The All About Comics Thread 4: Gemini Loves Crappy Variant Covers

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E said:
What is the point of this? Did they say?
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It's part of their 70th anniversary celebration thing, a bunch of books will be getting XXth Decade Variants from the 30's to I'm assuming the 00's.

I figured they'd be making the covers look like the comic covers from that era, but it appears that they're going with pop-art type era references. As seen in those 4 covers (Cher, Smells Like Teen Spirit's musiv video, Marylin Monroe, and Thriller respectively).

Seems like a neat idea, I would probably prefer making the covers looks like covers from the era myself, but I couldn't help but be ammused by the War Machine and Marvel Zombies 4 covers as they were.

I gotta say Marvel has beeen surprising me with these variant-month deals lately. They may be a cheap ploy, but some cool covers are coming from it. Especially the Wolverine Appreciation month covers, with all the art inspired covers (Van Gogh and such) very cool stuff.

I'm not gonna buy any of them if they aren't just 50/50 variants, but they're still neat covers that I may be making wallpapers out of.
 
Re: The All About Comics Thread 4: Gemini Is Reading Watchmen?!

Gemini said:
It's part of their 70th anniversary celebration thing, a bunch of books will be getting XXth Decade Variants from the 30's to I'm assuming the 00's.
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They could have chosen more iconic examples. Smells Like Teen Spirit video? Really?

They should have used examples from their own history. Like the Ultimate Spider-Man #100 cover - I don't know if any of you noticed, but it's a tribute to Amazing Spider-Man #100.
 
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Gemini said:
Marvel unveils 4 80's and 90's variants

and hear me out they're awesome

http://blog.newsarama.com/2009/06/01/marvel-loves-the-80s-and-90s/

War Machine smells like teen spirit.

Marvel Zombies do Thriller

awesome
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Wow, that's ****ing retarded.

The War Machine one looks like a hilariously stupid piece of fan art.
E said:
They could have chosen more iconic examples. Smells Like Teen Spirit video? Really?

They should have used examples from their own history. Like the Ultimate Spider-Man #100 cover - I don't know if any of you noticed, but it's a tribute to Amazing Spider-Man #100.
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:lol:

PotD.
 
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Fuddy Duddy's

Hey I just said I liked the images, not that I'll buy them, or that I even encourage them even doing them in the first place.

And I said they should use past covers and styles instead of this from the get go.

And it was the Ultimate Spider-Man#100 VARIANT was the one homaging ASM #100, the regular cover was just a wraparound with 100 Spider-Man's on it. So there :p.

(USM #100's variant was the only variant cover that cost more than cover price I've ever bought, because the regular cover was crap, it was 16 bucks)

Remember the member Thor, he bought the 90$! White variant of USM#100, and it's a ****ing White variant.
 
Re: The All About Comics Thread 4: Gemini Is Reading Watchmen?!

E said:
They should have used examples from their own history. Like the Ultimate Spider-Man #100 cover - I don't know if any of you noticed, but it's a tribute to Amazing Spider-Man #100.
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:lol: :lol: :lol:
 
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Cameron Stewart on Frank Quitely said:
Sure, and Jack Kirby drew weird knees. There's a lot more going on in Quitely's work than the surface rendering. "His people are ugly" is the most frequent negative complaint I see about his work and it's also - forgive me - the most shallow. Quitely's work is utterly fascinating to me because he has an almost unparalleled ability to create a sense of life in his drawings - from his meticulous design and creation of environments that always evoke the sense that there is a thriving, living world that continues beyond the panel borders, through to the subtle gesture and expressive body language of his characters that make them feel sincere and human rather than posed mannequins. I marvel at his dramatic compositions, at his economy of storytelling and mastery of pacing and continuity, and at his ability to use the comics form in clever, inventive ways that haven't been seen or attempted since Eisner (We3 had some startlingly inventive and revolutionary page structures and should have been a wake-up call to comic artists, and sadly it remains unchallenged). And he manages to do all this with a drawing style that is uniquely, idiosyncratically his own.

I'll take that over "pretty" faces any day.
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YES. I too used to be one of those people that couldn't get into Quitely's work because of the way his people looked but once I got past that... man, his stuff is AMAZING. All-Star Superman and We3 have some of the most innovative and astounding art in comics.

Frank Quitely rules.
 
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Way to gush Proj.

You have a crush on Frank Quietly, we get it.

Did everyone get that?

:p
 
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So far the only Quietly work I haven't liked was his Green Lantern from JLA: Earth 2.
 
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Gemini said:
Way to gush Proj.

You have a crush on Frank Quietly, we get it.

Did everyone get that?

:p
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Go and rant about marriage in the Amazing Spider-Man thread.
 
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ProjectX2 said:
YES. I too used to be one of those people that couldn't get into Quitely's work because of the way his people looked but once I got past that... man, his stuff is AMAZING. All-Star Superman and We3 have some of the most innovative and astounding art in comics.

Frank Quitely rules.
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Frank Quitely is one of my favorite artists. I have no idea how people can not like his work. Like TOG.

What Cameron Stewart said there is kind of funny to me because he goes into such detail about Quitely's art, and to me the beauty of it is in its simplicity. Particularly with backgrounds, I've noticed. That simplicity really allows certain critical aspects of the work to come through, like facial expressions.

Who cares if the people are "ugly"? Stuart Immonen draws ugly faces too and he's a great artist.
 
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E said:
Frank Quitely is one of my favorite artists. I have no idea how people can not like his work. Like TOG.

What Cameron Stewart said there is kind of funny to me because he goes into such detail about Quitely's art, and to me the beauty of it is in its simplicity. Particularly with backgrounds, I've noticed. That simplicity really allows certain critical aspects of the work to come through, like facial expressions.

Who cares if the people are "ugly"? Stuart Immonen draws ugly faces too and he's a great artist.
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:arrgh:
 
Re: The All About Comics Thread 4: Gemini Is Reading Watchmen?!

E said:
Frank Quitely is one of my favorite artists. I have no idea how people can not like his work. Like TOG.

What Cameron Stewart said there is kind of funny to me because he goes into such detail about Quitely's art, and to me the beauty of it is in its simplicity. Particularly with backgrounds, I've noticed. That simplicity really allows certain critical aspects of the work to come through, like facial expressions.

Who cares if the people are "ugly"? Stuart Immonen draws ugly faces too and he's a great artist.
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You should download Flex Mentallo. Another comic that needs to be in print.
 
I think Frank Quitely's problem is that there are a lot of people who would always rather see something more traditional over something really distinctive, particularly in superhero comics.
 
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