It makes me realise that I'm mostly art's bitch -- there's art bad enough that I won't stay long enough to see if the story's good

I am very much the same way. Nothing takes me out of a story faster than art that I don't like.

There's a distance I can make from art I don't like, but some art I have to grade as crap.

It took me a while to love Sienkiewicz, for instance. He used to be not my thing.

It's the difference between ignoring rules, and not getting them. I'm stunned by some of the art that gets published that's I figure has to be universally reviled.

Superman: Red Son is still easily available in stores, and I'd highly recommend it.

As to the art, I like it a bit more stylized than I think most people on this thread do, but I'm definitely more interested in how the words and art work together than in one or the other in comics.

I've been bouncing through the huge Elseworlds download. It makes me realise that I'm mostly art's bitch -- there's art bad enough that I won't stay long enough to see if the story's good

I think that was my problem with Grant Morrison's New X-Men. Everyone kept telling me how great the story was, but then I'd look at Quitely or Kordey's art and toss the book aside in disgust.

Admittedly I thought Morrison's story was also on crack, but I disliked the art. Which title was it that had Callisto's arms turned to tentacles? I thought Storm's characterisation was off in it, so it was no fun, but the art was even worse.

No one's done anything interesting with Storm in while, outside of Ultimate, where I think she's an excellent reimagining.

But back to art -- I have the Legends Of The Dark Knight Annual #4 up in another window, and it's about what I'd consider standard art. I'm not thinking any representation he does will be iconic, or make me weep for its beauty outside the context of the story. His characters don't look like I'm expecting them to look, but they're internally consistent, and I can tell them apart. His page layout is thought out beyond the "sequential boxes" stage, but not particularly interesting -- a floating head here and there, and some unbounded frames. Inking's darker than I like it -- I don't think you have to be big blobs of black to be Batman.

Or at least they should be interesting blobs of black -- even when I got tired of Sin City's story, I could marvel at the composition.

ita, who did the art on that?

(I'm too lazy to alt+tab and open it. This is sad.)

Also, because I am too lazy to go to the DC site, anyone recall of the top of their head who's coming in to do the art in NW 94, as 93 was Zircher's last issue?

Joe Staton did the pencils, PMM.

Danke.

Random squee-ing from somebody way late to the game...

Reading Batgirl: Year One for the first time. My thoughts: Babs is the hottest hottie ever to wear a mask, Babs/Dick is the OTP of the Batverse (they are snarky, smirking fun), and my gosh do I love this girl. Must read all Babs material Right Now.

Lovely chat with Devin Grayson here

And Mala -- welcome to the Babslove. t sigh