tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897120082101927069.post8956292617891823557..comments2024-03-25T11:21:33.915-04:00Comments on Diversions of the Groovy Kind: RIP Rich BucklerThe Groovy Agenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17466541479854942040noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897120082101927069.post-19416085984969605302017-05-30T17:10:52.174-04:002017-05-30T17:10:52.174-04:00It's incredible isn't it...after all these...It's incredible isn't it...after all these years people around the world have those images burnt into their memories...talk about catching lightning in a bottle, those buckler/janson deathlok issues epitomise the groovy age to me!Vince and Sivhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05642910718810620215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897120082101927069.post-92014155936818995212017-05-30T15:11:16.258-04:002017-05-30T15:11:16.258-04:00It's those two images I think everyone remembe...It's those two images I think everyone remembers about AT # 33. keythd23https://www.blogger.com/profile/00690368680707726203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897120082101927069.post-8623250773331702552017-05-24T03:30:10.846-04:002017-05-24T03:30:10.846-04:00Hear Hear! I agree with your comments on AT #33!! ...Hear Hear! I agree with your comments on AT #33!! The close up splash page of Deathlok's face, and the page before with the reflected Deathlok in the puddle of water still stay with me to this day, 40 years after I bought the comic....so they obviously had some kind of impact!Vince and Sivhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05642910718810620215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897120082101927069.post-6690357387397888392017-05-22T21:12:32.193-04:002017-05-22T21:12:32.193-04:00That's amazing! I remember that ad. It is a sm...That's amazing! I remember that ad. It is a small world! We tried to use that as a springboard and self-published a Captain Courage comic. I still have a couple of unpublished stories drawn. I Marcushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12272576541345523800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897120082101927069.post-4712418285651832792017-05-22T18:51:47.435-04:002017-05-22T18:51:47.435-04:00I still have that comic! If you look at the "...I still have that comic! If you look at the "next issue" ad, you'll see a cover by publisher Steve Busti inked by Dick Ayers for "Toombora!" I wrote that story and it was to have been published in the next ish of Fantastic Worlds. A few years later, artist Phil Fried drew it and Ayers inked it. The story's been published several times by small press publishers, most recently by Will Lill Comics and in color. What a small world!The Groovy Agenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17466541479854942040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897120082101927069.post-80924952455223494482017-05-22T13:33:40.948-04:002017-05-22T13:33:40.948-04:00He and Sal Buscema defined the look of Marvel in t...He and Sal Buscema defined the look of Marvel in the 70's for me. They weren't the flashiest artists in comics, but they were solid and prolific. Once you saw them on a series, the look they defined for that series became the look that everyone else was compared against.<br /><br />James ChattertonUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15576083934906136102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897120082101927069.post-29752387019233180422017-05-22T11:02:37.824-04:002017-05-22T11:02:37.824-04:00This is the link to the cover of you want to see i...This is the link to the cover of you want to see it,<br />https://www.comics.org/issue/304964/cover/4/Marcushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12272576541345523800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897120082101927069.post-42169336901087887162017-05-22T10:56:19.111-04:002017-05-22T10:56:19.111-04:00RIP. Rich had my comic writer and I in his studio ...RIP. Rich had my comic writer and I in his studio preparing to draw a cover for our characters for an indy comic in the 90s. A great guy and he drew the cover in his Kirby style! Joe Sinnott inked it. It's the cover to Fantastic Worlds #2. I'm so sa.Marcushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12272576541345523800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897120082101927069.post-41940435484881756132017-05-22T09:19:44.937-04:002017-05-22T09:19:44.937-04:00Another comic creator death. So many people who p...Another comic creator death. So many people who populated the world of my adolescence have passed on in the last 10 years: Cockrum, Rogers, Colan, Giordano, Chan, DeZuniga, Infantino, Cardy, Severin, Wrightson and now Rich Buckler. Mr. Buckler exploded onto the scene in the early 70s to take on the Avengers and the Fantastic Four. Soon his covers were popping up all over Marvel, often embellished by the inimitable Klaus Janson. But I think it's his work on Panther's Rage in Jungle Action and Deathlok the Demolisher in Astonishing Tales for which he'll be best remembered. Deathlok could have only come about in the innovative, chaotic 70s where Marvel was willing to give a try to all kinds of off the wall concepts. In my humble opinion, Astonishing # 33 - 35 contains some of the most beautiful artwork of the Groovy Age. There Mr. Buckler, obviously enthusiastic about his creation, imbued the pages with power and sci-fi wonderment aided by some of the best inking/coloring of Klaus Janson's career (I told Mr. Janson that Astonishing #33 is the single best inked comic of all time. <br />I like to deal in hyperbole!). I had a chance to see Rich when he headlined a convention in Minneapolis during the time I lived there but was too tired from working the night before. I regret that now. RIP, Mr. Buckler. You've left us a fantastic legacy. Thanks.keythd23https://www.blogger.com/profile/00690368680707726203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897120082101927069.post-60851657493582815322017-05-22T07:14:59.482-04:002017-05-22T07:14:59.482-04:00Another part of my youth is gone. RIP Another part of my youth is gone. RIP Kevin Lakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11821459829633571075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897120082101927069.post-49400861276162457412017-05-22T04:57:49.194-04:002017-05-22T04:57:49.194-04:00I too mourn his passing. He was one of my all time...I too mourn his passing. He was one of my all time favorites. First for all star squadron.Latter Red Circle in the 80s and much more.Joseph Hinman (Metacrock)https://www.blogger.com/profile/06957529748541493998noreply@blogger.com