What's /co/'s opinion on Larry Hama?

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>>89795694
Love him. Love his GI Joe, love his Nth: The Ultimate Ninja, love his Spooks, love his Bizarre Adventures, love (what I've read of) his Wolverine run, just plain love him.
He's got that gift, that ability and/or willingness to merge in-depth believable details with just full-on adventure insanity and wrap it all around a core of pure human emotion. So you end up with stuff like an ancient ninja master describing the firing mechanism on a Colt Govt. 1911 .45 to a street kid who's just tried to rob him with said gun, and it works because of how earnest it all is. Even if none of his characters talk like actual human beings, even if a lot of his word balloons take a turn into the overtly literary, it all works to create an extremely unique voice in comics.

Plus, y'know, he's still one of the absolute coolest people in the biz.

>>89795694
Him and Jim Steranko are some of the coolest guys to ever work in comics.

>>89795899
This, love you too Judge

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>>89795694
He was at Hal-Con in 2012 and all of his panels were amazing. He had so many good stories about working in the biz and great advice for aspiring artists. If you ever get a chance to see him talk at a panel, go.

Pic related, he drew it for me at the con.

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>>89795694
damn mishima is still alive????

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>>89796123
Fuck me, that's awesome!

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He actually appeared on Mash.

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>>89796237
Hell yeah he did. Also as an extra in The Warriors.

I have always loved his work, especially Bucky O'Hare and felt like it was a criminal offense he didn't get at least two more graphic novels out of that deal. Sure the cartoon wasn't bad and the NES game was ...well, challenging, but his art for the comci was drop dead gorgeous and I later in life came to appreciate the snarky jabs at bureaucracy in his space opera with funny animals.

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>>89796416
He actually talked about that part of his career at the con as well, how for a long time he basically played "asian gangster" or something. Unfortunately it was 4 years ago, I can't recall.

>>89795899
This

>>89795694
He's written lots of good stuff. On the other hand he ruined Generation X to a degree it never recovered from and his Venom comics are incomprehensible garbage. Not even in a dumb '90s way but in a "they literally do not make any sense at all" way.

>>89795694
Was actually just reading about Christopher Priest's time working under him. The man seems like a fucking legend honestly. I'm gonna try and find some of the stuff he's written.

>>89797529

I really wonder if there's going to be a future push given that we're getting more Bucky O'Hare figures in the future.

Didn't he invent Orca?

>>89803024

Yes. Yes he did.

he's a badass
I love his Wolverine
what's his best work?

>>89802452
how did he kill it writing 4 issues? I never read it

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>>89795694
Antonio Inoki is that you?

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>>89795694
Hama for President.

>>89803810
GI Joe is better than any toy-based comic has any reason to be.

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>>89796416
>>89796237

Fuck. Hama just keeps getting cooler and cooler as a guy.

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>>89795899

>Even if none of his characters talk like actual human beings

I know he co-created Colleen Wing, but other than that I don't know much about him, other than he wrote some GI:Joe comics. Must be proud to see a character you created in Live action, I'm sure he'll be invited to the premiere.

Like a lot of comics writers of his era he has has plenty of missteps as we've entered the modern era (his Batman run, Gen X) most of his work I've encountered is solid with some transcending that and being legitimately great. I think the fact that he was an artist before he was a writer is to his advantage. He has a knack for visual storytelling but can also allow an artist to rely on their own creativity.

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>>89805533
Hah, I hadn't seen this before.

>>89802488
>I could write a book of Larry Hama stories, most of which I can't tell until one of us is dead. - Priest

>>89802498
...Source on this?

>>89795694
He could do some good action scenes and was really good with layouts. Okay writer that with time got worse. Decent artist. Basically, he can do some good action scenes and...um...yeah.

>>89806390
Sometimes that's what people want to see in a cape comic.

I heard he used to, like, role-play bank robberies with other people at Marvel.
Something like that.

Hama is without a doubt one of the most interesting people in comics He's a Vietnam Vet. an Actor, An Artist and of course a writer but as time has gone on you can tell he kind of just....stopped caring. Well thats not the right word, basically his newer G.I.Joe stuff has been so boring it's and dragging it's really starting to harm his legacy. His Black Ops 3 book though was extremely enjoyable.

Theres a clip somewhere of him drawing a gun someone's nuts. it's honestly amazing.

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>>89806336
Google "Boss Fight Studio". It's gonna be grand.

>>89806531
Christopher Priest:
>One of my favorite Hama stories was when Ed Davis, a top illustrator and top mercenary, blew into town. We went to lunch, but Hama stopped by the bank on the way. Denys Cowan, Ed and myself took up positions in the bank, near the available exits, and just stood around looking, well, Negro. Larry had no idea what we were doing.

>The bank guard got a little antsy, and went behind the counter, presumably to make a phone call, as Larry finally approached a teller, and presented his pistol permit for identification. This is something Larry always did, to amuse himself more than anything else. Larry usually carried two briefcases. Depending on which one it was, he either had a .45 or an Uzi inside (he was licensed for both).

>When the teller began nervously twitching, Hama turned to tell us he'd be a few minutes longer, and saw we had taken up positions around the bank, and also saw that the bank had, suddenly, become polarized by the three black men and the Japanese man with the very long hair, pistol permit, and briefcase.

>Larry smiled and said, "Stop that." Ed exploded into laughter— scary laughter (Ed was a scary guy), and we three headed outside so Larry could finish up without somebody calling the cops.

>>89806635

Of all the comic people I want to read a biography on with all the stories about them. Hama and Jim Steranko are probably the two who probably have the most interesting ones. They are the "Meng" (Samoan wrestler from the 80s to 90s who has all these crazy as fuck stories about him. He wrestled in the WWF as Haku) of the industry. You just know creators or they themselves have batshit crazy stories to tell.

I know one creator I know told me his Steranko story. Basically, he does Planet of the Apes stuff and they got Steranko to do a few interior pages. So Steranko still does the same old school style of art where they are huge ass stuff.

One day said creator gets the Steranko stuff and then he with some friends try to figure out how the hell to put this freaking huge ass art in either of their cars. They're terrified of damaging it but also in wonderment at the freaking art piece. Both realize that neither one's automobile is gonna work. They had to get rent a freaking van to get it to point A to point B.

>>89806635
>basically his newer G.I.Joe stuff has been so boring it's and dragging it's really starting to harm his legacy.

What? His G.I. Joe is still good.

>>89802452
I don't know if he created she venom but that's a big plus if he did.

His G.I.Joe run is one of the best series I've ever read.

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>>89804349
Dr. Deth was being developed as a film for a while by one of the 'Broken Lizard' guys but it seems to be dead.

>>89796237
>Klinger was in Hey Arnold!
>Col Potter was the old guy in Flight of Dragons and was in The Simpsons
>Hot Lips Houlihan was in BTAS
>Charles Winchester III was Cogsworth AND Ratcliffe
>Father Mulcahey was Angel Smurf
>Radar played Charlie Brown in the original off-Broadway run of You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown
>Mako was every other one-off Asian character
>Larry Hama was
>that abolutely perfect parody of Hawkeye Pierce in Futurama
Is M*A*S*H* the most /co/-related sitcom ever?
>>89802498
I heard that there are scripts for more Bucky O'Hare comics somewhere, but nobody's done anything with them... yet.
>>89803024
>>89803261
Unfortunately, his run on Batman was absolute dogshit. Shame, really...

>>89811561
>that abolutely perfect parody of Hawkeye Pierce in Futurama
The who in the what now?

>>89809565

He brought Ann Weying back (and gave her the Venom symbiote a few times) but he didn't create her.

>>89811882
https://youtu.be/DdhveixpV24

>>89811882
https://vimeo.com/121098214

>>89803846
Hama wrote like a year plus of stories and was responsible for the "reveal" of Penance being the real M (and even a real M at all) where she, the twins and Emplate all merge together into M-Plate and generally a lot of really nonsensical stories involving some of his pet characters of that period like Chimera and Dirtnap. Also created/added Gaia to the team who was a pretty shitty reality warper or something to that effect that Faerber wrote out almost immediately during an X-Man crossover and who pretty much hasn't shown up in a comic or even been mentioned in 20 years.

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>>89813522
Holy shit, this IS perfect.

>>89811561
>Is M*A*S*H* the most /co/-related sitcom ever?
Honeymooners?

>>89816446
Yeah I'd definitely say Honeymooners because of how much the Flintstones influenced other cartoons.

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Underrated. It was written by Doug Murray, initially illustrated by Michael Golden, edited by Larry Hama.

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>>89795694
Only really know him for interested Mystic concepts that never went anywhere.

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>>89803881
I thoughr he looked more like a Native American.
Would've explained some of those Mystic concepts fo sho.

>>89811561
>>Charles Winchester III was Cogsworth AND Ratcliffe

And Martian Manhunter in the old failed Justice League pilot.

>>89817443
He did like his Chocos...

>>89795694
http://comicsalliance.com/five-stars-larry-hama-interview/
>CA: The industry finds it very easy to stick people into certain boxes. Having worked on books like G.I. Joe, The ‘Nam, and Nth Man, do you find it hard to be considered by publishers for anything but more war stories, at times?
>LH: It’s a hard ghetto to break out of. Considering that what I really wanted to do
from the beginning was funny animals. I’m a duck man, like Carl Barks, but nobody was buying. So I did what was around. The closest I got to doing what I really wanted to do was Bucky O’Hare.

I hope he gets to make his Uncle Scrooge book one day.

>>89795694
pretty alright guy

>>89795694
Fucking brilliant.

>>89796123
Sweet!

>>89813277
Oh fuck me sideways.

>>89804297

Oh shit he's singing the Springsteen version!

>>89818680
>I hope he gets to make his Uncle Scrooge book one day.


>YWN own a Donald Duck: Commando Raider book by Larry Hama, with Donald personally invading Nazi Germany.