Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Dr. Gym'll's Cultural Rarities All-Alan Davis Thread

Not feeling well ATM. Will do it another night.

Finally getting around to this...

CLASSIC EXCALIBUR

SUPERBOY'S LEGION

JLA: ANOTHER NAIL

UNCANNY X-MEN

YOUNG AVENGERS PRESENTS

And his current bi-monthly project...

AVENGERS: PRIME

Will have to look back on JLA: THE NAIL and KILLRAVEN someday. I quite like both of them.

Alan Davis has the cover of The Avengers this month (and next) and has the cover and interior art of X-Men Schism # 4 of 5.

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/Jolt17/news/?a=40606

Thanks for doing that update, Peebs.

Before that, Davis drew the Children's Crusade one-shot tie-in "Avengers: The Children's Crusade: Young Avengers."

And currently, he is drawing the arc in "Captain America" which started in issue #6.

He is revisiting The ClasDeastine in some upcoming annuals...three so far are planned...

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/05/06/alan-davis-clandestine-set-to-appear-in-wolverine-annual/

So, Davis arc on Cap has wrapped up, and it was pretty stunning to look at. The story was a little 'blah', but Davis made it much more beautiful than it deserved to be.

A few things stuck out: he may just draw the best Hawkeye ever. Ditto the Falcon. The way he can draw arrows being fired and people in motion / flying is pretty fantastic. And his Sharon is very 'classic beauty' which I loved.

I'd love for him to be a recurring artist on Cap. His style evokes both the 70's Falcon days and the Mignola days while still being all his own. It's been awhile since Cap was full out superhero adventure and it was refreshing.

I bought two of the Davis Captain America's ... and then even Alan Davis couldn't get me to buy the last one ...

maybe if there were more super heros or something ... I wish he was drawing the insides of the Secret Avengers as well as the covers. Those characters seem a perfect fit for Alan's enjoyment!

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=36495


http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/comics/i399642-8/avengers-vs-x-men-covers-alan-davis-cover.html

I couldn't get through the whole Davis Captain America arc, either. I think Brubaker is really running on empty at this point.

As for the ClanDestine story going through the Annuals, I'm afraid I'm going to be passing on that, too. Davis needs some fresh artistic challenges in my opinion. Cap wasn't it, and neither is the ClanDestine.

I agree on both counts. Davis should be on something that is both unfamiliar to him, and also a series where his art will be very different than what's come before. Something else else fresh on all counts. He's been doing a lot of Marvel work for awhile now so I'm not sure what that would be. (Luke Cage & Iron Fist?)

As for Bru, whose work I love, it's not only his Cap series that is dragging, but even the Winter Soldier series doesn't feel all that exciting. I think the ship has sailed for when an uber-exciting Winter Soldier series should have come out; instead they had Bucky be Cap and that kind of took the wind out of their sails. Rather than being edgy and mysterious, the series now reads like a standard spy story, with not only Black Widow backing him up but the US Government / Cap / Iron Man / etc. supporting him. All that support kind of takes away a lot of fire Bucky-as-Winter Soldier had.

The only problem is who could replace Bru on either series, especially Cap? Yikes. Not too many writers at Marvel these days I'd feel all that thrilled about. Though a lot of guys have impressed me in prior years, I'm a bit cold on them now (Rucka, Diggle, etc.). Even Jeff Parker hasn't wowwed in awhile. And Bendis or Fraction would be a nightmare. Maybe this is the challenge PAD needs to reaffirm his superstardom?

I just don't want another decade of bland Cap stories...

[EDIT - got carried away talking about Cap, forgetting this was the Alan Davis thread...oops...]

While I understand and appreciate the sentiment, and agree for the most part about Davis needing to do something new...I am glad to be getting some more ClanDestine stories.

So I finally got around to reading the "ClanDestine-as-the-guest-stars-in-their-own-story" trade, collecting the story under the title "Marvel Tales by Alan Davis". And it's actually pretty good! I've said this before in other threads, but Davis is different from some of his fellow Brits in that while he, too, deals with esoteric and metaphysical stuff, he does it in a wholly accessible way, without any veneer of hipper-than-thou pseudo-cool.

I just finished re-reading his Captain Britain stories done with Alan Moore and Jamie Delano. Still evergreen. And I'm currently re-reading his writer/artist Excalibur run for the first time in years, and so far it's as good as I remember it.

As for his most recent work, he did a 12-issue solo Wolverine run written by Paul Cornell. Even Davis can't get me to read solo Wolverine.

More promisingly, he wrote and drew the opening 4-issue arc of the Savage Hulk anthology title, set at the end of the Silver Age and guest-starring the Neal Adams version of the X-Men, and the trade comes out this Wednesday. I will be checking it out.

I love Alan Davis's work. His Excalibur run is some of the best stuff Marvel was putting out during the otherwise lackluster 90's.

Yay! Another Davis fan!

After I finish the Savage Hulk trade, I'm going to re-read all of Davis's ClanDestine work from the beginning.

Sad to say, the Savage Hulk arc was a disappointment. Davis's art was very good, but it's far from his best. His script had a lot of problems, including the under-use of most of the X-Men, bad pseudo-science, and confusing transitions in and out of reality.

Next up for Davis is some kind of Ultron project due at about the same time that the next Avengers movie comes out. He's only drawing it, though, not writing it.

Davis' Postboot Legion covers were always a treat. He does facial expressions extremely well.

His faces are indeed beautifully expressive.

I read the first issue of Avengers: Ultron Forever, and while Davis' art is beautiful as ever, the script is putrid. It's all the kind of mean-spirited/there-is-no-hope kind of garbage that DC was specializing in five years ago. Avoid this book. It's the biggest waste of Davis's talent since Uncanny X-Men Annual 10.

Picked it up also, and his art remains excellent, but yeah, it's another one of those 'Imma kill a bunch of peeps' storylines, which is never a turn on for me.

It clearly borrows from the Avengers Forever 'formula,' but, IMO, picks some less interesting options.

Still, Alan Davis art, and one of the characters is a grown-up Danielle Cage, as Captain America, wearing the costume and shield of her namesake, and having some powers from both Luke and Jessica. It's not quite as cool, IMO, as Songbird and Genis-Vell as 'future Avengers,' but still, cool.

Since it's all time-travel-y, and some of the characters 'killed' are people from the past that we know survived those eras, it's kind of pointless death-porn.

I just found out, via the Legion World Facebook window on the bottom left-hand corner of the front page of this site, that today is Alan Davis's birthday!

Happy Birthday to one of the brightest talents to come along during the 1980s. Here's to many more years of beautiful artwork and fun stories.

Happy birthday, Mr. Davis!

Thank you for all your awesome artwork over the years.

I picked up Mighty Defenders today. Drawn by Alan.

I waffled on picking it up, the cast is sorta annoying and limited yet ... it was the first thing I read at lunch. I'll get number two.