Pipeline - Jun 5, 2012

[CBR News]

"Batman" and "Justice League" are two of the most popular New 52
titles from DC Comics. This week, Augie looks at their first collections before weighing in on the latest "Before Watchmen" promotion.


Full article here.

[thc-1138]

"Judgement" with an "e" is the proper British way to spell it, and Alan Moore is British...

[Roldan]

"Judgement" with an "e" is the proper British way to spell it, and Alan Moore is British...

Umm.. I spell it that way. Also both books are great, everyone should read them.

[Johnny Thunders]

Scott Snyder has been knocking it out of the park consistently in "Batman".

Geoff Johns Justice League... is a boring, abysmal joke.

[Gorgeousaur]

Well, other than having ten random fonts in ten random sizes at ten different alignments or spacings all together on one cover.

Anyone care to speculate on what cover that was? I'd love to see that train wreck.

I don't know what cover that was, but that other bit I quoted reminded me of a lot of the adverts they have in Japan, or at least the ones in their public transportation

They seem to try to cram as much info about their product as they can in them, and use all sorts of sizes and colors to separate each bit of info.
The same is true for a lot of magazine covers and ads.
What Rian Hughes is talking about sounds a bit worse than what I posted, but it's the first thing that came to mind.

[bluedevil2002]

The second problem is an age-old Jim Lee issue: the inking. I didn't realize it until afterwards, but there's a secondary inker credit after Scott Williams. Three familiar WildStorm names are credited with additional inks: Sandra Hope, Batt and Mark Irwin

I always cringe when I see Sandra Hope's name as inker. It didn't look right over Jim Lee's Infinite Crisis covers, and I feel it takes some effort to make Jim Lee's art look disappointing.

[William Hodge]

Yeah, I noticed the big fall off on Jim Lee's art too. I kinda chalked it up to the fact he has other duties at DC too. But it was good that he did the entire 6 issues instead of there being a fill in artist.

[Devan]

You`re right about the colouring on JL, Augie. But this is a problem that many comic books, especially those featuring superheroes, have these days. A cast of several costumed individuals plus hectic artwork with unnecessary crosshatching and overly bright digital colouring results in an aesthetic that can only be classified as garish. Justic League is desperately in need of a more muted colour palette or less glossy paperstock. Take a look at all those beautiful Image and Dark Horse books with thicker paper stock and more subdued colouring. Heck, think back to all the great comic books from the 80s and 90s by publishers such a Eclipse, Marvel Epic, First Publishing, post-Swamp Thing DC etc. which thrived on pre-digital colouring. Digital colouring was supposed to make comics better, but it hasn`t IMO. Why buy the superhero comic books of today when there is an abundance of more attractive material from the past to choose from?

[Sparks303]

"Punks Destroy England - Are We Next" ? I guess extreme right thinks punk started in 1970s England, as opposed to reality, where the punk movement started in the United States during the 1960s. That damn New Frontiersman can't seem to get anything correct, damn right wing propaganda. Hector Godfrey needs to resign.

[sinned2007]

The issue with the 10 fonts was an issue of X-men or an x-men related title that was part of the Fatal Attractions storyline (the one with the Holograms on the cover). I'll have to double check what issue when I get home.

[dancj]

Watchmen is set in an alternate reality where cars ran on electricity in the 80s, America win the Vietnam War and Nixon is still president. Maybe another difference is that Americans still spell 'judgement' the correct (ie British :P ) way.

I hate seeing that word with the 'e' missing.