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Snark Free Corner for 8/13
- by Brian Cronin
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Welcome to the latest installment of your breath of snark free air!
Enjoy!
GREAT COMIC ARTISTS
Sadly, the comic world is mourning the loss of one of the best, Mike Wieringo, who died tragically Sunday at the far too young age of 44.
BAKER'S DOZEN
Here are thirteen great Wieringo covers...
First, an amazing quintych he did for Fantastic Four...
Next, a strong introduction to his run on Fantastic Four with Mark Waid...
An eerie FF cover featuring Valeria Richards...
And a sentimentally effective FF cover...
A strong opener to his Tellos series...
A clever Adventures of Superman cover concept...
A striking Sensational Spider-Man cover....
A recent striking Spider-Man/Fantastic Four cover...
A clever Flash cover...
and a way too apropos Robin cover...
COVER THEME GAME
As always, here is the game. I show three covers. They all have something in common, whether it be a character, a trait all three characters share, locale, creator, SOMEthing. And it isn't something obvious like "They all have prices!" "They all have logos!" "They all feature a man!" etc.
In addition, please note that you must have some familiarity with comic book history to correctly guess these comics. You cannot guess the connective theme just by looking at the covers solely, you must have some knowledge beyond just the covers.
Good luck! A cool point to the first person to figure it out!
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SNARK FREE CHALLENGE
What was the best run on a comic book that Mike Wieringo did?
THE COVER GAME
This week's game is as follows...
Find me a cover drawn by Mike Wieringo that features Wolverine on the cover.
Floating heads don't count!
For example (and you can't use this one!), this Marvel Holiday Special....
Remember, only one cover per commenter!
This one is tough, though, so TWO cool points per cover!
Good luck!
Well, that's it for this installment of Snark Free Corner.
See you next week.
And R.I.P. Mike Wieringo. My condolences to his family and friends.
- Posted on August 13, 2007 @ 09:38 PM
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17 Comments
Rob M
August 14, 2007 at 4:48 am
Cover theme:
Swarm, Rampage, and Darkstar all first appeared in Marvel's 1970s "Champions" series.
Hey, I got one. I almost never get these.
Joshua Cochran
August 14, 2007 at 5:03 am
I think Wieringo did the cover to Sabretooth Classic #12.
Rob Schamberger
August 14, 2007 at 5:05 am
Cover theme:
All of the antagonists' names are shown on the cover.
Jordan D. White
August 14, 2007 at 6:15 am
X-Men Rarities:
http://www.mycomicshop.com/res/unprocessed/fullsize/B229K001.jpg
Which I have and whose cover looks very odd to me. Perhaps it's because Ringo is inked by Austin instead of Kesel.
Matthew Lazorwitz
August 14, 2007 at 6:21 am
My favorite Ringo run would have to be Flash. It was the first of his work I saw, and it left a huge impression on me. It's because of the Waid/Ringo run that Wally West is easily one of my top 5 superheroes of all time. Flash #0 is still one of my favorite comics of all time.
Jordan D. White
August 14, 2007 at 6:53 am
I'm torn on a favourite run between his and Waid's FF and his and Dezago's Sensational Spider-Man. I know Sensational was one of those 90's Spidey comics that everyone seems to deny the existence of, but it was really cool. I didn't read it at the time, but when I went back to scopp up those issues, they really were a pleasure to read.
Anthony Strand
August 14, 2007 at 6:55 am
I gotta say that Flash is my favorite Wieringo work. But I'm wearing a Flash t-shirt right now, so I'm probably biased.
Pedro Bouça
August 14, 2007 at 7:56 am
My fave Wieringo was, no doubt, Tellos! Great fantasy comic and creator-owned to boot! What could be better?
Sadly now Ringo will never have the chance to get back to it...
Best,
Hunter (Pedro Bouça)
sean
August 14, 2007 at 8:04 am
It's a shame. I've just recently been collecting the Waid/Weiringo 'Fantastic Four' run, and was just thinking how much I liked his style.
Tomer
August 14, 2007 at 8:07 am
Does this Ultimate Civil War Spider-Ham cover counts?
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/182/402369882_d39e114921_o.jpg
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I have yet to read Mike's Flash or FF unfortunately, but his Sesational Spider-Man was one of the books I fell in love with when I was new to comics.
He surely will be missed.
RIP, Mike.
jazzbo
August 14, 2007 at 8:16 am
Dammit, I finally knew a cover theme answer and someone beat me to it.
DanCJ
August 14, 2007 at 9:40 am
Tellos is my favourite Ringo run. Any stories drawn by anyone else just aren't the same.
lauren
August 14, 2007 at 2:08 pm
My faves are the Flash/Impulse runs with Mark Waid and his own work, Tellos.
Another great artist taken too soon!
Kelson
August 14, 2007 at 2:25 pm
It's hard to say whether I preferred Tellos or the Waid/Wieringo Flash. The latter is definitive, and I've got a long history with the Flash, but I also really liked Tellos. In fact, in a strange case of timing, I had just re-read Tellos this weekend, which got me excited about the hints he'd made in his blog about getting the book going again... and made Monday's news hit even harder.
Bill Reed
August 14, 2007 at 3:06 pm
I can't pick a favorite. All of his runs were great.
Flash #91 is one of the greatest single issues of all time-- and is showing up in the new Greatest Flash Stories Ever Told, which I think is coming out this week.
Salamurai
August 16, 2007 at 9:12 pm
I think the Waid/Wieringo Fantastic Four run is some of the best comics ever.
I enjoyed what I read of their Flash run, too (no pun intended). It's unfortunate that probably his most significant creation for DC, Impulse, was recently killed off (mercifully, tho, considering what had been done to the character in recent years).
Didn't he do the new costume for the original Green Goblin, with the scale-mail nastier mask?
Brian Cronin
November 21, 2007 at 1:29 am
Please note that, after getting THIS one right, Rob M got, like, four more right!