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Post by kirby101 on Jan 8, 2021 16:48:46 GMT -5
The Legion artist died from a heart attack due to COVID. He was 61.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2021 16:54:28 GMT -5
I think my favorite Lightle work was the Red Sonja one shot he did for Cross Plains Comics... Aside from Barry Smith's version inher debut, this is my favorite rendition of the character. -M
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Post by brutalis on Jan 8, 2021 17:20:33 GMT -5
Lightle was amazing on LOSH and Doom Patrol. Always loved seeing him on covers or popping up unexpectedly. A very smooth and fine line with lots of personality or style for characters he drew. Sad he wasn't a bigger high profile artist. Reminds me of John Buscema in his ability to showing off the body in various sexy or powerful ways and posture. His people all looked great!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2021 17:36:17 GMT -5
huge, huge fan of his Legion work.
May his memory be a blessing.
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Post by spoon on Jan 8, 2021 18:08:36 GMT -5
That's so sad. I've really enjoyed his work. His Legion was great. I re-read his Doom Patrol recently. He also provided covers and frontispieces for Classic X-Men for a while. He also was a guest artist for one issue of X-Factor (#32) that's one of my favorite issues of the series art-wise.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 8, 2021 23:06:25 GMT -5
Really liked his Legion stuff and he was the reason I picked up Doom Patrol (certainly not Paul Kupperberg's stories) until Erik Larson took over.
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Post by profh0011 on Jan 9, 2021 0:20:58 GMT -5
Oh my God. I never realized he and I were the SAME age.
I got that RED SONJA when it came out. It was the ONLY version of RED SONJA I liked after Frank Thorne abruptly left the series in mid-story. (And here I had JUST re-read the first 2 RS appearances in CONAN a couple days ago.)
Lightle was one of my very favorite LEGION artists. The book suffered when he left to do the DOOM PATROL revival, and madenningly, Lightle once said he realized he'd made a mistake almost as soon as he did that, as very soon into the new project, he realized he didn't like it.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 9, 2021 6:22:31 GMT -5
This virus is terrible and no one knows how to treat it. It's all guess work.
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Post by spoon on Jan 9, 2021 13:08:53 GMT -5
This virus is terrible and no one knows how to treat it. It's all guess work. I saw a projection that the number of deaths in the U.S. may peak in February at about 5,500 per day. It sounds like a lot of hospitals are overburdened by the number of cases, so there's rationing of resources. It's really important to be careful. Lots of folks will be vaccinated in a few months if they just make it through.
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Post by spoon on Jan 9, 2021 13:11:01 GMT -5
The Legion artist died from a heart attack due to COVID. He was 61.
The article notes that Lightle and Paul Levitz co-created Quislet (the character in my avatar) and Tellus, the first two non-humanoid Legionnaires. I agree with Lightle's quote that it was a very cool development for the Legion. I guess it depends on how you define Wildfire, who a humanoid being, turned non-humanoid, but housed in a humanoid-shaped costume.
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Post by dbutler69 on Jan 11, 2021 10:51:54 GMT -5
Very sad news. Steve Lightle was one of my favorite Legion artists, and that's saying a lot!
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Post by thothlad on Jan 11, 2021 17:27:14 GMT -5
His run on the Legion, in particular the membership drive issue, was one of the highlights of any volume. He really captured that youthful optimism in a bright future that's at the core of the book. I had always hoped we'd see more of Lightle's work in the Legion, other than the odd guest spot. Thoughts with his family, friends and colleagues.
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Post by hondobrode on Jan 12, 2021 18:32:54 GMT -5
Darn it and so sad that this stupid COVID got him ! Really loved his Legion and DP. Didn't realize he was in Kansas. Best wishes to his family.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jan 13, 2021 11:08:29 GMT -5
I think this was the first of seeing his art. Issues #108 and 109 had a Jim Starlin Thanos story in it. 109 was the start of Typhoid's Kiss. I had liked a Typhoid Mary story I had read earlier in Spiderman so I bought through to 116, the end of the storyline. 108 was the first one I saw, but 112 really sealed my appreciation for Lightle's wonderful art. (Good story too.)
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