Quarter Bin 107 "Aron Wiesenfeld"

Deathblow and Wolverine #1 (Image)
from September 1996

Wow.  So I guess I'm not the first person to wonder whatever happened to Aron Wiesenfeld.  Read about that here.  Because the minute I saw this art, I had to wonder why he never became a comics superstar.  That art is positively phenomenal.  The coloring is itself completely out of the ordinary, but the level of detail is astonishing.

And the whole issue is like that.  Unbelievable.

The best thing I stumbled upon that day, by far.  This was one of those team-up comics between Image and various other companies that happened throughout the '90s, right about the point everyone was wondering how long the Image revolution was really going to last.  Deathblow in 2017 means absolutely nothing, and weirdly enough he barely registers in this issue, too, and maybe that's one of the reasons why.  Wolverine, though: not only does Wiesenfeld draw an exceptional Logan, he writes one, too. 

Here I'll acknowledge that Richard Bennett apparently "finished" the art, something that happens in a lot of Dan Jurgens comics, and I guess I'm still a little shaky on the concept.  Was Bennett merely the inker?  Or was he more involved?  Should I be heaping the Wiesenfeld praise on Bennett?  Or sharing it?

Either way, Wiesenfeld abruptly left comics, and became a traditional artist.  I suppose it's not unexpected.  Comics in some respects represent the formative development of any artist, learning perspective, detail, the "rules."  Which artists then tend to break.  I'm sure Wiesenfeld doesn't miss comics at all, but I gotta say, comics surely miss him...