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Im glad you guys aknowledge your my favorite at the start of the video helps me feel seen.
The beginning of a comic industry sensation and he’s never looked back. 💀🔥🕷️🕸️
Great episode. Really interesting to see McFarlane's art subdued if I can say – the faces, for the most part, don't even remotely remind me of later McFarlane. Even some of the body proportions and structure. Interesting stuff.
On the "24-issue run", I'd say Bagley's Ultimate Spider-Man keeps it fresh for the most part. I'd say his first 40 issues are his best, then it becomes kind of same-y (it is still fantastic, but nothing really chages/ he doesn't grow with the art, if that makes sense) but the around the 80/ 90 issue, it becomes fantastic again, until he leaves the series in issue 115.
Stuart Immonen takes over and it's awesome. He's divisive but I think he's fantastic on the run. Great energy in his art.
McFarlane for me is this example of, do whatever it takes to get it done, his perspective lines are all over the place but his people are gorgeous.
I bought that one off the rack too. My mom mindlessly doodled on the cover in red marker while she was on the phone.
I'll say, Todd McFarlane is the best Spider-Man comic artist ever!
This book made an appearance in the 1988 film: "Elvira Mistress of the Dark"
Chance was out years before in Web. He was a Hitman who bet against his success. Which is just cash on completion so it made no sense at all. Last appeared a couple of years ago.
I think Chance had already appeared in a Web of Spiderman issue before this one.
March 88, I was 4, it wasn't until the mid 90's that I (FINALLY) read my Larsen and McFarlane's (in that order) Amazing Spider-man.
It's never too late…
👏not👏everything 👏is👏for👏you! ROFL
In the name of "Bob" … appreciated the quick ref to Church of the Subgenius.
Bob McLeod. One of Marvel´s best inkers in the 70-90´s, but his drawing-/ inking style is also very dominant (in a soft way).
A better counterpart to McFarlane´s Spider-Man series, to study his artistic evolution, would have been The Incredible Hulk, Vol.1 issue 340-343 (1988), probably the 1st time he ever inked his own pencils in a series – and it still looks a bit un-evolved (but cool, nonetheless), he nearly uses no shadow effects at all. Two years later, over his Amazing SM run, his artwork clearly had become so much more solid + self-confident.
Catching that Otomo pull is badass.
the vampire boy in Salems Lot, lol
second appearance of Chance. He first appeared in Web of Spiderman
The panel featuring the Daily Bugle reminds me of the opening credits for Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest. Also, I love McLeod's inking in this issue. He help gives Mary Jane a tinge of classic Romita that would sadly disappear when he took total control of the art.. After that MJ would look more like Tammy Faye-Baker than the iconic classic Romita MJ..
Simonson pretty closely follows that pattern. 30 issues as writer/artist on Thor
Bob Dobbs! 😂😂😂
You guys are the best. Keep it up.
Yes it is. McFarlane was born to draw Spider-Man. Get him and Dave M. back to do a run set in late 80s continuity and style. No brainer.
Amazing 1st pun intended McFarlane
Chance is Web Of Spider-man #15, he's also in the Daredevil #246 – really good cover! I actually really liked the character!
Yep the boat is an Akira swipe, The Comics Journal had it in an issue I think.
Re: that New Universe ad…It really looks like Jon Bogdanove to me
Another great video guys! I got this comic straight out of the newsagents when first released (sadly sold for peanuts and long gone now) so this resonates a lot of nostalgia with me. Seeing it again now though it's clear to to me that Bob McLeod did a LOT of heavy lifting on the inks here. Really enjoyed the points you were making regarding the nuts and bolts skills as an illustrator required to be a jobbing comicbook artist and the trails of pulling off accurate long range 3 piont perspective. Funny that you mentioned that end sequence, even as a kid I was confused by it, looked to me that this new shadowey villain would turn invisible whenever he put his hands together!😂 Don't know if you have covered Todd's work on Batman: Year 2 yet? Definitely worth disecting his work on that serial IMO.
I feel like McFarlane's AMS run really takes off with issue 300. It's the first one he inks himself and it's Venoms big debut. 28 total issues over two years, super impressive in my opinion.