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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Flexor the Mighty!" data-source="post: 1688312" data-attributes="member: 1013">When I mean storytelling I mean they way the draws and composes the pages of his comics.  He was easily the best at moving a readers attention along and providing the urge to turn that next page and see what happens.  In that regard he was so far above most other artists, very few were in his ballpark.  He was always the antithisis of the Image guys in my mind.  Solid storytelling without unnecessary flash.  His Next Men work was fabulous, so I'd say he still had his touch post-Superman.   But his highpoint, writing and art, was the Fantastic Four.   To me he surpassed even Lee & Kirby on that title.  Nobody has ever done Dr Doom as well.    Maybe it's heresy but Wonder Woman blows so many chunks I can't hold it against him if he had trouble making something interesting happen with her.  Perez came close but even that wasn't very interesting, I used to get it just for his amazing art.  Yep, I'll have to check Doom Patrol out.  Thanks for the info.   Simonson:  A truly amazing artist.  I have all his Thor issues, X-Factor, and some of his FF stuff he did later, after the horror that was Tom DeFalco he made the title interesting to read again.  I need to collect some more of his stuff.  I wasn't too keen on his making Dr Doom a robot from basically the early Byrne days until his "return" from other dimensions in FF 350.  But overall his put the sence of wonder back in the book. Did Simonson's Starslammers go anywhere?  A TPB maybe? As for Art Adams, I'd just like it if he drew SOMETHING on a regular basis.   I wonder if he makes a lot of cash in other areas so he doesn't have a need to do regular comics work.</blockquote>

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