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This is a wonderful tribute to Cockrum's work. I was so pleased to see there's text - thought it would be just artwork. ("Just" artwork indeed!) Lots of Nightcrawler images and a few of Dave himself.
Funny, but for all the dramatic illustrations, my favourite was a very simple line drawing by Darwyn Cooke of Professor Xavier flying out of his wheelchair. A lot of emotion in that image.
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Oh, it's out finally!! Good, great, stupendous and darnit, it's not here yet.
Nightcrawler, did you order your's directly from Aardwolf?
I did so if they have shipped then it should be here along with my signed copy of FUTURIANS #0 and AARDWOLF COMIC BOOK #1 (finally located the reciept, guess I got 3 books coming from them! )
Thanks!
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quote:Originally posted by Nightcrawler: Nope. I ordered mine through my CBS, so it arrived on Thursday with the other books.
Oops! Spoke too soon. I apparently also ordered a copy directly as it arrived in the mail the other day. Now I've got two of these beauties!
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went to pick up my Cockrum tribute book that my comic book shop was holding for me and i gotta say it's great. with the exception of George Perez and John Byrne's contributions which were omitted or left out and the price, for $30.00 i expected a lot thicker book. i mean the Legion companion is twice as big as the Cockrum book and $5.00 less,.... go figure? all in all i'm glad i got the book and it's all for a good cause.
ps i loved pgs#84-85 of the book the Neil Adams and Joe Rubinstein contribution were touching. :-)
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Cockrum's influence continues.... The X-Men previews show that girl Wolverine character sporting (of all things) Cockrum's Fang costume (from Imperial Guard). I wonder what explanation they'll come up with for that.
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Finally got my copy today along with the signed copy of Aardwolf #1 (signed by Dave, Paty and Clifford Lawrence) and the Futurians special issue.
Can't wait to flip through the Tribute.
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quote:Originally posted by Pov: begging to be scanned and colored...!
What they said. The closest thing I've seen to Adams/Rubenstein was an issue of Warlord where Grell was really on his game and his pencils were made beautiful by Joe Rubenstein's fantastic inks. I'm dying to see the real thing now, not just Joe inking a guy who kind of draws like Neal.
Wow, I'll bet it's a sweet piece of work.
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Sorry, YK, but they didn't actually do a joint piece of work.
P.84 was Adam's 2nd contribution to the tribute, a picture of Dave's X-Men welcoming/reaching out to a wheelchair-bound Dave; p. 85 is a beautiful portrait of Dave by Joe Rubenstein, with an inscription along the lines of "Thanks for letting me be a part of YOUR X-Men."
Touching stuff.
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From: Up a Gumtree | Registered: Jul 2003
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Finally got mine a day ago. WOW!! Totally worth it and a very touching tribute.
It's really great that so many pro's and friends came together to make this all happen!!
Iron Mike telling his story and revealing that Lightening Lad is his favorite character and that he loved that costume design is one of his all time favorites, that's some nice praise. I have to agree. It's a fine looking costume design!! Mike did justice to it.
There are many other pages that I liked but I was a bit confused by Mike Nassers contribution, took me a moment to figure out who those two characters were!!
I also got a signed copy of Aardwolf and Futurians Special Collectors Issue. Nice stuff. I can't wait for Futurians #1 to come out (I think Dave's planning on making that happen but I think, in all honesty, that he should ask DC or Image or some other stable independent company to "host" the book so there is good support, in-house feedback and a place to call home without worring about it going belly up )
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Spoke too soon. I apparently also ordered a copy directly as it arrived in the mail the other day. Now I've got two of these beauties! ![[Confused]](confused.gif)
all in all i'm glad i got the book and it's all for a good cause. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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