Force Works #1

[iamrman]

Pencils by Tom Tenney, inks by Rey Garcia.

The West Coast Avengers get a radical makeover for the 90’s, complete with terrible art!

The team returns to the former West Coast Avengers compound to retrieve their belongings only to find Vision and the Black Widow already there rifling through their confidential files. Any confrontations are cut short as the Kree suddenly arrive.

Comments

[blues32]

Oh. My. God. This..this artwork is...it's like they hired a really bad abstract artist to do it. The guy adds too much realism into it, but it's STILL abstract art.

[iamrman]

So veiny!

[beyondthefringe]

This makes me sad.
I did not read Force Works the first time around.
Nor any time since.
I kind of skipped out on a bunch of the '90s titles when things got all ... blurgly.

[angelophile]

Who is the artist? Name and shame!

[iamrman]

Pencils by Tom Tenney, inks by Rey Garcia.

[full_metal_ox]

Second row, third panel has Wanda looking like, so help me, King Carlos II of Spain—-the guy who always gets cited as a cautionary example of the hazards of royal inbreeding:

[iamrman]

Oh, God. You're not kidding!

[scorntx]

Can't unsee!

[numeronone]

Ah yes, the armour that both resembled a cardboard cut-out AND bodypaint at the same time.

Do not miss that.

[thanekos]

Wondering what Tenney was thinking of when he gave everyone necks that make forty-five degree angles.

[mazway_75]

Tenney only did four issues before jumping to Image/Extreme Comics and from what I can tell, this was his one major book.

[scorntx]

"Wonder Man is DEAD! ... oh, well."


Oh, dear. The artwork is causing me to reassess my opinion on Wanda's belly-dancer outfit.

[full_metal_ox]

Fun Fact: Wanda’s belly-dance outfit is at least technically in keeping with the Romani code of marimé(1) in that it consists of a separate top and bottom.

(1) Ritual purity, cleanliness, and modesty; it’s at least as complicated as kosher and halal laws.

[bolindbergh]

Are the SKROOM and FROOOM sounds established ones for this vehicle type?

[tripodeca113]

Wait a minute I know this story!
They published a two issue miniseries about a Wonder Man fan who snuck in to meet their hero only to see him die and have to accept that he's dead forever and never coming back (he later came back to life). I had no idea the original artwork was this bad

They also used Force Works in the 90's Iron Man cartoon. Mostly they only showed up in the third act and none of them had any personality or banter. When they revamped the show in it's second season so it wasn't laughably out of date they all quit (expect for Spider-Woman but mostly she wasn't a superhero and acted as Pepper Pots)

[iamrman]

I first became aware of Force Works from the Iron Man cartoon. USAgent was replaced by Hawkeye.

[lbd_nytetrayn]

Hey, I think I recognize that Iron Man armor -- like, from recently.

Is that the suit he has in the Capcom arcade games?

[digicom]

Did anyone EVER explain the point of USAgent's nose mask?