Wall of pics incoming. I have to get this off of my chest.
I was excited to start reading Daredevil by Waid. I was ready to read some lighthearted DD stuff. So a while back I read the first OHC. The main artist was Paolo Rivera. I did NOT like the art (well, to be fair, it occasionally had some great looking full page and double page spreads). I came to the realization that the coloring does not work. There's this use of gradient airbrush shading on the characters and very occasionally on environmental objects that CLASH with the otherwise flat coloring and simple linework.
Here's what it looked like:
At some point I realized that this was the same artist who drew The Valiant, a book that I remember loving the art in! I went back to it, and look how much better it looks:
The coloring suits the art style. There's an artists who doesn't bother with tons of fine details, so the coloring/shading should also look "simplistic".
Well, anyway, I was really excited to get into the Samnee issues. I've seen some of his work and it was amazing. I love his style.
Imagine my disappointment when I got to his stuff in the second OHC and it seems to be using that same colorist that Rivera had in HIS DD issues!
Still looks nice, but that crazy airbrush shading plastered all over their faces. Clashing with the rest. LUCKILY, whether suddenly there was a new colorist or the existing colorist realized that style wasn't working, it changes to the Samnee-style art I'm accustomed to after a few issues.
That's better.
This is all subjective to an extent of course, but I didn't think the airbrush shading worked AT ALL.