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"From the Blackest Night rises the Brightest DayWith its blinding light, all evil will decay
Death itself may have no more avail
From the White Lantern's light LIFE SHALL PREVAIL!!!"
When I got commissioned to do a Deadman drawing I got majorly excited. I was ready to bust out a mad Kelley Jones emaciated Boston Brand.
Then it was clarified I would be drawing him in his Brightest Day outfit. I wasn't reading the series so I thought, "What the heck is a White Lantern?"
Still managed to have a lot of fun with him, trench coats are always a hoot.
Up next: Sandman (how come I always get commissioned to do DC characters? not complaining, just saying)
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He does now. Now if only I could grow some
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HA! Your comments on this image remind me of exactly why I don't even look at modern superhero comics anymore. The mainstream (Marvel and DC) characters I loved to read about in my youth are no longer recognizable to me. Part of the appeal of the old classic superhero comics was their simplicity. Their CLARITY, for God's sake. But these days, the stories have gotten too convoluted... with different versions of the same people inhabiting "alternate universes"... Drastic changes or reversals to certain character histories... And yet written as if the writers assume the reader is completely knowledgeable of all the different overlapping mythologies... It used to be so simple to enjoy and understand these characters and their adventures, nowadays the stories are over-written to the point of being impenetrable and alienating. Geez, I've read thousand-page novels where the worlds, characters, and situations were easier to grasp. Anyway nice drawing!
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DC is real bad with the convoluted stories. For me something has to resonate with reality for me to dig the narrative, like you said too many alternate universes and time traveling muckity muck. Then when you factor in the current photo tracing or overly painted art trends-I'm just not really digging a whole lot of comics coming out currently. I should be an easy mark for comic publishers, but I share your grief, not a whole lot out there for me. Art Adams is drawing a series called Ultimate X-it is real good, not much else I'm picking up.
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Yep. I could go on about this stuff all day long. Go back and re-read any old reprint of any old comic book published between the 1930's to the 1980's and you'll be instantly reminded of how refreshingly simple comics can be, and how much better they work when they are kept simple.
21st Century mainstream comics have such a feeling of "trying too hard" to be "complex" and "multi-layered" and "realistically drawn"... But there is nothing engaging about stories that are over-written to the point of being confusing, and there is nothing engaging about artwork that is photo-referenced to the point of almost being a xerox copy of a photo with snazzy colors thrown on top. Modern comics creators make it so much harder on themselves, and the reader, than it needs to be.
All I need is a straightforward story with imaginative, quality artwork, and I am a happily addicted, regular comic book buyer. But they just don't do much of that stuff anymore, so they aren't getting my dollar. ... Ahh well. I still got my reprints of the old stuff when I want a fix.
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That is the nice thing. Instead of buying new stuff I just track down old trade paperbacks and read all those stories I never got around to.
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