Michael Golden

Yeah.

After re-looking at Michael Golden's work in the G.I. Joe annual, doing one of his, of the vehicles and G.I. Joe characters battling, something like that.

I'd fucking love it.

It's so good.

that's achievable I don't think that's massively out of possibility

yeah the thing is a lot of that UK prices are yeah I know yeah whenever I've yeah that's the thing is whenever I've looked for Vanya especially a storm force just fucking forget about it I mean I'm dipping back into the Jim Lee well again when he did the von Buren Punisher war journal story the sniper story which is one of my favorite comic stories ever and okay i don't recall that oh fucking brilliant like when frank's old platoon in the comics is being taken out one by one by a sniper who was one of his platoon and they end up having a fight fucking i just actually um where did i see it why it was in the weekly reprints of course yeah um and so much so that like when i found the original issues and i've got them in my collection now because it's like and sometimes you just look through and go because Jim Lee fucking drawing like a Vietnam war fight do you know what I mean it's like fucking amazing

there's a Michael Golden element to him there's not there's not a million miles between the two of them is there and

I think at that point that's where I can totally see that Tony I kind of think

Mystic and some other books that Continuity was preparing for Pacific Comics.

He mentioned Freak Show by Bernie Wrightson and Bucky O'Hare by Larry Hama and Michael Golden, both of which were eventually published.

But Adams also mentioned Riders to Galaxy's End.

as, quote, being drawn by Ed Davis.

So when Larry Hama dropped, I was not for sure I was going to go.

Michael Golden was going to be there.

And if you don't know Michael Golden, he's a spectacular artist from the late 70s, 80s onward.

But I heard he charges a lot for sketches and I heard he's not very nice.

So.

So, Larry Hama canceled.

Yep.

Michael Golden still showed up.

Yeah.

He's like right up there with Michael Golden.

Everybody listening to this is probably like, this Ants dude is a dummy.

I mean, look at this back, this pinup though.

Yeah, we love those.

I mean, that Michael Golden story in, what is it, it's G.I. Joe Yearbook 2 or 3? Right, yeah, yeah, yeah.

The pin-up is just like, we keep passing that around, and I love that stuff so much.

You know, we're all huge fans of G.I. Joe.

I read Byrne's FF.

I mentioned Micronauts before, which was a fun series, especially that initial 12 issues by Bill Mantlo and Michael Golden is just fantastic.

And later on, the series has some of Kelly Jones' first work in comics.

So I The Marvel and DC stuff is great, but I love indie stuff too.

In addition to all the comic dealers, you've got a lot of comic creators that are going to be at the show.

I know the one I think I'm looking really forward to speaking with, it's been a while since I've done a panel with him, but that's Michael Golden.

Yes.

Yeah, we've really been pushing to try to get some more creators in.

We do want to draw people in that haven't been to the show before.

And, and guests are a good way for that.

And, um, Michael Golden is going to be a great creator.

It's, um, obviously created, co-created Bucky O'Hare and did you join, um, Did, I'm sorry, yeah, Bucky O'Hare and created Rogue and...

The way Art Adams sat here and said, "I had three primary influences.

I had Walt Simonson, I had Michael Golden, and I had Barry Windsor-Smith." Boom.

We all are the sum total of the influences that we're experiencing at the time, but at no point, at any time, did anyone-- was anyone ever told, and you can have as many witnesses as, as you'd like to provide, 'cause I'll say Rob never told us to draw anywhere near like him.

My layouts were not rendered generally.