Originally posted by: greencapt
From what I browsed on the racks the other day I was pleased to see the return of what I consider a much better caliber of comic art. I think I mentioned elsewhere that I really think the trend of huge panels with single character poses and no background detail except a wash of computer generated color is well past its time. One of the reasons I stopped enjoying comics as much was the rise of the unskilled, stylized artists. I think this really began with the start of Image Comics- it seemed that other than Jim Lee all the artist/creators thought "Screw those publishers and editors making me drawbackgrounds! I'll do 'convention sketches' and pass them off as sequential art!". Even Jim Lee at the time took to putting in superfluous lines to make his art seem detailed. Eventually he got back to his roots though which is good.
George Perez is someone I long consider to be the pinnacle of comic art. His work is comic-booky yet realistic and detailed. He has a knack for bringing out emotion in character's faces and body language. I'm glad he's a part of the current 'Crisis' and that the others involved seem to be following his lead.
Originally posted by: JediSage
OK, Just finished Infinite Crisis #2. I have to say, I'm very, very impressed so far. The art is fantastic...like nothing I've ever seen except for maybe Dark Knight Returns. The paper quality is great (I think that gets overlooked), and the story so far is excellent. I like where they're going with Kal-L and Power Girl. Very cool. Quite glad I read COIE again...
OK, Just finished Infinite Crisis #2. I have to say, I'm very, very impressed so far. The art is fantastic...like nothing I've ever seen except for maybe Dark Knight Returns. The paper quality is great (I think that gets overlooked), and the story so far is excellent. I like where they're going with Kal-L and Power Girl. Very cool. Quite glad I read COIE again...
From what I browsed on the racks the other day I was pleased to see the return of what I consider a much better caliber of comic art. I think I mentioned elsewhere that I really think the trend of huge panels with single character poses and no background detail except a wash of computer generated color is well past its time. One of the reasons I stopped enjoying comics as much was the rise of the unskilled, stylized artists. I think this really began with the start of Image Comics- it seemed that other than Jim Lee all the artist/creators thought "Screw those publishers and editors making me drawbackgrounds! I'll do 'convention sketches' and pass them off as sequential art!". Even Jim Lee at the time took to putting in superfluous lines to make his art seem detailed. Eventually he got back to his roots though which is good.
George Perez is someone I long consider to be the pinnacle of comic art. His work is comic-booky yet realistic and detailed. He has a knack for bringing out emotion in character's faces and body language. I'm glad he's a part of the current 'Crisis' and that the others involved seem to be following his lead.
Agreed. I've always considered myself kind of a "minmalist" in many ways, but I want to see detail in my comics (I'm a huge Frank Miller fan, who is utilitarian and detailed at the same time, IMO). The close-ups of the heroes with bodies like tree-trunks is getting old. I'm enjoying Justice, which I think is beautifully done, however IMO they're doing the same thing. Relying on close-ups with little to no background detail. It all seems to stem from a desire to scrunch as many panels on a page as possible. I think Miller and Lee's current All-Star Batman is getting better in terms of art (God knows it's not the story or dialogue), with IC being a huge step forward. I'm also enjoying Perez's covers (picked up all the variants so far).
Do you know if Wolfman is going to be involved with IC at all?