Romita Appreciation Thread
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>>84192711
a homage?
The Romitas are GOAT.
I don't know as much of Sr's work
Sr. is hands down my favorite silver age artist. Preferred big, clean panels on each page that noticeably made Stan dial back on his narration box chatter.
Jr. isn't my cup of tea, but I'm glad he developed a unique style from his dad. He was at his best on Straczynski's Spider-man.
JrJr was really slipping for a bit, but that new Batman book he did with Frank Miller was amazing. The best he's done in probably 20 years. Wow.
>>84193696
>I don't know as much of Sr's work
He was a romance comics guy, then he came to Marvel, got Daredevil, from DD he made a big jump to taking over Amazing Spider-Man after Ditko left and did nearly 100 issues
>>84194043
>20 years
No he had that run with JMS on Spider-Man in the 2000's. Easily his best work since that though
>>84192711
Jr is trash, block faces. Sr is classic though
Fuck yeah JRJR
>>84194253
JR ranges from ok to absolutely awful with awful being dominate in the last decade
SR is stellar and is the reason Spider-Man didn't collapse after Ditko left
>>84194448
>ranges from ok to absolutely awful
what
The well known scene
By JRJR
>>84194160
The JMS run was shit in general and, while the art was the best part, it is far exceeded by the Dark Knight book he did.
I love jrjr since I was a kid. His work brings back memories of the nostalgia feel of comics for me. The inker and colorist is a make or break for his work, which flat coloring of the past made his style look very nice.
>>84194043
The snippets of his art we've seen for All-Star Batman so far also look pretty great
>>84194137
i mean I knew some history, i've just not read that much of his stuff.
>>84194897
Do you have pics?
>>84194915
Check Snyder's twitter.
I forget its name, but there was an episode of an anime recently, that featured a character who really liked his artwork(JRJR's name was changed though)
>>84192711
JRJR has become lazy, editors need to kick him back into shape, he's not bad
JR is classic as fuck
>>84196723
He's been in the industry too long for editors to do anything. It was a big thing for DC to get him away from Marvel
>>84196723
Someone hasnt read Dark Knight: Last Crusade.
>>84192711
This whole book is probably his best work.
>>84196856
Your probably right but the guy can do great things so it's sad to see him being mediocre for a paycheck.
>>84196864
I have and that's exactly what I'm talking about: his art is good when he cares or when editorial makes him care.
Case in point, those variant covers DC just put out, you could tell he phoned it in pretty hard on a few.
>>84196914
Honestly, i also think its the inkers and colorists.
They tried to force his art to be like everybody elses, with modern glossy plastic coloring and clean inks in the Superman stuff and it looked like trash. But then they went back to an 80's style of doing it for DK:LC and it looked great.
>>84196973
I could see this one being the colorist, it's the first one my mind went to.
>>84197062
Clark just floating there awkwardly sideways just doesn't look right, though the rest is solid.
>>84197094
God, batmans fucking shoulder
>>84197128
But others he hit out of the damn park!
>>84197291
Yeah thats pretty baller.
JR is a classic artist and probably a more important Spider-Man artist than arguably Ditko
JR Jr has done some amazing books and I like his blocky style. He's had some great runs on Uncanny X-Men, Daredevil, Punisher, Star Brand, Eternals and (although I don't like it) Kick-Ass. And the Punisher/Batman crossover is just super 90's cool.
>>84197418
>JR Jr has done some amazing books and I like his blocky style.
Theres something inexplicably good about his blocky art. It looks solid. Like its an actual thing that exists.
>>84194594
Fuck me, had no idea they lifted this scene from the comics
Fucking Thomas Jane Punisher was so good
>>84197418
I forgot he did Star Brand!
I'd give anything to get a successful reboot of that.
>>84194164
Don't forget his tubular limbs and girly faces.
I like that he's getting back on track with his art. His tail end of his tenure at Marvel was pretty bad and his beginning at DC was wonky, but his recent stuff has been pretty great.
>>84193696
Is it just me, or has Liefield built his entire goddamn career out of ripping off this page?
>>84198743
It's just you
That page is from after Liefled left Marvel for Image.
>>84198788
Cool. I was just noticing all these stylistic touches that seemed common to both, and was thinking about how much better they were working on the pic in thread than they do in Liefields work.
>>84197486
He's the closest thing we have to Kirby.
Sans you know. Literal Kirby copycats.
JRJR relates power like nobody fucking else.
It depresses me how much flak he gets here.
I know JR JR gets a bunch of flack here. Some of it is Justified but some of it is just Hurr durr I hate people who have their own style hating
When is on hes really on like
the Classic Stern / JR JR run on Spiderman.
Everything he did with Frank Miller. The man without fear is a classic. (But you can see where Millers layouts get heavy)
His Daredevil run
X-Men
>>84194448
What he needs is a tight inker. His DD stuff with Milgrom and his ASM stuff with Hanna were amazing because they tightened his pencils.
Unfortunately, he started working with Klaus Jansen a couple decades ago and his sketchy inks just make his pencils look even more slapdash.
![tumblr_m5tpssApND1r23q2bo1_500[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/LH32r5p.jpg "tumblr m5tpssApND1r23q2bo1 500[1]")
>>84199633
80's JRjr is great. His art is a significant part of why Nocenti's DD run is my favorite. And no one draws a better Kingpin.Though, I could draw a picture with a pencil clenched between my ass cheeks and it'd look amazing so long as I had Al Williamson inking it.
>>84201782
not milgrom. Williamson. GAH!
>>84198888
I think it was just JRJR adapting to the style of 90's extreme. That Cable mini is great
![Screen-Shot-2015-07-01-at-12.05.28-AM[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/PWTQYLT.jpg "Screen-Shot-2015-07-01-at-12.05.28-AM[1]")
The best Kingpin.
>>84202761
>all those pouches
I CAN'T FUCKING HANDLE THE EXTREME
>>84194515
80s Jr doesn't compare to Modern Jr.
