LOL! I did the same thing with the Spike and Dru comic (Spike vs. Dracula has some of the same bad artwork by the way). I think I gave my copy of it to talimamma.
And I agree with you on Tales of the Vampire series - it did have some good artists. And very different styles. Reminded me of the some of the kick ass art on the old X-Men cross-overs. Jai Lee who is doing the Gunslinger (Stephen King) series for comics- was one of those artists. I'm a sucker for hyper-realism, shadow/color template graphic art that looks like it has been painted on the page and flows across it. Urru's is in that style as was Jai Lee and Cassidy (who does Whedon's Astonishing X-Men.)
But Joan Chen's covers rock - they are much better than Tony Harris for Angel After the Fall or even Urru's. In fact I think I may like her paintings almost as well as the great Alex Ross who did Kingdom Come for DC. (Sigh, sorry, am a comic graphic art geek.) Hee. This may explain why Jeanty's art urks me. He looks like he's improving - see issue 6 of the series, then he disappoints me again.
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Date: 2007-10-08 03:27 am (UTC)And I agree with you on Tales of the Vampire series - it did have some good artists. And very different styles. Reminded me of the some of the kick ass art on the old X-Men cross-overs. Jai Lee who is doing the Gunslinger (Stephen King) series for comics- was one of those artists.
I'm a sucker for hyper-realism, shadow/color template graphic art that looks like it has been painted on the page and flows across it. Urru's is in that style as was Jai Lee and Cassidy (who does Whedon's Astonishing X-Men.)
But Joan Chen's covers rock - they are much better than Tony Harris for Angel After the Fall or even Urru's. In fact I think I may like her paintings almost as well as the great Alex Ross who did Kingdom Come for DC. (Sigh, sorry, am a comic graphic art geek.) Hee. This may explain why Jeanty's art urks me. He looks like he's improving - see issue 6 of the series, then he disappoints me again.