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Pepe Larraz, Dan Mora, Tula Lotay, Carlos Gomez (his X-Terminators run with Leah Williams would have sent me flying to the shelves as a preteen boy! It did now!), and Zoe Thorogood are all top for me right now.

I really like the Max Fiumara on the Sacrificers, Mattia De Iulis on the Cull, Maria Llovet. I haven't read the Lovesick yet, but everything I've seen from Luana Vecchio is insane. Martin Morazzo and Chris O' Halloran on Ice Cream Man are unbeatable.

I haven't seen them on a ton of interiors, but Jen Bartel and Kevin Wada have done great cover work, especially for She-Hulk. And I can't mention cover artists and skip over Dave McKean.

For manga, I love Q Hayashida (Dai Dark, Dorohedoro), Taiyo Matsumoto (No. 5), and Naoki Urosawa (Pluto, 20th Century Boys).

Finally, my all time faves are Bill Sinkiewicz, Chris Bachalo, and (maybe somewhat of a surprise given the inclinations of the others named) but Alex Ross is at the absolute top of the heap. His Superman makes you believe a man can fly!

Quote from: justa on June 18, 2024, 10:00:58 PMI've said it before; I'll say it again.  They may not be "superhero" comics, but I still really enjoy Preacher (Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon) & Transmetropolitan (Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson).

Yeah, the Preacher is my favorite comic series of all time. I've read it over and over and suggest it to everyone. I think it strikes a good balance of critique and appreciation of American culture, and, despite (because of?) all the scat and smut, has such a beautiful and hopeful heart at its core.

I wish the same could be said about the Boys...

I've never read Transmetropolitan, but it's always been on my list.

So awhile back I decided to make DC versions of all the Teamwork cards that were missing. I don't believer I've shared them here yet. Here is a link to them.

I also did some DC versions of the grid altering artifacts that are here.

I've said it before; I'll say it again.  They may not be "superhero" comics, but I still really enjoy Preacher (Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon) & Transmetropolitan (Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson).

Quote from: fennshysa on June 17, 2024, 12:13:24 PMHe had a pretty important tenure on Hulk, no? That stuff didn't quite hit for ya?

I've read some of his Hulk stuff. Wasn't really a fan. He did write the original Spider-Man 2099 right? That was good. I collected a lot of the 2099 stuff when it came out. I mostly only liked the Doom and Spider-Man titles. That's worth a re-read sometime though.
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Doom 2099 is head and shoulders above the rest, but I love the overall esthetic of the world and how every day we get closer to marvel 2099 just being real life.

Ditto what fenn said.  I'm not familiar with either character (so I'll have to do some reading to do).  But I like the idea of a Location that is also a character (a character version of Danny The Street is still on my backburner).
If I'm reading right (which I often don't), if using Freddy as a Homebase and with no Battlesite, "locations" equates to Freddy the Homebase, Freddy the character, and the Foxy Special.  Not over-"bearing", but a + none the less.  Cool idea.

Hello. I'm always willing to share mine too. They are in photoshop format. Older so anything should open it. Shoot me a message with your email and what templates you want. I have ones in Marvel, DC, Image format for about any card.

Nice! I really like what you did with the grids on the character cards. I've dropped the words on some of mine too but that shading behind the icons keeps them from getting lost in the art.

He had a pretty important tenure on Hulk, no? That stuff didn't quite hit for ya?
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I've read some of his Hulk stuff. Wasn't really a fan. He did write the original Spider-Man 2099 right? That was good. I collected a lot of the 2099 stuff when it came out. I mostly only liked the Doom and Spider-Man titles. That's worth a re-read sometime though.

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Quote from: Palatinus on June 15, 2024, 03:41:31 AMI'm reading through all of marvel 2099.  It's definitely a product of its time and has some real issues, but there's also a lot of good mixed in and I like when they actually try to do different things.

I really wanna work through Spider-Man 2099. I always liked that he was Irish and Latino, like me lol.

I'm enjoying Spider-man 2099. Right now my favorite 2099 book is Doom. Spider-man is second. Ravage would be third. Punisher is last for me. I'm hoping the book takes a turn, but at the point I'm at, it's pretty bad. I haven't gotten to X-Men yet, but I'm sure I'll like it if for no reason then my X-Men bias.

I can definitely recommend Spider-man 2099. Miguel is a good character. He's very different from Peter Parker, but he comes into his own as the comic progresses.