{"id":79,"date":"2007-03-16T09:27:55","date_gmt":"2007-03-16T09:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=79"},"modified":"2012-09-18T10:20:32","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T10:20:32","slug":"marvel-masters-the-art-of-jim-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/03\/16\/marvel-masters-the-art-of-jim-lee\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Masters: The Art of Jim Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/jl.jpg\" title=\"Marvel Masters: The Art of Jim Lee\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/jl.jpg\" alt=\"Marvel Masters: The Art of Jim Lee\" \/><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By various &amp; <strong>Jim Lee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Marvel\/Panini UK)\u00c2\u00a0 ISBN 1-905239-41-6<\/p>\n<p>(A BRITISH EDITION RELEASED BY PANINI UK LTD)<\/p>\n<p>Since Jim Lee launched himself into the comics arena a lot has changed \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and he&#8217;s been responsible for a large part of it. So a retrospective volume makes sense for any publisher which owns a large portion of his output. This thick tome contains some of his earliest work for Marvel (<strong>Alpha Flight<\/strong> issues #58-60, written by Bill Mantlo and inked by Al Milgrom) wherein he learned the trick to drawing huge casts of characters, and his first real successes (<strong>Punisher War Journal<\/strong> #6-7, written by Carl Potts), a visceral team-up of the Punisher and Wolverine, before concentrating on the <strong>X-Men<\/strong> runs that made his name and prompted his bid for independence.<\/p>\n<p>From <strong>Uncanny X-Men<\/strong> #256-258 (scripted by Chris Claremont) comes a hi-octane, turbulent and perhaps over-blown battle with arch \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yellow Peril\u00e2\u20ac\u009d stereotype The Mandarin, whose part in a super-villain pact has him attempt to destroy the misunderstood mutants as part of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Acts of Vengeance\u00e2\u20ac\u009d comic event. Don&#8217;t worry about it. There&#8217;s lots of semi-naked, exotic women, ninjas, big guns and shouting and hitting \u00e2\u20ac\u201c just what every fan at the end of the 1980s demanded. And there&#8217;s plenty more where that came from in the last story-arc, reprinting <strong>X-Men <\/strong>#4-7, scripted by John Byrne and Scott Lobdell from Lee&#8217;s plots. This one features a glimpse into Wolverine&#8217;s past as a spy and the menace of Omega Red, a commie mutant whose touch can kill. Have no fear, though, the levels of angsty, hyper-tense testosterone remain at critical levels through-out.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Lee&#8217;s work at Marvel shaped a generation of artists and his popularity directly led to the artist breakaway that resulted in Image Comics and a revolution in the industry. Although the work is a little unrelenting in tone, these stories are important and should be seen by a newer, wider audience. They&#8217;re quite well drawn, after all.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 2006 Marvel Characters, Inc. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 By various &amp; Jim Lee (Marvel\/Panini UK)\u00c2\u00a0 ISBN 1-905239-41-6 (A BRITISH EDITION RELEASED BY PANINI UK LTD) Since Jim Lee launched himself into the comics arena a lot has changed \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and he&#8217;s been responsible for a large part of it. So a retrospective volume makes sense for any publisher which owns a large &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/03\/16\/marvel-masters-the-art-of-jim-lee\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Marvel Masters: The Art of Jim Lee&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[79,106,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marvel-superheroes","category-wolverine","category-x-men"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-1h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}