tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post114190308684495203..comments2024-03-27T19:04:14.544-05:00Comments on The Absorbascon: Another Silver Justice ClueScipiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16217376618860561999noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1142071905852941802006-03-11T05:11:00.000-05:002006-03-11T05:11:00.000-05:00Anyone who says Sekowksky can't draw beautiful men...Anyone who says Sekowksky can't draw beautiful men need to double-check the Green Lantern parts of the stories.<BR/><BR/>*sighs* Paul Neumann Hal... So beautiful...Ragnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00373059673228550524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1142038415662132922006-03-10T19:53:00.000-05:002006-03-10T19:53:00.000-05:00The thing that makes Sekowsky's art from those ear...The thing that makes Sekowsky's art from those early JLA appearances stand out is that he draws in a realistic, Milton Caniff inspired style, not often seen on superhero comics, which tend to go for exagerration in one way or another. None of his heroes looked much like proper superheroes either, but like <I>real</I> people.Martin Wissehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04612094541576041276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1142036739350561982006-03-10T19:25:00.000-05:002006-03-10T19:25:00.000-05:00N.W.A totally ripped off that last panel for the c...N.W.A totally ripped off that last panel for the cover of <I>Straight Outta Compton</I>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1142035703892527522006-03-10T19:08:00.000-05:002006-03-10T19:08:00.000-05:00Harvey...Now that you mention it, those guys do lo...Harvey...<BR/><BR/>Now that you mention it, those guys do look like the bad guys in noir films.<BR/><BR/>It is weird.Scipiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16217376618860561999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1142019465027010992006-03-10T14:37:00.000-05:002006-03-10T14:37:00.000-05:00Well, how could Sekowsky not draw a pretty Wonder ...Well, how could Sekowsky not draw a pretty Wonder Woman with this girl as a model?:<BR/><BR/>http://hometown.aol.com/linastrick/sekowsky.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1142014543937697922006-03-10T13:15:00.000-05:002006-03-10T13:15:00.000-05:00Dick Giordano's a heavy inker, and one who looks g...Dick Giordano's a heavy inker, and one who looks great over Sekowsky, but Sekowsky pretty girls look like pretty girls pretty mch no matter who's inking him.<BR/><BR/>Okay, maybe not George Roussos, but I love that stuff too.<BR/><BR/>kdbAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1142004302999670342006-03-10T10:25:00.000-05:002006-03-10T10:25:00.000-05:00I've got to agree with Balger. The Diana Prince a...I've got to agree with Balger. The Diana Prince art looks super-Giordano to me. I was looking through some old Supermans yesterday and thinking, wow! What a great Giordano cover!<BR/><BR/>Then I realized it was Ross Andru with Dick mashing down on the brush. I also seem to remember him demolishing some Perez pencils at one point or another . . . and maybe doing some Byrne inks in the Action days, which broke my pre-teen heart (Byrne fan that I was).gorjushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13184937227327518682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1142002535829133202006-03-10T09:55:00.000-05:002006-03-10T09:55:00.000-05:00"Our real fear is that the very 'well-ordered safe...<I>"Our real fear is that the very 'well-ordered safe society' that makes people be good will be taken over by the hidebound and narrowminded, who will stamp out the outstanding, no matter how selfless or virtuous they may be."</I><BR/><BR/>Huh. That sounds kinda like a descendant of the film noir aesthetic. The "everyday world" is a trap, conformity is death, society is a prison, etc. Weird.Harvey Jerkwaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07118848012122050416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1142001341591642312006-03-10T09:35:00.000-05:002006-03-10T09:35:00.000-05:00Sure Diana Prince/Wonder Woman looks beautiful in ...Sure Diana Prince/Wonder Woman looks beautiful in the Mike Sekowsky artwork, but how much of that is due to the Dick Giordano inks? I think Giordano probably smoothed over Sekowsky's awkwardness a bit. That said, I do love Sekowsky's art...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1141999456234836692006-03-10T09:04:00.000-05:002006-03-10T09:04:00.000-05:00"the difference between the homely, jug-eared, sca..."the difference between the homely, jug-eared, scarecrow-bodied, and doubtlessly rickets-addled version of Sinestro that Gil Kane used to draw, and the broad-shouldered, football-necked dreamboat on the cartoon."<BR/><BR/>Yeah; I guess Sinestro is the Will Smith of villainy.Scipiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16217376618860561999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1141964149850948952006-03-09T23:15:00.000-05:002006-03-09T23:15:00.000-05:00If you wanted to know if Big Mike could draw prett...If you wanted to know if Big Mike could draw <I>pretty</I>, you could check <A HREF="http://static.flickr.com/53/110333863_c838010c4a_o.jpg" REL="nofollow">this </A> out.Walakahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01320268370872417847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1141959297245986052006-03-09T21:54:00.000-05:002006-03-09T21:54:00.000-05:00But maybe that's just what people look like on Ear...But maybe that's just what people look like on Earth-1.<BR/><BR/>On Earth-2, on the other hand...<BR/><BR/>Have you looked at who Mr. America slept with?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1141954327787570222006-03-09T20:32:00.000-05:002006-03-09T20:32:00.000-05:00I was just thinking about that the other day, watc...I was just thinking about that the other day, watching "Justice League Unlimited." I was stunned -- <B>stunned,</B> I tell you! -- by the difference between the homely, jug-eared, scarecrow-bodied, and doubtlessly rickets-addled version of Sinestro that Gil Kane used to draw, and the broad-shouldered, football-necked dreamboat on the cartoon. Even the Key is hardbodied on that show! And he was no great shakes in the comics, pre-Morrison.<BR/><BR/>I'd say more but I've used up my daily allowance of hyphens.Jeremy Rizzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08480479249595700846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1141953919717430612006-03-09T20:25:00.000-05:002006-03-09T20:25:00.000-05:00I like that Sekowsky didn't give us the same faces...I like that Sekowsky didn't give us the same faces over and over in his villains. But heroes (and sypmathetic third parties) were another matter. I think John Byrne was the first - at least the first I noticed as a kid - who gave all the heroes distinctive facial features. Or at least, all the male heroes. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1141945267263719312006-03-09T18:01:00.000-05:002006-03-09T18:01:00.000-05:00http://www.sufferingsappho.com/wrap/art/SekowskyWW...http://www.sufferingsappho.com/wrap/art/SekowskyWW1.jpg<BR/><BR/>http://images.heritagecoin.com/images/HNAI/75/817/817001385c.jpg<BR/><BR/>Sekowsky could draw conventionally-handsome people just fine -- but unlike way too many artists of today, he never limited himself to it. John Buscema also liked to draw bizarre faces on villains, though his tended nore toward the dramatically-bizarre than the mundanely-so, with Big Mike's.<BR/><BR/>But I'd much rather have that than an endless parade of the same face with minor prosthetics to differentiate them...<BR/><BR/>kdbAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-1141941651084155412006-03-09T17:00:00.000-05:002006-03-09T17:00:00.000-05:00Mike Sekowsky was hard-pressed to draw someone pre...Mike Sekowsky was hard-pressed to draw someone pretty, but this gallery of ugly made me think that he may be a much better artist than I previously thought: especially the chubby face of the fifth fellow.<BR/><BR/>And! Damn, I had to look up most of the animal-references. I had no idea that "vulpine" was "foxlike."<BR/><BR/>A good point, though, about how our Silver Age heroes grappled with mundane everydayness: fighting against the suburban malaise of the 50's and 60's, perhaps?gorjushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13184937227327518682noreply@blogger.com