The Take Out Bandit
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yeah but i think Jim Lee's art style is bad too
I know these are just images, but he should be able to make the characters come to life and move around the panels. Everybody looks like they're standing still. Everybody has the same body type. There's always these useless hatching lines everywhere that don't communicate anything to me except confusion.
I give Quitely shit, but he knows how to use a character's body language to an advantage instead of letting speech bubbles say it all for him. I don't get that with Jim Lee.
He's toned down the lines quite a bit. Thankfully that trend is gone. The complaint about his characters being stiff is still valid though. He was miles better than his contemporaries when it came to anatomy and composition though which I think is why he was so popular. He could do the crazy Liefeld/McFarlane style and have it make some kind of sense.
I consider Lee a slick John Romita Jr.
JRjr calls his "style" a deadline style.
Lee is very similar, only he doesn't hit deadlines as easily; but he has the same shapes and forms repeated over and over.
My buddy was over here jizzing about Lee's Wonder Woman in JLA and I just don't see it. She looks like every other Jim Lee woman.