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51:20 lol
One thing that never gets said enough about Larsen is his ability to produce high quality work on time and on a monthly basis. Check out the clips on youtube of him drawing sketches for fans- it looks almost exactly like his monthly work. It just pours out of him- ink to paper. I loved this series as a teen.
Larsens art is exceptional! Love his run on Spider-man so much. Awesome vid as usual too boys! Love it
At around 7:30 Jim is talking about the continuous panels and looking for the term, Chris at Comic Tropes dropped a vid today, about the same time this one dropped discussing that very technique and settled on “the de Luca Effect”
I'm pretty sure Erik has a LOT of fun on those pages. And I love him here, just Great.
I feel like any page of this run would be awesome to own.
Deathlok is one of my favorite characters!
I swear that on the page with solo's headshot, before the score ad, it's Todd McFarline in the left side of the bottom panel.
I first started drawing around Larsen's "powerless" arc on spiderman. Would recommend that as well.
Seeing Professor Hulk, I gotta ask if you'll be able to cover Dale Keown's run that introduced the character. Maybe there's nothing worth revisiting, sometimes I got those nostalgia goggles on.
12:45 I may be off with this, but I think the design for Peter Parker from Spider-Man Unlimited (1999) was partly based on this version of Peter. With the early 90s Spider-Man the animated series, Peter was more beefy, but this is a slight build, still kind of scrawny-ish Petere. The hair though for Peter in Spider-Man Unlimited was bit more… of the time.
This is THE COMIC that got me into reading comics. I still prefer suit Doc Oc because of this story.
I loved this run, and Hobgoblin looks awesome. That man drew his ass off on these.
Remember these well from back in the day. Weapons Grade Larsen-ogenic!
21:40 I wondered back in the day if Larsen had Doc Ock humiliate the Hulk as a way to tweak Peter David. I recall that David responded by having the Hulk return the favor in a later issue of that book. (Embarrassed that I know this!)
I absolutely loved (and still love) these issues. I don't think I ever seen art that pops off a page so much before, or since! Side note on the guest stars: I'm not sure about Deathlok, but Larsen noted that he wanted this to be a re-union of the new Fantastic Four (Spidey, Hulk, Ghost Rider, and Wolverine), but editorial would not allow him to use Wolverine, because he was already crossing over into too many other comics that month. I think it was editorial's choice to include new character, Sleepwalker, in his place. They even lampshade the missing Wolverine in the story by having Hulk quip that Wolverine was too busy with another team-up to attend the New FF reunion.
Colorful fun comic books. I had a lot of those growing up. Something about the layout and the colors being so bright and stuff remind me a lot of the Punisher war zone run from back then
i like when Peter David clapped back on Erick Larsen in the pages of Incredible Hulk around this time. I think Eric was aiming for a position on Hulk monthly
90s Larsen and Bagley are my iconic Spider-man art.
The last issue was one of the handful of comics I had as a kid and believe me when I say I read that thing to oblivion!
At 23:45: Did Macfarlane have a house burn down or something?
Fun fact: This was the start of a feud between Larsen and Peter David. Which was a part of a general animus between the Image guys and the always piss-and-vinegar soaked PAD, which included the ridiculous "debate" with Todd Mcfarlane.
Very soon after the issue where Doc Ock beat The Hulk, Peter David wrote an issue of the Hulk as a direct response, wherein Hulk easily beats Doc Ock. Eric Larsen felt that was disrespectful and petty on the part of David. They exchanged some words via… I believe it was Comics Buyers Guide? It was really bizarre, especially reading it as a kid who couldn't imagine having the time to argue when you're living the dream of working in comics.
Almost all the guest appearances of superheroes in these issues also had their own on going series starting the same year (92).
26:00 Rob Liefeld would Approve!