muscles like this? posted:

While I like Paul Pope in general he has this problem where characters he draws end up kind of... ugly. Not poorly drawn but just kind of ugly in general.

Zachack posted:

Cefte posted:

I've always felt that his characters often come across as very deliberately imperfect.

I like to think of them as images of people in motion, where things are slightly out of place because that's how the human body is. Almost like an anti-Ross.

Matt Cruea posted:

My favorite comic artists are dead.

Geekboy posted:

How dare he draw in a stylized manner!

Like him or don't, but this hyperbole of "I can do better despite never having drawn before" is ridiculous.

Endless Mike posted:

You could change Ramos to Kirby here and it would be just as accurate.

JackDarko posted:

Exactly all you are referring to is his drat style not the storytelling. You don't like his anatomy so he's a bad artist.

StumblyWumbly posted:

The elongated neck actually does help show the relationship between Spiderman and Dr Oct. It helps show Spiderman as taller but more slender and fragile, conveying someone more powerful but who can still be taken down, while Ock is small and blocky, like a pitbull.

Compare that with someone who really doesn't have any skill, like Land, and the difference is really clear.

Lurdiak posted:

Heresiarch is apparently more patient than the rest of us, or more stubborn.

Pablo Gigante posted:

I don't think that page is good storytelling because the perspective and depth is all messed up and changes between panels. In the second panel it looks like Spidey is backed up directly against whatever's behind him, but in every other panel there's a lot of space. Also the ground in the last panel looks really weird and flat, or like they're standing on a log or something.

Baron Bifford posted:

How is Liefeld as a writer?

FMguru posted:

Die Laughing posted:

the recoloring of Flex Mentallo

HorseHeadBed posted:

I don't read a lot of comics, but the art in the Avengers vs X-Men #2 seemed egregiously horrible. The two teams facing off should be a BIG MOMENT, but they all look so strange that I just felt embarrassed for them all.

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Windsor-Smith also provided the art for a number of other Marvel Comics titles, including the Ka-Zar stories in Astonishing Tales #3–6 (December 1970 – June 1971) and No. 10 (February 1972),[12] three further issues of The Avengers (#98–100, April–June 1972)[13] – about which he would later remember the nightmare of drawing "all those bloody characters that I didn't give tuppence about",[3]

GrandpaPants posted:

Having just recently read Lord of Light, that is not at all how I pictured any of the characters Was I not doing enough acid while I was reading?

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Despite his tall from favor, Yama was still deemed mightiest of the artificers, though it was not doubted that the Gods of the City would have him to die the real death were they to learn of the pray-machine. For that matter, though, it was not doubted that they would have him to die the real death without the excuse of the pray-machine, also, were he to come into their custody. How he would settle this matter with the Lords of Karma was his own affair, though none doubted that when the time came he would find a way. He was half as old as the Celestial City itself, and not more than ten of the gods remembered the founding of that abode. He was known to be wiser even than the Lord Kubera in the ways of the Universal Fire. But these were his lesser Attributes. He was best known for another thing, though few men spoke of it. Tall, but not overly so; big, but not heavy; his movements, slow and fluent. He wore red and spoke little.