Garcia-Lopez | Deadman #4 | 1986
Artist: Jose Luis Garcia Lopez (All)
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DescriptionThrilled to get a page during Comic Art Live from what I consider José’s best work of the 80s (I rank this over Batman vs. Hulk because José inked his own pencils on this). Every page is meticulously sequenced and just stunning - not something you would typically say about a 12-panel page.This four-issue limited series was a direct sequel to the 1967-69 Neal Adams Strange Adventure series, which was reprinted in 1985 with great success. The Adams reprints were done on high-quality Baxter paper. Sadly, this series was not - a shame because Jose’s work deserved the better format (you can see how much is lost compared to the image on the published page). James Gunn recently selected the 80s DC logo to be that of the new movie studio, as a homage to that blockbuster decade for the publisher - Titans, Crisis, Batman The Dark Knight and Year One , Watchmen, Camelot 3000, Byrne’s Superman, JLA/JLI, Chaykin’s Shadow. I consider this series to be right up there with the rest of the bunch. In this sequence from Page 19 of issue #4, Boston is about to dispatch bad guy Jonah, himself a former herald of Rama, who took control of Ra's al Ghu’s father Sensei to rebuild the League of Assassins to destroy the deity. Confused? It's all explained here for those who want to know more: http://www.dcinthe80s.com/2017/09/ Social/Sharing |
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Marcus Wai 
Member Since 2005
Posted on 11/22/2024
This was JLGL's masterpiece! They let him go wild and this was so cool with emotional strain of Deadman done with duo tone, and old fashioned illustration! Even non fans took notice that this was something special!
Tom McDonald
Member Since 2019
1 - Posted on 11/24/2024
Marcus Wai wrote:
This was JLGL's masterpiece! They let him go wild and this was so cool with emotional strain of Deadman done with duo tone, and old fashioned illustration! Even non fans took notice that this was something special!
Agree it is worthy of the masterpiece label. DC gave him ample time to get this right, and he delivered. I have been staring at this page for three days.
Steven Dilworth
Member Since 2012
Posted on 11/23/2024
I've never seen this before. It is amazing. Usually, JLGL works in such a beautiful, open, layout style, seeing him flourish in a straight 3 x 4 panel structure is terrific! Of course, he just couldn't help himself, and broke panel 8, but still, working within a restrictive format! What a powerful page!
Tom McDonald
Member Since 2019
Posted on 11/24/2024
Steven Dilworth wrote:
I've never seen this before. It is amazing. Usually, JLGL works in such a beautiful, open, layout style, seeing him flourish in a straight 3 x 4 panel structure is terrific! Of course, he just couldn't help himself, and broke panel 8, but still, working within a restrictive format! What a powerful page!
Agree, it seemed like 12 panels would be a constraining environment for José. But he really took his time to make each panel stand out.
Ruben DaCollector
Member Since 2008
Posted on 11/23/2024
Nice, great to see you went after this one and acquired it, Tom. This is one of the nicer examples from the ones I sold several years ago! I still find this mini-series to be his all-time greatest work.
Tom McDonald
Member Since 2019
1 - Posted on 11/24/2024
Ruben DaCollector wrote:
Nice, great to see you went after this one and acquired it, Tom. This is one of the nicer examples from the ones I sold several years ago! I still find this mini-series to be his all-time greatest work.
Thanks, Rubèn. Now I can stop bugging you about selling me your page from this series :-).
Kavi H
Member Since 2018
1 - Posted on 11/24/2024
excellent page, the 12 panel layout is incredible. JLGL greatness again! congrats!
Tom McDonald
Member Since 2019
1 - Posted on 11/24/2024
Kavi H wrote:
excellent page, the 12 panel layout is incredible. JLGL greatness again! congrats!
Would love to have seen a time-lapse video of José working on this page.
Kavi H
Member Since 2018
Posted on 11/24/2024
Tom McDonald wrote:
Would love to have seen a time-lapse video of José working on this page.
so would I !
Simon Ma
Member Since 2013
1 - Posted on 11/25/2024
What a fantastic page. You do not see many equally-sized-twelve-panel pages like this because they are so hard to pull off successfully. The fourth panel is what does it for me: the foreshortening and you can feel the exertion Boston is putting in. I have always rated anything Andy Helfer worked on as either writer or editor and being teamed up with JLGL was a dream team. Many congrats on a beautiful page.
Tom McDonald
Member Since 2019
Posted on 11/25/2024
Simon Ma wrote:
What a fantastic page. You do not see many equally-sized-twelve-panel pages like this because they are so hard to pull off successfully. The fourth panel is what does it for me: the foreshortening and you can feel the exertion Boston is putting in. I have always rated anything Andy Helfer worked on as either writer or editor and being teamed up with JLGL was a dream team. Many congrats on a beautiful page.
Thanks for your comments, Simon. Helfer was said to be a huge fan of Neal Adams' Deadman stories that preceded this series. I plan on reading all of them straight through this series during the holidays.
Simon Ma
Member Since 2013
Posted on 12/10/2024
Tom McDonald wrote:
Thanks for your comments, Simon. Helfer was said to be a huge fan of Neal Adams' Deadman stories that preceded this series. I plan on reading all of them straight through this series during the holidays.
Well, I did not know that about Helfer's appreciation of the Adams run on Deadman, but I am not surprised as Andy Helfer was always respectful of the histories of any character(s) he worked on. And that sounds like a terrific way to spend the holidays and although it probably won't be with the Deadman run I plan to do something similar myself this year. Have a happy holidays.
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