'Potential'
Discussion of Buffy and Angel comics, books, and more. Please don't get into spoilery details in the first week of release.
I thought the Wolverine/Havok was someone else doing a big-time Bill S. forgery? Is that the four issue thing, or was there something else?
If you're talking about Meltdown, JJ Muth is not doing a forgery. Maybe an homage, maybe. But he's painted like that a while.
eta: I hated Steadman for a long time (he still distresses me), so my Sienkiewicz love surprises me.
If you're talking about Meltdown, JJ Muth is not doing a forgery. Maybe an homage, maybe. But he's painted like that a while.
Yeah, that was snarkier than intended, and "imitation Bill S." wouldn't have been any better. It was just how I felt about it at the time (not knowing Muth's prior work), though I thought the series itself was quite enjoyable. I'd just become a Bill S. fan, so that had a lot to do with it.
Yeah, maybe it was Meltdown. I guess that wasn't Bill S. It's all running together in my head, and now I'm trying to find confirmation, by checking credits.
I have to say, Bill S's personal web site? While gorgeous, it's NO HELP AT ALL.
I hated Steadman for a long time (he still distresses me)
I think this is an entirely valid response, as I think distress is one of the emotions he's trying to conjure.
I don't remember what got me into Muth -- Moonshadow, maybe? I love his use of unpainted paper. I adore his work.
Still have to find a copy of Moonshadow. I've never read it, and only heard incredibly good things about it. This gap in my comics reading saddens me.
It was seriously unfair of me, now that I think about it, because Dave McKean was drinking from the same well (down to using collages), and I never thought of him as imitation anyone.
Lady Door wasn't so trollopy looking in the book, was she?
Gah! No, no she wasn't. She's supposed to look like she went on a midnight raid through the V&A Museum's Fashion section, and then threw a brown leather jacket over it all.
Sienkiewicz won me over with that first demon bear story about Dani where the art was halfway realistic, and then I was too caught up in the story to quit as his art got increasingly grotesque.
Lady Door wasn't so trollopy looking in the book, was she?
It's been ages since I read Neverwhere, but ack. That so does not fit my mental image of her.