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JTLarsen

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  1. JTLarsen
    I've had them grade books at or stricter than the grades they were sold to me as.
  2. JTLarsen
    Story-wise, clearly TMNT draws primarily from Daredevil. But the art draws more from Ronin.
  3. JTLarsen
    Don't even get me started on Spider-Man and Zoids...
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    Mark Waid -script. Adam Hughes cover. Decades-old super-team. Yuh. Drek.
  5. JTLarsen
    And Miller did covers for it, and, I believe, was inspired by the art (and/or artist). Looking at the Ronin artwork, it's hard to imagine having TMNT if we didn't have Ronin for them to spoof...
  6. JTLarsen
    You're 100% right.
  7. JTLarsen
    It probably depends on whether there's an obvious way to tell the difference.
  8. JTLarsen
    That's not how people use the phrase. 181 is Wolvie's first FULL appearance. That's all it's short for.
  9. JTLarsen
    Moore / O'Neill. Ennis / artist whose name escapes me who did Demon and ...
  10. JTLarsen
    There is, I believe, an Absolute edition, as well as an Artist's Edition (in which they scan the original art). They're amazing.
  11. JTLarsen
    It's also...and I probably repeat myself here...one of the most moving, pointed stories about comic books, especially superhero comic books, and their readers. If you didn't get that from it--I didn't for a long time--go back and re-read it. It's about power fantasies.
  12. JTLarsen
    I was a big De Carlo fan. But definitely not on Aparo. I enjoyed De Carlo on Golden, for instance. But, yeah, Aparo benefited more from an inker like Sienkiewicz, I thought, who unstiffened some of his later work. Granted, Sienkiewicz also pretty much Sienkiewiczed Aparo, but that was mostly a good thing, as far as latter-day Aparo was concerned.
  13. JTLarsen
    He did some recent stuff. For interiors" on the title, I recommend checking comics.org.
  14. JTLarsen
    70K sounds extremely high to me for a third- or fourth-tier DC character in a non-event mini-series these days. Anyone got proof/evidence/confirmation of the actual number?
  15. JTLarsen
    I was speaking generally...can't vouch for that issue.
  16. JTLarsen
    What is what? What exactly is the "mystery" around this book? Is it a clue to a murder I'm not aware of?
  17. JTLarsen
    Pretty sure origin stories...when not embedded in 1st apps...are keys.
  18. JTLarsen
    ...and if you never figured out that it's about comic books, then you haven't appreciated it. Which means it's underappreciated.
  19. JTLarsen
    Exactly this.
  20. JTLarsen
    Pssst: No mystery.
  21. JTLarsen
    Amazing how many people don't see what a ground-breaking, transitional work this was. It changed a lot and made a lot possible.
  22. JTLarsen
    You're right. The hat threw me off!
  23. JTLarsen
    True, but though it's a nice page, the title character doesn't appear (I think?)...so not too likely to generate a lot of heat. Nevertheless, a nice page!
  24. JTLarsen
    Respectfully disagree. I think his style suffered as he got older. It was noticeable to me even in the late 1980s.
  25. JTLarsen
    Yup.