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Popular Things You Have No Interest In (Ignore Value)
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kbmcvay

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Are there things that are super popular you just aren't interested in? Take value out of the equation completely assume everything is worthless. Just think about it from a pure enjoyment you'd get from the art perspective.

Here are a few of mine.

1. McSpidey

2. Anything drawn by Frank Miller

3. Watchmen

4. Anything drawn by Rob Liefeld

5. Anything drawn by Erik Larsen

These are all fine but I don't hold them in as a high as regard as most.

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Rick2you2

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Old Marvel Masters, new Marvel artists drawing Marvel characters, almost any Marvel characters. 

Cluttered pages—detail over design.

Toth. I have yet to see something he’s done that I would want in my collection. Same with Gil Kane, but I still have hope for him.

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99% of "popular" comics published after 1972. The stuff I do like from the last 50 years is fairly esoteric and much it not super-popular, and I have no real interested in slab copies of any of that. Gold through early bronze, while much of it not really that readable, does have a cool factor that makes them still appealing to me even if I don't collect most books from that era. 

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On 7/11/2022 at 2:35 PM, kbmcvay said:

Are there things that are super popular you just aren't interested in? Take value out of the equation completely assume everything is worthless. Just think about it from a pure enjoyment you'd get from the art perspective.

Here are a few of mine.

1. McSpidey

2. Anything drawn by Frank Miller

3. Watchmen

4. Anything drawn by Rob Liefeld

5. Anything drawn by Erik Larsen

These are all fine but I don't hold them in as a high as regard as most.

Except for his Daredevil run, totally agree.  Most of his later stuff is worse then #4s.

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On 7/11/2022 at 11:17 PM, s-man said:

Except for his Daredevil run, totally agree.  Most of his later stuff is worse then #4s.

I enjoyed reading the DD run when it came out, and Miller’s layouts were inspired, but I wondered then and still cannot help wondering how much better it would have looked under a less heavy-handed inker than Klaus Janson. It didn’t have to be Al Williamson or Joe Sinnott, just a solid Marvel house style guy e.g. Joe Rubinstein, Bob Wiacek, Dan Green etc. … Would love to see alternate takes on some of that if copies of pencils still exist.

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On 7/12/2022 at 4:46 AM, Readcomix said:

I enjoyed reading the DD run when it came out, and Miller’s layouts were inspired, but I wondered then and still cannot help wondering how much better it would have looked under a less heavy-handed inker than Klaus Janson. It didn’t have to be Al Williamson or Joe Sinnott, just a solid Marvel house style guy e.g. Joe Rubinstein, Bob Wiacek, Dan Green etc. … Would love to see alternate takes on some of that if copies of pencils still exist.

Rubinstein inked most of Daredevil #163 after a couple of Janson pages, and it looked pretty good.  What If #35 included a couple of pages that reprised layouts from DD #181, now inked by Terry Austin, but I didn't think they were an improvement.  I don't think Bob Wiacek's inking got good until after Miller's DD run had ended, and I didn't rate their collaboration on Marvel Team-Up #100.

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