I miss EJ Su.

Post by **Best First** » Sun Feb 07, 2010 9:57 pm

Damnit.

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Sun Feb 07, 2010 10:30 pm

Su and Furman. Bring em back, put em on the ongoing.

Hound · Post by **Hound** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 12:04 am

He is my all-time favourite Transformer artist.

Funny really, my initial impression was that his stuff was a bit plain. I was totally wrong.

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 2:47 am

Good news for ye, BF.

Spotlight Prowl. Art by E.J. Su.

http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/ ... g-6/17752/

Post by **Best First** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 7:17 am

I knew that.

I want more than mere one shots.

Benjy - yep me too, tied with Senior.

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 2:09 pm

Who's writing S:P?

Please say it's not Costa or McCarthy.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 2:26 pm

bumblemusprime wrote:Who's writing S:P?

Please say it's not Costa or McCarthy.

All right, I won't say it's Costa.

Even though it is.

Hound · Post by **Hound** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 8:16 pm

More lovely Su'ness

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 1:42 am

Seconded, but I REALLY miss Senior.

EJ may well be the finest "modern" TF artist. I don't dispute that in the slightest, but those heavily-inked, blocky TFs throwing each other around...put it this way, today I read the T2006 smackdown between Mags and Galvy followed by the Legacy of Unicron issue where Shockers buys it - even before I saw this thread.

Post by **Best First** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 7:41 pm

ka-pow!

The SFGS dream team at their best.

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 9:29 pm

Senior was awesome.

His Magnus/Galvy stuff and the whole Thunderwing Matrix Quest stuff was a thing of beauty. It did seem at times though that he got a little too two-dimensional. Like I think his Unicron Saga work was too blocky.

Still going to go with Don as my fav simply because his fight scenes are the greatest.

If I had to give a prize though for Best Overall TF Artistic Performance, it would definitely go to William Johnson/Kyle Baker in Warrior School and Repeat Performance. For me, that hasn't been surpassed.

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 11:01 pm

Don't get me wrong, EJ is an amazing artist.

But the above image of Galvy, damm it's just got so much power, so much emotion. Sometimes I wonder if I'm mad or somthing, is it just nostalgia or somthing else...

The artwork above and by many of the G1 artist just worked on a different level, it wasn't correct, it lacked the precsion we have today but it oozed meaning.

I was reading sibertron the other day, some fans commented on a G1 style cover of prime, the new one I'm sure u have all seen, they said it was **** because prime couldn't transform if he looked like that... They are right but they miss the point no?

I was Reading the transfans tagline on the front page the other day, 'they were the dream'... Now look at target 2006, and rolling thunder, all the parts on cybertron to be specific.
It's fantasy, it's sci-fi, look at the highlights on the armour, the wastelands, the expressions on xarron, the decepticon who confronts cyclonus, impactor...

It's fantasy, I don't care about accuracy, if it's real or not, I want style!

EJ is stupidly talented, that much is obvious, I would just love to see him be free, more fantastical...

Damm nostagia!

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 2:51 pm

Best First wrote:

ka-pow!

The SFGS dream team at their best.

There's something else that page makes me miss. Narration in comic panels. Maybe I'm old fashioned.

But kudos to Furman too. I often learnt new words from his scripts. I guarantee modern kids comics don't use words like "conflagration"! Distant Thunder made me look up what a "charnel house" was. I've yet to thank him for widening my vocabulary.

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 5:12 pm

That grandiose and way too verbose style was a real hallmark of the 80s. I'm always amazed when I see a Claremont issue that has a whole novel cluttering up the word balloons. Also amazed the way things have shifted now, unless you're Bendis and you have thirty ums, uhs and likes per page.

Post by **Best First** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 8:50 pm

i love and miss the narration as well - and totally agree about the vocab expansion.

same was true of Clariemont when i started getting on X-men.

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Wed Feb 24, 2010 2:54 pm

BF, feast your eyes on this incredible work by E.J.:

http://tformers.com/ig.php?mode=view&al ... 00&start=0

Has to be some of the best TF work I've seen from IDW. I said it before, if E.J. had a good colorist to complement his style, he would be lauded ten times over.

Here's me laudin.

E.J.Su · Post by **E.J.Su** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 3:54 pm

Thanks a lot guys. I never thought I would still be missed when I left for so long. I really appreciate that.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 4:08 pm

He's here! Quick - trap him in the cage and make him draw stuff!

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 7:00 pm

Channeling Geoff Senior, are you?

http://ej-su.deviantart.com/art/Prowl-colored-153804554

Sunyavadin · Post by **Sunyavadin** » Fri Feb 26, 2010 8:12 am

Now, when they wanted a new direction for the artwork for the ongoing, I'd have been happy with that look.

E.J.Su · Post by **E.J.Su** » Sat Feb 27, 2010 12:51 am

bumblemusprime wrote:Channeling Geoff Senior, are you?

http://ej-su.deviantart.com/art/Prowl-colored-153804554

More or less combination of Senior, Mike Mignola and TF Animated.

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Sat Feb 27, 2010 12:54 am

I heart you, EJ. I don't care how creepy it sounds, I'm just going to say it.

Post by **Best First** » Sat Feb 27, 2010 9:39 am

I was gonna say Mignola. Lovely stuff.

Nice combo of influences.