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I'll take 335 in this face-off. Another in a series of exellent do-overs for the Baxter reprints, this time by the great Jerry Ordway.
317 isn't bad, but I'm not crazy about the faces. They're kind of homogenized and inconsistent with how Jacques is usually depicted and with how distinctive Drake looked on the cover of 298, the issue to which 317 is a sequel. I recall being disappointed in 317's interiors by the same artist, IIRC. (The cover's unsigned as far as I can tell. Who was it...Jurgens? If so, he REALLY got better later on!)
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quote:Originally posted by Chief Taylor: I recall being disappointed in 317's interiors by the same artist, IIRC. (The cover's unsigned as far as I can tell. Who was it...Jurgens? If so, he REALLY got better later on!)
According to GCD it's
Terry Shoemaker and Karl Kesel
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or you can do the confusion 'til your head falls off
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I'll go with the first one.
Both of them are nice. I just like the way the first one draws you into the center of the image better.
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quote:Originally posted by Chief Taylor: I recall being disappointed in 317's interiors by the same artist, IIRC. (The cover's unsigned as far as I can tell. Who was it...Jurgens? If so, he REALLY got better later on!)
According to GCD it's
Terry Shoemaker and Karl Kesel
Oh, right. Never was too thrilled with his stuff.
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#335. Jaques looks incredible, as does Wildfire, and that's who this faceoff is about. (I SO love that yellow outfit on him that the blue jacket covering him up in the other cover annoys me.)
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#317. Jacques seems more pro-active (even if it is at running away) than he is on the other one where he's just floating there. (Love the Ordway though - has he done any other work with the Legion? Other than the recent Superman/Batman. I'd love to see him do more.)
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