How does Sup Forums remember Tom Palmer, Inker? Were you there, then, or do you just know of him now through back issues? I was there and i hated only Bill Mantlo as much as I hated Tom Palmer. It wasnt that Palmer was bad. he was very good actually. But I felt he was too heavy handed and he smothered every artist to the point that everything he inked looked like a Tom Palmer book. He made Neal Adams and John Buscema Jr's work look identical, as an example. He didnt even call himself an inker. He said he was the Embellisher. Frankly, he ruined the Avengers for me for a very long time. I just couldnt stand the sameness of every single issue for years at a time no matter who pencilled it.
Am I wrong to think these things? Should we follow inkers or pencillers? Should they compliment the pencils or should they make every line their own?
I was flipping through some old issues and remember that Tom Palmer was a bane to my teenage years and I will be shocked if anyone disagrees.
Pic related...it looks pretty awesome doesnt it? And it could be by any artist in the world but you know immediately that Tom Palmer smothered it with his inks.
Brandon Hill
Autism.
Zachary Nelson
Thats Paul Ryans pencils and I promise you all Paul Ryans art never looked like that anywhere else Thats Paul Ryan smothered and abused by Tom Palmer.
Josiah Taylor
I'm bad with names, the guy that wrote himself in as Donna Troy's husband. Fuck him.
Juan Cooper
Was that Marv Wolfman? i bet it was.
Ayden Jones
Yes. Yes it was.
Jason Russell
Damn, I like his stories, they're alright. But that's just one of the creepiest, sleaziest things I've heard of.
Brayden Hill
Promising her they'll be alone forever seems kind of sad.
Anthony King
What's your opinion on Sonic's arms, OP?
Jose Nelson
Vince Colletta, he was a hack. He inked pretty much every Jack Kirby issue of Thor
Austin Long
He also did the early 4th World stuff before getting replaced by Mike Royer
Eli Gray
jesus christ how horrifying
Nathan Anderson
larry stroman...so, so awful his last x-factor
Evan Cruz
Obligatory Greg Land bonanza.
Landon Peterson
Still trying to find the porn this trace comes from
Benjamin Perez
You must be kidding. Palmer is a frickin giant, and I suspect You are not worthy to sharpen his pencils. Try stirring up some political theorists And leave the adults in peace.
Nathan Adams
>larry stroman
What the fuck is even happening in those panels? Why is a pregnant woman sitting in an office chair in the middle of an giant empty corridor? And what the fuck is that perspective?
John Nelson
>hating Tom Palmer OP confirmed as having shit taste. Palmer is a Sinnott tier inker. I'd get if you didn't like a more stylized inker like Janson (you'd be wrong) but Palmer was a bullpen favorite who everyone wanted to work with.
Cameron Richardson
Just popping to check.
Jonathan Flores
Palmer will always have my admiration because he was one of the few who could actually ink Gene Colan pencils and preserve Colin's rendering style.
Leo Cox
This breaks my heart.
Isaac Kelly
Remember the old saying "Vince Colletta is Marvel's number 2 inker. number 1 is LITERALLY EVERYONE ELSE"
Hudson Fisher
and every fucking page was like that in his 3 or 4 issues of x-factor he did in 2008