RKMBs Forums .::Robegories::. Comic Books Dave Cockrum Drawing The Legion

Dave just made an announcement on the 'official' board that he has been given permission by Steve Wacker to break the silence. He is drawing 5 pages for the Legion's upcoming 45th anniversary.

First Steve now Dave. I must have died and gone to heaven!

Batista's settling in, and now we also get Lightle AND Cockrum? Oy gevalt! Too much well-done art!

{/Wayne'sWorld ON}
EX-cel-lent!!
We're not worthy!!
{/Wayne'sWorld OFF}

"One cannot go suddenly from Siberia to Senegal without fainting." -- Victor Hugo

Awsome news...

Great news, indeed!

But only 5 pages.

Well...it's a start.

Maybe the PTB weren't lying when the said the best was yet to come for the Legion. I just posted over at the other board that all we need now is for Paul Levitz to pen a story for Dave and Steve to work on together and I would die a happy man. Actually over there I said it would be the icing (on the cake) but I feel no less exuberant about Dave's upcoming work.

Thank God that cat's out of the bag. I found out a while back by accident, won't say how, but promised not to tell. I didn't either although it's been extreeeeeeeemly hard. When I first found out, steam shot out of my ears and my hair stood on end like a cartoon. I can't wait to see this!!!!

Pardon my french, but Legion fans fucking rule! I hope somebody hits those sons of bitches over at Marvel on the head with rolled up copies of the issue till they bleed.

(Oh yeah, before I get too full of myself, let me add that Dave's a hell of an artist and I think he should have been involved with the anniversery whether we campaigned for him or not so I won't give Nightcrawler's epic Support thread full credit for his return. Nonetheless, I think Editor Wacker has his ear to the ground.)

thats great news, good for dave, great for us. I hope jim shooter is adding something to the anniversary issue.

Hopefully he'll draw Wildfire. Can't wait to see his rendition of the post-boot version.

(BTW, I hope I didn't sound like I took credit for any of this. If I did, I apologize. Dave and Steve have earned their place by their professionalism and body of work! Hopefully their issues will spike sells enough to get TPTB into realizing that substance & talent is better than flashy flavors of the week & controversy.)

D'oh! I wasn't demeaning your contribution to this great news by any means Nightie! I just didn't want to make it sound like I think Dave just got the work solely because of the fans support or something, because he deserved the gig on his own merits.

Wonderful news. May more Cockrum artwork be in the Legion's future! Issue #25 AND the Legion Companion cover. More! More! We're still not satisfied!

Wonderful news! Lightle and now Cockrum.
Any word on who else will be contributing to this issue?

It's a GREAT time to be a LEGION fan!

Can't wait to see Dave's work on this incarnation of the Legion, esp Gates and Wildfire

Wow, this issue is going to rock, I can't wait to get my grubby little paws on it.

cool.

Wonder how his stuff looks nowadays...can't think of anything real recent.

Met Dave c. once...nice guy.

I saw the cover he did for the upcoming Legion Companion book and it looked fine. I'm looking forward to his new Legion work.

That did look nice.

I DONT THINK DAVE COCKRUM IS ALL THAT. SURE HE DID X-MEN, BUT WHAT HAS HE DONE IN LIKE THE LAST 20 YEARS?

Show respect...give props.

While Cockrum was a giant in the industry, I'm curious -- what has he done in the last ten or fifteen years? Has he even been working in the industry? I haven't seen anything.

Not 100% sure.

That's great NEWS !!! i wonder who else will be joining DAVE ???

Dave had a pretty good run on a book called Soulsearchers in the 90's. Don't know who published it and never read an issue either, but he posted a bunch of pages in the Dave gallery at nightscrawlers.com and it pretty much looked like classic Cockrum to me. The pinups and sketches I've seen him post recently look good too. I can't wait to see this issue. I found out from him last week that he didn't know who was going to be inking it. I'm sort of hoping Andy Lanning gets to since he's said before he wanted to work with Dave. Andy is the inking one right?

YAY!

Dave's back (if even for a little bit...)

Great news ain't it. I wish they would let him do a spotlight issue like Steve is doing.