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[Messi]

Who isn't reading it? I thought everyone agreed it was amazing.

I'm not. Had to cut some books from my pull and it was the first to go. Might get the trades if it stays good.

 

[kswiston]

If I ever read Silver Surfer, it will be on Marvel Unlimited. Slott has a spotty batting average for me, and the sort of stuff I like out of Marvel Cosmic isn't the sort of stuff that Slott is suited for.

 

[TAJ]

Jeebus... How does that artist get work?

 

[Kipp]

Jeebus... How does that artist get work?

wait. what.

Edit: Couldn't decide on a most favorite page, so I settled for a random one I found on Google by him that I liked a lot:

 

[tim1138]

So yesterday it was hate on All Star Superman night and now it's hate on Chris Burnham?! I give up.

 

[Delta Assault]

wait. what.

Edit: Couldn't decide on a most favorite page, so I settled for a random one I found on Google by him that I liked a lot:

Not everybody enjoys Frank Quitely's art style.

Like this, right here?

Dude draws the two hottest women in X-Men and they end up looking like men.

 

[Kipp]

So yesterday it was hate on All Star Superman night and now it's hate on Chris Burnham?! I give up.

It's okay. If it helps even things out, I just received a copy of All Star Superman in the mail which I bought because I needed to own it even though I've read it through the library (and I've been craving a re-read). And I'm also going to buy Absolute Batman Incorporated the second it shows up on IST. So there. There is still some good in the world.

Edit: I've also really wanted to buy a piece of Burnham's original art for a while. This one from Elephantmen is tempting. Only $90 and pretty sweet: http://cadencecomicart.com/artwork/6614.jpg
(The rest of his original art for sale here if anyone wants to browse: http://cadencecomicart.com/artist.php?artist=16 )

Not everybody enjoys Frank Quitely's art style.

Like this, right here?

Dude draws the two hottest women in X-Men and they end up looking like men.

But he was hating on Chris Burnham, not Quitely. I mean, Burnham does semi-copy Quitely's style, but Burnham doesn't have the faces issue.

 

[kswiston]

So yesterday it was hate on All Star Superman night and now it's hate on Chris Burnham?! I give up.

You have been in COMICS-GAF too long to find that surprising. If we searched hard enough, we'd probably find someone here who hates Chris Samnee's art. I know someone was hating on David Aja a couple months back.

 

[BuddyJoeHooker]

Oh god the Ultimate X-Men art gets extremely terrible in the late teens for like two issues.

I just...stopped reading it. I couldn't handle it and skipped past it. Unreal.

You're talking about the Chris Bachalo issues aren't you...

...you've been spoiled by Adam Kubert.

Spoiler

That art is not terrible

 

[Delta Assault]

But he was hating on Chris Burnham, not Quitely. I mean, Burnham does semi-copy Quitely's style, but Burnham doesn't have the faces issue.

Oh, wow. My bad.

Ummm... I guess in my defense... Chris Burnham's art style is real similar to Frank Quitely's? lol

 

[AwayFromInfinityx]

(Asked this in the iOS appOT)

Can anyone recommended a good comic book app?. I know theirs marvel unlimited but is there one that has both Marvel and DC available as well?

 

[Kipp]

Oh, wow. My bad.

Ummm... I guess in my defense... Chris Burnham's art style is real similar to Frank Quitely's? lol

Haha. No problem. It definitely is very similar. Burnham said in an interview that Quitely is his biggest influence.

 

[FUBAR McDangles]

You're talking about the Chris Bachalo issues aren't you...

...you've been spoiled by Adam Kubert.

Spoiler

That art is not terrible

Yeah Bachalo. I thought they were brutal.

Xavier's kid looked like a total mess. That might have been the point but ew. And Colossus' proportions were all kinds of messed up and it was almost like that famous Captain America Liefeld picture. Ew.

Then it just went back to Kubert and I'm happy. I'll keep trucking.

 

[Serpentine]

Can you guess who my favorite character is?

Spoiler

stupid issue #3 of X-factor was out so no kitten comic cover

MY MAN

Jeebus... How does that artist get work?

NOT MY MAN

 

[BuddyJoeHooker]

Yeah Bachalo. I thought they were brutal.

Xavier's kid looked like a total mess. That might have been the point but ew. And Colossus' proportions were all kinds of messed up and it was almost like that famous Captain America Liefeld picture. Ew.

Then it just went back to Kubert and I'm happy. I'll keep trucking.

The reason I mention it is I went through the exact same thing when the issues were coming out XD

Bachalo's style has really grown on me since.

 

[FUBAR McDangles]

The reason I mention it is I went through the exact same thing when the issues were coming out XD

Bachalo's style has really grown on me since.

Haha I'm glad I'm not the only one.

Kinda sucks to see Iceman apparently leave the team (as a result of injury/lawsuit) but at least Kitty's with 'em now. So I get to see new characters, yay!

 

[kswiston]

The reason I mention it is I went through the exact same thing when the issues were coming out XD

Bachalo's style has really grown on me since.

If I remember correctly, Bachalo was experimenting with his style at the time, and it was even more rough/hectic than what he currently settled on. I remember not liking his stuff at the time as well, even though I liked his art before and after.

 

[Tragicomedy]

Haha. No problem. It definitely is very similar. Burnham said in an interview that Quitely is his biggest influence.

Yes, that artwork is terrible.

Food for thought: in picking your influences, steer clear from Potato Head Man. I know GAF loves Quietly, but he's hot garbage. The single most overrated artist in comics today.

 

[KoruptData]

Just read Futures End and I was leaning towards not getting it before reading it, I came out impressed and will read it digitally on my phone. Don't need two weeklies cluttering the home.

 

[kswiston]

Yes, that artwork is terrible.

Food for thought: in picking your influences, steer clear from Potato Head Man. I know GAF loves Quietly, but he's hot garbage. The single most overrated artist in comics today.

What guys like Quietly, Burnham, and Pitarra lack in beautiful faces, they make up in composition, story-telling, and creativity.

 

[Tragicomedy]

What guys like Quietly, Burnham, and Pitarra lack in beautiful faces, they make up in composition, story-telling, and creativity.

I'll stick with artists who do all that and know how to draw a human face.

 

[Delta Assault]

Yes, that artwork is terrible.

Food for thought: in picking your influences, steer clear from Potato Head Man. I know GAF loves Quietly, but he's hot garbage. The single most overrated artist in comics today.

I think he's just on a mission to make everybody in comics look like Jay Leno.

 

[Tragicomedy]

I think he's just on a mission to make everybody in comics look like Jay Leno.

Mission accomplished! Inexcusably awful.

People who say "He can't draw faces, but..." miss the point. The face is the focal point and our eyes are drawn towards it. That happens in real life and it happens in comics. The face is what conveys feelings and emotions, and allows you to connect with a character, to understand their actions and intentions, and lets a reader relate to what they're seeing.

Lumpy, expressionless garbage conveys none of that. Quitely can't draw the most important part of the human body, so it's irrelevant if he can draw the rest.

 

[ElNarez]

what the fuck am I reading

are you for real

 

[Tragicomedy]

what the fuck am I reading

are you for real

Yes. I think Frank Quitely is a very terrible artist.

Does this opinion surprise you?

 

[KoruptData]

 

[ElNarez]

Yes. I think Frank Quitely is a very terrible artist.

Does this opinion surprise you?

if this opinion was any stupider it'd be in a CBR review

 

[Filthy Slug]

Second night in a row awful opinions are runnin' rampant.

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

A hahahahahahaha omfgggg

Not one person who loves Quitely has ever said "He can't draw faces but..." hahahahahahaha what fucking planet is this

Dude is the only artist in history, literally, who visually distinguished between Clark Kent and Superman how can you so that if you can't draw faces this is an episode of Cosmos right, someone's going to tell a story about Grant Morrison driving them to a Cornell bus station right

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

Yes. I think Frank Quitely is a very terrible artist.

Does this opinion surprise you?

Ohhhhhh I understand. We're talking about "Worst Artisit" not worst artist.

That's true.

Frank Quitely is a terrible artisit. One of the worst. He draws faces that look like popapoes.

 

[Delta Assault]

Ohhhhhh I understand. We're talking about "Worst Artisit" not worst artist.

That's true.

Frank Quitely is a terrible artisit. One of the worst. He draws faces that look like popapoes.

Seriously?

This is an awful defense.

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

Seriously?

This is an awful defense.

Come on man it was a whole message board thread about "Worst Artisit" in big red letters that is AMAZING.

Also, I laid out an infallible defense in the previous post. His Clark Kent settles every argument against his work, full stop.

 

[Filthy Slug]

Yes. I think Frank Quitely is a very terrible artist.

Does this opinion surprise you?

Oh, you're using an ign thread to bolster those meaningless words. Word.

 

[BuddyJoeHooker]

Yes. I think Frank Quitely is a very terrible artist.

Does this opinion surprise you?

SMH at this, one of these links even include a quote from Cameron Stewart

Sure, and Jack Kirby drew weird knees. There's a lot more going on in Quitely's work than the surface rendering. "His people are ugly" is the most frequent negative complaint I see about his work and it's also - forgive me - the most shallow. Quitely's work is utterly fascinating to me because he has an almost unparalleled ability to create a sense of life in his drawings - from his meticulous design and creation of environments that always evoke the sense that there is a thriving, living world that continues beyond the panel borders, through to the subtle gesture and expressive body language of his characters that make them feel sincere and human rather than posed mannequins. I marvel at his dramatic compositions, at his economy of storytelling and mastery of pacing and continuity, and at his ability to use the comics form in clever, inventive ways that haven't been seen or attempted since Eisner (We3 had some startlingly inventive and revolutionary page structures and should have been a wake-up call to comic artists, and sadly it remains unchallenged). And he manages to do all this with a drawing style that is uniquely, idiosyncratically his own.

I'll take that over "pretty" faces any day.

 

[KoruptData]

I'll bring it back to normal ComicGAF. It's Sunday list time!

My BuyList via Comics Day App

BATMAN ETERNAL #5 $2.99
DETECTIVE COMICS #31 $3.99
GREEN ARROW #31 $2.99
NEW 52 FUTURES END #1 $2.99
WAKE #8 (MR) $2.99
ALEX + ADA #6 $2.99
FATALE #22 (MR) $3.50
RAT QUEENS #6 (MR) $3.50
REVIVAL #20 (MR) $2.99
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1.1 ANMN $3.99
BLACK WIDOW #6 $3.99
MILES MORALES ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #1 $3.99
MOON KNIGHT #3 ANMN $3.99
ORIGINAL SIN #1 $4.99
WOODS #1 MAIN CVRS $3.99 Already have

Also thought Afterlife with Archie was out but didn't see it on the list.

 

[Tragicomedy]

So zero actual defense of Quitely's work, and instead critique of random links I put together to show that this isn't an uncommon opinion?

Brilliant work.

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

So zero actual defense of Quitely's work, and instead critique of random links I put together to show that this isn't an uncommon opinion?

Brilliant work.

Didn't read my first post, huh. I don't blame you, it nullifies all your arguments. But here you go, with a visual accompaniment:

Frank Quitely: The Man Who Can Only Draw One Face

 

[ElNarez]

All I'm saying on the matter is shit, look at your face in the mirror, and tell me you don't see a lumpy bag of potato-shaped muscles with grainy skin on top. I mean, Quitely's art has a pretty strong naturalistic bent, and to go back to the picture that started it, Burnham's taking that naturalism core of Quitely and puts it through the lens of pop-art. Both are fucking godlike.

ANYWAYS LIST:

Astro City #12
Batman Eternal #5
Batman Superman #10
Detective Comics #31
New 52 Future's End #1
Swamp Thing #31
The Wake #8

Satellite Sam #8

Black Widow #6
Cyclops #1
Iron Fist The Living Weapon #2
Loki Agent of Asgard #4
Magneto #3
Miracleman #5
Moon Knight #3
Original Sin #1
Punisher #5
She-Hulk #4

 

[tringworldso]

Burnham and Quitley (more so Quitley, Burnham draws great faces except for Damian) draw weird faces faces but their anatomy, sense of movement, panel composition, detailing is top-tier.

They are some of the few artists who don't make it seem as if the costume has been spray painted over a character's body. You can actually feel that there is fabric/armour covering the body.

 

[Delta Assault]

Didn't read my first post, huh. I don't blame you, it nullifies all your arguments. But here you go, with a visual accompaniment:

Frank Quitely: The Man Who Can Only Draw One Face

This is true, Frank Quitely is an incredibly talented artist with transformative abilities. His talents are epic in their scope and open up a whole plethora of artistic dimensions and possibilities.

He can mold whatever character he's given into anything he wants. He can even transform Emma Frost into an ugly, lumpy asian woman.

 

[Tragicomedy]

Didn't read my first post, huh. I don't blame you, it nullifies all your arguments. But here you go, with a visual accompaniment:

Frank Quitely: The Man Who Can Only Draw One Face

Both those faces are awful.

 

[Cheska]

Fuck Yeah Rat Queens List!

BATMAN ETERNAL #5
DETECTIVE COMICS #31
GREEN ARROW #31
HINTERKIND #7
WAKE #8

RAT QUEENS #6
BLACK WIDOW #6
CYCLOPS #1
IRON FIST LIVING WEAPON #2
LOKI AGENT OF ASGARD #4
MOON KNIGHT #3
SHE-HULK #4

VEIL #3


My wallet is going to hate me ;_;

 

[Filthy Slug]

Fuck Yeah Rat Queens List!

BATMAN ETERNAL #5
DETECTIVE COMICS #31
GREEN ARROW #31
HINTERKIND #7
WAKE #8

RAT QUEENS #6
BLACK WIDOW #6
CYCLOPS #1
IRON FIST LIVING WEAPON #2
LOKI AGENT OF ASGARD #4
MOON KNIGHT #3
SHE-HULK #4

VEIL #3


My wallet is going to hate me ;_;

I am super jacked up about Iron Fist, She Hulk, and Moon Knight. Also, to be fair, your wallet probably hates you more for those 300 dollar statues!

 

[frye]

The cold sneers of Emma Frost and Lex Luthor, the warmth of Superman, and Wolverine as the impossibly greasy and sleazy porn star he was always meant to be are all perfect.

 

[TheKaeptain]

oh god Quitely hate...


I'm out.

 

[Mac the KNife]

Didn't read my first post, huh. I don't blame you, it nullifies all your arguments. But here you go, with a visual accompaniment:

Frank Quitely: The Man Who Can Only Draw One Face

I ain't even mad at the Quitely haters. I feel sorry for them. The devil's in the details.

 

[slightconfuse]

what is a bout late night that brongs out wrong opinions. the only bad thing about Quietly is he chose to work with Mark Millar

 

[Wazzy]

MY MAN

NOT MY MAN

Ohhhhh are you following the Gambit series?

I'm enjoying it a lot more than his previous one.

Also X-factor run is pretty good but I'm only on issue #2.

 

[GrandHarrier]

My wallet is going to hate me ;_;

When you consider that your Sideshow Collectibles monthly bill must be around $300 dollars or something at this point it's hard to be sympathetic for your weekly comic pull cost, Cheska.

Just read Futures End and I was leaning towards not getting it before reading it, I came out impressed and will read it digitally on my phone. Don't need two weeklies cluttering the home.

Is this just a way of hiding the fact that you're pulling another four comics from the wife bro?

 

[Serpentine]

Oh, you're using an ign thread to bolster those meaningless words. Word.

tweet from 2009 tho

Ohhhhh are you following the Gambit series?

I'm enjoying it a lot more than his previous one.

Also X-factor run is pretty good but I'm only on issue #2.

I didn't follow it much though i plan on getting the trades eventually BUT what i mean is that Gambit fans aren't too common around these parts, and i am one. I dunno why but i like 'im!