Is there anyplace I can view the JBF wallpaper, unobstructed by the actual board? It's beautiful (kudos to whoever arranged it...and to JB, of course), but the board loads so fast, I can barely get a fleeting glimpse of most of the covers.
Looking at the whole "sheet" I've finally realized what's been bugging me at an almost subliminal level. Since one row begins and ends with ALPHA FLIGHT covers, when it wraps around on my screen I have ALPHA next to ALPHA!
Strictly out of curiosity, since I don't really pay much attention to such things myself, does anyone know if I have done enough series (let's say a run of 6 issue or more) that this motif could be done with no repeats at all?
I know I have draw a couple of trainloads worth of comics, but I am not certain how many individual series that works out to.
Certainly if we count titles and not limit to working on a character (i.e. Superman/Action) You could fill up this whole screen with covers. Just the ones I picked off the top of my head...
Superman
Action
Fantastic Four
Next Men
X-Men
X-Men: The Hidden Years
Avengers
Avengers: West Coast
Hulk
Captain America
She-Hulk
Chapter One
Wonder Woman
Generations
Lab Rats
Alpha Flight
Marvel The Lost Generation
Legends
Marvel Age (Covers)
Who's Who (Covers & interiors)
Babe (combining both series)
Doomsday +1
Focusing mainly on books that JB drew and/or wrote (but did cover art for):
1. Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch
2. Doomsday + 1
3. Iron Fist
4. X-Men
5. Captain America
6. Fantastic Four
7. Alpha Flight
8. She-Hulk
9. Namor
10. Next Men
11. Wonder Woman
12. Superman
13. Action Comics
14. Jack Kirby's Fourth World
15. Danger Unlimited
16. Generations
17. OMAC
18. Legends
19. Power Man/Iron Fist
20. Marvel Team-Up
21. Avengers
22. Thing
23. Marvel Two-In-One
24. Avengers West Coast
25. X-Men: The Hidden Years
26. Lab Rats
27. Marvel: The Lost Generation
28. Amazing Spider-Man
29. Wolverine
30. Babe
31. Batman
32. Hulk
33. What The...?!
34. JLA
35. Silver Surfer
36. Just Imagine Stan Lee Creating Robin
I'd say Doom Patrol, but it doesn't have the design elements and color added yet. Maybe use the Secret Origins Annual or the Indexes to represent them?
There's also:
1) Random fill-in/one-shot stuff like Amazon, New Mutants #75, the What If? with the FF, the Hulk issue of Marvel Fanfare, the Power of the Atom issue (did he do the cover?), the Marvel Comics Presents issue with the She-Hulk preview etc.
2) Cover only stuff like GI Joe #51, Marvel Age covers, the Milestone covers, etc.
3) Stuff done by JB with non JB cover art (I think) like Iron Man, Spider Woman, Genesis, New Gods, etc.
That's a start, anyway.
Edited to add: (Oops! Missed the "at least 6 issue" part. Well, most still qualify...)
This message has been edited by Dave_Phelps on Mar 15, 2004 5:24 PM
I'm sorry if my question put anyone off. I was not championing for getting that Marvel Age cover into the background wallpaper. My question was in relation to the Fantastic Four #1 section of the Gallery that Darren provided the link to, and I thought that I had made that clear. Obviously not.
- Eivind
(Edited to respond to Dave: So it is. For some reason I did not see it earlier today. Sorry for any confusion.)
This message has been edited by Eivindgl on Mar 16, 2004 9:25 AM This message has been edited by Eivindgl on Mar 16, 2004 9:20 AM
you are right about my browser. Now that I can see the the Marvel Age cover, the Hidden Years cover will not display (and it "takes forever" intil the box with the red X appears that tells me that a picture will not load). Must have been the same thing that happened earlier. Sorry again for any confusion.
For what it's worth, I think there are two MORE homages in additon to the five Dave referenced. One features the Avengers West Coast. Premature senility to causing me to forget the other...
All seven are there, including the Avergers West Coast, but the X-Men:Hidden Years #20 image has expired. Someone go find me a nice image of that cover, please.
One of Marvel's "New Universe" books. Created -- in the loosest sense of the word -- by Jim Shooter. Offered to me when he got the heave ho. I decided to take it on mostly so I could prove to the World (and myself) that I could write a Shooter-created book and not deliberately screw it up.
Probably some of my best writing, but worth seeking out only if you are a die-hard completist.
I can't recommend John's Star Brand issues highly enough. Anyone wanting to track them down should look out for issues 11-19, which is Mr B's complete run. He provided story and breakdowns on all issues in that run, apart from issue 16 which was full pencils-and-inks.
I'd originally picked up the book for John Romita JR's artwork (he illustrated the first seven issues) and found the stories to be OK - nothing spectacular, but certainly nothing substandard. However, in came John Byrne with issue 11 and suddenly the book was alive. It was initially quite an action-fuelled affair, but eventually became a very complex piece of work, quite deep on an intellectual level and something which made the reader think, made the reader actually work rather than having everything presented on a plate.
This message has been edited by SimonBowland on Mar 16, 2004 6:43 PM
Probably some of my best writing, but worth seeking out only if you are a die-hard completist
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Sorry, JB, you may not have seen where I've mentioned it in a few other places, but I have standing instructions at my LCS to pull EVERYTHING that you do.
And every day it seems I'm finding more and more Byrne-goodness from before I got on board comics to track down and enjoy.
I'll be seeking this out!
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