Colored/Published Version
Location: Published Art MARVEL - 1980 to 1989
Artists:
Barry Windsor-Smith
(Penciller)
,
Barry Windsor-Smith
(Inker)
,
Herb Trimpe
(Layouts)
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Big time KG! Congrats!
Stupendous - everything one could want in a BWS MM example. Nailed it. Congrats KG!
Outstanding Machine Man page!
Yea that second panel is great! Really great add!!!
grail alert! wow man what an amazing BWS page from the first issue. that 2nd panel is "chef's kiss" level, and the mention of the year 2020 is another memorable easter egg in hindsight. huge congrats!
An outstanding addition to your fabulous collection! 1980s BWS Marvel work is incredible!
Probably some of my all time favorite work by WS! Beautiful stuff!
Congrats on your first BWS page! Total winner!
Love the inking and it really stands out on the original page, the published page's colors muddy some of the amazing details on the page.
A fantastic example of BWS!
Machine Man! Machine Man! Does whatever a machine can!
I never will forget those lines
It’s Windsor-Smith it was Machine
Remember how you McD crazy?
Remember how I Bain, you screamed
Now I don't understand what happened to Herb love
But babe, I'm gonna roll you back
I'm gonna show you Man I'm made of
I can see you-
Robot skin shinin' in the run
I see you talking real slow and you're stylin' what Barry’s done
I can sell you my love for you Trimpe / Smith be strong
After the choice hamburgers have gone
Great example with sweet landscape panels!
Beautiful! Congrats!
In black and white that almost looks like the way he drew Rogue. Excellent!
Barry!!!
I know this was a big box to check and I'd say it was worth the wait. So much to love across the page from the futuristic street seen, BWS faces, and the wires/tech in that second panel. Congrats my friend.
You know it, man! The big hit checklist shortens, and this was a BIG hit! I agree as far as so much pure imagery from the run being a part of this page. Thanks for the add!
Congrats, Kahlil! There were SO many 4-issue limited series during the 80's, and I LOVED that format so much, not to mention the 12-issue maxi-series! Artistically though, Machine Man was probably the best of them all, as this page will attest! Congrats again, pal, very nicely done!
I think you are mistaking Machine Man with ICE Man as regards the best of them all my friend ;p
Ha ha, I'm a big fan of the the Iceman series, too, along with Machine Man! as far as the former goes, DeMatteis and Kupperberg and Zeck covers on a character I was looking to find more of because of Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends?! Done deal :) Glad you like the new page. Thanks, man, and all, for the comments!
Great combo artist team, some real industry heavy hitters and some cool art. Cheers!
Great pickup Kahlil! I'm lovin' it!!
Fantastic example!
Very nice page from a memorable BWS mini series, congrats.
Beautiful!!
ULTRA page here - BWS first appearance of this style and a McDonalds in the top panel what could be better?
Machine Man was a great miniseries from the 80s. Underrated.
Loved this mini-series and I've long wanted to find a great page like this. Big congrats.
Sockamagee!
A+ Machine Man page by the great Barry Windsor-Smith Love this panel page that opens with a the city street with futuristic cars and a boarded-up McDonald's restaurant that turns out to be occupied by a couple of rebel geniuses who are rewiring Machine Man's brain. The money shot is that second panel with a geeky kid rewiring Machine Man, whose head is open, revealng all this elaborate wiring.The whole page is beautifully laid out by Herb Trimple and exquistely drawn and inked by Barry. One of the best Machine Man pages from the miniseries, IMHO. Great pick-up, congrats!
I think it's one of the best, too, Bill, no bias ;) Glad you like it as much as you do, and thanks for all the comments!
What a wonderful page, loved the art so much in this series. Major congratulations on this gem!
Classic issue by BWS and holy cow your first page by him ! Heck,I don;t even own one and after all these years of collecting,what's the matter with me,lol.
This dilapidated McDonald's houses much more than a bunch of old happy meals and Grimace costumes, as we get an outstanding side profile of the inner workings in that second panel! Fantastic BWS interior and it's from the first issue :) Big congrats KG!
Congrats on finally achieving a BWS Machine Man pickup!
That mineseries are iconic. Though to find pages like this one!!! I agree you that BWS's lines are very recognizable. Art is signed by that MASTER!
Awesome page!! Congrats! :D
The second panel is perfect! It must draw you in to see it in person.
This is a -TRIUMPH-, KG - no other way to describe it. Wow!
I, too, read this and was blown away back in the day. So much fun, but set in the unthinkably distant future of 2020?!? Inconceivable! But unlike other comics set in the "far future" (which turn out to drastically over- or undershoot where mankind might be at that fictional moment), they kind of nail it here, right?. Look at that awesome top panel and tell me that's not exactly what the world looked like in 2020! ;)
And a -brilliant- panel 2. The "under-the-hood" shot of MM is worth the price of admission, not only serving as a kind of callback / shout out to the phenomenal "time lapse" covers of the series (which assemble the pieces of Macine Man's head into a cohesive whole over the four issues), but giving us some sweet BWS shading on MM's profile (to say nothing of the stacked, packed wiring and awesome "white space" of the ear-plate)... SUPERB. PLUS all the beautiful BWS touches in the hair, gizmos, and clothing of our ragtag band of heroes and their HQ (most notably on the character working on MM: the spectacles (these are definitely not "glasses" - Barry definitely put them in "spectacles"... :) ), the hatching on the hat, the pattern on their sweater, the BOW TIE... Incredible!)
Although panel 2 is doubtlessly the money shot, my favorite may be panel 4, with undeniably BWS's clean, magnificent line on the head and face. You'd never mistake it for a Moebius, but there's a -very- Moebius-like "Starwatcher" quality to it in my eyes... there's a space and unorthodox composition to what would typically be a "talking heads" panel. This is more like a portrait or study, just dropped in there on an artistic whim, with a distinct air or feel to it. Maybe just a confidence of execution? Maybe the unmistakable sense of a master at work...? Whatever the "thing", it's a -beautiful- panel.
I know you've been gunning for one of these gems for a while now, and, WOW, man - mission accomplished! MEGA Congrats, Kahlil!!
As always, thanks for the great comments, man! I totally see what you're saying about panel 4 and the Moebius quality...and I didn't see it until you pointed it out. Love when people see things I didn't in my art posts :) And yes...those are indeed spectacles :) Glasses? Nope! Spectacles!
So beautiful!
Beautiful and rich detailed art from the British artist and cool mini-series ! Especially of course the 2nd panel ist top notch, huge congrats !
Super page! The design and linework in this is so good, and what a memorable story