You're amongst the few that like both. Most I've read like one or the other.
I agree with you on one point though - Frank Urruh's style would not have been a good fit with Buffy or at least what the writer wants to do with it. Much like the two tv shows - Buffy was meant to take place in a square tv frame not the letter box Angel is filmed in.
I may prefer Urruh's style, but I can see why the writer chose Jeanty's for Buffy. He didn't want realism so much as I want to say, popcorn. Have you read any of the female Japanese Manga's - specifically the ones that came out several years back? Jeanty's style reminds me a lot of those. Also to some degree the comics directed at women via Marvel and DC a while ago. White backgrounds. Lighter colors. Rounder faces.
My critique of the style - is it feels "girly" to me, and I hate girly. Really not a "girly" person. But, Buffy herself, was a girly girl. That was the point. So the style fits, which is why I tolerate it. It is growing on me. The last issue was by far the best - Jeanty actually broke the characters out of the frames for a change. I think he's either improving or I'm just getting used to it.
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Date: 2007-11-24 06:40 am (UTC)I agree with you on one point though - Frank Urruh's style would not have been a good fit with Buffy or at least what the writer wants to do with it. Much like the two tv shows - Buffy was meant to take place in a square tv frame not the letter box Angel is filmed in.
I may prefer Urruh's style, but I can see why the writer chose Jeanty's for Buffy. He didn't want realism so much as I want to say, popcorn. Have you read any of the female Japanese Manga's - specifically the ones that came out several years back? Jeanty's style reminds me a lot of those. Also to some degree the comics directed at women via Marvel and DC a while ago. White backgrounds.
Lighter colors. Rounder faces.
My critique of the style - is it feels "girly" to me, and I hate girly. Really not a "girly" person. But, Buffy herself, was a girly girl. That was the point. So the style fits, which is why I tolerate it. It is growing on me. The last issue was by far the best - Jeanty actually broke the characters out of the frames for a change. I think he's either improving or I'm just getting used to it.