Granov's Iron Man looks machined rather than drawn, with hard reflections and precisely engineered surfaces. Iron Man: Extremis set a visual template that carried through to the films, where he worked on concept design.
Ross paints superheroes as though they were standing in the room: real light, real weight, real fabric. Marvels and Kingdom Come reframed familiar characters as monuments seen from street level, and his covers are now the images many readers picture when they think of these characters at all.
Adams packs more detail into a panel than seems reasonable, every scale and rivet accounted for, with a monster-movie enthusiasm running underneath. Longshot and his X-Men work made him a favourite, and his covers are recognisable across a room.
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