Finch Uncanny X-Men cover sells for 38k 1 1

[Bronty]

maybe they are hiding the keys to the mansion and blackbird in their 'prison pouches' 

[TeddieMercede]

7 hours ago, ESeffinga said:

Hmmmm...

 

Grenade variant cover.

[Bronty]

there's so much extraneous...  stuff...  going on in that cover that it took me until now to notice that Angel's one wing is 8x the size of the other.    He must lean to one side when he flies.  

Edited September 4, 2020 by Bronty

[Bronty]

I'm glad that we can poke a little fun when the work warrants it.   This sort of stuff is exactly what has always, from day one, turned me off of the x-men.   Ridiculous poses, angsty teenage drama, etc.   But, its popular so clearly lots of people enjoy it and more power to them because we all should and do like different things.   Just very much not for me without gagging.

Edited September 4, 2020 by Bronty

[vodou]

19 minutes ago, Bronty said:

there's so much extraneous...  stuff...  going on in that cover that it took me until now to notice that Angel's one wing is 8x the size of the other.    He must lean to one side when he flies.  

Nice catch!

I really dislike it for the simple fact that the figures are so posed, individually, and are not interacting with each other. That just does not work for me. But it clearly sells: first comics, second as a later Big Number @ HA, so clearly my opinion is of little consequence!

[ESeffinga]

In the grand scheme of things this cover is honestly not “bad”. In fact the majority of the anatomy is done really well compared to a LOT of art in this field. It is a ton of lines to look at, but the only reason I was goofing on it was the discussion of the $ and where it ended up. It had enough of the heroic comic cover tropes to make for an easy target. 
 

As I discovered when I went looking for Finch art pouches, he wasn’t as big into the pouches as other guys. And swiping pouches from say Liefeld felt like cheating. So I had to hunt CAF a bit to find what I did (and I’m lazy and it was supposed to be a joke so I didn’t want to invest a ton of time into a gag.)

His thing, as it turned out, was drawing lots of armor type things growing on people. Melded into them and such.
 

As for the facing different directions, wing, etc. It all looks to have been done from reference material,  but the reference material comes from different sources, so the depth of field and perspective is a bit of a mixed bag. That’s what’s throwing the Angel image off. Hardly a punishable offense in comic art, compared to some.

Anyhow, I’d never come out goofing on a piece like this if it were posted by a board member or if I knew it was someone’s art day, and they’d feel attacked. And truthfully, I’m only comfortable doing it because, as I said it is not that bad at doing what it does. It’s fine. Good old fashioned ball busting. 

I’ve seen so much worse posted, and by beloved artists that people fawn over, and I’m not about to trash someone’s treasure. Even if it drives me nuts to look at it. Even if it makes me think some of you guys are straight up cross eyed, and half blind on one of those eyes. Hahaha.
 

I’ll goof on something solid, the straight up trash I see, I just keep those thoughts to myself.

 

Edited September 4, 2020 by ESeffinga

[vodou]

1 hour ago, ESeffinga said:

was someone’s art day

I intentionally leave those alone. No good can come of it.

[Terry E. Gibbs]

6 hours ago, Bronty said:

   Ridiculous poses, angsty teenage drama, etc.  

something people don't talk too much about was Stan's love triangles, mix Super hero with 50s teen romance comics. Even when I read them in my teens it was hard to take.

[exitmusicblue]

"What do I think about the 90s pouches, bub?"

*SNIKT*

[grapeape]

I'd like to get my hands on whoever started this craziness! Time to call on Captain America!

 

Edited September 5, 2020 by grapeape

[RBerman]

On 9/4/2020 at 1:09 PM, Bronty said:

heheheh .  what is that from?

Which "that" are you speaking of? The panel I posted is from Joss Whedon's run on Astonishing X-Men (#5 page 2, 2004 to be precise). Cyclops is bleeding out after an attack. He hallucinates that Phoenix (recently dead again thanks to Grant Morrison) appears to him and tells him what a mess he's made of things. It's one of the stories that got me back into comic books after 20 years away.

Edited September 7, 2020 by RBerman

[PhilipB2k17]

On 9/2/2020 at 9:26 PM, GotSuperPowers? said:

Finch is not an artist I follow, but this has to be an outlier/seismic blip on his market, right?

Great piece of art. Price is nuts. His Batman covers don’t even go for that. 

[MagnusX]

5 core X-Men characters
lots of Inks
lots of lines
lots of attitude

Sure why not?

[grapeape]

On 9/3/2020 at 6:55 AM, awayne83 said:

What impact do outliers like this generally have? Will we see a bump in prices from the artist/rep? I’m certain at the least that perceived value of prospective sellers has increased

This is a good question. Honestly I like Finch a lot but my one experience trying to buy turned out to be a counterfeit listed in CGC which thank God I contacted David first. He let me know he didn’t do the work.

I would assume the asking price just went up on Finch. But the truth is that cover honestly might be a one off. Let’s see another public sale!!

 

[exitmusicblue]

This art reminded me of how much an ahole Cyclops had become. : > hopefully Marvel can ease up on the X-hate pedal post-merger... next they would've made him torture small animals or something.

[Terry E. Gibbs]

2 hours ago, exitmusicblue said:

This art reminded me of how much an ahole Cyclops had become. : >... next they would've made him torture small animals or something.

and how are you going to feel when you see that story line in print ... another great idea just thrown away

[vodou]

2 hours ago, exitmusicblue said:

This art reminded me of how much an ahole Cyclops had become. : > hopefully Marvel can ease up on the X-hate pedal post-merger... next they would've made him torture small animals or something.

People are really still reading X-books? Really? ( )

[exitmusicblue]

4 hours ago, vodou said:

People are really still reading X-books? Really? ( )

You ready for this glorious morning soap...

"She never loved you, you know.  You always frightened her."

"And if she was here right now... who do you think she'd be more frightened of?"

ENTER CYCLOPS V. WOLVERINE

[Bronty]

FOR ME TO POOP ON!

 

Edited September 9, 2020 by Bronty

[Unstoppablejayd]

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