MatthewMinor

Illustrator-Designer-Writer-lover of Pizza-creator of No Rest for the Wicked w/Kevin & Jake Minor. Comic @SourcePointPress. Film @Lionsgate as Dead Man’s Hand

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@RackSpinner 4/4 - I was a big Hercules fan so this was satisfying to get a Limited Series. Wolverine is of course a classic at this point. Mike Zeck on Captain America was so dynamic and getting some Howling Commandos?! Hell yah. Plus, I was never so impressed w/Mr Hyde as that cover gave us

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@DamooseSeth @pipelinecomics You killed it in 2D, man. Now it’s demanding to pop off the page.

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@RackSpinner 4/4 ! Had to Pick up Dazzler for that cover…so fun, so different, so good! Solid New Mutants cover and art too. I found it sort of funny how personal the early stories were, smaller in scale while growing the characters. Then they got as wild as the x-men as time progressed. lol

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@RackSpinner 3/4 - All but the Thing. New Mutants just absolutely blew me away. I had enjoyed his work on Moon knight but Sienkewiecz was unleashed here and his work wasn’t being constrained to try and look like traditional comic art. It was at this time I realized what a master he truly was.

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@JonathanJColton Stepping out of the pocket watch is genius, even if slightly off message, and perfectly executed.

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@RackSpinner 3/4 - possibly 4/4…that Defenders is eeily familiar. Byrne books, all day everyday for me please and thank you! And I loved the Hercules books…way too into those as a fan of Greek mythology.

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@RackSpinner 2/4 - X-Men and ROM
That X-Men book was sequentially right before the first one I ever bought. I got it 5 years after release when I started buying back issues of X-Men. 1 new back issue every paycheck back to #98. And ROM; any Michael Golden cover is just a goddam gem.

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@JonathanJColton I have as many of all of these books by theses creators as I could find, which is most of them. Have met 3 of the 4 of them too. Class acts.

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@RackSpinner 2/4 - Fantastic 4 & Contest of Champions
Byrne’s FF run was 1 of my favorites in comics. Simonson Thors & Paul Smith X-Mens too. CoCs is the 1st limited series I recall Marvel doing. Loved it. The creation/utilization of foreign heroes made the world feel larger & more real to me

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@RackSpinner 1/4 - Fantastic Four
I remember that cover, what a flashback it caused!! As a young artist I was fascinated by superheroes and rendering of energy blasts and spells and monsters but was never so struck as “wow, he drew melted metal in the air and I totally believe it.” Excelsior.

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@RackSpinner 1/4 - Avengers
This is one of my favorite early books. The Scarlet Witch backstory really grabbed me. John Byrne was in top form.

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@RackSpinner 4/4 any Paul Smith anything I could get my hands on was good. Pretty much the same for John Byrne work. Defenders I was getting every other issue due to scarcity or something…I managed this one.

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@RackSpinner 4/4 That X-Men issue was really nicely done and was a neat change of pace episode with Belasco as the supernatural villain. I was in my new “local comic book store phase” where there were multiple copies of every title so I could spend all my mowing money on the whole Marvel line

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@RackSpinner 1/4 - This was my first issue of Fantastic Four. I thought Sphinx was an excellent bad guy and loved seeing him appear later in Nova. I didn’t really become a regular on FF until John Byrne came aboard, but this set the table for me for sure.

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@RackSpinner 2/4 - Spider-Man and Shang Chi. Jack o Lantern villain!? I was so in. I had really enjoyed some Mike Zeck Shang Chi books/art so I was grabbing any of those when I saw them.

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@RackSpinner 2/4 Who’s Who and Infinity. I not only got Who’s Who when they came out monthly I got the binder version that was released. It is a prized possession for the art and info. Such an incredible reference. I have the Marvel Universe versions and their RPG binder versions for as well.

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@BillWillingham Looking for the “dislike”button. I think I can understand why they think they had to say that but that is truly a loaded bloated corporate statement that is so disrespectful to you I’m embarrassed for them. Creators earned thoughts and opinions about how their work is presented.

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@Paul_thePullbox @Y2John84 That’s definitely my third favorite!

(I almost did that one). Just watched BTiLC 2x this last week. Once with my daughter and once with my brother, it’s all very fresh in my mind. lol.

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@RyanOttley It’s high praise to you (well deserved) that your art and layouts are so good that they continually key off of them. I read the books a ways back but seeing the show and getting your retrospectives here is truly great. Comparing them with your insights and commentary is terrific!