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NORM said:
My comic reading doesn’t go as deep as most of you, apparently. I guess I lose nerd credibility? This is exactly why I don’t care to share my tastes.
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I hope you know that was entirely tongue in cheek. Everyone is allowed to have tjeirnown tastes and like what they like. I was just having a bit of fun.
 
altcunningham said:
As a kid I had that Wizard 30th X-Men mag, and when they covered the best artists, Smith's praise was: "no line was wasted".

And I always carry that with me when I'm working out my own art. Phenomenal storyteller for the medium.
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"No line wasted" is exactly it. Just astonishing discipline. Never gets out in front of his skis, never loses focus on the big picture. Good stuff.
 
Chooch555 said:
You know how Morgan Freeman says he's the only guilty man in Shawshank? That's how I feel every time I say I unironically enjoyed Rob Liefeld.
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Yo, here's the thing about Rob, as much shit as he gets for anatomy and lack of backgrounds (deservedly) and as often as he's accused of plagiarism (which is more than a little), and as many comic studios he's flamed out of for one reason or another (many), his actual art when he's putting in the effort has a lot more in common with someone like... Jack Kirby (I said what I said) than most folks want to believe.

I don't *like* Rob's stuff, never really did. But he does the same thing Kirby did, which was ditch drawing it how it should look and instead drawing it how he wanted it to feel. And he totally nails that. Rob is the Michael Bay of comics storytelling. Big dudes in pouches that you can see some 14 year old looking at and saying "THAT'S TOTALLY SIIIIICK!" is his circular panning shot.
 
I don't like Rob's art.

But I like everything he brought me as a kid. X-Force characters and designs. Cable, straight up. Youngblood designs. Brigade designs.

I was that 14 yr old thinking most of them were sick. God bless Riptide and Die Hard.

I just preferred when the Madureira and Roger Cruz clone types that permeated Homage studios drew it.
 
I think my favorite mx-men artists are Adam Kubert, Art Adams, Alan Davis, Walt Simonson, Paul Smith , Ed McGuiness, Ian Churchill, Dwayne Turner, the Hildebrandt Brothers and John Royle


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Good call on Alan Davis. Can't believe I didn't mention him in my earlier list.

As far as some of my favorite non-mutant affiliated artists... Dale Keown and Paul Pelletier are on that list.
 
PantherCult said:
Good call on Alan Davis. Can't believe I didn't mention him in my earlier list.

As far as some of my favorite non-mutant affiliated artists... Dale Keown and Paul Pelletier are on that list.
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I think the only reason I didn't think to mention Davis earlier is I think of him so strongly associated with Excalibur specifically. But hot damn what an artist.
 
JakeEkiss said:
I think the only reason I didn't think to mention Davis earlier is I think of him so strongly associated with Excalibur specifically. But hot damn what an artist.
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I was a little reticent too but I just figured I could group all the X-titles together and call it a day.

That reminds me, I forgot to mention Roger Cruz as well. I loved his work on X-Man


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I can respect Alan Davis' artistic ability and ability to fluidly pose human figures. I just find his overall aesthetic boring. Like someone got their style directly from artistic anatomy books and kept that through their career. It's well drawn for what would be a 1970's aesthetic no doubt, I just find it lacks a certain type of energy that I enjoy: visuals that both club you over the head and can progress the story. Davis is obviously very talented on the visual storytelling side to convey what's happening, it just doesn't wow me much. Both the Kubert brothers have contributed a massive amount to the X-Men books over the years. They have decent "comic anatomy" but they pull off some very high energy shots. Andy seems the more measured in his depictions, which I loved for the team books, while Adam did some wild things with perspectives and action shots in the Wolverine books following the loss of his adamantium, and I loved them both for different reasons.
 
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