Power Company: Josiah Power #1 - Cover
Artists: Tom Grummett (Penciller) , Mike Bair (Inker)
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Power Company: Josiah Power #1 - Color
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DescriptionThe Power Company series was published in 2001, which makes it astounding to think it has already been over 2 decades since it was released. While Tom Grummett's pencils were often matched up with sylistically mismatched & some just not ready to go pro yet inkers throughout his career, I've always enjoyed Mike Bair's slick inks over Tom's work. All of the finished covers to this series of one-shots are beautiful and really stand out, especially due to their uniform layout and design as well as the fabulously varying backgrounds which seem to be variations on a theme. In the case of this series' covers, Kirby Krackle! This cover also looks great right next to the Power Company: Striker Z #1 cover I posted back in April and it's nice to have the covers with Superboy and Superman together.Of course, DC didn't do the art any favours with their choice of color scheme for the published comic book, but then again, that's why I've always been so thankful that the industry always had the foresight to have the colorists work over photocopies of the art rather than over the original line art! Social/Sharing |
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F M 
Member Since 2005
1 - Posted on 7/6/2022
Great art and let's be frank, particularly slick inks. Bair has always been an excellent inker/artist but I agree he did wonder on those. they wouldn't look as great without him. Grummett's not too bad an artist either ;)
Jeffrey Wedding
Member Since 2009
1 - Posted on 7/6/2022
Man, Inwish I could get my hair to curl just right like that. Heck, I wish I still had hair there. Great cover.
E DLS
Member Since 2005
1 - Posted on 7/6/2022
Totally agree about the slick inks. I mean, look at that hair!
Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005
3 - Posted on 7/6/2022
How can all the colors ruin the art again?
Grummett draws the cover where the fighting never ends
Kirby Krackled art by brush ink that Bair makes ascend
How can they draw powers if lines can't be, can't be red?
Look at this now, Bair inked this baby
Tom's pencilin' the art layout, Grummett draws it tight
Josiah's cool, Company crazy
Whoa, Whoa, Superman's a Power Station
Whoa, whoa, skull's a win win situation
Hart R.
Member Since 2004
1 - Posted on 7/6/2022
Sweet mother$@!#?! This is definitely a keeper Ruben!!!
Rick W
Member Since 2017
1 - Posted on 7/6/2022
As nicely done as the figure work is, I'm blown away by the halo effect background most. Wow!
Troy C. Punswick
Member Since 2008
1 - Posted on 7/6/2022
That depiction of Superman is so cool! Congrats!!!
Paul P Spiderversity
Member Since 2011
1 - Posted on 7/6/2022
I love Grummett's artistic style, and the pencils must have looked amazing, but man, the inking really does it for me on this one. That great background behind Superman's head and the awesome Kirby Krackle on that one character. I'm also a big fan of having a big figure with smaller figures superimposed on it. Winner winner, chicken dinner !!!
Ian Saint
Member Since 2021
1 - Posted on 7/6/2022
Really nice looking piece. His facial reaction is great. Really nice looking cover.
Brandon Coffey
Member Since 2015
1 - Posted on 7/6/2022
Wow! This is a really striking cover! And you are correct, it looks great next to the Superboy one. Congrats!
Michael McIsaac
Member Since 2020
1 - Posted on 7/7/2022
That halo effect is positively hypnotic. I thoroughly enjoyed the Power Company one-shots but thought that Busiek's writing never really clicked on the regular series. The artwork, however, was top-notch.
Jason Hussa
Member Since 2017
1 - Posted on 7/9/2022
STUNNING cover, Rubén! What an incredible background, and in addition to the superior B&W image (vs. colored version), another very cool effect of the OA is the three-dimensionality of Superman here, with the full-bleed image on the bottom half of the page (in contrast to the "cropped" published cover). Beautiful figure work, too, that -almost- manages to stand up to challenge of not being upstaged by the blisteringly awesome Krackle exploding off of this thing! What a score! Congrats, Rubén!
Comicart Boston
Member Since 2010
1 - Posted on 7/17/2022
What a wonderful cover. Many congratulations! The inks are so wonderfully intricate.
Bill J
Member Since 2009
1 - Posted on 7/18/2022
Phenomenal cover! Love that Kirby Krackle effect on the foreground figures! And the echoing crackle in the background is very effective! Fabulous!
K Gearon
Member Since 2011
1 - Posted on 7/27/2022
Wow, those are some deft inks! Check out Supes's hair, that background, that Krackle...lotsa different techniques and textures to pore over on this one, which I'm sure you have. Suh-weet composition, too. Super (too easy) image all around! Congrats!
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