Joe Bennett Spider-Man vs. The Sinister Six

This is one that Bennett fans will look at and use as a benchmark for their commissions!

Thanks Marcus, I feel the same way!

Dude!!!!! This is effin BADASS!! And I love that it's all Pencils!! Congrats on this piece. 

Thanks - I love it. I am going to have Mark Morales ink the boards, but I had to post Bennett's incredible pencils. 

Oh wow! Not going to blue line it? You can have both that way :)

Yeah not this time, this time I am doing inks on the boards.

Wow! Amazing! Can't wait to see the final piece!!

UmMmMm.. Excuse me? LOL Wowwwwwww!!! This came out so awesome, Eric! Congrats!!! 

Wow thank you so much! Bennett absolutely slayed this.

This is EPIC. Probably the largest commission I have ever seen? I can't think of one larger anyway.

Where to start? I guess the composition of the overall piece is the most impressive to me. It's easy when you start throwing characters into a piece to let the balance of it get out of whack. Not here! Taking advantage of Sandman's powers, making him enormous is perfect to take up a huge portion of that left side. Looking across, he balances it visually on the right by having three villains on that side with a proportionate amount of foreground/background "stuff" like the chimney, skylight and Ock's tentacles. That leads me to possibly my favorite element of the whole triptych. Doc Ock's tentacle crossing all three panels and providing a single, unifying element. It almost slashes across your eye as it breaks all three page borders. 

THIS SHOULD BE A POSTER!

Thanks Chris - I didn't even touch on the composition but yes, this is insanely balanced. Joe is a master of filling large spaces, but with purpose and intent. His work on Immortal Hulk shows that page after page. The entire piece is just full of intentional design choices that lead to the focal point of Spider-Man. 
 

I also would love to see this as a poster!!

Congrats on this working out so well!!!

Thanks! Joe is a master and he made it happen. 

WOW. I've legitimately been staring at this for the last two minutes and still don't think I've taken in all it has to offer. Guess I'll just have to stare a little bit longer! Great classic renditions of everyone. Huge congrats!

Thanks! I feel the same way, every place I look I find something new. I couldn't be happier with this piece. And yes, classic costumes for me!

Cover quality in this one 

Thanks I couldn't agree more!

Utterly, insanely breathtaking on every level! If Joe ever has a big old retrospective book on his best work (I'd totally buy a poster-sized edition of his commissions - how epic woud that be?), this needs to be the centrepiece - a huge, fold-out magnum opus which any fan of the medium would be blown away by. Love it!! 

Wow thank you so much - I agree, this piece is just awesome any and everywhere you look. It truly is a tremendous piece and Joe just killed it on this piece. 

Such a great piece. May I ask, did you choose Shocker as your own addition to the Six? Ive always felt he shouldve been the one that Michelinie and Larsen shouldve added rather than discount Hobby Macendale. He's even in the damn story but they dont add him!

Yeah this is my wish list of Sinister Six. 

I did select him, and for much of the same reasons. I also never felt that Kraven fit.

This is so good. The smashing of Mysterio's helmet puts it over the top for me. What a piece, and it's wall power too.