Chocolate Teapot posted:

The difference is that Meredith Gran (and most of the side story artists) knows how to frame a comic book, whilst Ryan North doesn't. Here's an obsessively set of examples from a single issue of the main series:


Over the course of three pages, PB announces that she has a "Time Machine" three times; firstly with a play on words which needs additional dialogue to explain the joke, secondly with a proper magic device but to nobody in particular, and thirdly she shows that to F&J on another page, because she was announcing it to nobody, and now it's using a shitload more words to do the exact same thing. It's redundant as gently caress, and doesn't flow like a comic should.


Meanwhile, in the space of just three panels, Anthony Clark (Nedroid) does the same sort of joke but infinitely better, using comic framing and space, because that's how comic books are supposed to work.

EDIT: images are from Adventure Time #6

Gavok posted:

That was actually from the Avatar miniseries Nightmare on Elm Street: Paranoid. It's a story that doesn't exactly make much sense (but then again, little of the franchise does). The Avatar books play up the status quo from Freddy vs. Jason. Everything with Freddy is under wraps and anyone who talks about him is taken away. In the movie, it worked because Freddy couldn't do anything if nobody knew or feared him, so he had to trick Jason into causing some terror. Freddy actually had stakes for once. In the comic, he's more than capable of killing kids in their sleep. So what's the point?

Anyway, to get back on topic, the art in the book is kind of hilarious. It's Avatar, so it means blood all over the place and ugly drawings that are supposed to be super sexy. But what I love is that the artist apparently decided to not really read the script.



No. No, she really doesn't.





That's a nice shotgun you have there.

prefect posted:

Wasn't Speed Demon a Spider-Man villain?

zoux posted:

That's purestrain Morrison buddy.

prefect posted:

He can do cartwheels so that he kinda looks like a hockey puck. Get it, "Puck"? Because they're Canadian, you see.

The ability to actually transform into a chunk of vulcanized rubber would be too much on-the-nose, though.

Gaz-L posted:

The demon part is supposed to make the name more a Shakespeare thing than 'lol canada amirite', I think.

A Strange Aeon posted:

It's really sort of a weird setup--they show you the GI Joe guy putting scorpions in the first aid kit, I guess because he collects them or something. A bit of obvious foreshadowing, but it delivers pretty well!

Lurdiak posted:

That's easily a bottom 5 Avengers story.

Lurdiak posted:

The only reason that story exists is so Captain Marvel (the good one, not Carol) wouldn't be team leader anymore.

David D. Davidson posted:

So did all that actually happen or is he just loving with them?

Lurdiak posted:

Section Z posted:

They are complaining she doesn't have her face makeup anymore, right?

Infinitum posted:

Noted

Vulpes Vulpes posted:

Had to track this down and read it, if only for Baseball Taskmaster, and kind of adore this weird little 2-issue mini. It's so smug.

Vulpes Vulpes posted:

I don't think I've read any other Huston, how is his Moon Knight?

Open Marriage Night posted:

Was that the run with David Finch? I’m hot and cold on Finch, but those Moon Knight covers were bad rear end.