View Full Version : Guardians of the Galaxy #18 Preview
stingerman
09-17-2009, 12:02 PM
Up at CosmicBookNews:
http://www.cosmicbooknews.com/previews/GARGAL018preview
Hmmm... I guess there are no gyms in the future, cause it looks like everyone is just sort of letting themselves go a bit.
Zero Hunter
09-17-2009, 02:57 PM
God I hate that art more every issue he does.
Bevbos
09-17-2009, 03:06 PM
Uh oh, looks like Cosmo ain't doing too well!!! ha ha ha!!!
Jronnan
09-17-2009, 03:44 PM
I think I'm only person that reads this book that is excited for more Wes Craig.
He gives the art a cartoony flavour that reflects how much fun it is to read this book. And he seems able to give his work a darker, ethereal feel as we saw when Drax and Phyla were trapped in Oblivion. I don't understand the hate he gets.
FanboyStranger
09-17-2009, 03:55 PM
I think I'm only person that reads this book that is excited for more Wes Craig.
He gives the art a cartoony flavour that reflects how much fun it is to read this book. And he seems able to give his work a darker, ethereal feel as we saw when Drax and Phyla were trapped in Oblivion. I don't understand the hate he gets.
I started coming around to Craig about midway through the issue set in the future. I think his art is interesting at least, and his unique style doesn't obscure the storytelling or anything. That said, it is a jarring shift from Walker to Craig let alone Pelletier. An occasional fill-in is welcome, but I'm not sure I'd go to him everytime the lead artist needs a break. (Although, in this particular case, it seems that Craig has become the artist for the future timeline, and perhaps one could say that the distortion effects that are a feature of his art are actually the result of the Fault.)
CyberCoyote
09-17-2009, 04:03 PM
I think I'm only person that reads this book that is excited for more Wes Craig.
He gives the art a cartoony flavour that reflects how much fun it is to read this book. And he seems able to give his work a darker, ethereal feel as we saw when Drax and Phyla were trapped in Oblivion. I don't understand the hate he gets.
I'm glad SOMEONE likes it. For me it's just far too cartoony and makes the book seem more like Super-Hero Squad than one of the best books written today (which I think it is)
Expletive Deleted
09-17-2009, 05:10 PM
I think I'm only person that reads this book that is excited for more Wes Craig.I really enjoy his work, too. It's like Immonen by way of Acuna. Walker does a fine job and he's certainly in line with what's become the house style for the cosmic titles, but I think Craig's figures have more personality.
Pixie_Solanas
09-17-2009, 06:02 PM
Where the f*** is Gamora?
Come on.
Reduced to Adam Warlock sidekick, then ass-kick fodder for the Magus? LAME, DnA.
Where the f*** is Gamora?
Come on.
Reduced to Adam Warlock sidekick, then ass-kick fodder for the Magus? LAME, DnA.
She was kind of always an Adam Warlock side kick (or sidekick/love interest).
Well, almost always. Initiailly she was a Thanos side kick, and she briefly was Novas during the Annihilations.
paulski
09-17-2009, 09:40 PM
Ehn, I don't mind it. I'm hoping it'll look even better on the page when the book comes out next week.
For me, there are worse things than getting the occasional issue from Wes Craig to ensure Walker stays on the title.
stingerman
09-17-2009, 09:49 PM
Although, in this particular case, it seems that Craig has become the artist for the future timeline,
That looks like the case.
ThunderKat
09-18-2009, 01:53 PM
I think I'm only person that reads this book that is excited for more Wes Craig.
He gives the art a cartoony flavour that reflects how much fun it is to read this book. And he seems able to give his work a darker, ethereal feel as we saw when Drax and Phyla were trapped in Oblivion. I don't understand the hate he gets.
i'm with you, Wes Craig is a fantastic revelation. absolutely stunning artwork, everypage. that page with the celestials cage/planet in #16. he does a great rocket and star-lord.
man, i DO NOT understand the whiners at all. why so much hate?
i just came aboard GotG with WoKings and it is ridiculous just how much fun this title is. Dan, Andy, Wes and Bradley Walker they make this a triple-A* comic and long may they reign on this title. Also Brad Walker aswell, what a find!! Simple beautiful artwork.
This is pure Marvel and why I love this stuff a bit to much... :tongue:
Kylun123
09-18-2009, 02:04 PM
I enjoy this guy's art when he fills in on GotG. It's so different, but it still works, I like that.
Green Griffin
09-18-2009, 11:27 PM
I too like the art.
Zero Hunter
09-19-2009, 11:33 AM
i'm with you, Wes Craig is a fantastic revelation. absolutely stunning artwork, everypage. that page with the celestials cage/planet in #16. he does a great rocket and star-lord.
man, i DO NOT understand the whiners at all. why so much hate?
i just came aboard GotG with WoKings and it is ridiculous just how much fun this title is. Dan, Andy, Wes and Bradley Walker they make this a triple-A* comic and long may they reign on this title. Also Brad Walker aswell, what a find!! Simple beautiful artwork.
This is pure Marvel and why I love this stuff a bit to much... :tongue:
I just don't like the Saturday morning cartoon look he has. It is just to jarring from Walkers to be going bakc and forth between. It might fit on some other book, but it just drags this one down. You don't put such a polerizing artist on a lower selling title. You stick him on something like Spider Man where he can't tank a book.
Maybe the art is just something you have to get used to (though I'll admit I'm not there yet).
I didn't quite love Yu's stuff on New Avengers at first. But it grew on me, and I ended up really feeling that it fit the books style.
It is just to jarring from Walkers to be going bakc and forth between.
But the stories themselves are jarring also so it works, in theory.
theflyingfrogunderdog
09-23-2009, 07:49 PM
Guardians is the only title i'm interested in. Marvel seems to be in a major slump.
ThunderKat
09-25-2009, 06:19 PM
http://www.newsarama.com/php/multimedia/album.php?aid=30958
check the next two previews, lovely.
then i stupidly proceeded to read the comments, man some people are very sad. how does one exactly vomit by looking at a page of pictures?
it's terrifying the newsarama boards. are they always like this?
this is how books get cancelled.
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