| Not so much with the creamy middles |
 Not so much with the creamy middles
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Jun. 23rd, 2009 @ 03:38 pm 
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Comment replies will be delayed a bit again, as we're shaped, and it's just annoying to try and do stuff online. Also, I'm still mildly ill.
For people reading this on LiveJournal: I haven't read LJ for about a month, maybe more. At some point I'll be picking up reading again, but not until tomorrow at the earliest, when we're not shaped any more; if there's anything I've missed that you think I should know, let me know.
I've been occupying myself reading Deadpool comics. Because Deadpool is awesome. (And loves Bea Arthur.)
I've realised that I have this odd parameter set for reading comics. I like comics that take themselves Very Seriously Indeed (e.g. Sandman, Lucifer was deeply flawed but still readable, etc.) or just take their subject matter seriously (e.g. early Authority, but not Preacher, because Preacher was trying way too hard to be blasphemous and ended up just being kind of crap after the first couple of trade paperbacks). In order to read them I need the art to be reasonable, too - the first couple of Authority TPBs were awesome, and then suddenly the art changed and became hideous and I couldn't stand it.
(No, I dont read anything with Liefeld "art" if I can help it. My cat could scratch a better Cable if you let him play with the paper.)
At the other extreme, I like comics that don't take themselves seriously at all, that play with meta just because they can, like Deadpool or Top Ten.
Stuff in the middle - stuff that just rolls on through the story, but isn't trying to be Deep - doesn't grab me. I like reading ABOUT those sorts of comics - reading summaries, descriptions, and meta on Iron Man or Captain America or Superman or Batman or X-Men - I just don't like the comics themselves that much. (Unless it's specific issues I've been recced, and where the art is really, really pretty.)
Today's image is toilet vampires.
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the first couple of Authority TPBs were awesome, and then suddenly the art changed and became hideous and I couldn't stand it.
Oh God, Frank Quitely. Every person he draws looks like a squidgy-faced playdough doll. Worse, they all look like the *same* squidgy-faced playdough doll.
Stay far, far away from Matt Fraction's Immortal Iron Man. If art is a make or break issue for you, you won't even be able to get through enough of an issue for the bad writing to matter, because the art is utterly awful.
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