One of my pet hates is having two artists on the same book, usually it done because the regular artist could not keep up with the schedule and they bring in some second rate guy on the cheap to knock up a few pages in an effort to get some credits to his name. Well here it could not be further from that situation as they have brought over Stuart Immonen from the other half of this crossover, and I can barely see the joins. They have kept the same colour artist which has meant a much more unified feeling to the book and apart from their differing interpretations of Jean Grey (and they are really very different) I struggle to tell who has done certain pages at all.
This book and the previous issue of X-Men in the series are the best examples of why the ‘artist’ does not matter as much as we think they do. Sure if you have a completely incompetent artist they can utterly ruin a book, but unless your name is Jock, comic art is a combination of between two and four people all working on different aspects of the end appearance. I always remember John Cassady’s work on Astonishing X-Men and assuming that because that was so fantastic, anything else with his name on should be equally so, but I was very much disappointed by the more recent Uncanny Avengers that he did. That is because the aspects of the art that you like could very well be the influence of the inker or colour artist just as much as the line drawer. I was a little critical of the art in the previous issue drawn by Stuart Immonen, which I found strange because previously I have liked his work. This comic proves that point spectacularly because his pages in this comic all look fantastic, which means that my displeasure with the previous comic was more aimed at the colour artist or inker, or perhaps just the combination of the three.
One of my pet hates is having two artists on the same book, usually it done because the regular artist could not keep up with the schedule and they bring in some second rate guy on the cheap to knock up a few pages in an effort to get some credits to his name. Well here it could not be further from that situation as they have brought over Stuart Immonen from the other half of this crossover, and I can barely see the joins. They have kept the same colour artist which has meant a much more unified feeling to the book and apart from their differing interpretations of Jean Grey (and they are really very different) I struggle to tell who has done certain pages at all.
This book and the previous issue of X-Men in the series are the best examples of why the ‘artist’ does not matter as much as we think they do. Sure if you have a completely incompetent artist they can utterly ruin a book, but unless your name is Jock, comic art is a combination of between two and four people all working on different aspects of the end appearance. I always remember John Cassady’s work on Astonishing X-Men and assuming that because that was so fantastic, anything else with his name on should be equally so, but I was very much disappointed by the more recent Uncanny Avengers that he did. That is because the aspects of the art that you like could very well be the influence of the inker or colour artist just as much as the line drawer. I was a little critical of the art in the previous issue drawn by Stuart Immonen, which I found strange because previously I have liked his work. This comic proves that point spectacularly because his pages in this comic all look fantastic, which means that my displeasure with the previous comic was more aimed at the colour artist or inker, or perhaps just the combination of the three.
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