Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale’s Wonder of Color – Danger Room –

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Jeph Loeb is an extremely limited screenwriter who has managed to make a career out of some of his few virtues, including his career. an extraordinary ability to perfectly understand the essence of characters and find their most sensitive facescoupled with the enviable talent to work with some of the best artists on the market. In any case, any fan would complete “Jeph Loeb and …” with Tim Sale and no other artist. We already mentioned this artistic duo in our review https://vandal.elespanol.com/saladepeligro/18146/superman-las-cuatro-estaciones-del-camino-del-heroe/ Superman: The Four Seasons which we refer you to. This is the work that tells the story of the early days of Man of Steel, which emerged in 1998 and was the obvious inspiration. Daredevil: Yellow† Spider-Man: Blue† Hulk: Gray Yes Captain America: White†

All of them are set in the most classic and early times of the characters, and each tells the story of a lost love that forms the backbone of the story.† Also, in the whole narrative, it is abused by the main protagonist in the form of a conversation with that lost love from the present. Those of us who have read his Batman legends already know that when Loeb found a successful formula, he repeated it and was nauseous.

Graphically, they’re all beautifully drawn, narrated, and colored, with brutal covers, and rich in terms of a skit or a reinterpretation of a series of classic comics. The authors aim to make the stories evidence of the keepers of continuity. and that they are in millimeter form between certain numbers of character sets. It had precedents Spider-Man’s Untold Stories By Kurt Busiek and Pat Oliffe. These four miniseries are no attempt to update the original stories in the way John Byrne has been doing recently. Spider-Man Episode Onebut the setting pays homage to the original from the 60s.

Conclusion? Well, with one exception, it’s really good. let’s go to details

Yellow

The flaming miniseries aired in June 2001 and featured Daredevil in his Bill Everett-designed costume when it was a deep red and yellow. It’s actually more red than yellow, but the truth is that yellow indicates not just color, but also cowardice, as opposed to the courage inherent in the Fearless Man. We know this from interviews with the writers, but this doesn’t come from the story where Matt Murdock has been the same confident and reckless character from his early days. Here, Loeb and Sale chronicles the first six issues of the original 1964 series, as issue 7 features the red dress designed by Wally Wood.† Staying true to the original story, it uses the same villains from the first six issues: Owl, Electro, Matador, and Purple Man, recreating many scenes from these comics.

As is often the case with anything written by Loeb, this story is an excellent starting point for getting to know the character and works great as a starting story. Nothing is missing: the death of his boxer father and the ensuing quest for revenge, the start of the Nelson and Murdock law firm, and their rivalry for the love of his secretary, Karen Page, who died at the hands of Bullseye in 1999. Daredevil’s Marvel Knights stamp. The voiceover consists of a series of letters Matt wrote to his deceased girlfriend.well written, but this gets tricky in the end as they are repetitive.

Graphically, any praise falls short. No more Sales art, but Matt Hollingsworth’s gorgeous colors. This graphic aspect is not one-armed in any miniseries.

Blue

To be published in July 2002 Spider Man: Blue. If yellow is the color of cowardice, then blue is the color of sadness Peter Parker continues to feel for years after losing Gwen Stacy. There is no letter like here Daredevil: Yellow† there is registration† In a kind of reverse psychophony, Peter Parker records his memories of when he fell in love with Gwen and entered Mary Jane’s life, and quite morbidly addresses the deceased in the second person.

The story revolves around John Romita Sr., where Spider-Man encounters enemies mostly inspired by animals. takes place in the days 40 to 48 of the original series. By this time, Stan Lee and Romita had turned Peter Parker into the sort of Archie Andrews torn between two loves, the blonde and modest Gwen Stacy, and the redheaded and crazy Mary Jane Watson. Rarely are either of them portrayed as beautifully as they are drawn. Go out and see how beautiful they are when they come out of Romita’s father’s brush.† There is one detail that departs from the official continuity: Tim Sale transforms Mary Jane’s outfit into the legendary scene of the tiger winning the lottery, a beautiful model of the sixties, but that has nothing to do with the sleeveless sweater time readers met Anna. Watson’s nephew.

this mini-series Probably the best of the four we reviewed, extremely nostalgic and emotional† Mary Jane’s last sentence always brings the author of these lines to tears. The color was again done by Steve Buccellato with excellent results.

Grey

If the previous miniseries summed up issues six to eight of the original series, here it is: everything happens during the first song The Incredible Hulk and unique where the character appears gray skinned As is known, gray had to be changed to green as it was reproduced very poorly in the March 1962 media showing the character’s origin. And that’s why it’s called a mini-series Hulk: GrayNo more mysteries or explanations captured by the hair to justify this

How could it be otherwise? everything about the longing for lost love is re-voiced, a Betty Ross who had been dead for 5 years at the time the mini-series aired in December 2003. In this case, the narration is not based on letters or recordings, but the off-screen lyrics are a conversation between Bruce Banner and Leonard Samson, who works as a psychiatrist.

Rick Jones’ regret, Bruce Banner’s fear, General Ross’ obsession, Betty’s confusion involved in something she doesn’t understand, and most importantly, the wrath of a Hulk who wants to be left alone and Betty wants to be alone. don’t be afraid of it All the main elements of character from the 60s and 70s are here and well represented. As a new feature, Iron Man features the first encounter between the two characters in No. Believed to occur in 1, he appears with the second armor, a gold nugget. This In 1963, The Avengers and that Iron Man were made nine months after issue 1. The Incredible Hulk† Loeb and Sale fired Stark on the grounds that his presence in New Mexico was classified as military intelligence and the Hulk had a fishy memory and had already forgotten Iron Man when he joined the supergroup. . this Loeb has nothing to do with the crazy writer who took over the character lineup in 2008 and filled it with versions of colors. We said that when Loeb gets a trail, the trail ends and it follows Loeb. Random fact: As the author of the series, he also introduced red kryptonite small town.

In his defence, we should say: perfectly represents the anger and confusion of the main character, especially in that heartbreaking scene where the Hulk, unable to appreciate his own strength, accidentally kills a rabbit and doesn’t understand the consequences of his actions. I’m going to be as graphically heavy and repetitive as Loeb in terms of graphics, and I have no choice but to say that Sale will be great again at his peak. Especially impressive covers where an enraged Hulk is on the verge of insanity stands out. In the color repeated by Matt Hollingsworth.

White

Since the formula worked well and Loeb was comic book garlic, always repeating himself, it was Captain America’s turn. Also from the beginning of the character’s career, in this case World War II. the loss of your great love. i want to say bucky†

Then a lot happened: Loeb was working on the series. loss Yes heroesHe was in charge of the production company of the Marvel television series, lost his son Sam, and worked on several series such as the ones mentioned above. Hulkchapter 3 final or wrote a mini-series fallen son later served as a tombstone for Steve Rogers Civil warwill be replaced by the resurrected Bucky. In 2004, the idea of ​​a mini-series became obsolete in 2007, forcing it to be rewritten. It’s a script that has already been put off by many of Loeb and Sale’s commitments, and I guess because even they were fed up with the formula.†

A number 0 in 2008 Captain America: White 6 miniseries was supposed to have a prologue, but we had to wait until November 2015 for it to come out with only 5 issues† As Bucky has been resurrected for over 10 years, the story is not told as of now, but it is Captain America, who misses his (supposedly) deceased friend, who the Avengers rescued from the iceberg where he was frozen. .

Time passed and it got worse. 2015 was not 2002, and there was no longer a need for nostalgia and stories that dived into old continuity. In addition, the writing is much worse than the other three miniseries and the drawing is not even up to parEven if it tries to imitate the style of 1950s war comics, or maybe that’s why. The color in this case is provided by Dave Stewart, the greatest colorist in history, who won one of his many Eisners in 2015. The story chronicles the early adventures of married couple Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes in 1941 in North Africa and France, where they met Nick Fury and the Howling Commandos, who were already in Nazi territory before the American intervention in World War II. . The emotional side plays on the fraternity between Captain and Bucky, who got very jealous when Rogers approached a girl like Robin in the 1950s about Batman. And for good reason, because Steve loses his virginity in a cliché to a French resistance fighter who wears a beret.

And why is there white in the title of the mini-series? You can consider one of the colors of the American flag. The blue one was captured by Spider-Man, the red one (from the blood of the soldiers fighting for freedom?) and the white one (from the peace?) But no, according to the authors it’s because white is the color of the hats of the good guys in westerns and the Captain is a black and white world. they wanted to compare his vision to the grays of reality. yes i think they just made it up†

The four miniseries we mentioned were recently re-released by Panini and, as with almost all of Loeb and Sale’s work, the perfect gateway to the worlds of the main charactersif you read them often, the message you get is how little it pays to be a superhero girlfriend or coworker.