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Scott Bakula and Enterprise comics

That seems very odd. I've always heard tales of how nice a guy Bakula is (to co-stars and fans alike), so it's weird to hear that he could be such a dick in matters like this. :confused:
Yeah, I don't think that being picky about how you're depicted by an artist necessarily makes you a dick. Especially if you're a hard to draw guy like Bakula.

I recently interviewed comic book artist Jerry Ordway about his work on the comic book adaptation of the 1989 Batman movie. To avoid likeness rights approvals wreaking havoc with the deadlines, Ordway did model sheet pieces of Michael Keaton, Kim Basinger, and Jack Nicholson (as both Jack Napier and the Joker) for the actors' approval before he started drawing individual story pages. The editor, Jonathan Peterson, had learned from working on DC's Star Trek comics that likeness approvals from the actors can really hold up the process.
 
^Didn't DC have something of a challenging time with Patrick Stewart approving his likeness in their comics? I seem to remember hearing that somewhere...
 
^Didn't DC have something of a challenging time with Patrick Stewart approving his likeness in their comics? I seem to remember hearing that somewhere...
Could be. I have a vague memory of reading that Stewart complained that the artists drew his head too pointy. And Brent Spiner complained that they drew his nose too big. Robert Greenberger, who edited the Trek books for DC for a long time, could probably tell you more.
 
Wouldn't lightboxing be an obvious solution to this problem?

If you mean tracing photo references, the later TNG comics from DC did that a lot. The issued pencilled by Deryl Skelton often looked more like collages of photocopied reference photos than actual hand-drawn art. It wasn't a good look.
 
Yeah, was thinking the same. Though I think he may have appeared inside of Waypoint #4 in the Porthos story... the only issue of Waypoint I seem to be unable to find among my comics at the moment. :confused:

Incidentally, it turned out I had loaned this to someone something like a year and a half ago. Just got it back a week or so after I posted this.
 
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