"How Can There Be a God If There Are FEET?!"

[washa_way]

^This question, first posed by Alyosha (the monk who wants to be a pop singer) in Christopher Durang's wonderful play The Idiots Karamazov, came to mind over the past week as spuffy and I have been wading through the first six collections of Cable & Deadpool, loaned to us by the lovely and talented likeadeuce .

I've certainly enjoyed watching Fabian Nicieza

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[spuffyduds]

I totally lost it at "feet like frozen bananas."

Dude, don't bogart the amaretto, pass it over to meeeeeee...

[qe2]

Spuffy, I figured you were the bottle of Amaretto in question ;-).

[likeadeuce]

Reilly Brown did the last issues of C&D (probably ones spuffy got in issues) and he's my favorite of the artists on that title. He's from Virginia -- I've talked to him at cons and always meant to get a sketch from him and haven't done it. Patrick Zircher is the other notable artist; I don't love all his panels -- and I suspect a lot of the finishes on the book are kind of rushed and don't do justice to the pencils, which happens a lot at Marvel. Anyway!

I have a weird affection for Liefeld b/c I was mostly introduced to his work by seeing it sent up in C&D. Pouches! I don't actually want to read anything he drew, though.

[washa_way]

Yeah, I'm thinking the skills he displays as a writer aren't a whole lot less frightening than those he displays as an artist.

Now that I think about it, I did like Zircher pretty well. And Brown was the guydoing the later issues where it was just Deadpool running around the Marvel U without Cable, right? The ones with Bob, Agent of Hydra? Those looked good.

[likeadeuce]

Yeah -- Zircher's done some Thor & Iron Man, and Reilly Brown is the guy who worked on the Deadpool alone arc; I think he even scripted the last couple issues. I'd love to see him get more work because he basically proved he could draw everybody in that last arc.

[akamine_chan]

I'm thinking that's actually a Cubist version of Cappy...I'm hoping, anyway. *covers ears and wanders away*

[pharis]

actually a Cubist version

That's what I was thinking, too. I mean ... *headtilt* ... it just doesn't work, does it? I'm picturing that from the other side he's just a smooth, flat blank; all the muscles have been smushed over to the right.

Intentional or not, that is bizarre and ugly. Do not want.

Here via spuffyduds, btw.

[washa_way]

Liefeld drawing "Nick Fury Descending a Staircase" might settle the issue.

[nwhepcat]

Here via spuffyduds -- oh dear lord! And in that pic it kinda looks like he might have a star on the other pec, if he wanted anything remotely approaching symmetry -- which would be ... pasties. That is totally my story and I'm sticking to it.

[washa_way]

Pasties could work.

Of course, from that angle, for there to be another star, I think Liefeld's Cap has to have more than one sternum.

Hmm. That would explain a lot, actually.

[washa_way]

Thanks for the hee!

I have no idea if Rob thanks you for the oh dear, though.