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Kurt Busiek's avatar

"But my memory of it is that those panels were the work of the infinitely-adaptable Stuart Immonen. In certain cases, Stuart may have been recreating panels or images from older Superman stories, but I believe they were all drawn by his hand here, rather than clipped and pasted. Let’s see what Kurt has to say once he arrives."

Yeah, they're all Stuart, mimicking the artists of the various eras. I can't say for sure he didn't reference a particular Curt Swan figure or something, but they're definitely not stats of any kind.

I wrote those panels to evoke a particular era and to hit the right thematic chord for that issue's story, and Stuart did an amazing job of capturing the right look for them, too. And on top of that, letterer Todd Klein, who knows more about the history of comic book lettering than any human alive or dead, knew who wold have lettered each of those panels, had they been actual historical Superman stories, so he mimicked the appropriate lettering of the time as well.

On the first page, as I recall, Todd added a caption to my script and may have changed the wording a little, too, to make it feel more like a Golden Age Superman panel. That's one of the reasons that series is so solid -- everyone working on it went above and beyond the usual requirements of the job to make it as good as they possibly could, and it shows.

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Daniel Sherrier's avatar

I love Dan Slott's She-Hulk run. I remember that being such an unexpected delight when it first came out.

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