Something I noticed in this week's GØDLAND and other things that may or may not be of note to you.
Since his art is expressly designed to evoke Kirby, I was really surprised by the stylistic changes in Tom Scioli's work featured in the latest GØDLAND. I really love the thick lines around the character's bodies and the use of finer lines in the faces and shadows. It still brings a lot of the blockiness and energy that Kirby's work had to the table while giving Scioli a more distinct look. The panels below compare his version of General Briggs in two recent issues.
I love watching artists evolve on the fly like this.
Let's say you walked up to me and said "Hey, Kevin, how good was that Giant Sized Marvel Adventures Avengers?"
I would respond with "Really, really good. You should buy it. Yeah, the Golden Age comics in the back include material from the recent Agents of Atlas hardcover, but the story is probably Parker's best yet on the title, and Leonard Kirk's art is always nice to look at."
If this was at the comic shop, I'd have placed a copy in your hand already.
Yeah, Cover Girl still has that typo on the cover, but man, I absolutely love Mateus's art on the inside. If I ever get around to finishing the full pitch on the next and if Ross says he'll publish it and if Mateus doesn't hate me at this point, I'd love to work with him again.
There's three "if"s, surely providing enough vagueness, but I wanted to put that out there anyway.
I feel like a heel for not telling Rick Veitch how much I enjoy Army@Love when I chatted with him at MoCCAFest. If you're reading this and know Rick Veitch, please tell him I very much enjoy Army@Love. For some reason, it wasn't until the latest issue that I came up with the perfect Hollywood Pitch version of the title's premise: "Desperate Housewives meets Wag The Dog, but good!"
I think I should have just waited for the eventual Repo collection. Spears and G work much better for me in longform.
I think I ruptured something trying to pick up the Madman Gargantua and the Dark Horse Casper collection simultaneously. The former is just huge and the latter uses some fantastic, heavy paper that's sure to endure for quite some time. The Casper trade also has great black and white reproduction, along with a second of pages done with the original colors and page tone intact, much like the public-domain work reproduced in The Comics Journal.
Super-Villain Team-Up: MODOK's 11 reads like the first 20 minutes of the movie. That's just fine because, hey, MODOK. It's nice seeing some of the Marvel Z-listers get some spotlights; I'd completely forgotten that Puma existed. Van Lente's dialogue is always a bit of a treat - never too stylized, but very individual and while I don't think I've ever read a comic drawn by Francis Portela before (I see he's done Black Panther, a comic I can't bear to read in its current incarnation,) I'm now going to actively check out his work in the future, especially if Pallot's on inks.
Wow, there are a lot of little horizontal lines in this post.
No, I didn't read World War Hulk #2 yet. Maybe this weekend at the shop. I'm pretty sure it features Hulk wailing on people for page after page.
I love watching artists evolve on the fly like this.
Let's say you walked up to me and said "Hey, Kevin, how good was that Giant Sized Marvel Adventures Avengers?"
I would respond with "Really, really good. You should buy it. Yeah, the Golden Age comics in the back include material from the recent Agents of Atlas hardcover, but the story is probably Parker's best yet on the title, and Leonard Kirk's art is always nice to look at."
If this was at the comic shop, I'd have placed a copy in your hand already.
Yeah, Cover Girl still has that typo on the cover, but man, I absolutely love Mateus's art on the inside. If I ever get around to finishing the full pitch on the next and if Ross says he'll publish it and if Mateus doesn't hate me at this point, I'd love to work with him again.
There's three "if"s, surely providing enough vagueness, but I wanted to put that out there anyway.
I feel like a heel for not telling Rick Veitch how much I enjoy Army@Love when I chatted with him at MoCCAFest. If you're reading this and know Rick Veitch, please tell him I very much enjoy Army@Love. For some reason, it wasn't until the latest issue that I came up with the perfect Hollywood Pitch version of the title's premise: "Desperate Housewives meets Wag The Dog, but good!"
I think I should have just waited for the eventual Repo collection. Spears and G work much better for me in longform.
I think I ruptured something trying to pick up the Madman Gargantua and the Dark Horse Casper collection simultaneously. The former is just huge and the latter uses some fantastic, heavy paper that's sure to endure for quite some time. The Casper trade also has great black and white reproduction, along with a second of pages done with the original colors and page tone intact, much like the public-domain work reproduced in The Comics Journal.
Super-Villain Team-Up: MODOK's 11 reads like the first 20 minutes of the movie. That's just fine because, hey, MODOK. It's nice seeing some of the Marvel Z-listers get some spotlights; I'd completely forgotten that Puma existed. Van Lente's dialogue is always a bit of a treat - never too stylized, but very individual and while I don't think I've ever read a comic drawn by Francis Portela before (I see he's done Black Panther, a comic I can't bear to read in its current incarnation,) I'm now going to actively check out his work in the future, especially if Pallot's on inks.
Wow, there are a lot of little horizontal lines in this post.
No, I didn't read World War Hulk #2 yet. Maybe this weekend at the shop. I'm pretty sure it features Hulk wailing on people for page after page.
