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What is the context of Reed's words?

I prefer Alan Moore. I like Grant Morrison's work very much up to The Filth (but I don't care about New X-Men, it has nothing on Claremont's defining run), but I find myself re-reading V for...

In Staples' case, does pushing the envelope mean drawing art any reasonably talented artist from the '70s and '80s could draw? It's efficient artwork, I suppose.

As for Sejic, well, I think it...

Cage was hilarious in Herzog's Bad Lieutenant, the last good movie I saw him in. He clearly went for an over the top performance, and the results were marvellous. I wish he did more movies like that.

Yes, I was very sad when I read the news, to lose such a great talent that had contributed so much to comics.

When I first read Philemon I was flabbergasted, it was unlike any other comic book I...

I think before I was having this discussion I had already posted this page by Gianni de Luca, in admiration of his talent:

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/5162/romeoegiulietta09.jpg

So I have...

Well, regarding Phillips, whether he be drawing Spider-Man stories for Ron Zimmerman, Legion of Super-Heroes for Tom Peyer, Elseworld tales for Mark Millar, or noir for Brubaker, his style never...

Fred, who passed away this year, from Philemon:

http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/8595/fredyt.jpg

Gianni de Luca, from Il Commissario Spada:
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I can't think of two more appropriate adjectives for someone who restricts the use of motion lines to cartoonish styles, ignoring their widespread use in just about every possible style of comic book...

I'm desperate to get my hands on his famous Shakespeare trilogy. The images I see on the internet are extraordinary and highly innovative, and a clear evolution of his style since his work on Il...

Or maybe the hand brake is engaged, the back wheels are rolling, raising dust being blown away by wind, but the car isn't really moving. Maybe the car is stuck in the sand and it's not going...

I never forgot that statement, and I think that's a very reductive, narrow-minded and even ignorant way of thinking about motion lines and their place in comics, when motion lines have worked for...

That was a pretty good analysis. You pretty much covered everything. The first thing I immediately noticed was the blurring effect in the background. Interestingly, blurring is a technique that has...

The artist should use the techniques he thinks appropriate to achieve certain effects. But once he does it, I'm free to analyze their success. In Fatale's case I see at what Phillips is doing and I...

That's as ridiculous as asking why aren't all comic books comical. The term sequential art was coined by Will Eisner in 1985, for his book Comics and Sequential Art. By that time the medium already...

So fucking what. There's more than one way to do things. Holy FUCK!

No, there's not. There are specific things you can only do with specific tools.

Show me a picture of a hand waving, a head...

I's a solid superhero sequence: it flows nicely, it's cinematic, the lack of backgrounds prompts the reader to focus on the action. Since when does every panel need a background? The page is telling...

Perhaps. But from my limited knowledge of comics I can't in good conscience look at Sean Phillips' art and be impressed by it. I start searching in my memory for comparisons, and for all the things...

That's the problem, you continue to insist movement is a matter of transition from panel to panel, when motion lines show movement can occur within the panel. And to argue that the artist was using...

Where did you get the impression I couldn't understand these pictures? I do, a foot breaking a door down, a car crash with shrapnel flying around, a guy punching another guy.

But could they be...

This does:

http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/9554/ca11005b.jpg

And I'm the one accused of cherry-picking.

Sartre, really, you're wasting more time and energy than this deserves. You're not going to convince me. You think videogames are great, wonderful, go play them. I'm going to remain with my harmless...

You needn't doubt; I haven't played any of the games on your list. The important factor, however, is that I'm not interested in playing them.



I don't really do that. It's just a topic that...

This 3-pic limitation is a real drag.

You know what Phillips' art makes me think of?

This.

http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/3598/nosenottwitching.jpg

Sue Dibney is telling Ralph his nose...