Let me just talk a little bit about THOR 383 first because it's really an excellent tie-in to the original Secret Wars 12 issue series. In the Secret Wars story line at one point The Enchantress temporarily magically transports herself and THOR off The Beyonder's Battleworld only to return there right in the middle of Dr. Doom's army of super villains. Not only in THOR 383 do we find out where they went for a while but we also get to see a recap of the entire fight between THOR and Doom's forces played out (as seen in Secret Wars 4) with new art work by Ron Frenz.
As you can see the art work kicks ass I mean seriously this is Sal Buscema level quality and that's pretty high praise coming from me as you all know. This is exactly what is meant when you hear about comic book art being done "The Marvel Way". It's very strange how Frenz doesn't have more notoriety in the industry like I said a really under rated artist.
It's rather sad that many of the same people who would practically drop to their knees upon hearing the name of a certain other artist who's work was out dated and woefully inadequate back in the 80s would probably be all but clueless about Ron Frenz and his fantastic work. That's just wrong.
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Man, I love Ron Frenz, his run on Amazing Spider- man is my second all time favourite after the classic Lee-Ditko period,a very solid artist indeed his style has that classic Marvel feel to it.In my opinion the decade from late 70's to end of 80's was great in artists,Frank Miller, John Byrne,Bill Sienkiewicz, John Romita jr.,Sal Buscema, Mike Zeck,Walt Simonson,Ron Frenz,Michael Golden...
ReplyDeletePs.Love that Rom piece of Frenz,as always he renders the character with respect of his history with a strong Buscema feel to it.
Ok thank goodness we're of the same opinion with Frenz. I see you also mentioned a number of other great artists to.
DeleteYeah, I could go on forever with the great Marvel artists of the 80's, just want to ask you if you remember Mark Bright another under rated artist in my opinion his Iron Man was excellently drawn and his style would be fit for Rom also, he even had inks from Akin&Garvey the outstanding inkers who worked with Sal in Rom.
ReplyDeleteAkin & Garvey i know ofcourse and yes they are outstanding indeed. the name Mark Bright sounded familiar so i Googled his name yes he's quite good as well. speaking of art work i just found out tonight about some where else my ROM fan art as turned up and i'm not talking about the internet. stay tuned i'll post that soon.
DeleteI've heard of this issue from another blog some time back, but I definitely agree on how much artists like Frenz and MD Bright are grossly underrated and under appreciated. Frenz's style is such that you can immediately see the Kirby influence without being a straight copycat. I always enjoyed his Thor run with DeFalco.
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