Jaredan
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And here are the X-Men I remember so fondly. Aaron breezes into this first issue with a cavalcade of smart,…
Read full review and commentsThe Avengers lick their wounds and Cap opens the discussion about just who will be on the roster. One would…
Read full review and commentsFear Itself comes to an end (as far as I’m concerned), and the “writing by flow-chart” is still painfully evident….
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It isn't the complete list of his swipes of course but you'll find a lot of familiar images there. In fact compare the first image of Sinister in the chair with the swipe of Adrian Paul from Highlander. It's the same image but with added hair, a beard which seems to float slightly out of alignment with his face, an off-center forehead diamond and bushy eyebrows. It just needs glasses and a big plastic nose and the disguise is complete.
Pretty sure Apocalypse was once Hulk.
Sorry you start picking at one thread on his work and it just starts to unravel.
But I look at the Dark Phoenix front and center and recognise it as being a retread from his previous work, then the Wolverine pops out as another reused piece. The Cyclops/Marvel Girl kiss is wonderful, but within a plist second I'm wondering what the original image was and how good the artist/photographer who originally created it is.
The Logan/Peter/Kurt image is perfect, but I wonder where Land got the base figures from. Rachel's face looks so good it is very reminiscent of John Romita Jr., then of course I wonder if it actually is JR.
Beast looks very similar to Alan Davis' work, Kitty looks unlike any other female on the page, the Magneto helmet looks to be from a cover he did on Uncanny 516 etc. etc.
Land has an eye for composition, but you see so many different styles in his images and so many examples of him swiping other artists, photographers and then reusing them over and over that it just leaps out each time I look at his work.
I despise his art for many reasons, the intellectual dishonesty to begin with, but I guess most of all that his art always gets in the way of the story for me.