Actually, I don't have any problems with the editing style. Doesn't bug me. What bugs me about Jeanty's art is I can't tell his female characters apart, they look too much alike. Sometimes the only way I can distinquish them is by the clothes they are wearing. Also the dialogue is too similar they sound a like.
Same troubles with some of the male characters. Andrew - I didn't know was Andrew in one of the comics.
Here's how I read comics - I look at the art first. Then I read the words with it. In Urru's I can tell what is going on without dialogue - the art tells the story, I know who the characters are, who is speaking, no problems. With Jeanty's art - I have to read the words to know who is who, often have to read it twice. It's not clear to me.
There are some amazing artists out there who do the editing thing - one is Alex Ross. Who selects specific scenes to paint. Another is Jai Lee. Then there's Frank Miller - who uses black and white drawings in stark relief. Jeanty is, don't get me wrong, serviceable - his style is pretty good, but from what I've seen he can only draw women to look one way.
My other difficulty with the comic is the coloring - it's faded, not pristine, the colors don't jump off the page. And I admittedly prefer black background as opposed to white. It's personal. I like the feeling of a painting or watercolor - I like the three dimensional look. Something that pulls me inside the page.
Urru's style reminds me of some of the styles I fell in love with while reading X-Men, Jai Lee, and an another Italian artist I forget the name of. Jeanty's reminds me of the styles that left me cold in the X-Men - Kirby (who was a fan favorite, but I didn't like that much).
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Date: 2007-10-08 01:38 pm (UTC)What bugs me about Jeanty's art is I can't tell his female characters apart, they look too much alike. Sometimes the only way I can distinquish them is by the clothes they are wearing. Also the dialogue is too similar they sound a like.
Same troubles with some of the male characters. Andrew - I didn't know was Andrew in one of the comics.
Here's how I read comics - I look at the art first. Then I read the words with it. In Urru's I can tell what is going on without dialogue - the art tells the story, I know who the characters are, who is speaking, no problems. With Jeanty's art - I have to read the words to know who is who, often have to read it twice. It's not clear to me.
There are some amazing artists out there who do the editing thing - one is Alex Ross. Who selects specific scenes to paint. Another is Jai Lee.
Then there's Frank Miller - who uses black and white drawings in stark relief. Jeanty is, don't get me wrong, serviceable - his style is pretty good, but from what I've seen he can only draw women to look one way.
My other difficulty with the comic is the coloring - it's faded, not pristine, the colors don't jump off the page. And I admittedly prefer black background as opposed to white. It's personal. I like the feeling of a painting or watercolor - I like the three dimensional look. Something that pulls me inside the page.
Urru's style reminds me of some of the styles I fell in love with while reading X-Men, Jai Lee, and an another Italian artist I forget the name of.
Jeanty's reminds me of the styles that left me cold in the X-Men - Kirby (who was a fan favorite, but I didn't like that much).