Mary Jane in Spider-Man: Blue

[sandoz_iscariot.insanejournal.com]

In my last post I shared Peter and Mary Jane's first date, now here's Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale's take on their early relationship from Spider-Man: Blue. I'm honestly not a fan of the writing (for starters, the "guy holed up in the dark attic making tapes for his dead girlfriend" framing device struck me as creepy rather than bittersweet) but I love how Sale draws MJ.












Peter and MJ then see some supervillain shenanigans on the television.

Comments

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

Ummm.... not a fan of the art that much, aside from taking three pages to do what was nicely done in a single page in the original.



I know Sale uses an exaggerated art style, but come ON, In that double page spread either MJ is closely related to the Munchkins, or Flash makes the Juggernaut look puny.

[ladymirth.insanejournal.com]

I just remembered Tim Sale worked on The Long Halloween too. His Selina was drawn much like his MJ - wild-haired and scary-looking.

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

He also draws the worlds smallest Robin... Seriously... he's pocket sized.

[kagome654.insanejournal.com]

You say pocket sized like it's a bad thing. I think it's kind of adorable (probably why I like Frank Quitely's Damian...).

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

Oh, no tiny Robins can be handy! :)

[kagome654.insanejournal.com]

D'aww, I don't think I've ever seen that icon before. Too cute!

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

Isn't it though? :) I wish I could remember where I found it so I could give credit, I think it was on SD 1.0

[drsevarius.insanejournal.com]

what image is that from?

[zippthorn.insanejournal.com]

Seeing as the only time Sale drew Robin was in Dark Victory, I'd say some sort of extra model sheet for same, maybe from an Absolute or special edition collected version (it's not in my vanilla softcover, frex.)

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

It's a design page for the Dark Victory Robin action figure.

[sandoz_iscariot.insanejournal.com]

It's such a famous, anticipated moment I can let slide a little decompression. But of course nothing touches the original scene.