Comments on: This Week’s Haul http://www.fascinationplace.org/2009/07/18/this-weeks-haul-142/ Michael Rawdon's webjournal Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:34:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Michael Rawdon http://www.fascinationplace.org/2009/07/18/this-weeks-haul-142/comment-page-1/#comment-58277 Michael Rawdon Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:37:56 +0000 http://www.fascinationplace.org/?p=2120#comment-58277 I like Baker's artwork when it's highly-rendered. Indeed, I first became aware of him when he was doing some inking work back in the 80s, and he was probably the first inker I really came to appreciate as an inker. (He did a really amazing job over Al Milgrom's pencils in an issue of <b>West Coast Avengers</b>, for instance.) His inks don't go with everyone... but I digress. I like the individual panels of his Hawkman strip quite a bit, along with the coloring technique used (which I presume is also by Baker, since no one else is credited). I don't especially like the storytelling approach he's chosen for this particular story (the ridiculously exaggerated facial expressions, the huge glasses on the girl on the plane), but the art is very pretty. Considering the story is only two pages in, The Demon and Catwoman story has me interested in what she's gotten ahold of and where she's gone. While my enthusiasm is tempered by the realization that this will only be a 12-page story, it's got me more intrigued than most of the other stories in the series. I appreciate the storytelling style in Kamandi, how it's evoking the Prince Valiant and Flash Gordon style of newspaper strips. I've never been especially interested in the premise of Kamandi (or anything in Kirby's Fourth World work, really), and this hasn't changed my mind so far. Ryan Sook's artwork is good, but undercut by the corny images the story demands he draw. So it's a mixed bag for me. As for Adam Strange, well, while I see what Paul Pope's generally trying to do in his comics, his work has never really clicked for me. His art style has always seemed rather ugly to me, right down to the lettering, but especially his faces. So while I can obliquely understand why he appeals to many people, it's not my cup of tea. I'd almost rather see Gibbons and Sook doing Adam Strange, and Pope doing Kamandi! I like Baker’s artwork when it’s highly-rendered. Indeed, I first became aware of him when he was doing some inking work back in the 80s, and he was probably the first inker I really came to appreciate as an inker. (He did a really amazing job over Al Milgrom’s pencils in an issue of West Coast Avengers, for instance.) His inks don’t go with everyone… but I digress. I like the individual panels of his Hawkman strip quite a bit, along with the coloring technique used (which I presume is also by Baker, since no one else is credited). I don’t especially like the storytelling approach he’s chosen for this particular story (the ridiculously exaggerated facial expressions, the huge glasses on the girl on the plane), but the art is very pretty.

Considering the story is only two pages in, The Demon and Catwoman story has me interested in what she’s gotten ahold of and where she’s gone. While my enthusiasm is tempered by the realization that this will only be a 12-page story, it’s got me more intrigued than most of the other stories in the series.

I appreciate the storytelling style in Kamandi, how it’s evoking the Prince Valiant and Flash Gordon style of newspaper strips. I’ve never been especially interested in the premise of Kamandi (or anything in Kirby’s Fourth World work, really), and this hasn’t changed my mind so far. Ryan Sook’s artwork is good, but undercut by the corny images the story demands he draw. So it’s a mixed bag for me.

As for Adam Strange, well, while I see what Paul Pope’s generally trying to do in his comics, his work has never really clicked for me. His art style has always seemed rather ugly to me, right down to the lettering, but especially his faces. So while I can obliquely understand why he appeals to many people, it’s not my cup of tea.

I’d almost rather see Gibbons and Sook doing Adam Strange, and Pope doing Kamandi!

]]> By: J.D. http://www.fascinationplace.org/2009/07/18/this-weeks-haul-142/comment-page-1/#comment-58275 J.D. Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:57:10 +0000 http://www.fascinationplace.org/?p=2120#comment-58275 What is it about the Hawkman art that appeals to you? I don't hate it (thought I find the story lame); I just don't love it. And what's intriguing about the Catwoman/Demon thing? I found it...pedestrian. I agree with you on the Flash and Wonder Woman strips. The one is good and the other unreadable. Green Lantern is set in the 1950s, as mentioned last week. (Specifically, it's "New Frontier"-universe GL.) What do you think of Adam Strange and Kamandi? These are still my two favorite strips out of the bunch (though I like Flash quit a bit, too). I think the Kamandi page is brilliant. I would definitely buy a monthly of this. I also think Paul Pope's Adam Strange is excellent, very much capturing the feel of Flash Gordon/Buck Rogers. Wednesday Comics is the first "floppy" I've bought in years! Some of the stuff sucks (Teen Titans, Wonder Woman), but it's worth it to me to get the other stories. What is it about the Hawkman art that appeals to you? I don’t hate it (thought I find the story lame); I just don’t love it. And what’s intriguing about the Catwoman/Demon thing? I found it…pedestrian.

I agree with you on the Flash and Wonder Woman strips. The one is good and the other unreadable. Green Lantern is set in the 1950s, as mentioned last week. (Specifically, it’s “New Frontier”-universe GL.)

What do you think of Adam Strange and Kamandi? These are still my two favorite strips out of the bunch (though I like Flash quit a bit, too). I think the Kamandi page is brilliant. I would definitely buy a monthly of this. I also think Paul Pope’s Adam Strange is excellent, very much capturing the feel of Flash Gordon/Buck Rogers.

Wednesday Comics is the first “floppy” I’ve bought in years! Some of the stuff sucks (Teen Titans, Wonder Woman), but it’s worth it to me to get the other stories.

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