Sabretooth #1: Larry Hama & Mark Texeira serve up a schlocky B-movie of a mini-series
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Mark Texeira on Ghost Rider, Wolverine, and Sabretooth was probably my favorite artist as a 7-10 year old. I still love it, even when he was paired with Howard Mackie who, even as a kid, I found to be borderline unreadable. Him paired with Larry Hama works for me - it's shlock but it's fun and exciting. It feels like he had a long gap where he wasn't as active after he did the first 4 issues of Marvel Knights Black Panther and when he came back to GR with that hack Daniel Way. I would still love to see him on a long run with some horror or crime stuff.
Tex doing horror would be a dream comic for me, the fact we don't have a miniseries by him with some dirty scavenger vampires is such a shame. The closest we got is a couple dozen panels of Blackout, who always looked great with all that ink.
@@teambloodforce Dirty scavenger vampires would be perfect- or if he went back to Ghost Rider or Punisher with a good writer, I would be into it...I forgot he also did a short stint on Moon Knight like 15 years ago that also looked great. Tex is one of those artists, like Tim Vigil, where I wish they would've got paired with prime Ennis, Moore, Gaiman, etc and they could've done some amazing comics. I will still pick up anything he does, but his early 90s stuff is phenomenal.
I dare say this is peak Texeira. This really played to all his strengths and it was before he started simplifying his art to his detriment.
Yeah, it's probably the best stuff I've seen from him (although his Ghost Roder holds a special place in my heart). A less complex style would be a shame, a big part of the appeal is the tight rendering and overabundance of ink.
Man. This era of Tex was special. Need to pull out my issues now
Yeah. like peak form. We didn't get enough of Tex at his best, but at least there's some you can always go back to.
Also a Punji Trap would be a pit about 4 or 5 feet deep with sharpened bamboo sticks stuck in the bottom pointy end up that you'd fall in and get poked a lot! A variant of this was the Punji stick trail trap where smaller punji sticks also sharpened were stuck in small depressions on trails or fields where enemies would be forced to walk. They were sharp and strong enough to go right through the thick leather of combat boots and make things very not easy for the person who stepped on them to walk or do anything else until they were removed. They were very nasty to say the least.
I think if I thought about it for like a second I maybe would have figured it out, but when recording? Naw, man, I ain't got time to think. You just say shit and flip the page, we got editing to do!
Great vid! I like this art style for the most part. It didn't bother me in Union. I think I've also seen seen some X-men or Force issue done by Texeira, as I remember a panel with Jean Grey that looks similar to that first panel with Birdie.
It might have been Wolverine, there was a weird little while where he was drawing that like it was no big deal.
Is it any surprise that Mark Texeira is one of my favorite creators ever? Any surprise at all? :D When he's on something he enjoys he's as good as Simonson in his own way IMO! :D
I agree, when he's really going he can make any page interesting & cool, which is the goal.
Texeira's Ghost Rider was my favorite supernatural based comic run since Justiniano did Evil Ernie. Both of these guys need more work.
I agree with that 100%, the lack of Tex content out there is criminal.
@teambloodforce Preach it bro! 😆👍
As far as i remember, Hama was pushing for Creed to be Logan's father.
That was the idea since Claremont first started using him; I'm not sure if Hama wanted it or was told to keep it topical, since he spent most of the 40s in the Wolverine monthly going back and forth on his history with Logan.
I own this issue i always thought the mansion was his house? I mean if im wrong my versiion makes more sense, why else would it be booby trapped by him?
Well there's like the bit where there's portaits on the wall that he;s sneering at, I got the impression this was a former target's house and he's just crashing there. Hama's Sabretooth wouldn't own a mansion, he'd kill a guy for the 80 dollars in his wallet and live out of a motel.
I firmly disagree. Fabian Nicieza and Scott Lobdell both wrote plenty of good stories on the X-books.
Fair enough, I'm sure I missed them.
I read X-Men comics up until around 1997/8 or so as a teen. The formatting of build to a big crossover event, deal with fallout, rinse repeat, there was a general feeling the IP had plateaued. But there was plenty of interesting stuff, X-Men #28 is one of my favorite one off Jean Grey stories.
Eventually, Marvel looks outside of the "Marvel Bullpen" to do a soft-reboot with a DC guy, Grant Morrison coming on in the 2000s to revamp X-Men, but I was out of highschool and broke so I wasn't aware of it in real time.