I have students (from four-year-old to graduate) ask me all the time, as well as friends, seminar attendees and fellow comic appreciators, what my favorite piece of comic art is. What they seem to mean is, not for craftsmanship or invention or draftsmanship, but for pure superhero-loving impact of image, what is the damned coolest piece of art I've seen in a comic.
Well, if we're talking about artists overall, I have to go with the great
John Romita, Sr., who brought a sense of clean action and clarity of narrative like no one else, mainly through
his work on
Amazing Spider-Man. But as a single image, it's got to be this one by
George Perez, the cover of
JLA/Avengers 4:
Hopefully, this image speaks for itself.
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