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Miles Morales Spider-Man 25 Heroes Reborn Variant cover by Carlos Pacheco

Artist: Carlos Pacheco (Penciller)

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Miles Morales Spider-Man 25 Heroes Reborn Variant cover by Carlos Pacheco Comic Art

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Title:	Miles Morales Spider-Man 25 Heroes Reborn Variant cover by Carlos Pacheco
Artist:	Carlos Pacheco (Penciller)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Cover
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	619
Likes on CAF:	6 7
Comments:	7
Added to Site:	10/1/2022
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In order to pay homage and celebrate the great career of artist and storyteller extraordinaire, Carlos Pacheco who quite sadly announced his forced retirement this week due to medical reasons, I give you a great cover he drew for the Marvel Heroes Return event.

(These images were first shown as promos for the event to be later on used by Marvel as variant covers).

I had to look it up online, but this is apparently Nighthawk/Kyle Richmond of Earth TRN852. Considering that Nighthawk was a Marvel parody of the JLA when the Squadron Supreme/Sinister was created, this is consequently the BLACK BATMAN of the Mavel Universe (GASP !), coming to a theater or a TV screen near you very very soon !

I love that Carlos played with the usual Batman clichés with this one. Batm...I mean Nighthawk perched on a garg...a tree, the Arkh...I meant Ravencroft asylum, the ominous caped defender of the city pose under a crescent moon and the cherry on the cake as far as I'm concerned, Nighthawk's faithful companion (Nightwing ? Dark Wing ? Wing Dark? Wing Wing ?) feasting on a bat while looking at you, dear reader :D

What great poking fun at the Distinguished Competition which is the second level of reading we get from the piece because, quite frankly, at first glance, it/he simply looks badass.

On a pure skills level, I love the depth he quite subtly introduced to this piece by using fine and delicate crosshatching on the gate in the background. Let's finally note that the piece is extremely well balanced in leaving space for the colorist to do his job.

The most jaded readers or collectors will say that Carlos' prime was Avengers Forever and his JSA/JLA graphic novel. As a close follower of his work since his Spanish fanzine days, I firmly state that he never missed a beat in terms of draughtsmanship and storytelling skills up to the recent superb Arrowsmith volume 2. So thank you for an amazing career and impeccable body of work, Mr Pacheco and the hours of enjoyment that came and will come from reading and studying it. I wish you nothing but the possible best under the current circumstances.

(For those wondering, this is not a prelim but the actual definitive piece produced by Carlos before it was inked on blue lines (see additional picture below), a process I truly do not care about (unless I get both for the same price and maybe not even then). So, this is the only piece worth having regarding this cover IMHO).

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Ruben DaCollector
Member Since 2008

1 - Posted on 10/1/2022

The way he did the iron gate is what stands out most to me. Really nice. I have to say though, I don't recall ever seeing a piece of Pacheco art in this style before. I actually thought it was Sal Buscema before I clicked on the thumbnail. I guess I'm still only familiar primarily with his Avengers Forever style. This is quite the departure from that, so it takes some getting used to. I like the layout though!

Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

2 - Posted on 10/1/2022

Ruben DaCollector wrote:

Yeah, Nighthawk was created by Sal as part of the Squadron Sinister so maybe Pacheco wanted that look. Agreed on the unique layout because there's nowhere else to place the logo except the base.

Jeffrey Osgood
Member Since 2020

1 - Posted on 10/1/2022

I read on wilkepedia that Carlos now has ALS, which is so sad. I've always enjoyed his work. I heard because of this, he decided to retire.

Michael McIsaac
Member Since 2020

1 - Posted on 10/1/2022

Pacheco's body of work can proudly stand next to the art of any of the great comic book artists of the last quarter century. Everything he did was top level stuff, including his most recent work such as this.

George H
Member Since 2009

1 - Posted on 10/2/2022

Fantastic cover from Pacheco!

Jason Hussa
Member Since 2017

1 - Posted on 10/5/2022

Great post, F M (cover art, write up, the whole thing!), to mark another terrible piece of bad news... but a really fun piece with a guffaw-inducing dead bat here, and some incredible hatching on the Asylum gate (which Nighthawk is _inside of_, by the way) to put the whole thing over the top. Really cool cover, Fred - congrats!

K Gearon
Member Since 2011

1 - Posted on 11/22/2022

Very nice, piece. Cool seeing these different renditions of Miles, and Pacheco could just flat out draw comics. Was happy to get a piece by him early this year. RIP.

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