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[Dalek]

Looks like a Gurihiru art

It's actually two artists working under one name

I just googled that name. Really good artwork:

http://gurihiru.tumblr.com/

 

[Screaming Meat]

Edit: here it is:
http://comicsalliance.com/multiversity-annotations-part-4-morrison-quitely-pax-americana/

Thanks for the link. To be honest, I was all over it like a uni dissertation the day I got it

I mean look at this-there are 3 timelines going on in the same location telling one storyline:

It's insane that you still know what's going on. It's a great way to show an investigation that just wouldn't work nearly as well in another medium. I especially like that they all move in the figure of 8 too.

But yeah, Squirrel Girl...

 

[DICKS AHOY]

All of my comic friends hate this series with the fury of a thousand Suns, it's sort of hilarious.

It's definitely the weird, almost liquid-y face construction that throws me off.

 

[Loona]

I'm not a fan of North's writing (and those "jokes" at the bottom of the pages break flow IMO), and the art isn't doing it any favors, but I have to admit squirrel Galactus and that bit of nordic lore he used in a recent issue were nice touches.

I still get the impression SG is better used in small doses - maybe a SG comic could be like some Eisner Spirit stories, where you follow other characters, and the title character has a comparatively small but significant presence...

 

[JBourne]

I've been enjoying USG. Hated the art at first, but it grows on you.

 

[excelsiorlef]

Quietly's faces have always looked like puree'ed ass. I never understood why people say he's one of the best comic book artists ever.



Because you try to pretend that those are the only two options, which clearly was born from other people trying to infer the same thing based on the complaints being levied against the art, why else would you randomly bring up preferring quirky to realistic as if those were the only two choices?

Way too many people in here are getting their knickers in a bunch when people say they don't like the art and automatically assume it means they want "realistic" art. That's not the case at all, art can be quirky and look better than what's presently being presented. I'd imagine most people complaining myself included would be completely fine with quirky art that actually looked good.

Ooooook. I like the art, and all I said it is that between the panel with realistic art and the panel from this book I liked the one from this book more because I think the quirkyness of it fits the character so well.

I was specifically stating a preference between the two styles shown and nothing more. Was not making a statement on any other art style.

 

[TheKaeptain]

Liking the new artwork. Marvel seem to be embracing indie weirdness.



He's a god-tier sequential artist. Dude can really tell a story.

For starters, he does incredible comic book action sequences (right up there with Darrow):



No one's captured Clark Kent in one panel so perfectly:



I love that!

I love when he works with Morrison but other comic book writers? Nah. I think it's because of how detailed Morrison's scripts are and the fact he, himself, is an artist. He sketches out the panels and gives them to artist as a blue print.

You ever notice a lot of artist tend to work better with Morrison?

 

[excelsiorlef]

Apparently.

See I look at the two and I still like the current art.

The other one is adorable but she looks like a disney princess, SG being drawn as maybe not the most visually attractive girl is such an awesome idea because there's such a pressure in comics and in the real world for women to always be attractive. So it's nice to see a character be allowed to not be conventionally pretty.

 

[Teggy]

FYI Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #1 was added to Unlimited this week.

 

[rhandino]

Never thought anyone would do worse faces than Frank Quietly

Her face it's kind of fine but her boobs are very "off" there, wth!

 

[Valtýr]

See I look at the two and I still like the current art.

The other one is adorable but she looks like a disney princess, SG being drawn as maybe not the most visually attractive girl is such an awesome idea because there's such a pressure in comics and in the real world for women to always be attractive. So it's nice to see a character be allowed to not be conventionally pretty.

Agreed. She's not designed to be perfectly cute and adorable. She's imperfect but the character pulls it off by being confident. It works.

 

[Teggy]

Wait a minute - where's her tail?

 

[Angelus Errare]

See I look at the two and I still like the current art.

The other one is adorable but she looks like a disney princess, SG being drawn as maybe not the most visually attractive girl is such an awesome idea because there's such a pressure in comics and in the real world for women to always be attractive. So it's nice to see a character be allowed to not be conventionally pretty.

We're talking about Quietly.

 

[Dalek]

Wait a minute - where's her tail?

In the pages before this, she is leaving avengers mansion to live on campus. She talks about how she has to stuff her tail inside her pants to resemble a big butt so that no one will recognize her.

 

[Acerac]

FYI Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #1 was added to Unlimited this week.

Read it before trashing it. Ryan North is a really fun author.

Spoiler

Don't miss the hidden text at the bottom of each page

 

[Menome]

In keeping with the Squirrel Girl theme: Why does Emma Frost have a nut-sack?

 

[Teggy]

Read it before trashing it. Ryan North is a really fun author.

Spoiler

Don't miss the hidden text at the bottom of each page

I'm actually very much looking forward to it, but I'm only just getting to the AvsX period in my reading, so I've got a way to go.

I don't suppose they will be adding another X-23 book? I loved the Marjorie Liu series and I'm about to read the last issue I know she moves on to Avengers Academy, but it's not the same.

 

[Screaming Meat]

I love when he works with Morrison but other comic book writers? Nah. I think it's because of how detailed Morrison's scripts are and the fact he, himself, is an artist. He sketches out the panels and gives them to artist as a blue print.

You ever notice a lot of artist tend to work better with Morrison?

I know about Morrison's thumbnail stuff but that isn't quite(ly) what I've heard about their working relationship:

Normally, when I work with Grant the script is very simple: even if the story or the ideas on any particular page are very complicated, usually the script is very simple, the descriptions are very simple and I have room to interpret the descriptions of what Grant wants me to draw. I have room to interpret them the way I want to. And if there is something that Grant wants and is very specific, he will speak to me about it, rather than write a lot more in the script. That’s normally the way we work.

But yeah, Quitely's best work is undoubtedly with Morrison. To be fair, that works both ways; a substantial portion of Morrison's best work is with Quitely.