The artists' series: Jae Lee - Part 1

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Best known nowadays for very dark, photorealistic artwork on books like Before Watchmen: Ozymandias and Marvel's Dark Tower books, his earliest comics work was of an altogether different style.

12 scans under the cut.

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These scans from:
Uncanny X-Men Annual #16, 1992
Namor #33, December 1992
Spider-Man #41,December 1993

Mighty Avengers #5

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"That's kind of the theme of this series. No more A-lists, no more D-lists. No more looking down from towers and mansions." -- Al Ewing

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Icon_UK makes a post about sidekicks.. what a surprise!

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Yeah, yeah, I know my rep.

Here, in light of the recent Batman and Robin Annual #2, is a story of a dark avenger of the night and his first night with a sidekick, and what led him to taking one on in the first place.

( And it's probably NOT for the reason you're imagining )

Digging through a pile of comics, I found this melancholy little tale

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From Excalibur Annual #2 back in 1994. This was about eight years after Cypher was killed, and about three months after Douglock was introduced in the pages of "The Phalanx Covenant", and was perhaps meant to provide a primer..

( A Change of Worlds... )