CBR: EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK: Alan Davis' "Captain America"

[CBR News]

The legendary Alan Davis explodes onto "Captain America" with the Shattered Heroes tie-in issue #6. Marvel has provided CBR with an [em]exclusive[/em] look at Davis and writer Ed Brubaker's first issue together.


Full article here.

[keilthetarheel]

beautiful pencils.

Sometimes his finished work does not look as sharp - I now know it is the inker's fault. His pencils are great

[Corey W]

I am marginally excited about this. I have been a fan of Davis's for two decades and his art is always terrific. And I love Cap and Brubaker.

But, on the other hand, Avengers Prime was my least favorite comic since the Storm/Masters marriage was retconned. The excitement that I do have comes from the fact that I don't blame that book's characterization on Davis (although, that probably isn't completely fair since the artist has a huge impact on how the story is read).

[devildinosaur]

Not to dismiss previous artists' work--but Alan Davis is absolutely sublime. I'll assume Mark Farmer is inking?

[Rheged]

Holy cow. Those are gorgeous pencils. Davis makes it look so easy.

[rogerio]

Dated style but still gorgeous.

[NickFury90]

McNiven is sucking out allll the joy I could possibly get from Brubaker's Captain America right now. He even made fighting a giant Captain America robot boring, and that takes some talent! So ready for Alan Davis to get in here and show everybody how its done.

[tedbragg1]

Alan's work inspires me to get back to the drawing table... I'd love to see a video of him making a page --

[Nomads1]

One of the all time greatests.

Peace

[samson3191]

McNiven is sucking out allll the joy I could possibly get from Brubaker's Captain America right now. He even made fighting a giant Captain America robot boring, and that takes some talent! So ready for Alan Davis to get in here and show everybody how its done.

Really? I love the art on Cap right now. Davis' sketches are looking great, though.

[B. Kuwanger]

There's a reason they're not showing just any old pencils from Comic #A. McNiven runs from "pretty good" to "really cool" but Davis on his own has a tough time dipping below "excellent."

[IronMagnus]

Such beautiful art!

Who is the lady with the great legs? Madame Hydra?

[Predabot]

The lady with the legs appears to be the new Madame Hydra yes, or rather, QUEEN Hydra. She hails from an extra-dimensional world, another plane of existence where the terrain is shapeable with your very thoughts, a place where all of your subconscious is made real.

...

...Yeah... She's the evil version of the Princess from Little Nemo. ( quite literally, if you read into the story and whom Jimmy Jupiter is)

[artiepants]

Shocked at the negativity on this thread, i mean i LOVE me some Alan Davis (one of my faves going back to at least 90s Excalibur) but McNiven is in another league (from 99% of comic artists IMHO). Just a modern master.

[kalorama]

It's insane how good this guy is.

Not to dismiss previous artists' work--but Alan Davis is absolutely sublime. I'll assume Mark Farmer is inking?

Pretty safe bet. Not to take anything away from Farmer, who has always done a great job, but I wouldn't mind seeing Davis' pencils inked by someone else (including Davis himself). And while I'm generally not a big fan of books that feature colors applied directly over uninked pencils, I'd like to see Davis' stuff in that format, at least once; I think his pencils are so solid and complete (without being overworked) that they'd come through really well.