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F.A.K.K.2
Now I know, it's almost like cheating, as there's so much
artwork in the whole FAKK2 project ! And there's even
more if you consider that the first step to it was
Melting Pot ! But I had to put this one in the Top 5, as
this project has it all: all designs by Biz, a wonderful
poster (and a great statue made from this design), some
cool merchandise (including cool action figures also),
the whole storyboard/script sketches by Bisley, some of
the best pin-ups he ever made, an upcoming video game...
Bisley's always doing his best work when he works with
his friends, and Kevin Eastman is definitely one of them
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WEAPON
LORD
Sure it's weird, as this piece of work is not well known,
but this painting features Bisley at his best ! Some cool
barbarian fighting some creepy 6-armed human/spider
hybrid monster. What's cooler than that?? The pose is
great, looks like it's a picture taken in the climax of a
huge battle, the colors are cool, the anatomy is perfect
as usual... This painting has "power" written
all over it. |
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BATMAN/JUDGE
DREDD: Judgment on Gotham
The first real painted work for D.C. from Biz, this book
contains some of his best work. It has incredible pin-ups,
Dredd is funny, Batman takes all these great poses and
has never been so muscular. Plus, the batmobile never
looked so cool! Let alone Mean Machine and Judge Death
who are pure evilness... Also, he managed to put some
"gore" effects in it, which is amazing due to
the book being published by D.C.. All good. |
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SLAINE
This may be one of his earlier work, but that's also one
of his best, definitely. He created a whole universe with
so many cool characters, with Slaine first of course (and
the "Slaine monster"...), his foes, the midget,
the monsters, the dragons, the wizards,... Heroic Fantasy
never looked so cool. Also, art-wise, there's everything
in it: the most beautiful paintings (oil painting,
watercolour), pencils only sometimes... There are many
wonderfully detailed pin-up pages, and also some very
rough, very powerful pages sometimes. Slaine has it all,
and even if it's an expensive book, it's all worth it. |
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LOBO:
the last Czarnian
Art-wise, this probably isn't Biz's best work ever, I
agree... But this one has a special, personnal meaning
for me, as I discovered Bisley with it (along with Slaine),
and I was caught. The artwork is "only" inks
over pencils, and the painted covers are cool (let alone
what is probably the most striking cover... EVER!), but
it looks great. I don't like the colorizing, though. I
didn't know which one of the Lobo series to choose, but
this one is the best: it defined the character for ever (Lobo
was kinda lame before, and all of a sudden, he's the
coolest alien in the whole Universe !), the story is
amazing (the last two pages are the most shocking pages I
ever read), and the guy is having some real fun drawing
it (he wrote some of his favorite bands' names on all the
walls in the comics or on T shirts, for instance). He
also designed the whole look of the character, his outfit,
the hook and the chain, the 'bike, he deserves some
credit here, too. |
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