Comments on: 365 Reasons to Love Comics #220

By: lauren

lauren — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 22:13:53 +0000

Wow, Keven MacGuire goodness. Definitely in my top ten reasons comics are good.

thanks, Bill

By: TF_loki

TF_loki — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:50:47 +0000

Jack Potts : Strikeback made it to issue 4 at Image and then died but was reprinted and completed by Wildstorm about 4 years later. I might have mixed up the companies. I have both runs and it was a great series and I hope he brings it back someday.

The only person who’s better at faces is Amanda Conner and even then it’s a photo finish and the two of them finish a couple of hours before everyone else.

By: Apodaca

Apodaca — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 23:59:59 +0000

I like the way his characters have the thickness of actual people.

By: DanCJ

DanCJ — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:25:21 +0000

Kevin Maguire’s art is great. In the whole of JLI, it was second only to Adam Hughs’s work

By: Jack Potts

Jack Potts — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:49:41 +0000

Does anyone remember his creator-owned book “Codename: Strikeback!”? Did the the second issue of ever come out?

I really enjoyed the first issue, but don’t ever recall seeing subsequent issues.

By: Anthony Strand

Anthony Strand — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:37:58 +0000

As for trades, I own every issue of JLI and JLE, and I’d buy trades in a second, if only to give them as gifts to the friends I’ve been lending the series out to.

By: Anthony Strand

Anthony Strand — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:34:40 +0000

I’m loving these JLI/Super Buddies-related posts. Like so many other here (it does my heart good to see that), it’s one of my all-time favorite superhero runs. And Maguire is my all-time favorite penciller, hands down.

His facial expressions on Wolverine in the “Wizard How To Draw” FCBD special made me like Wolverine for the first time ever.

By: John Seavey

John Seavey — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 10:40:04 +0000

One thing I particularly like about Maguire, on the whole “I wish we saw more from him” thing, is that he’s realistic about how much time it takes him to draw a comic. He doesn’t overcommit and then deliver late or rushed work, which is nice in the modern age.

By: Andrew Collins

Andrew Collins — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:00:09 +0000

Maguire is amazing and just like I said a few days ago in the Giffen thread, that JLI run is just begging for a trade paperback run…

By: Levantine

Levantine — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 05:05:19 +0000

“I would buy endless Maguire-drawn comics if I could, even if they were all talking headsâ€“ no, especially if they were all talking heads.”

Hmm, I don’t know how well the Talking Heads would work as a comic book.

By: M Bloom

M Bloom — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 04:08:06 +0000

Very good call, Maguire is an amazing artist. One of the best out there at handling facial expressions.

So who’s going to be tomorrow, Adam Hughes or Bart Sears?

By: stealthwise

stealthwise — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 03:59:10 +0000

JLI was the best. The. best.

And Maguire was a huge part of that greatness.

By: stephen cade

stephen cade — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 03:14:02 +0000

You know–it took a little bit for me to get used to him–mostly due to the inks, but it didn’t take too long. And while some of the other artists on the JLI books did a very good job, nobody did it like Maguire.

When i think of Guy Gardner I think of him or Joe Staton, when I think of Mr Miracle I think of him or Ian Gibson, when I think of Blue & Gold or Fire & Ice–I think of Maguire.

I’d buy something that looked mildly entertaining if he drew it.

By: Dan K

Dan K — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 02:36:54 +0000

To sum up then: awesome.

By: JG

JG — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 02:21:16 +0000

Maguire is awesome. Also awesome: Referencing the Cure’s “Pictures of You” when linking to the archives.

By: km

km — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 02:21:06 +0000

Those pages are beautiful. He makes the most difficult part of a comic artist’s job – conveying emotion – look absolutely effortless. Most excellent choice.

By: Matt D

Matt D — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 02:16:41 +0000

Maguire is my absolute favorite artist. There you go.

By: DanLarkin

DanLarkin — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 02:02:24 +0000

Maguire is awesome.

By: Ian Astheimer

Ian Astheimer — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:52:34 +0000

He is so very damn good.

By: Adam Jones

Adam Jones — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:44:50 +0000

@ Mr Cronin:

Ditto