#Paul Rivoche

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The Superman Gallery - Return To Krypton - Second Honeymoon By Paul Rivoche

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84 years of Superman & Lois Lane!

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Paul Rivoche's 1976 cover art to Zach Hughes' For Texas and Zed, via @SFRuminations

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Ninja Elite #1 (1987) cover by Paul Rivoche.

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Mister X #2 by  Mario Hernandez ,Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, Klaus Schoenefeld and  Paul Rivoche;Dean Motter ; cover by  Paul Rivoche

Vortex

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Doctor Fate #3 cover. 2003. Art by Paul Rivoche.

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Paul Rivoche - Green Lantern and Planet of the Apes 

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Hector Hall

Paul Rivoche

[thebristolboard]

More Madman pin-ups by John Byrne, Paul Pope, Sergio Aragones, Barry Windsor-Smith, Michael Kaluta, P. Craig Russell, Jim Silke, Scott Hampton, Mitch O’Connell, and Paul Rivoche. (more here and here)

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Batman Superman #29

variant cover art by Neal Adams

Green Lantern Green Arrow #85

art by Neal Adams

Green Lantern On The Planet Of The Apes

art by Paul Rivoche

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The Superman Gallery - Sliding Home By Paul Rivoche

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Some beautiful backgrounds for “Tales of X-49″, designed by @rivocheadframes and painted by Bill Wray.

“Final has great mood, combo of Bladerunner & Mr X” - Paul Rivoche

Tweet of rainy shots here.

My tweet of factory shots here.

Paul Rivoche’s tweet of the factory shots here!

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Cover by Paul Rivoche and Ken Steacy for Star Reach magazine

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For Texas and Zed by Zach Hughes (Hugh Zachary), cover by Paul Rivoche (1976)

Paul Rivoche is a prolific illustrator whose body of work includes SF and fantasy covers, advertising art, magazine illustrations, comics for the major publishers, and backgrounds and concepts for animated TV, including for Batman: The Animated Series and Samurai Jack. As you can see, he can draw a heckin' rad spaceship. Much more of his art is at https://rocketfiction.com/. Zach Hughes is the pseudonym Hugh Zachary often used when writing SF. With at least 100 novels to his credit, Zachary described himself as "the most published, underpaid and most unknown writer in the U.S." The SF Encyclopedia praises his SF novels as "expertly devised and readable and frequently surprisingly dark in their implications."

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Comics Read, 2/4/19-2/10/19

Avengers #66 by Roy Thomas, Barry Smith & Sal Rosen

I haven’t read a ton of this era of Avengers comics. Barry Smith in his full-on Kirby/Buscema hybrid mode is kind of fun, it turns out. Everyone just sort of monologs during their dialog, Vision is a cold synthezoid, I had forgotten Hawkeye was apparently Goliath for a hot minute, and we get the single best Ultron design until JRJR gets ahold of him 20 years later:

The Green Lantern # 4 by Grant Morrison, Liam Sharpe & Steve Oliffe

Continuing to enjoy this 2000AD-ification of the DC space characters.

Kaijumax season four, #4 by Zander Cannon

G.I. Joe: Sierra Muerte #1 by Michel Fiffe

Stig’s Inferno #1 by Ty Templeton

It’s been such a long time since I read these. I forgot how much “chicken fat” there was in this comic. Sort of shocking to see such early ty templeton work in that it doesn’t really look like anything I would associate with him. If I remember correctly, it’s only an issue or so later before his drawing gets that solid/angular aspect that I like so much. The ones where he’s driving Satan’s yacht around, that stuff. Even more shocking is the fact that the indica lists the title and all contents copyright Vortex Comics, and not Ty Templeton. I mean I know Vortex/Bill Marks was supposed to be a sketchy company/dude but I was still surprised. The cover for this issue by Paul Rivoche is a classic.

Deathblow #1-4 by Jim Lee, Brandon Choi & Tim Sale

I guess Jim Lee got really excited about Sin City, because he’s doing a weird, overdrawn version of Miller’s chiaroscuro style from that book, maybe also a dash of the linework style from Elektra Lives Again. At least he is for the two issues he drew. Then Tim Sale takes over, and Lee moves to layouts. These comics are totally unreadable. It seems like maybe there will eventually be some cool vampire action but mostly it’s just buff dudes yelling at each other and standing around in shadows. There’s just nothing interesting here, really, especially once Lee isn’t drawing it. Even if it looked kinda weird and was 400% stupid, it was interesting to see someone who was so wildly popular reinventing their art style years into heir career. I mean, Tim Sale is fine, it just doesn’t have that frisson that seeing Lee go out on a limb brings to the work.

Cybernary #1-4 by Nick Manabat & Steve Gerber

Part of a flip book with Deathblow. Half the book is DB and half is Cybernary. This is also dumb as hell but at least it’s readable. It just doesn’t mean anything. The main attraction is Nick Manabat’s delightfully over the top art. It’s like if Bald Eagles did a Battle Angel Alita riff. I guess it’s supposed to take place in the 90s but it feels like a Cyberpunk story, so the mentions of characters that would later be in Warren Ellis Stormwatch comics is weird. Considering the props that Image was getting for its (technically impressive and mostly aesthetically disgusting) advances in digital coloring, etc etc, it’s weird how badly printed this comic is. All the blacks are printed too heavily and the shadowy forms keep filling in. A problem to say the least, when you have this and Deathblow sharing a title! Sadly, I think Nick Manabat had a lot of promise as a creator—I remember reading these at the time and feeling like there was something special in his work, I’m glad to come back 20 years later and see the spark is still there—but he died a couple years after this comic came out.

-zack/ @ghostattack