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Post by shaxper on Jan 26, 2022 18:21:01 GMT -5
Yup. It got a lot worse after that article.
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Post by The Captain on Jan 26, 2022 19:39:47 GMT -5
Got to go with Trimpe. He did the quintessential "classic" Hulk for me, and he was great to talk with about his work on the book when I met him at the Pittsburgh Comicon shortly before his passing.
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Post by berkley on Jan 26, 2022 20:27:57 GMT -5
Oh a newer guy. I don't know who that is, so I don't have to worry about avoiding his work. Newer as in, he's been working for Marvel for 25+ years, his work first started appearing in the early-mid-90s I believe. -M
Wow, that's how out of touch I am with post-80s Marvel/DC, even with the internet.
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Post by shaxper on Jan 26, 2022 22:26:44 GMT -5
Newer as in, he's been working for Marvel for 25+ years, his work first started appearing in the early-mid-90s I believe. -M Wow, that's how out of touch I am with post-80s Marvel/DC, even with the internet.
I didn't know either. First heard about him on the Hulk run.
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Post by Prince Hal on Jan 26, 2022 22:42:51 GMT -5
I'll take Trimpe's Hulk, but with John Severin's inks, please.
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Post by profh0011 on Jan 26, 2022 23:32:53 GMT -5
My favorite is Kirby, because he was the creator and original writer. But too many episodes he did the art was only layouts, and the finishes were butchered by others. And, his original intentions for the character were ignored and corrupted by his editor.
Marie Severin, I realized decades later, actually managed to illustrate Kirby's original intention of a "handsome Frankenstein". The day I met her, I told her I thought her Hulk looked like Rock Hudson! Sadly, her run was the beginning of the endless rambling series where Hulk just went from fighting one monster to another... for decades, with no forward momentum at all (which, there had been, from the very beginning up to the 3 issues John Buscema illustrated, which pretty much polished off the initial long, long storyline).
Herb Trimpe certainly gave it his all, including writing early-on, and "contributing" when others replaced the editor on dialogue. His art evolved and matured as he went, you'd never guess the inks he did early-on were by the same guy a few years later. But JACK ABEL was my favorite Trimpe inker, doing for him what Sinnott did for Kirby.
Sadly... Sal was one of my LEAST-favorite Hulk artists ever. I couldn't believe, when Trimpe left, that they replaced him with Sal. On THE DEFENDERS, Sal drew nearly every character in the Marvel Universe... but The Hulk, I felt, was the one he just couldn't draw right to save his life. It blows my mind he wound up staying on the book even longer than Trimpe did.................. (Oh well!)
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 27, 2022 0:11:05 GMT -5
I like Sal Buscema on the Hulk well enough, but it got kind of old when he was inking himself for years and years.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2022 0:36:17 GMT -5
Wow, that's how out of touch I am with post-80s Marvel/DC, even with the internet.
I didn't know either. First heard about him on the Hulk run. His first Marvel credit looks to be Ravage 2099 #22 in 1994 and had credits for NOW on Green Hornet and Continuity on Megalith prior to that. He's worked for Image, Dark Horse and DC as well, and likely more publishers I am unaware of. He's less than a year older than I am, and has been working professionally in comics since he was 25 or 26, and has worked on just about every Marvel title form X-Men to Amazing Spider-Man. It's only recently he has overtly made some of his views known that incited the backlash, but he's been part of the industry and a prominent part, for a long time. -M
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Post by badwolf on Jan 27, 2022 13:50:38 GMT -5
I'll take Trimpe's Hulk, but with John Severin's inks, please. Pretty much the only way I like Trimpe's art.
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Post by Marv-El on Jan 27, 2022 13:59:02 GMT -5
Voted for Sal, his teaming with Mantlo was when I started regularly following the Hulk circa #276 so that's the indelible image I have of him.
Honorable mentions would be Jeff Purves of Joe Fixit and yes, McFarlane.
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Post by Prince Hal on Jan 27, 2022 15:05:56 GMT -5
I'll take Trimpe's Hulk, but with John Severin's inks, please. Pretty much the only way I like Trimpe's art. Not the only way I enjoyed it, but hands down my favorite inker on Trimpe.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 27, 2022 15:20:09 GMT -5
Pretty much the only way I like Trimpe's art. Not the only way I enjoyed it, but hands down my favorite inker on Trimpe.
That team gave us downright gorgeous pages!!!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2022 16:12:22 GMT -5
If ever a poll needed an "impossible to choose" option, this is it. My top three are Severin, Trimpe, and Keown. I read very few comics as a kid in the '70s, so I have no nostalgia for the old-timers. The David/Keown Hulk helped get me back into comics, so there's some nostalgia there, but even without nostalgia, Keown was obviously outstanding. When in doubt, go with the trailblazers, so it's a tie between between Severin and Trimpe. I'm voting for Trimpe just for the happenstance of his longevity on the character.
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Post by Confessor on Jan 27, 2022 18:51:31 GMT -5
I don't really like Hulk comics, but I voted Sal Buscema because his is the version I used to see licensed on lunch boxes, towels, t-shirts etc a lot in the late 70s and early 80s. So, for me, his Hulk is the one that looks right.
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Post by SJNeal on Jan 27, 2022 22:34:10 GMT -5
I didn't know either. First heard about him on the Hulk run. His first Marvel credit looks to be Ravage 2099 #22 in 1994 and had credits for NOW on Green Hornet and Continuity on Megalith prior to that. He's worked for Image, Dark Horse and DC as well, and likely more publishers I am unaware of. He's less than a year older than I am, and has been working professionally in comics since he was 25 or 26, and has worked on just about every Marvel title form X-Men to Amazing Spider-Man. It's only recently he has overtly made some of his views known that incited the backlash, but he's been part of the industry and a prominent part, for a long time. -M Yeah, I first took note of him as a fill-in on the Spider-titles during the Clone Saga years (sorry! ), and really became of fan during his Birds of Prey work during Gail Simone's run on that book. Ugh. It's shocking (and sad) how many creators in recent years have shown their true colors thanks to... well, whatever or whomever it was that made them suddenly comfortable with spewing unfiltered hate speech. Anyways, back to Hulk. Generally speaking, I am NOT a fan of JRJr's work, but there have been a few exceptions. Once in awhile he finds a font of inspiration and really knocks something out of the park - I think his Hulk issues with Bruce Jones were one of those instances. His later Hulk issues during the Greg Pak years, not so much...
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