From: jed@matilda.vut.edu.au (Jed Bowtell)
Subject: Re: THE Image Scorecard
Organization: Victoria University of Technology
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 04:29:55 GMT

mcmahan@cs.unca.edu (Scott McMahan -- Genesis mailing list owner) writes:

>Jed Bowtell (jed@matilda.vut.edu.au) wrote:
>: Youngblood - The art in this title is typical Liefeld with
>: lots of extra muscles added in, with hundreds of lines
>: on faces and of course Liefeldesque proportion. 

>Isn't it great!?

I think Brahma looks like Liefeld (the face, the hairstyle)

>:(correct me if I'm wrong Rob but
>: isn't it supposed to be `license' NOT `lisence')

>Depends on whether you're British or not...

Well in Australia it is `license'

>: I'm only getting it because I like to get all of a limited
>: series if I get the first issue.

>So you're giving him money to keep making stuff you don't like?

Basically!

>: Cyberforce - I like the art and I wont comment on the
>: colouring. 

>Why not? The colors are amazing!

Thats what I meant. I said they were really good for all the
other titles so I didn't want to comment on them in Cyberforce.
What about that deep blue they used in issue 1. The Egyptian
woman's skin.

>: This is a slicker Silvestri than we saw in his
>: work on Uncanny X-Men and Wolverine. 

>That's true. I think a lot of that is the better paper,
>better ink, and better colors though. Wolverine #50 was
>pretty slick...

Yeah that is part of it but he has also become slicker.

>:I wish he had taken
>: Dan Green (HIS inker) over to Image. Maybe Dan didn't
>: want to go. 

>Maybe loosing Green was the best thing he could have done.
>Think about it...

I don't understand! Dan Green's inks complimented Marc
Silvestri's pencils perfectly.

>: `Velocity, I think you're pretty'. 

>What's so terrible about this sentence? What do you expect
>a robot mimmicing a little kid to say? 

Well when I was younger I wouldn't have said that to a
deathly white girl with a black shape over her eye.

>: Brigade - I got this by accident (I get my comics mail
>: order) and I hate it. It is junk. The colouring makes
>: the characters look sickly. The pencils are Liefeldesque
>: as are the characters. Especially that one that looks
>: like Cable (let go Rob). The characterisation is very
>: sad and I hate white covers with no background. I wont
>: even get the rest of the limited series and I am
>: thinking about burning it. It is just a blemish on my
>: comic collection.

>I saw WILDCATS #2 with a white cover on a newsstand. Sad, huh?
>Brigate has some great action, though, and a lot better
>depiction of it than Rob. Whoever is drawing it has a firm
>grasp of the Marvel style of action drawing.

I think it is sad.

>The colors are wonderful, like all the other Images.

The colours are good but the colourist is terrible.

>: I'm looking forward to Wetworks because Portacio is the
>: most talented artists of the Image crew (just look at the
>: issues of X-Factor that he did). 

>Nah, Silvestri's the most talented. But WetWorks should be
>great, if it is ever released.

Image order of artistic talent.

1.Portacio	2.McFarlane	3.Silvestri	4.Kieth
5.Keown		6.Lee		7.Larsen	8.Liefeld
9.Valentino

Jed
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