Showing posts with label Jim Lee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jim Lee. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Spawnometer 0:0:3:8: WildC.A.T.s vs. Cyberforce: Killer Instinct

Spawn #38 &
WildC.A.T.s: Covert Action Teams #5-9
& Cyberforce #0-3 (1993-1994)


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Spawn #38

by Todd McFarlane & Julia Simmons & Tony Daniel & Kevin Conrad

"Mind Games"
Dedicated To: Marv Wolfman
My name is Frederick Willheim, and I was born in Geneva, Switzerland... Anna. Intelligent. Caring. Beautiful... she did me the honor of becoming my wife... Her health then declined rapidly... I then focused solely on studying neurology, and vowed to save her or die trying.

Learning of my research, the U.S. Army invited me to head up their Cybernetic Simian project.

When the Cy-Gor moved of its own free will... I've had a stroke... I cannot reach her. My Anna... The beast... It hasn't eaten. It will escape... It will want my Anna...

WildC.A.T.s: Covert Action Teams #5-9

by Jim Lee with Brandon Choi, Scott Williams, & Co.


Cyberforce #0-3 & (1993-1994)

by Marc Silvestri & Eric Silvestri with Walter Simonson



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Spawning Ground


Al Simmons, Cogliostro, Cy-Gor, Cyberforce, Cybernet, Jim Lee, Marc Silvestri, Spawn, Spawn Podcast, Stormwatch, Todd McFarlane, Travis Charest, WildC.A.T.s, Wildstorm
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Monday, January 16, 2023

Spawnometer 0:0:3:7: 1963

Spawn #37 & 1963 (1993)


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Spawn #37

by Alan Moore & Todd McFarlane & Greg Capullo

"The Freak"
Dedicated To: Keith Giffen
They called him Dr. Delirium, an insane scientist with the means to control minds... or else destroy them!

These are the merest fraction of the psyche-shredding mechanisms at Delirium's disposal. This is the cold, oil-perfumed zoo in which he keeps the metal beasts that tear men's heads apart.

I'm sorry to call you down here so abruptly, Mrs. Kulbiczi. Your husband escaped from the institution, AGAIN...

1963 #1-6 (1993)

by Alan Moore & Rick Veitch & Steve Bissette & Jim Valentino & Dave Gibbons & Don Simpson & Chester Brown & John Totleben



Shadowhawk #14 & A Touch of Silver #5 & Big Bang Comics #35

by Jim Valentino


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1963, Al Simmons, Alan Moore, Big Bang Comics, Don Simpson, Greg Capullo, Jim Lee, Jim Valentino, Rick Veitch, Shadowhawk, Spawn, Spawn Podcast, Steve Bissette, The Freak, Todd McFarlane, Youngblood,
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Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Spawnometer 0:0:2:5: Image Zero

Spawn #25 &
Image Zero #0 &
Image X-Month &
Operation: Urban Storm &


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Shadowhawk: Out of the Shadows


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The Savage Dragon: Baptism of Fire



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Spawn #25

by Todd McFarlane & Marc Silvestri & Matt Banning & Billy Tan

"Tremors"
Dedicated To: Spirit of Independence
Not Overtkill. Not SPAWN. Not GOD. NOTHING'S going to save Vito!

You people have become LAZY! Always turning to me for help. Well I don't have the answers. I can't solve ALL your problems. I've got a few of my own.

It wasn't long ago that Vito forced me to be his guinea pig... The combination of chemicals, microsurgery, who knows what sort of radiation and anti-rejection drugs transformed me.

Image Zero #0

by Rob Liefeld & Art Thibert; Jim Lee & Brandon Choi & Scott Williams; Todd McFarlane & Dan Panosian; Erik Larsen; Marc Silvestri; Jim Valentino & Christopher Ivy; and Whilce Portacio


Extra-Image: Shadowhawk (1992)

by Jim Valentino


Operation: Urban Storm

featuring Shadowhawk, Savage Dragon, & Stormwatch


Shadowhawk #0 (1994)

by Rob Liefeld & Karl Alstaetter & Robert Napton


Cyberforce #8 (1994)

by Eric Silvestri & Todd McFarlane & Greg Capullo & Mark Pennington & John Cleary


Youngblood #9 (1994)

by Jim Valentino & Dan Fraga


Savage Dragon #13 (1994)

by Jim Lee & Brandon Choi & Richard Bennett & Alex Garner & Dan Panosian & Scott Williams


WildC.A.T.s: Covert Action Teams #14 (1994)

by Erik Larsen


Stupid #1 (1993)

by Hilary Barta


Splitting Image #1-2 (1993)

by Don Simpson


The Savage Dragon vs. The Savage Megaton Man #1 (1993)

by Erik Larsen & Don Simpson


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Spawning Ground



Al Simmons, Bloodstrike, Brass, Cyberforce, Erik Larsen, Extra-Image Presents, Greg Capullo, Jim Lee, Jim Valentino, Marc Silvestri, Megaton Man, Rob Liefeld, Savage Dragon, Shadowhawk, Spawn, Spawn Podcast, Stormwatch, SuperPatriot, Terry Fitzgerald, Todd McFarlane, Tony Twist, Tremor, Vanguard, Wanda Blake, Whilce Portacio, WildC.A.T.s, Wildstorm, Youngblood,
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Wednesday, February 5, 2020

2017 Heroes Convention Huntsman Jam Figure by Alan Davis



So here's a sticky choice made by Frank-- he didn't want to include any of Jim Lee's characters, since they were sold off to DC Comics, literally one of the big two surviving comic book publishers around since the beginning with one of the greatest accumulations of sins against creators on record. Deluded that this jam might actually appear in an Image comic someday, he didn't want any compromised copyrights that might force a later exclusion, like when Michel Fiffe Image Jam #1 erased Void when it appeared in an issue of Savage Dragon. Same went for Alan Moore's 1963 characters, which became another rights boondoggle when Moore abandoned them (and then had his own America's Best Comics sold to DC by Jim Lee.) So how do you acknowledge the formidable presence of Jim Lee as an Image founder without using any of his creations?

Use one of Chris Claremont's, Lee's writer during his run on Uncanny X-Men. The debt WildC.A.T.s owed to Claremont is... measurable, come to think of it. That's probably why Claremont was (I believe) the first writer invited to publish their characters through Image, and he did so via a guest stint on said book. At one point, Huntsman was going to be Whilce Portacio's Image book as well, but Claremont was off in Paris at the time and Whilce wanted to get moving on a title... about another couple years later. Anyway, Lee drew most of Huntsman's appearances that weren't done by another ex-X collaborator, Marc Silvestri. Huntsman is still owned by his creator, and the association with Lee made him a good Wildstorm stand-in.

Since we're all about X-Men artists, another of Claremont's longtime collaborators who was also an influence on Lee and did work for Wildstorm was Alan Davis. In a better world, we might have had Claremont & Davis' Huntsman instead of Sovereign Seven and ClanDestine being consigned to the dustbin of Chromium Age historical footnotes. Davis also drew Alan Moore's seminal super-hero deconstruction Miracleman, which added layers of subtext by not only referencing Moore in a Jim Lee analog, but also a "creator-owned" property that was ultimately gobbled up by the other of the Big Two, Marvel (not to mention further tying into the McFarlane/Gaiman legal battle that cost the former the rights to Angela.) An absolutely delicious context cake!

That said, getting Davis would be a laborious longshot, but thankfully Frank has one of the world's great girlfriends, who stood in line for three hours to wait for him while Frank continued to move the jam around. Davis was doing while-you-wait quick pieces for charity (HERO, I think,) so it was a mad sprint once the call went out for Davis' availability. Given how many smiling faces Davis draws on his characters, Frank was amused by how crabby he was about drawing Huntsman. He complained the whole time about the inadequacy of the reference and the shortcomings of Lee's rendition of the character's costume and accessories. Regardless, worth it!

Side note: for those who would grouse about the exclusion of Wildstorm properties, several ultimately were included in the background at the choice of the final artist, who filled-out the jam with a multitude of additions.
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Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Spawnometer 0:0:0:6: WildCATs Covert-Action-Teams

Spawn #6 &
WildCATs: Covert Action Teams #1-4



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Spawn #6 by Todd McFarlane

"Payback" Part 1
Dedicated To: Stan Lee
OVERT-KILL! In whispered voices, some call him "Overkill." It has to do with his tendency to go beyond the necessary means.

Gino told me that Overt-Kill thinks it's a Youngblood he's after. He had a run-in with them a few years back, and hasn't forgotten how they embarrassed him.

I'm not some drunk hobo that you can steamroll! Or are you afraid of someone who can fight back?!

A CYBORG! I fought them years ago, before I was killed. But they weren't nearly as advanced. Nor as deadly.

WildCATs: Covert Action Teams #1-4 (1992)

by Jim Lee with Brandon Choi & Co.

I... witnessed my own death. The death of Major Adrianna Tereshkova.

Heavy collateral damage... Best guess? Two rogue C.A.T.s duked it out in the middle of D.C.

You were once Lord Emp-- one of the four Lords of Power-- the champion of mankind.

...We may begin the reunification. Soon our Daemonite brothers shall join us in conquering this misbegotten planet.

You're all under arrest! Release the Vice-President! Now!


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