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COMICS! |OT| May 2015. Those things your favorite movie/show/game/etc. was based on.
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ViewtifulJC
Banned
hold up, still lookin over your trash posts where you ask a bunch of dumbass dudes to pick Greg Capullo over Jack Kirby to validate your taste
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
Liking popular writers gets boring. Sometimes you gotta find your niche with a........special writer.
I can't until I catch up on Avengers and New Avengers. I going quickly though. Did you?
Baron von Loathsome
Member
OT, obviously.
KoruptData
Member
hold up, still lookin over your trash posts where you ask a bunch of dumbass dudes to pick Greg Capullo over Jack Kirby to validate your taste
Never said that. Now imagine Kirbys pencils with today's colors. Today's lighting.
I guess I don't really understand what that thought experiment is supposed to show. Like, yeah there are amazing artists today and a lot of those artists I would take over guys who worked 30 years ago. But also there are a lot of guys 30 years ago I would take over guys working now. Hell, in terms of the Average Monthly Superhero Comic I'd probably prefer a random sampling from the 80s than a random sampling off the racks today.
Yeah. It's probably the most Secret Warsy tie-in Book out right now.
Like you could have renamed it Secret Wars 2.5 and it wouldn't be wrong.
G-Man was fantastic and it really sets up a lot of stuff for the potential of a lot of Battleworld as a whole rather than a self contained story that uses Battleworld as a platform.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Schweinehund
Member
I agree I find it hard to read most Silver Age era and before. There are of course, exceptions.
Serpentine
Banned
lmao did the first page get left out in the sun or some shit
Yeah, I really can't co-sign this at all. So Dean White, right? One of the great modern colourists -- him and Jerome Opena > * etc etc. He 's done a few recolours of Kirby and Ditko's stuff in the Masterworks collections and I really don't think it's an improvement at all even though the original colours aren't particularly amazing either.
Filthy Slug
Crowd screaming like hounds at the heat of the chase/ All the colors of the rainbow flood my face
The second example looks like Flex Mentallo's recoloring job.
KoruptData
Member
Lol, I have shit taste to you then because I prefer the rework.
GrandHarrier
Member
Most things get better with time.
Everyone hates that one but I kind of don't mind it tbh
Filthy Slug
Crowd screaming like hounds at the heat of the chase/ All the colors of the rainbow flood my face
Yes, like porn.
Oh, man, I totally feel you on that. I was just saying the way grays and buildings and stuff looks reminds me instantly of Flex. And yeah, I'm completely cool with Flex's recoloring, even if the dude with the lamb kebab brain lost some of his color.
And warts
Poodlestrike
Banned
This is my big gripe with older material. They read like radio dramas.
Also, I can't shake the sense that a lot of the reason oldschool comics are colored the way they are is because of the limitations of the printing process way back then.
Hey look. It's a fight I didn't cause.
Or maybe you're just not far along enough in your timeline to realize that you actually did.
Filthy Slug
Crowd screaming like hounds at the heat of the chase/ All the colors of the rainbow flood my face
I just think this is a passionate argument, and ain't nothing wrong with that.
Tyrant Rave
Banned
All I know is that Hollingsworth >>>>>> *
Rafa=FedKilla
Banned
They'll, chance your life brah. Add them to your next dcbs order.
Filthy Slug
Crowd screaming like hounds at the heat of the chase/ All the colors of the rainbow flood my face
Well yeah, 'cause he takes a year per issue.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
and talking about comics instead of the usual bullshit that goes on during the weekend
still tho
:rudy:
Yeah there are a definitely a lot things lost (rip colourful Mentallium Man) but it's not all bad!
KoruptData
Member
It all came from me actually reading a comic and talking about it.
let's never do it again.
Baron von Loathsome
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Filthy Slug
Crowd screaming like hounds at the heat of the chase/ All the colors of the rainbow flood my face
The Flex example Frye and I are talking about:
It's interesting that the decision was to remove all of the vibrancy and psychadellicness from the scene to make way for a more classic Collusus looking dude.
I still think the new Flex looks pretty great, though, but I'd love to read more about why certain recoloring decisions were made.
It's interesting that the decision was to remove all of the vibrancy and psychadellicness from the scene to make way for a more classic Collusus looking dude.
I still think the new Flex looks pretty great, though, but I'd love to read more about why certain recoloring decisions were made.
my name is ed
Banned
Hmm I'd say traditional colorists were more limited in how they could fuck up. I prefer digital colorists. The growing pains were so bad though. Those late 90s comics.... blergh. but now we have colorists like Dean White and Laura Martin!
GrandHarrier
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Sibersk Esto
Banned
Why did they remove the shadow on Flex's back? Did they want to say there was no light source?
Storm Chamber
Banned
Can't co-sign the new one.
Filthy Slug
Crowd screaming like hounds at the heat of the chase/ All the colors of the rainbow flood my face
To be fair, that is the most egregious thing in there, I feel. There are still plenty of really gorgeous pages throughout.
I wish I could get hyped about whoever the hell the artists and writers were that they had working on Convergence, but the reality is that I'm a fucking noob who legitimately couldn't tell you who any of those people were. I think I knew Rucka and that was it for the whole event.
There was like a 5 year period from like 2007/8 where Marvel had basically every good colourist as an exclusive except Dave Stewart. I have no idea how true it is but it feels like it wasn't until then that digital colouring got its shit mostly together
Yeah it feels unnecessary to change it. Even in the case of the killing joke recolors where the new coloring is actually what the artist had in mind originally it still feels wrong.
Serpentine
Banned
I read it and didn't care for it. Come at me m8
Baron von Loathsome
Member
At least I recognized the name Marv Wolfman.
Tyrant Rave
Banned
Doc Shaner on Shazam was awesome
my name is ed
Banned
Yeah I remember that. They were definitely first between them and DC to value colorists as much as they should. I think one thing to keep in mind is that most recolored pages aren't gonna look great because older artstyles and inking techniques were done with the knowledge of what coloring at the time was capable of. Art styles change as reproduction has changed. As does coloring and inking.
I think recolores pages tend to look off for the most part because they make one element of the art look out of time.
Serpentine
Banned
That but also I think I just don't like the Dodsonsjeff lemire superhero comics
BossDarkseid
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A bit meh but....
COMICS! I OT I June 2015 The Secret Wars of Comic Gaf
COMICS! I OT I June 2015 The Secret Wars of Comic Gaf
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