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Geof Darrow
 Hard Boiled Statue: Nixon $175.00 Dark Horse Comics presents Nixon, the maniacal mercenary from Hard Boiled. Translating the meticulous intricacy of Geof Darrow's art into a visual masterpiece, master sculptor Kent Melton has created a sumptuous feast for the decadent imagination--guaranteed to make the hardcore collector drool. This piece was originally released in 1997 as an oversize, unpainted polyresin kit. Only 100 were made, and they sold out at a whopping $695.00 each. This new version is approximately 11" and was recreated in a collaboration between original sculptor Kent Melton and the talented team at Gentle Giant Studios. It comes prepainted, with all the detailing of the original statue. Format: 11" tall, fully painted  Tin Can Man #1-#4 set, Image Comics $5.95 Tin Can Man #1-#4 complete mini-series set. Comics are in nice near mint condtion. Be sure to visit my webstore on the big auction site called Comic Zone Comics, where I always have 500+ mini-series sets all at low, low prices!  Big Damn Hard Boiled $29.95 Geoff Darrow's art should only be viewed this way. Big D**n Hardboiled includes the art and sound effects (but not any of the narrative) of the entire Hard Boiled series by Frank Miller and Darrow in an oversize (roughly 11 by 14) book. You get to see a whole new world of details that I'll bet my next paycheck you missed (I know I did, even though I thought I noticed everything) on your first few readings of the series in their original size format. Geoff Darrow is the original Where's Waldo of the comic world. He puts millions of hidden items in everything he draws. There are jokes and puns and visual quirks everywhere. One biker gang that I thought was Lugnuts turns out to actually be LAC*NTS. You notice that there's a daisy on top of a tough guy's knife handle. You get to see Darrow kissing a little hind end by carefully placing his publisher's (Dark Horse's) trademarked avatar into the work. You finally get to read all of the graffiti clearly and most of it is rather obscene. My favorite rock band is KISS and I thought Darrow had given them a shout-out in the series, but in BDHB, I notice the "P," partially covered by a jacket lapel, in the "K"'s place; it makes quite a difference, of course. Geoff Darrow just might be the M. C. Escher of our own time, but the visual tricks come not from transitioning forms but from an extreme deviltry of details. What always amazes me is that the more I look, the more times I read Darrow comics, the more I find. I haven't exhausted any of works so far. As for the price, you'd have to be a hardcore Darrow fan to pay upwards of $60 for this work, but considering I've paid more for so-called finer art that's left me disappointed, I'd honestly say $100 for this would be money well spent. There have been lots of people influenced by Darrow and many Darrow pretender-contenders (Juan Jose Ryp comes most immediately to mind), but Big D**n Hardboiled finally, definitively proves - if there was any question - that no one does intra-dimensional detail any better. |
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