Jerry Ordway

Like John Byrne's issues and all that got me into the door.

But it was Roger Stern and Jerry Ordway and eventually Dan Juergens after Byrne left that really kept me around and made me what I was.

And there was a kid in the neighborhood that I... we would talk at the bus stop that was into comics.

I'm not going to tell you that kid's name for a couple of different reasons.

Other artists come close.

Don't get me wrong.

I'm not trying to say anything bad about the other post-crisis people like Juergens and Ordway and Bogdanoff and Tom Grumet and Barry Kitson.

Stuart Emmabin, all those guys.

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What's today's date, Jerry?

I'm wrapping it up.

You got nothing, Jerry? You got any books coming out other than that cover? I have my

Art of Jerry Ordway book, which

is available.

Oh, Kickstarter? Yes.

Yeah, just a very...

I think he's also underrated in that I think people, like Jerry Ordway, who we talked about last, last month, um, is just a very consistent and capable artist who's done a lot of comics, and he can be easily overlooked.

But when you look at this art, the, you know, the layouts, especially w- that one page, it's not a splash, but when Scarecrow unleashes the, the snakes and spiders on the wedding, uh, crowd, it's pretty terrifying.

That one panel-

They were basically sent on suicide missions no one else would touch.

The art by Jerry Ordway shows them running on an earth on fire.

Wow.

So Shrieve is just the commando? He doesn't have any

DC, a lot of people just didn't want to do this.

Yeah, I think that you think about, you know, when I was talking to Jerry Ordway about this, he said, you know, if you're on a book that's kind of struggling, something like Crisis is a great opportunity because it can elevate your title and maybe, you know, give you a new chance to gain some new readers.

I know Dan Juergens, when he was doing Zero Hour, that was the real push he gave to all the other creators to say, listen, you're going to do a Zero issue.

this is your chance.

And I did read the special by Geoff Johns that was out around Death Metal.

that had art, uh, some art by Jerry Ordway that kind of put the character on like a redemption arc.

And I'm like, does he need a redemption art? And now he's part of the current Superman books.

And that leads into a larger discussion that we don't have time for in this thing about my feelings about how something can be good, but not for you in terms of your favorite character.