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Post by cyberstrike on Apr 7, 2010 10:32:29 GMT -5
Todd McFarlane is in some ways the 90s comic book creator "bad boy" an image (pun intended) that he created for himself. As an artist McFarlane is one of the few creators that can do it all (write, pencil, ink, letter, and color) but his style remains trapped in the 90s and while he has always had potential for greatness alas his public feuds with other creators like Neil Gaiman, Peter David, Rob Liefeld, John Bryne, and John Micheal Bendis (who stated somewhere that when McFarlane found out he was writing Ultimate Spider-Man vol.1 that McFarlane started treating him like shit).
It seems like only Robert Kirkman and Greg Capallo are the only 2 people that can work with McFarlane.
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Post by G on Apr 7, 2010 23:11:47 GMT -5
Wow! I got to thinking that you were starting a 2nd thread on McFarlane in here and then I got to looking and see I never created one! Good addition!
I remember it was McFarlane who almost single handedly got me back into comics in 1990 after I had quit collecting 4 years earlier. I was in the service and many guys would go to the comic stores and I tagged along. I seen comics I owned for big prices and I seen Spiderman #1 by McFarlane and me and all my friends bought copies. I was really digging McFarlane at the time. I found myself buying just about anything he did those 1st couple of years. Then he became all rich and famous and I sorta stopped following him.
Now the oddest thing is I look back on his work now and I wonder what the big deal was in the 1st place? He typically draws out of proportion and draws cartoony faces. Yes, he did have a certain flash about his work, but whenever I look deeply at it, I see how seriously flawed a lot of it is.
Still, I don't knock his abilities. Some of his stuff I have to admit still looks cool. I still love my Amazing Spiderman #316 just for the cover alone.
I never was a big fan of Spawn though and perhaps it was that series that just got me totally out of paying much attention to McFarlane.
He does have the ability to go far beyond what he has. I just don't think he's ever really pushed himself to the do it or he's content with his work as it is. Who can blame him. He doesn't need to do anything else really. His plate is already set.
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Post by azbatx on Apr 9, 2010 4:41:22 GMT -5
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Post by bigw1966 on Apr 9, 2010 12:55:52 GMT -5
I prefer Greg Capullo to McFarlane any day.
To bad he is so under rated though.
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Post by G on Apr 9, 2010 19:27:46 GMT -5
I don't know anything about the Spawn storyline anymore, but all I know is every time I see a cover it looks like nothing is happening. Every cover looks just about the same. Just some stupid pose for 200 issues.
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Post by defiant1 on Apr 10, 2010 0:54:31 GMT -5
I am not a big fan. I just don't see the big deal about him. One of the only things I really liked that he did were the covers to Spawn #2-4. I was a lot happier when Capullo came on Spawn for art chores. want to see one of the worst Spawn covers? This was the first issue I ever bought of Spawn as well. It sucked.  You don't like the "Spawn taking a dump" pose? In 1,000 years, this will be fine art... a masterpiece. The history channel will dedicate shows to McFarlane. Everyone will forget how idiotic he was for buying two baseballs. When I see that cover I just wonder why Spawn is sitting like Spider-Man. He's got clean lines, but I've never liked his art style. df1 |
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Post by defiant1 on Apr 10, 2010 0:58:16 GMT -5
I don't know anything about the Spawn storyline anymore, but all I know is every time I see a cover it looks like nothing is happening. Every cover looks just about the same. Just some stupid pose for 200 issues. The two hour move has more story than 2-1/2 years worth of the comics. I left the movie thinking that I might be able to understand the premise of the comic if they'd ever attempted to tell a story. df1 |
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Post by G on Apr 10, 2010 1:05:46 GMT -5
I am not a big fan. I just don't see the big deal about him. One of the only things I really liked that he did were the covers to Spawn #2-4. I was a lot happier when Capullo came on Spawn for art chores. want to see one of the worst Spawn covers? This was the first issue I ever bought of Spawn as well. It sucked. You don't like the "Spawn taking a dump" pose? In 1,000 years, this will be fine art... a masterpiece. The history channel will dedicate shows to McFarlane. Everyone will forget how idiotic he was for buying two baseballs. When I see that cover I just wonder why Spawn is sitting like Spider-Man. He's got clean lines, but I've never liked his art style. df1 Looks like some beaver shot in Hustler. |
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Post by cyberstrike on Apr 11, 2010 13:57:49 GMT -5
I am not a big fan. I just don't see the big deal about him. One of the only things I really liked that he did were the covers to Spawn #2-4. I was a lot happier when Capullo came on Spawn for art chores. want to see one of the worst Spawn covers? This was the first issue I ever bought of Spawn as well. It sucked. You don't like the "Spawn taking a dump" pose? In 1,000 years, this will be fine art... a masterpiece. The history channel will dedicate shows to McFarlane. Everyone will forget how idiotic he was for buying two baseballs. When I see that cover I just wonder why Spawn is sitting like Spider-Man. He's got clean lines, but I've never liked his art style. df1 It's funny that the History's Channel's documentary Comic Book Super-Heroes Unmasked he was the only Image creator to get profiled, not interviewed though, (Neil Gaiman was interviewed and is featured quite a bit it in it. I would give anything to hear his real opinions on McFarlane) and Spawn was the only Image character to get his origin story told. The documentary is narrated by Keith David, who did the voice of Spawn in the HBO Spawn animated series. |
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Post by bigw1966 on Apr 12, 2010 9:52:20 GMT -5
That is probably because of the high profile nature of McFarlane, he is recognizable in regular media if anything just for his balls.
His baseballs.
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