Title: I love Neal Adams work...but unfortunately, it's marred.
Product review: I ponied up a nice chunk of change for this hardcover sight-unseen, thinking "It's Adams! How could I go wrong?"Well, there are a couple of big problems.First, a lot of space is devoted to covers that Neal rendered. It was a common tactic at DC to have Adams do a cover for a book whose story was illustrated by an inferior artists. They generally promise a story with far more gravity than what's actually presented inisde. An extra story or two could have easily been squeezed into that space.Second--and most disappointing--is that Dick Giordano inks most of Adams' illustrations, and his thick-stroked style does not merge gracefully with Adams' organic and graceful contours. The end result is that instead of enhancing Adams' pencilwork, he often just drew right over it. Thus, a great deal of the illustrations here don't resemble what fans have come to recognize as Neal Adams' handywork.
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