| Cover art by Al Milgrom and Joe Sinnott |
| Yep! There's the infamous DD miscolored panel! Whodunnit? |
Showing posts with label what if?. Show all posts
Showing posts with label what if?. Show all posts
Monday, September 25, 2017
Marvel-ous Monday: "What If the Avengers Had Fought the Kree-Skrull War Without Rick Jones?" by DeFalco, Kupperberg, and Patterson
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! Let's kick this week off with one of Ol' Groove's favorite comics: What If? #20 (January 1980)! "What If the Avengers Had Fought the Kree-Skrull War Without Rick Jones?" might have been a mouthful of a title, but it was a fistful of far-out and fabulous four color comics! All of Groove City knows that t'was the Kree/Skrull War (Avengers 89-97) that solidified Young Groove's standing as a comicbook fiend, so this comic was a particular pleasure when it came out--and it still is! Author Tom DeFalco (future Marvel EiC in the early days of his Marvel career, here) gave the original story some very cool twists and turns (including letting most every 1971-era Marvel character join in the fun). The art by Alan Kupperberg and Bruce Patterson was very different from Neal Adams' style on Avengers 93-96 (though Kupperberg had worked for Adams), and much closer to Sal Buscema (who drew Avengers 89-91--and according to Kupperberg, the first three pages of What If #20!) captured the look and feel of the original epic and did a great job of showing us the war side of the K/S War. We got a virtual graphic novel in 35 pages, baby! Dig it!
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
(P)Raising Kane: "What If...the Avengers Had Never Been?" by Shooter, Kane, and Janson
What it is, Groove-ophiles! Hey, we dig the Avengers, don't we? We dig the power-house pencils of Gil Kane, don't we? We dig the incredible inks of Klaus Janson, don't we? Well, you put all'a that together with one of the most awesome tales Jim Shooter ever thunk up, and you've got "What If...the Avengers Had Never Been?", an epic that belongs on the Mount Rushmore of Bronze Age comics! And what a powerful tale it is. Few comics can match it for it's depiction of the grit and guts that make the members of the Avengers (even if they're an alternate dimension version of the Avengers) so heroic and admirable. And as for the art? Hoo-hah! Kane's depiction of the Hulk's brute force, Iron Man and Sub-Mariner's sleek-yet-immensely powerful forms, and the humanity of the Avengers out of costume should bring a joyous tear to your eye. Check it out, Groove-ophiles!
| Cover by Gil Kane and Joe Sinnott |
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