Steve McNiven to be Singer's Ultimate X-Men artist

ourchair said:
I'm no big fan of Knights 4, but he draws a good Reed for the series with the stretching looking as unreal as it should.
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McNiven's awesome art on that book almost made up for the crappy writing.
 
Goodwill said:
Steve McNiven's career is just taking off, OurChair, Marvel's only giving him the oppurtunity that he deserves.
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Exactly. He wasn't really known before, but once he became Young Guns artist, and was being showcased (in a sense, lol), people really started to notice his art.
 
UltimateE said:
McNiven's awesome art on that book almost made up for the crappy writing.
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Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's work on that book is embarassing.

He has this weird Spielbergian maudlin sensibility that tries to imbue the FF with a sentimentality, trying to market the characters to Non-Believers. but on the other hand Knights 4 is so rooted in existing continuity that it makes it difficult for the emotional resonance to work for anyone who isn't thoroughly knowledgeable about the characters.

A hearty ugh I say to Sacasa.
 
You guys are nuts. :p

Sacassa is great. His first arc on that is the best still. And McNiven made it better. But I think Sacassa writes a better series with Nightcrawler. It'd be great if McNiven did some issues there. :D
 
icemastertron said:
You guys are nuts. :p

Sacassa is great. His first arc on that is the best still. And McNiven made it better. But I think Sacassa writes a better series with Nightcrawler. It'd be great if McNiven did some issues there. :D
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Okay okay, I'll be fair. I only read the second trade and not the first so for all I know Sacasa did the most ace piece of work EVER on the Four in the first arc. :D
 
icemastertron said:
Exactly. Thats why his question I dont get. I mean, Singer picked him, so why wouldn;t he know...
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I think it's a pretty sure thing that Singer would know who his artist is at least a few days before they make a public announcement of it on Wizard.

However, I don't think it's a sure thing that McNiven was "his pick", unless Marvel was so charitable as to give Singer the opportunity to choose ANYONE. Remember these decisions have to be made with a lot of thought in mind, especially when you consider what a tightly booked schedule McNiven has.
 
ourchair said:
However, I don't think it's a sure thing that McNiven was "his pick", unless Marvel was so charitable as to give Singer the opportunity to choose ANYONE. Remember these decisions have to be made with a lot of thought in mind, especially when you consider what a tightly booked schedule McNiven has.
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I think it's more of that he can pick anyone that would be available at the time.
 
Well, he picked a good choice... If Singer's going for that cinematic comic McNiven's right to translate that into the panels.
 
"I choose you Mark Millar!" - Singer
"Uh, he's not an option. And besides, he's busy writing." - Marvel
"Shut up! Just because I didn't write X3!" - Singer
 
ProjectX2 said:
"I choose you Mark Millar!" - Singer
"Uh, he's not an option. And besides, he's busy writing." - Marvel
"Shut up! Just because I didn't write X3!" - Singer
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"Aye, I'll draw the whole Ultimate Universe for a 40 ounce!" -Millar
 
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