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cover for Brave and Bold 108 by Jim Aparo Alex Maleev he did

Summary: cover for Brave and Bold 108 by Jim Aparo Alex Maleev he did the art for Brian Bendis run on Daredevil I loved that It s nothing like Aparo but it s fantastic stuff Guy Davis he does the B P R D series for Dark Horse And I ve really enjoyed keeping up with this lesser known guy named Tan Eng Huat he did this Doom Patrol revamp years ago and now he s exaggerated his work even more and is currently doing Ghost Rider for Marvel He s too weird to get a standard gig but he s got a style that s pretty unique for super hero books Michael Allred Cameron Stewart and Darywn Cooke also did this great tag team work on Catwoman for a while until DC threw that book into the toilet Well it s a different skill set with Risso I liked his run on Batman well enough but Aparo s work is far preferable But yeah I don t think Aparo could pull off 100 Bullets he has a problem doing male faces and making them look distinctive Lemme think for a second That s a good question Noah On the story I think these are obviously aimed at a more general audience right I mean there s a sense in these that somebody who doesn t necessarily define themselves as a comic book fan might pick one up say from a 7 11 rack which is where I got my comics way back when Haney clearly clearly doesn t give a crap about continuity which is pretty darn funny considering this is a team up title Today I think writers tend to aim their work at people who they figure are already invested if you ve got the comic in the first place then that indicates a certain level of knowledge about the DC universe and a willingness to follow a series month after month after month That makes it possible to attempt more complicated stories which can be great at times Swamp Thing Animal Man etc But I think though it can be great there are diminishing returns at some point mainly because super heroes really weren t ever originally intended for that kind of story It s a silly idea when you come right down to it and there s only a certain amount of mileage to be gotten from debunking or complicating it I think we ve passed that point myself Tucker I haven t seen any of those artists you mention alas except for Darwyn Cooke who I like all right Would you agree at all that contemporary mainstream art is generally not as good as the older stuff or is my whole thesis misguided Fair enough on the art though is there anyone in mainstream you like as much as Aparo or Cardy or Adams You re going to say Eduardo Risso just to irritate me aren t you off the cuff I d agree sure but then again there s such a massive amount of stuff that i ve got zero relationship with If it s reprinted and as much I ll joke that everything is reprinted that s not really true then it s got to have some potential value to it There s a ton of comics that get mentioned in Haney s interview that I ve never seen available except in the quarter bins and I m sure there s got to be a lot of crap there you know It s sort of unfair to use some of Jim Aparo and Nick Cardy while they were at work on a successful title which B B was to showcase how bad the art is on Uncanny X Men But yes there are people who just can t Tony Daniel he s responsible for most of the art on Grant Morrison s Batman run can t draw a decent fight scene to save his life he can t pull off an iconic splash page he can t even make it look like somebody is talking to another person without a lot of work on the part of the reader Ed Benes who handles the Justice League is just as bad Oooh here s some cover for Brave and Bold 108 by Jim Aparo Alex Maleev he did the art for Brian Bendis run on Daredevil I loved that It s nothing like Aparo but it s fantastic stuff Guy Davis he does the B P R D series for Dark Horse And I ve really enjoyed keeping up with this lesser known guy named Tan Eng Huat he did this Doom Patrol revamp years ago and now he s exaggerated his work even more and is currently doing Ghost Rider for Marvel He s too weird to get a standard gig but he s got a style that s pretty unique for super hero books Michael Allred Cameron Stewart and Darywn Cooke also did this great tag team work on Catwoman for a while until DC threw that book into the toilet Well it s a different skill set with Risso I liked his run on Batman well enough but Aparo s work is far preferable But yeah I don t think Aparo could pull off 100 Bullets he has a problem doing male faces and making them look distinctive Lemme think for a second That s a good question Noah On the story I think these are obviously aimed at a more general audience right I mean there s a sense in these that somebody who doesn t necessarily define themselves as a comic book fan might pick one up say from a 7 11 rack which is where I got my comics way back when Haney clearly clearly doesn t give a crap about continuity which is pretty darn funny considering this is a team up title Today I think writers tend to aim their work at people who they figure are already invested if you ve got the comic in the first place then that indicates a certain level of knowledge about the DC universe and a willingness to follow a series month after month after month That makes it possible to attempt more complicated stories which can be great at times Swamp Thing Animal Man etc But I think though it can be great there are diminishing returns at some point mainly because super heroes really weren t ever originally intended for that kind of story It s a silly idea when you come right down to it and there s only a certain amount of mileage to be gotten from debunking or complicating it I think we ve passed that point myself Tucker I haven t seen any of those artists you mention alas except for Darwyn Cooke who I like all right Would you agree at all that contemporary mainstream art is generally not as good as the older stuff or is my whole thesis misguided Fair enough on the art though is there anyone in mainstream you like as much as Aparo or Cardy or Adams You re going to say Eduardo Risso just to irritate me aren t you off the cuff I d agree sure but then again there s such a massive amount of stuff that i ve got zero relationship with If it s reprinted and as much I ll joke that everything is reprinted that s not really true then it s got to have some potential value to it There s a ton of comics that get mentioned in Haney s interview that I ve never seen available except in the quarter bins and I m sure there s got to be a lot of crap there you know It s sort of unfair to use some of Jim Aparo and Nick Cardy while they were at work on a successful title which B B was to showcase how bad the art is on Uncanny X Men But yes there are people who just can t Tony Daniel he s responsible for most of the art on Grant Morrison s Batman run can t draw a decent fight scene to save his life he can t pull off an iconic splash page he can t even make it look like somebody is talking to another person without a lot of work on the part of the reader Ed Benes who handles the Justice League is just as bad Oooh here s some

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