CBR: NYCC: Kirkman & McFarlane Mix Heroes & Horror with "Haunt"

[CBR News]

The superstar Image pair of Kirkman and McFarlane bring collaborators Greg Capullo and Ryan Ottley on board for a new scare-filled monthly that's been three years in the making.


Full article here.

[GRANT!]

That's one crazy art team.

Greg Capullo on layouts, Ryan Ottley on pencils and McFarlane on Digital Inks.

[David W]

McFarlane and Capullo were classic together on Spawn. Kirkman's a cool writer. The combo of Greg's layouts, Ottley's pencils and Todd's inks looks great.

Right now is a pretty good time for Todd. He and Whilce Portacio are doing a great job on Spawn and Haunt looks like it's gonna be a blast.

I'm tired of all the lawsuits and controversy and stuff. I'm glad he's just getting back to making some comics.

[prismablue]

I hope the inked version of the interior is not finished, because it looks like they left most of the art in pencil. Digital inks leave alot ot be desired I think.

[GRANT!]

The layouts aren't that impressive either. Capullo is a good story teller and but this isn't such a great example of that.

[GRANT!]

Here's some art Ryan Ottley (or Wya) did for fun. Now this looks great.

[Libaax]

Haha McFarlane getting all the credit while Ottley and Capullo do the actual drawing.


If it was only Kirkman and Ottley this would be an easy choice to make and get this.

Now i think its a waste of their time when they could be doing Invincible or some other comic.

[djcoffman]

First the idea of Bob-Todd working together seemed pretty damn cool to me. I'm an old school McFarlane fan, and Kirkman is barnone one of the funnest and most creative writers this past decade in comics. Sure, it could have been a stunt to excite the comic audience, and it did. They created buzz without some gimmicky huge crossover or rehashing the same crap. Shit, they created buzz just by talking about it.

Now I find out Capullo and Ottley are part of the team? This doubly excites me as I always loved Capullo's work ethic and all the detail he packed in he's someone a lot of these guys who can't complete a deadline should look up to and try to emulate -- when he sort of hang it up for awhile, the next best thing out there came along in Ryan. These are the heavy hitters of real comic book cartooning, sort of two generations of that dynamic style joining forces.

To me, it looks like sure, they took a dark concept, and they are making it dynamic with their art. Not just some brooding bullshit. I understand there will be people who won't dig this, (but probably still buy Liefeld books that don't come out) but it's energized a base of comic readers that will likely speak loudly with their wallets when this comes out.

Dad on layouts, son on pencils, grandpa on digital inks, and uncle bob on the typewriter. I'm there!

[Avenging Eagle]

I really hope this series will be a smash hit. As much as I like Spider-Man, and other company owned characters. Creator owned comics are where my interests are these days. Something brand new that I can jump onto from the beginning without any ties to other books.

[Ben Akers]

I also like that since the creators own the characters, they can do pretty much anything they want to them.

Granted, important things happen at the big two, but the status quo never changes all that much...at least most of the time. Just not enough for my tastes.

[rasx]

Looks interesting, even though I still find that Haunt looks a lot like a certain wall-crawler!