the current vs the other 2)

A lot of it is probably just changed during the digital coloring process, but some appear to need totally separate line work.