Prophet 5 cover is still one of the fav covers of all time! It was like one those classic 80s Action films posters. Nobody draws better quads and nobody draws better Veins than PLATT. I still have that Wizard spread of Prophet & Chapel, cotdayum its so crazy AsF!

It's a joy to watch two people who genuinely love comics talk about comics, especially 90s era comics, the time I started getting into the medium.

Stephen Platt was a young Toronto comic fan that was an Art Student at OCAD. I didn't know who he was at that time, but we both attended a Toronto Comic convention held at the Concert Hall in the late 80's. Perhaps, as late as 1990? I recall that I went there, to see both Art Adams and Mike Mignola. Even purchased a Mignola PHANTOM STRANGER page, at the time.. Wandering the hall with my portfolio in hand, I was approached by a kid that assumed I was a comics professional, and could he see my artwork, and would I mind looking at his stuff, too? We sat down in the balcony and he showed me pinup after pinup doused in heavy IMAGE-esque detail. I could tell he knew how to draw. But suggested to him that he shouldn't take so many liberties with the proportions. And that all of that inking detail, was creating a lot of needless noise that was distracting from his figure work.. He seemed disappointed by my comments. And given his career, he probably had a better finger on the pulse of where comics were going..

Platt, Keown, and Capullo are my fave guys for veins. Platt and Geoff Darrow and my tops for bullet casings.

Man as a kid growing up in the 90s I forgot how beautiful the comics were back then compared to today's digital artist

I do miss the early 90s art of these guys, now all I see in today’s comics is everything looking bland, you can’t even tell most of the artists apart like you could tell the difference and get excited about artists in the past.

Was a cool dude to work with at Extreme. Teryaki chicken bowls for life!!

My man! Stephen Platt! Seeing his art in Prophet when I was a teenager was like doing drugs. A total mind fuck.

I went to art school with Platt. He was a year behind me, but he took his shot at comics and I commend him for it.

The violence level reminds me of Arthur Sudyam's Cholly and Flytrap

I still have that wizard poster with the bullets. It is awesome.

This was my favorite artist as a young teen. I have all of his work from Agent Three Zero to his current cover works. Only thing I’m missing is that Uncanny X-force cover. I need that 😁

Yes!!! Finally a Stephen Platt episode! I'm so hyped!

Great video, guys. Platt's work back in the very beginning was an insane mash up of McFarlane, Charest and maybe Darrow, too. As you said, his art now is smoother but I miss the crazy energy.

13:53 I think Ed was thinking of "Death Becomes Her" with Bruce Willis, where Goldie Hawn's head is turned backwards, lol.

Man, I just apologetically LOVE Image in that era. I'll take over-the-top art over word balloons all day, every day. Thanks for the trip down memory lane, guys. Going to pull out some old comics now.

Had that Prophet poster in my freshman dorm

This was so great! 😆😆😆Thanks for another awesome episode guys ✌🏽

I saw Splatt's name in the Iron Man movie credits all those years ago. That's the last I've heard of him.

Great episode! I have Platt’s Moon Knight issues and the Fighting American issues. Just “fun” comics!

I loved the early SPlatt stuff, it melted my brain when I was a kid. It wasn't polished, felt almost like you were looking at a sketchbook instead of a finished piece. I couldn't get enough at the time

Stephen Platt is one of the many artists from the 90s, who got into attention very quickly and started getting competition with the likes of Jim Lee and Rob Liefeld, but then he vanished into obscurity for some reason. seriously there were a lot of people like him in the 90s, some of them were even directly attached with Image and were popular for some time but then they got vanished in obscurity

I went down the early Image rabbit hole after your recent episode about the Prophet/ Bloodstrike battle. This episode is a great breakdown of Platt.

Awesome video guys, thanks. I love the cover to Prophet #8 - and I'm pretty sure that's Bloodstrike's reflection in the water, not him laying down, and Prophet is holding in his guts with his arms crossed while hunched over.

🎶 Splatt, splatt , Stephen platt is where it’s at ! 🎶

Had that Splatt Wizard poster on my wall right next to the Michael Golden X-Men poster, and Christina Applegate w/falcon poster. Good times!

I miss these days when it was pure excess, but felt like a real comic. These days it feels like minimal effort, like the artist spent an hour on the whole thing, and moved on.

I would say Richard Corben is among the greatest vein artists ever!! Great stuff guys, I really enjoy your reviews of stuff I loved back in the 90's, have a great 2021!!

Your commentary is the most enjoyment I ever got out of any book by Extreme Studios. When every story had a two page sideways spread of a single face and a few balloons with no backgrounds, I decided to spend my $1.95 on stuff like Palookaville and Optic Nerve and Peep Show. The closest thing to this kind of muscle bound nitwit stories I bought new was Breyfogle’s Prime, which was a 90s version of Billy Batson/Captain Marvel.

This episode made me dig these issue out just to see the insanity in person. I remember loving this because as you said, there was nothing to read. It was just candy for the eyballs

I was so jazzed to find that Prophet #4 Platt variant on the stands back in the day! Back in the before times when variants were a rarity.

Where did you get the black light comic printed? Which company does black light fluorescent inks? So cool!

Loved SPLATT's work back in the day, his work was insane on Soul Saga with Liquid colouring. Another artist who I dont think got enough admiration back in the day was Ian Churchill, his run on Awesome Comics - Coven was the best work he ever done.

Yessss.....YESSSSSSS!!!! MORE SHELL CASINGS!!!

Gotta love that Eternal Champions ad at 4:14.

I’m a huge fan of SPLATT, I have a lot of his books almost everything but I don’t have that ashcan haha I’m jealous

Love this channel 🤟

What about Soul Saga?!?! Gorgeous book...

Yes! All the Splatter that matters!

Rob had all these cool artists drawing the extreme books. Just fun energetic comics. Anyone making fun go read I am starfires daughter or America Chavez then come back to me.

This just shows how much comic art has gone downhill now.

Saw my crappy fan art (for a split second) in the back of Prophet #7!

#9 was entirely Pat Lee just Platt layouts.

Reminds me a lot of Jim Lee and McFarland merged and turned up to 11

Where is Platt nowadays? I'm 45 so he was a hero of mine for sure.

Dude, if you're talking vein artists, there's Bisley solidly in one and two positions, and every one else fighting it it for number 3 or lower. And probably Keown takes that slot.

Stephen Platt was my absolute favorite out of all the Image guys. Him and Joe Quesada were neck and neck my top 2 artists of the 90's.

Codename: Strykeforce had the image of Black Anvil riding the rocket before this.

Good stuff

I still have my "Prophet #8 comic book that one sold me on S.Platt never seen guys fighting the whole comic bleeding gallons per second, continuing to fight and just never die (with injuries NO ONE ON EARTH COULD FIGHT THRU LOL) , juiced to the fuckin gills on steroids with muscular physiques that were impossible to humanly get, it was just a str8 up balls to the wall kick ass comic book and I will always re-visit it.. thanks for speaking on this topic and having the same eye as me to appreciate it's artistic and stylistic value.. props from the 305.. peace

S40000 dollars an issue. Could you imagine that?? I would draw prophet for the rest of my life with that money.. never miss an issue.. WTF

the Capt America riding the bomb is probably homage to Major Kong riding the bomb in Dr Strangelove

Wished i had that first work on MoonKnight. Remembered when it first came out but then it was sold out. Less steroids than Bart Sears' works.

I love that guy, just what is he doing now a days, I see a variant cover here and there sometimes. He is so good now ! Just imagine he this guys had been given a Sequel to Weapon X ?!?!?!?!

It may be too current but you should do Solid Blood 17. It manages to homage and parody at the same time.

Finally!

If you don’t have a top ten vein artist list, Are you even reading Image in the 90s?!? ps, Ed with the tip on proper blade removal from a torso, hahah!! Good looks, my man.

Ho... Hol... HOLD TF UP... I bought Prophet, I went to get Platt's autograph at my comic shop... you're telling me he got $40K/issue for Prophet in 1994-1996 dollars??

What happened whit this artist? where he is? He disappeared like many others artists like Matsuda and Roger Cruz

Splatt was a killer page filler but was so inconsistent with his output. Prolifically anemic. I remember when MK #55 came out and it was like McFarlane chicken-fat with more of a ballsy Texeira/Bisley skew. I never saw Moon Knight at my shop until #58. Bitchin' cover but he didn't do the interior. They only sold it pre-bagged with optional chromium enema. Then there's the classic Prophet wizard poster. I bought Prophet #5 and it was awesome. Even then, 10 years old, I noticed he loved to do these downward 3/4 perspective shots that looked like crap. The next issue you could already see his art sallowing out. Was he even inking on issue ten? Was he even pencilling? The cover was cool but the interiors were downright flaccid. The level of density that brought his artistry to the fore just couldn't hold up to the monthly grind. Back in 1999, I remember trying to look him up and there was nothing. Later on I heard he went into concept stuff. Whatever, I want cylopean striations punctuated with pupilless eyes and Schwarzeneggarian gurning. Shell casings by the tens of thousands clumping in giant heaps dampened with blood and entrails. Interview with Platt WHEN? When researching issues I noticed there isn't a decent wiki for the old Image ephemera like that marvel DB website. I want to see some damn credits.

Moon Knight never skips leg day.

It’s interesting that as Kirby aged his anatomy became more abstract. F

How do I buy red room from india?

Whatever happened to S.Platt?

Fighting American has ARMPIT MUSCLES on top of armpit muscles 💪

I had never hear of Platt until last year & i've been heavily collecting on/off for over 30 yrs...he's hardly known

In hindsight his work wasn't as good as I remember it. Recently went thru all my back issues of his because I'm in a SPlatt appreciation groups on FB, and everyone in that group hypes him up.

Platt should have stayed with Marvel.

I recall Moon Knight 55 coming out and grabbing it off the stand. I thought he was a bad McFarlane ripoff. I was correct. It's lost on me.

Only issues of Moon Knight that matters

I still for the life of me don’t see the McFarlane influence in his art.