Tuesday, December 12, 2006

The unseen villainy

Like whipping us with a sharp snap across the face with a glove, albeit a glove transmitted over the internet, which come to think of it, would probably be some sort of theoretical glove, or at the very least an e-glove, Brandon over at Random Panels issues the challenge to the blogosphere assembled to "fill in the blanks" of a Thor/Cap panel.

Have at ye, then, sir!:

Truth in advertising notice: I'm not sure what issue this is from or indeed if Colletta was even involved. But who needs truthiness in going for the yucks? Not me, that's fer sure.

13 comments:

Brandon Bragg said...

I've got a villain written up for a DC Heroes rpg called the Eraser. His secret identity will now be changed to mild mannered art-hack, Vince Coletta. Thanks for the inspiration, sir.

Douglas Wolk said...

Gotta say, that looks a lot more like Chic Stone to me...

Gloria said...

Aye, aye, Colletta's inking was made by a lot of tiny lines

SallyP said...

"Great work, Jan!" Tee hee hee. That's about all she was good for back in the day anyway.

Jack Norris said...

I'm embarassed to admit that up until about a year ago, I had never known about Colletta pulling this trick. I would even get in arguments with people who'd get mad when I said I liked his inking (they could at least have said _why_ before getting all huffy).
Though I'm still quite fond of the texture of his style on the parts that he actually bothered to do.
And no, that panel doesn't seem to have any of the distinctive "Colletta scratches" anywhere. Funny, though.

Bully said...

I don't know enough about where the panel came from specifically, though I'll ask Brandon. I just wanted to make a "there's no background, Colletta musta erased it" joke!

Brandon Bragg said...

X-Men #9, sir.

Bully said...

Douglas is right then; it's Chic Stone.

Anonymous said...

Chick Stone...
Awful illustrator...
WONDERFUL INKER.
i DON'T THINK ANYONE INKED kIRBY AS WELL AS HE DID.

Anonymous said...

This Paul Saether guy really knows comics.
Who is he?

Anonymous said...

me!

Anonymous said...

I'll take Vince Colletta's inking any day over Chic Stone. It is like comparing and artist with a tracer.

Unknown said...

I heard that Vince Colletta also planned the Kennedy assassination and the World Trade Center attacks. They apparantly weren't as horrific as erasing a Jack Kirby background so no one has ever heard about them.