Young X-Men

[PhotoJones]

Salvador Larocca? He's a "superstar" penciler. He's worked on Fantastic Four, Uncanny X-Men, Ultimate X-Men, Newuniversal and X-Treme X-Men among other things.

 

[El Bastardo]

Oh! You mean Salvador Larroca! See, I know who that is.

I do not know who this Larocca everyone seems to rave about is, however.

 

[PhotoJones]

Oops. Well, you should have been able to figure it out anyway.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

If Larocca can't be bothered to shade, I can't be bothered to spell his name correctly.

 

[El Bastardo]

I had, just like when everyone else spells it wrong and stupidly.

I was being deliberately faux-clueless in order to set up the meanness.

 

[chamber-music]

You probably just didn't recognize him, since Davis didn't draw him like any other artist I've seen.

That's him on the far right. I usually love Davis' art, and the rest of the redesigns on that cover are pretty good, but that Cannonball one is terrible beyond words.

cannonballs had some pretty terrible costumes




















My favourite good costumes of his are these

 

[Havok83]

Oh! You mean Salvador Larroca! See, I know who that is.

I do not know who this Larocca everyone seems to rave about is, however.

Larocca sucks now. He was THE writer back in the late 90s/early 00s, but something happened to him and he just isnt as good anymore. He was burning himself out drawing for multiple Marvel projects at a time and you could tell the quality of his work was suffering. So he got bored and has since been experimenting with his art style, and he hasnt found one that works

It also marked the beginning of the end for Larocca's awesomeness.

No, Larocca's best art was in X-treme. I wish he'd go back to drawing like that. That was him at his high point. When he became regular artist of UXM, his art was also good, as was the case when he moved over to X-men. I dont know what happened but it started to go downhill after HoM. He was doing that book and the Spider-man HoM mini at the same time and it was like he was rushing to get both out and not taking his time with it.

 

[Harlekin]

Nothing about Xtreme X-Men was cool, dude. Nothing.

Everything up to God Loves Man Kills II was classic X-Men stuff. I loved it.

 

[PhotoJones]

You love garbage.

 

[Havok83]

Everything up to God Loves Man Kills II was classic X-Men stuff. I loved it.

the ONLY good thing about X-treme was Larocca's art. He was the main draw for that series. Once he left (which was right before GLMK2), it became very apparent just how bad it really was

 

[PhotoJones]

Larroca relied way to heavily on Liquid! to make his art look decent. He got lazy and he's stayed that way ever since.

 

[Harlekin]

Eh, although I agree that a lot of the beauty of the art was dependant on Liquid!, I really don't think X-Treme was that bad a title for its first two years. It had some pretty solid stories, and some decent characterization. It's certainly the best of Claremont's work since his return.

 

[PhotoJones]

His latest Uncanny X-Men work has been pretty bad, in my opinion. He just flat out refuses to render anything.

 

[Havok83]

Eh, although I agree that a lot of the beauty of the art was dependant on Liquid!, I really don't think X-Treme was that bad a title for its first two years. It had some pretty solid stories, and some decent characterization. It's certainly the best of Claremont's work since his return.

IA with that but its really not saying much. I actually preferred his work on UXM in Revolution but that might be bc I preferred the team of Storm, Phoenix, Cable, Gambit and Beast

His latest Uncanny X-Men work has been pretty bad, in my opinion. He just flat out refuses to render anything.

Which is why Marvel demoted him to New Excalibur and now New Exiles...lol

 

[PhotoJones]

Which is why Marvel demoted him to New Excalibur and now New Exiles...lol

Uh...no, they didn't.

 

[JewishHobbit]

I agree that X-Treme was fantastic for it's first two years. I liked the first two arcs with Vargas and Sebastian shaw, and the Invasion arc was just spectacular. Some of the stories following Larroca's stuff was okay (the last arc or so) but the art was just too painful for me to really enjoy the stuff.

 

[El Bastardo]

Larocca sucks now. He was THE writer back in the late 90s/early 00s, but something happened to him and he just isnt as good anymore. He was burning himself out drawing for multiple Marvel projects at a time and you could tell the quality of his work was suffering. So he got bored and has since been experimenting with his art style, and he hasnt found one that works

Wow. Uh, great? I mean, really, great. I'm glad you think so.
My post, which you quoted, had absolutely nothing to do with value of art. It was a quip about the incorrect spelling of his name that everyone seems to engage in, as demonstrated by your post.

By the way, you spelled his name wrong, again, even after the correct spelling was right there, in fact, right in front of you when you quoted my post. Indeed, my friend, you deserve a medal for this uncanny feat. It shames Hercules.

And I still don't know who this Larocca guy is, but it's a tragedy if he sucks.

Larroca relied way to heavily on Liquid! to make his art look decent. He got lazy and he's stayed that way ever since.

See? PJ corrected his spelling of it. That's because PJ rocks.

 

[squeekness]

Oh! You mean Salvador Larroca! See, I know who that is.

I do not know who this Larocca everyone seems to rave about is, however.

Lorocca -- Best. Gambit. Ever.

He is probably my favorite artist fromMarvel right now.

 

[El Bastardo]

Sigh... For shame, squeek. For shame.

 

[Darthphere]

Lorocca -- Best. Gambit. Ever.

He is probably my favorite artist fromMarvel right now.

I would have agreed, until....

 

[JewishHobbit]

Lurrokka is awsome!

 

[PhotoJones]

He used to be. He sucks these days.

 

[Darthphere]

I wouldn't say sucks, but he needs to stop casting all his characters.

 

[PhotoJones]

Yeah, he does do that these days, too. So does Deodato.

 

[Darthphere]

Yeah, he does do that these days, too. So does Deodato.

Everyone seems to do it, and it's getting kind of annoying. Especially when it's bad casting.