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Cashmere - Jul 09, 2008 4:30:07 pm PDT #1693 of 5059

Now tagless for your comfort.

Finally got my copy of last week's Buffy. The art is ass.

The story is good, the dialog is good, the pacing is good. The art...just...gah. WTF?

Also picked up The Umbrella Academy, Volume 2 of Lone Wolf and Cub's new pocket sized set--very handy and portable.

Diamond apparently made a mistake and shipped some stuff out early (I think it was just Ultimate Origins and Trinity for me). My comic book dude said I couldn't have them because of "street dates" and he was too afraid of Diamond to let them out of the store.

Polter-Cow - Jul 09, 2008 4:32:35 pm PDT #1694 of 5059

What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Finally got my copy of last week's Buffy. The art is ass.

See, I always think the art is ass, so I didn't really notice a difference.

Cashmere - Jul 09, 2008 4:37:16 pm PDT #1695 of 5059

Now tagless for your comfort.

Up until now, I've thought the art's been mostly decent. in this issue some of the faces in some of the panels--and I mean Willow and Buffy (hello!) just sucked so bad, I winced. Actually winced.

sumi - Jul 09, 2008 6:17:40 pm PDT #1696 of 5059

Art Crawl!!!

Great. I thought that they had been doing better. I gather that we've had a change in artist?

Frankenbuddha - Jul 10, 2008 3:11:40 am PDT #1697 of 5059

"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

See, I always think the art is ass, so I didn't really notice a difference.

P-C is me, and even this issue is nowhere near as bad as the Angel:ATF art (at leasts the main artist - I've liked some of the one-shot bits, like Lorne's Day One, or the dream bit at the beginning of the latest).

I gather that we've had a change in artist?

Yes. Isn't it the artist who did Fray?

Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 10, 2008 6:08:22 am PDT #1698 of 5059

"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

So in addition to the art sucking, we can expect a six month delay until the next issue?

Glamcookie - Jul 10, 2008 7:57:39 am PDT #1699 of 5059

I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

Isn't it the artist who did Fray?

Yes, Karl Moline. His art was great in Fray. I don't know what happened.

Pete, Husband of Jilli - Jul 10, 2008 8:05:22 am PDT #1700 of 5059

"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd

Thing is, peeps, comic artists rarely have a lot of time per page, unless they're a big name and the project will wait for them.

Add to that the extra workload of attempting likenesses many times per page (a herculean feat) and it's no surprise that the art just can't match expectations.

Of course, there are also just plain bad artists, but that's another story.

SailAweigh - Jul 10, 2008 8:10:42 am PDT #1701 of 5059

Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

Plus, with Fray he was drawing all original characters. There was no need to try and make anyone look like an actual, existing person. Let's hope that he can pick that up quick, it makes my brain hurty to try and decode who is who.

Cashmere - Jul 10, 2008 8:32:07 am PDT #1702 of 5059

Now tagless for your comfort.

I liked his work on Fray and I think the job of drawing established characters is just much more difficult.

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