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Soonmot posted:I will never forgive that rear end in a top hat for Shaq-Fu. What a horrible game. Shaq-fu was amazing almost as amazing as Kazzam.
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bobkatt013 posted:Shaq-fu was amazing almost as amazing as Kazzam. 
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At least we can all agree Steel is still the best movie ever.
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I just thought it was funny when Shaq challenges Sir Charles to a game of golf. Shaq can't find clubs long enough for him and a baby can beat Charles on the green. The result was two farts trading jokes and flubbing shots.
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I thought I'd catch up on I, Vampire, and I thought this was a particularly good spread from #7 by Andrea Sorrentino. This seems like one of the only books that hasn't really succumbed to the art getting worse as the artist gets more rushed or a fill-in has to come on board to help finish issues.
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Apr 4, 2012 14:33
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I want to know if that's an actual woodcut or a painstaking recreation. I've only seen one graphic novel that was actually done as a series of hand carved prints.
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al-azad posted:I want to know if that's an actual woodcut or a painstaking recreation. I've only seen one graphic novel that was actually done as a series of hand carved prints. Whichever it is that is some drat fine art and I must get my hands on it.
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These pics come from What If? House of M #1. The art is by Paolo Pantalena. I've seen his deviantART page and I actually like most of what I see there (especially this sweet Witchblade sketch), but his work in this book leaves me a little flustered. I don't know whether to love it or hate it. I think I hate it mostly. This is his Peter Parker and Mary Jane:   This is his Reed Richards. My eyes are inordinately drawn to his crotch. Also, his eyes should be pointing upwards, given Red Skull's logical position.  And this is his Maria Hill and Iron Man   Ms Marvel and She-Hulk (depowered) 
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Apr 5, 2012 19:44
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bobkatt013 posted:Shaq-fu was amazing almost as amazing as Kazzam.
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al-azad posted:I want to know if that's an actual woodcut or a painstaking recreation. I've only seen one graphic novel that was actually done as a series of hand carved prints. It looks like a line drawing with a "woodcut" texture applied in photoshop, actually. Look how the hatching doesn't actually describe the shape of the object it's applied to, like in this one by gustav dore 
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Is that from Dante's Inferno? Who are those giants and what are they being punished for?
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Baron Bifford posted:This is his Peter Parker and Mary Jane: literally the only good thing i can rescue from these is that he didn't add liefeld-style wrinkles to iron man's helmet.
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Baron Bifford posted:These pics come from What If? House of M #1. The art is by Paolo Pantalena. I've seen his deviantART page and I actually like most of what I see there (especially this sweet Witchblade sketch), but his work in this book leaves me a little flustered. I don't know whether to love it or hate it. I think I hate it mostly. Jesus christ, he's like the unholy marriage of Joe Mad and Humberto Ramos' worst qualities.
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Apr 5, 2012 21:12
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Either that's Maria is very short or Iron Man became seven feet tall at some point 
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Apr 5, 2012 21:22
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Baron Bifford posted:Is that from Dante's Inferno? Who are those giants and what are they being punished for? It is indeed: "Virgil pointing out Ephialtes and the other giants."
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Baron Bifford posted:These pics come from What If? House of M #1. The art is by Paolo Pantalena. I've seen his deviantART page and I actually like most of what I see there (especially this sweet Witchblade sketch), but his work in this book leaves me a little flustered. I don't know whether to love it or hate it. I think I hate it mostly. Holy loving poo poo, please tell me no one buys any thing he illustrates because I can't understand how anyone could read that with out shooting blood out of every orifice.
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World's Finest #1 from 2000. Art by Dave Taylor. This is perhaps one of the lamest covers I've ever seen for a superhero comic. There's no attempt at anything striking or dramatic. It's like they're waiting around for the bus or something. The interior art is just as abominable.     He can't keep faces consistent. Jimmy Olsen's face is constantly shifting. If he wasn't the only guy in Metropolis to have red hair and wear a green suit, his friends would never recognize him.         
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Wha... What exactly is going on with Supergirl there? Is she wearing a 2-inch long skirt? And that is an odd position to fly in... On the first page, the villains are apparently all walking along at a weird angle if the building in the background is anything to go on. Madrox fucked around with this message at 11:11 on Apr 7, 2012 |
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Apr 7, 2012 10:58
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Those could be tracings, which is why the depth perception and character faces are all over the place.
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I also wonder why Deadshot would be incarcerated at Arkham.
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Superman looks like the douchiest motherfucker alive.
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Madrox posted:Wha... What exactly is going on with Supergirl there? Is she wearing a 2-inch long skirt? And that is an odd position to fly in... I thought the same thing. My first thought was "traced from porn".
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In his defense, none of them seem to be flying. They're clearly just posing in mid-air while falling.
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I've been working my way through the old Valiant books, and I found an image in X-O Manowar 62 that speaks volumes about why they pulled the plug. The early stuff has held up surprisingly well, but this stuff from the end is just awful. edit:forgot to include the image mints fucked around with this message at 21:27 on Apr 7, 2012 |
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Baron Bifford posted:World's Finest #1 from 2000. Art by Dave Taylor. This is perhaps one of the lamest covers I've ever seen for a superhero comic. There's no attempt at anything striking or dramatic. It's like they're waiting around for the bus or something. So DC will recolor over their best artists against their wishes but allows garbage like this to pass when it's being used on their most popular licenses? Makes total sense.
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al-azad posted:So DC will recolor over their best artists against their wishes but allows garbage like this to pass when it's being used on their most popular licenses? Makes total sense. DC != Valiant, unless something happened towards the end that I'm unaware of. Really, Valiant was best when it was a Jim Shooter operation, and went downhill after that until it ended in a pile of poo poo.
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al-azad posted:So DC will recolor over their best artists against their wishes but allows garbage like this to pass when it's being used on their most popular licenses? Makes total sense. That's from 2000. I've noticed that DC art in recent years has gotten very good; it's mostly the 90s stuff like that which is bad.
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rkajdi posted:DC != Valiant, unless something happened towards the end that I'm unaware of. Really, Valiant was best when it was a Jim Shooter operation, and went downhill after that until it ended in a pile of poo poo. He's bitching about Worlds Finest from 2000, and the recoloring of Flex Mentallo and Killing Joke probably.
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Die Laughing posted:He's bitching about Worlds Finest from 2000, and the recoloring of Flex Mentallo and Killing Joke probably. And the Year One deluxe edition and the 2004 Incal butchering. But seriously, I know a lot of the examples posted here are extreme cases but if World's Finest crossed my desk as an editor I would write it off as a loss immediately.
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Die Laughing posted:the recoloring of Flex Mentallo Wait, what?
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Heresiarch posted:Wait, what? People are bitching about the recoloring even though the original creators signed off on it and are heavily praising it.
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You can see some examples here. Personally I prefer the old palette for most of the weird things, but the new palette does add a bit in the "real world" scenes.
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I've got mixed feelings about that, yeah. The new coloring is good, but the old coloring had a certain something to it.
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I prefer the new coloring in Killing Joke. 
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Rhyno posted:People are bitching about the recoloring even though the original creators signed off on it and are heavily praising it. Don't make me invoke George Lucas. Happy Hippo posted:I prefer the new coloring in Killing Joke. I'm sorry about your blindness.
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Baron Bifford posted:I also wonder why Deadshot would be incarcerated at Arkham. Deadshot started out as a Batman villain way back in the day. No idea if this is in continuity now, but he was initially imprisoned in Arkham and didn't become an assassin until after serving his term.
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Lurdiak posted:Don't make me invoke George Lucas. G-Mo and Quietly are a far cry from Lucas.
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Rhyno posted:G-Mo and Quietly are a far cry from Lucas. I was just making a point that authorial approval of changes doesn't mean they're necessary changes or good ones. It's an empty appeal to authority.
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Lurdiak posted:I was just making a point that authorial approval of changes doesn't mean they're necessary changes or good ones. It's an empty appeal to authority. But in this case the creators have no track record of creating horrible poo poo.
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:Deadshot started out as a Batman villain way back in the day. No idea if this is in continuity now, but he was initially imprisoned in Arkham and didn't become an assassin until after serving his term. Actually Deadshot went to normal people prison, and he broke out of there for his second appearance. Arkham Asylum wasn't even a thing when he first appeared.  Marshall Rogers/Terry Austin, Detective Comics #474
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