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Thursday, April 02, 2009

The Dark X-Men

The All-New, All-Deadly, Dark X-Men
© C Harris Lynn, 2009

1 comment:

Manodogs said...

Okay, you see the two right in the middle of the page? If you follow the composition, they are the very first two you see; that's Cloak & Dagger.

Cloak & Dagger was the series that got me started drawing comic books. Not only was it a well-written series (it was what it was, but it was Bill Mantlo, so for the age at which I saw it - the age at which it was aimed - it was really good), it was penciled by none other than Rick Leonardi.

I've posted about Leonardi before; he is my absolute favorite penciler of all time. Jim Lee replaced him for a while there, but I feel he overdrew everything once he moved to Image and I fell out of love with him. As far as that goes, I don't think Jim Lee has ever matched the craftwork of what he was putting out back in the late-'80s, early '90s (the Uncanny X-Men era). Leonardi, OTOH, sparkles sometimes and falls flat others, but is always interesting.

His work on Cloak & Dagger is like nothing else in Comicdom of that time. I urge you to check it out quickly, because I'm sure that series' value will increase with their inclusion in this Dark X-Men. If they skyrocket in value, I promise to scan some of the better images and post them.

Speaking of which, let me go ahead and make a post on all of this, because this is getting ridiculously long for a comment.