ungoliantschilde reblogged
ungoliantschilde reblogged
Anonymous asked:
I personally think you would be great on a Brave And The Bold style series, where every issue it’s a one shot by a different writer teaming up two unlikely heroes or maybe even villains. A great way to showcase some lesser known DC characters, have fun one-in-dones and get you drawing the wide range of the DC universe all in one!
I’ve always liked this idea. I don’t know how viable it really is today but it’s something I could get behind in a world where we get to make whatever we want.
Brave and the Bold and Marvel Team-Up are classic favorites older nerds like me. Great, great stuff. And the talent always brought their A-Game to those titles, because they were having fun. Read reprints of either series, because they’re just great fun from start to finish.
Unfortunately.
Neither series sells particular well. Not enough people buy those books. And they have tried over and over again - because the Editors at Marvel and DC absolutely LOVE those books. But the target audience is not the editors of Marvel or DC comics, not older nerds like me, and not great artists like Doc Shaner.
The target audience is 12-16 old kids that are reading their first comic book.
I can sit here and tell a 12 year old how awesome a book about Etrigan and Madame Xanadu going to an outer space casino and gambling for an amulet to help “I Vampire” out is gonna be. And it would be GREAT, so shut up.
But that 12 year will mostly be wondering if Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, the Flash or *maybe* Green Lantern shows up at all. And then they’ll ask a bunch of questions and eventually tell their Mom that the tall guy in a AC/DC t-shirt is yelling at them about comics and then the mom will find the Facebook group and BAM! Class-action lawsuit for me, with the collective plaintiffs being the overly sensitive mothers of children with poor taste in comics.
Read the trades of Brave and the Bold, Marvel Team-Up, and frankly A+X was really good too. So was Ultimate Marvel Team-Up. Straczynski did a Brave and the Bold run back in the earlier 2000s, and it’s worth finding. Especially the Aquaman/Etrigan issue.
As for Doc Shaner? I hope you keep making comics that make you enough money to want to keep making comics. You’re awesome dude, and people that shoehorn you into being the golden-silver age retro guy are dumber than the mothers currently suing me because their kids have bad taste in funny papers.
Marvel Team-Up, Vol. 1 # 62 by Gil Kane, with Finishes by Mike Esposito.
Marvel Team-Up, Vol. 1 # 129 by Ed Hannigan, with Inks by John Byrne.
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some Pencils by Scott Kolins.
Marvel Team-Up, Vol. 3 # 01, illustrated by Scott Kolins, with Colors by Edgar Delgado, and a Script by Robert Kirkman.
Marvel Team-Up, Vol. 1 # 11, illustrated by John Romita, Sr., and a ReCreation/Homage Commission thereof, as illustrated in Pencil by Steve Fastner, with Painted Colors by Rich Larson.
A+X, Vol. 1 # 04, illustrated by Kaare Andrews.
Marvel Tales, Vol. 2 # 254 Page 21*, illustrated by Jae Lee, with inks by Jan Harps. *this is the second of the three 'Classic Clips' PinUps that Jae Lee illustrated for the aforementioned issue of this Marvel Team-Up reprint title. this pinup was published with colors by Renee Witterstaetter, but I have yet to find the published version.*
cover art for Marvel Tales, Vol. 2 # 262, illustrated by Sam Kieth.
this issue reprinted the contents of Marvel Team-Up, Vol. 1 # 53, which was illustrated by John Byrne, and written by Bill Mantlo.
cover art for Marvel Tales, Vol. 2 # 255, illustrated by Sam Kieth.
this issue reprinted the contents of Marvel Team-Up, Vol. 1 # 58, which was illustrated by Sal Buscema, and written by Chris Claremont.
A+X, Vol. 1 # 16, illustrated by Goran Parlov.