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35 minutes ago, Mecha_Fantastic said:

 

What's so bad about this one? 

Quick & dirty composition, botched inking and one of the worst colouring job of the Silver Age.

When you put this one beside FF 74, 75 & 77, it hurts the eyes...

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9 minutes ago, kav said:

Ps when someone points out hey you drew 6 fingers its time to put away your pencils, admit this is not the career for you, and seek work in another field.

Like when Kirby drew two left hands on the Human Torch on the cover of FF3 ? (:

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19 minutes ago, Frederic9494 said:

Like when Kirby drew two left hands on the Human Torch on the cover of FF3 ? (:

ouch.

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On 7/7/2021 at 7:08 PM, letsgrumble said:

Tremendous work! Complete with soundtrack!

Honourable mention:

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Bad shading again here.

As well as a rubbish hairstyle he also has, what appears to me, to be a Vulcan unibrow.

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3 hours ago, Frederic9494 said:

Like when Kirby drew two left hands on the Human Torch on the cover of FF3 ? (:

I'd never noticed that. Now I can't ever unsee it. 

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1 minute ago, letsgrumble said:

 

Not so fast fer cryin' out loud!

An' here we go...

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Signed letsgrumble, after @Get Marwood & I

Those are bad but pls review the Hulk ones-they are worse than god awful.  They are WTF city.

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1 minute ago, letsgrumble said:

Here's an ugly combo. Mini-Thing with disproportionate left arm vs receding hairline Hulk.

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omg ^^

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Plus we finally see bottom of Ben Grime's feet-yeah slip n slide city I'm afraid.

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On 7/6/2021 at 7:05 AM, Mecha_Fantastic said:

The most active it got was a mild cheer when they came on stage one by one and left one by one. This was in the 2000's, in a festival setting, so they quickly lost a LOT of their audience, because there were other stages with more interesting acts on. 

Back to bad covers, here's another one I've submitted in the Modern thread. The layout is bad, Cameron Hodge on the top left looks terrible, Cable on the top right looks DREADFUL and like an old geezer. Underneath looks okay, but the piece just doesn't gel together in any way, shape or form, and looks rushed, and is ultimately a bad composition. Plus judging by that pose, what exactly is Cable doing? I sure can't tell. 

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The Cable/ Hodge portion of the cover is lifted directly from the artwork inside the issue. I can only guess that the cover artist submitted the Jean/ Wolverine cover and someone thought it needed more. 

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14 hours ago, letsgrumble said:

 

Not so fast fer cryin' out loud!

An' here we go...

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Signed letsgrumble, after @Get Marwood & I

Objection to 2 of them. 9 and 10 aren't of the Thing, they're of the She-Thing, aka Sharon Ventura, and are on-model for her. It's not a good look, agreed, but it's not Ben and was never meant to be. 

Also I think 16 looks rather good, same with number 7 (he was covering his face because Wolverine clawed it up in a feral rage, using the original helmet Kirby designed for him, so I thought it was a nice homage) but that's irrelevant. Good list aside from Sharon's inclusion. 

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56 minutes ago, HarrisonJohn said:

The Cable/ Hodge portion of the cover is lifted directly from the artwork inside the issue. I can only guess that the cover artist submitted the Jean/ Wolverine cover and someone thought it needed more. 

 

I'd never noticed that. Good catch. But how odd. How did the artist (Bogdanove wasn't it?) think just Jean and Logan was enough for a cover against Jim Lee's detailed covers for the same crossover? I'd love to know the story there. 

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34 minutes ago, THE_BEYONDER said:

I’d like to see what the Frenz pencils looked like before Milgrom threw up on them....

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Its always a good idea to swing at your opponent when he is still 10 feet away.

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