Classic Mignola Zen re-covered!

[Kees_L]

Sorry if this was posted already.

Zen Intergalactic Ninja #1, with a Mignola cover, now on pre-order, for publication by Devil's Due this December. I assume this to be a re-vamped classic Mignola cover, and ... awesome?
Here's a link for info + pic: http://devilsdue.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=224&Itemid=51

[mgs]

Whoa! That's crazy! Devil's Due bought some licensing for Zen! And I assume you mean this cover:

http://devilsdue.net/images/stories/solicitations/2008/December/Zen_01_Mignola_570.jpg

Yeah, that's the classic Zen cover that's obviously been re-touched. The original is colored differently and doesn't have that devil character behind him. Thanks for the info though! I would have never known. :)

[hellboyone]

The Mignola kind of got lost in the coloring, but it's a nice piece. I bought a run of Zen back in the day just for this cover.

[Kees_L]

I been looking for the original one a long time.
As I understand it, there's a single comic cover (Zen vol. 3 #5) and a pin-up in a Zen color special - a pinup-issue. Since I haven't yet stumbled on either of them, this will be a nice consolidation for the meantime.

[hellboyone]

For comparison, I have the old scan still on my server from an old thread here:

http://www.rickcortes.com/mignolaart/zenpinup.jpg

There's A LOT of Mike that got lost in the process of recoloring, that's for sure.

Oh...and my mistake. It was a pin-up in the back of an issue, not a cover. And the devil guy obviously IS in there in the original.

Looking at this, I think this is the phase of Mike's style that had the biggest influence on Joe Quesada back in the day. I almost do a double-take and think it's a Quesada.

[Ambassador Curt]

The Mignola kind of got lost in the coloring,


I was thinking the same thing.

[Neil Hill]

I like the original Mignola color job much better. In the same way that airbrushed coloring tended to kill a lot of the effect of certain pieces for me in the late 80's and early 90's, computer coloring is (in some cases) killing my interest in certain pieces now. No offense to Richard Isanove and his ilk, but computer coloring these days can be so over rendered and dilute the original artwork, that it might as well be smothering it with hands around its throat.

[Kees_L]

Much agreed, the original coloring appeals more to me as well. However, since this ìs a Mignola underneath somewhere, I'm gonna go be completist on it.
Another rather art-killing trend for me was the whole cover foiling hoola, which was being embraced for the third volume Intergalactic Ninja around '94.
Probably the most striking example of digital coloring overkill I have found to be Kevin Maguire's Defenders: indefensible. That lush art should have been done in b&w as far as I'm concerned...