Did you just make a 'special hug' joke?  Ewwwww.

Some gags don't age well.

The two pages I've posted is all, I think. 

Good to see you touching-base, Ken!  Happy New Year!

...if I had wheels, I'd be a wagon.

...or maybe you owe her an apology.

Easily my favorite BUG in your collection!

Frau Blucher?

From your keyboard to Gawd's ears, man.

Hey, any chance I could get you to beg off if the MICRON(AUT)S cover turns up?  (Issue #6)  You can have the other 23!

Comic Book Royalty.

SchlepCar was cooler.   (Yeah, I went there!)

I presume you mean THIS one...?

https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1928967

It must just come naturally to her.

Yeah, but it's pretty 'small' competition.  ::rimshot::  I'm here all week.

Great page if you like Ship Porn.  (And who doesn't?) 

A trifle envious, but I'll get over it.  Really, I will.  Aaaaany second now.

I wish I was cool enough to use 'owlhoot' in a sentence and get away with it.  Sadly...

Best commission of the character I've seen!

Ya put it in yer ear, not your mouth, ya bastich!

Can't feel anything through all that armor.

Was the whole bottom half of the page blank?

Daddy likey.

I do not necessarily condone what occurs in the panels of my collection.  If I did, disembodied hands strangling people would be all the rage in my house.

Beans are a helluva drug.

A nice way of noting it's a 'people-standing-around-talking' page.  ;)

LOTS of those with this particular series.

You want to have an action figure of HYBRID? ®

Ew.  You MONSTER!

Now, THERE'S a comic adaption we'd all love to see!

Great page from an underrated (but inevitable, in retrospect, given the creative teams of both books) crossover issue.

Ya got me, John; I'm stumped.  Congratulations!

'Exogorth' ?  C'mon, man!  I'm pushing 60!  Too lazy to even look it up.

You aren't missing anything by not having the 'overlay' in this situation.  Whenever the art for an overlay effect is drawn on the principal page (and then covered over) that means the overlay would have simply been a photocopy of the overlay art portion from the main page, pasted on an otherwise blank page.  Long since discarded.

A tremendous example of Golden's 'vintage' style!  Congrats!

...also, probably the FINAL published page/image of IDW's version of MICRONAUTS.

...published in a backup story in a TRANSFORMERS comic?  No wonder no-one knew where it was from!  

Was this one of those books where the entire story was half-pages (and the publisher tried to pay a half-page rate)?

Sold!

Sold.

Golden's signature tucked away discreetly.

1970's Rann could easily be - Lee Majors!  ... Baron Karza removing his helmet - Max von Sydow!

"What, whittle bitty meee?"  >blinks innocently<

Howard genrally declines to do Star Wars commissions these days.  Perhaps he was a little more relaxed a decade ago.  Glad you and Tom were able to get him to participate!  The end result is stunning, if you're going to commission a 'recreation' why not make it -just- as unique as the original?

I like to think I -took it easy- with the blue.  ;-)

https://micronauts.fandom.com/wiki/Bug_(comics)

But you're not the only one to comment.

(Well done in keeping a visual record of the stages of completion.  Nice planning, nice execution.  Now, do the same for... say... the cover for Micronauts #11...?)

I'm Andrew Allen, and I approve this commission.

As Marcus obliquely noted above, works just fine dialog-free.  A Master Storyteller at work.

This must be the storyline referenced by the immortal AVENGERS ANNUAL 10 by Claremont and Golden?

The 'ROM vs Hybrid vs X-Men' storyline was responsible for four of the most epic splash pages in the whole run of the book.  Congrats!

I KNEW this would be a grail for Steve.

Impressive.  Reminds me of Flint Henry when he was doing GRIMJACK for First.

Perhaps one of Golden's biggest strengths is his masterful understanding of the use of -space- in his storytelling.  Look at this cover.  Fully a THIRD of the cover is literally empty space - but that empty space is arguably the most important part of the composition.  That empty space tells the story, full of loss and pathos, perfect for the 'Nam.

A masterpiece cover, far ahead of its time.

Ant-Man?  Yup!

https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1676780