What is Chris Bachalo's Best Work?

[ViewtifulJC]

Like Romita Jr, I love both his old and new style. LOVE his sense of humor. Post Gen-X, my favorite work of his is Supernovas

[Greg Anderson]

ambition or not, at least in a Billy Tan comic the reader could tell who is who and what is going on through the panels..

I have never seen an artist load his pages with more useless crap and grit and muck like Bachalo does.

Some of his pages are completely unrecognizable and so messy I have to put the book down...

I can actually tell what goes on in a Bachalo comic. Originally when I first started seeing his work, I hated it and had the same problems. Over time his art grew on me and it was like I finally understood his style. I found all my old comics that had is art and was mesmerized as I realized a bunch of things I didn't before. It was like finally understanding a language and looking back and realizing certain conversations you just couldn't understand.

[Movieartman]

Movieartman, are you planning on doing one of these threads for every other Marvel artist?

no im only doing so when a major thing come up for said artist, in this case its bachalo being premoted to drawing the flagship x title, and i also only tipicaly do this for more mixed artist, it gives people more room to discuss what the like and dont like about his work. like someone like Stuart Immonen and Olivier Coipel most people love, so it would be a very one sided disscussion. just saying.

Really? I think their work looks very similiar. The shadows are part of it, but also the rubbery looks their figures have.

not sure what you mean by rubbery, but deadato's seem more and more like action figures brought to life, like with the gigantic Leg Muscles he gives people, or the giant hands he gives the hulk and ares and such.
while bermejo i think is more hardcore realistic (look at his Hellblazer covers) i never really see exaggerated phisicaly features from him. just saying

That early Generation X stuff was just flawless IMHO. His M is absolutely stunning everytime she's on panel.

that is very good, who is the guy with the mask with the tubes coming from it, he looks like a Engineer with his space suit on

[SJNeal]

^ ^ ^

That's Emplate. He most recently showed up in an arc of X-Men: Legacy a couple of yrs ago.

[B. Kuwanger]

A lot of people probably prefer that by far, but I'm glad Bachalo doesn't seem to be pushed to be less experimental.

Someone mentioned Billy Tan... I wish they would actually push him to be MORE experimental, holy crap.

[FanboyStranger]

not sure what you mean by rubbery, but deadato's seem more and more like action figures brought to life, like with the gigantic Leg Muscles he gives people, or the giant hands he gives the hulk and ares and such.
while bermejo i think is more hardcore realistic (look at his Hellblazer covers) i never really see exaggerated phisicaly features from him. just saying

That's exactly what I mean: their figures seem like rubber models of people with a certain sheen to them. Bermejo's may be more realistic as far as proportion, but I still see that effect. It may be something to do with his inking, and I think that's something that Deodato took from him when he developed his new style. It's not bad, by any means, and it doesn't necessarily take me out of the story, but when I look at their respective work, that's what I see first.

[Clark_Krunk]

That early Generation X stuff was just flawless IMHO. His M is absolutely stunning everytime she's on panel.

This is Chris at his best... This page isn't filled with useless lines and muck and grit. I liked his style on Generation X as well... Currently his style gets convoluted. Especially on team books...

[MFDoom]

Love all of his work, from his early work to today.

Quick story:

I work as a home theater installer, and one day I look on my orders of the day, none other than Chris Bachalo's name was on it. I set up a TV in his home, mentioned to him I was a fan. He showed me around his Home Studio and gave me a handful of comics he signed. I was stoked to meet him.

[Greg Anderson]

A lot of people probably prefer that by far, but I'm glad Bachalo doesn't seem to be pushed to be less experimental.

Someone mentioned Billy Tan... I wish they would actually push him to be MORE experimental, holy crap.

Heh, I agree. Billy Tan, while an obviously good artist, bores me. There's nothing there that really stands out.

[ChristianJCote]

Death: The High Cost of Living. It was simple and clean, though I like his crazy and messy too. Time of Your Life was also good, but The High Cost of Living got me into comics.

I enjoyed his run on X-Men most of his Marvel stuff. That cover with Mystique and Iceman was just great.

[Frank]

His Generation X stuff will never be beat.

I think with most artists in comic, there's a period where they are out of the comfort zone yet it's just before they go nuts, I think it's usualy the best stuff. Bachalo is the same in that while I liked his Death stuff, it looks good and sweet, it was very much down to Earth and "muted" and "artsy" and when he did Generation X it was him trying to do action super-hero stuff and it opened a lot of possibilities for him and his style along with that comic meshed well and resulted in something pretty special and it was genius for the editor at Marvel that saw that in his work to hire him. But then he did Steampunk, it went all over the place and it never really returned to where it was on Generation X. It's like doing that book he lost all sense of anatomy and structure and a lot of things he did afterward ended looking ugly and unappealing. And to compensate recently he tried to keep his drawings in the traditional square box comic panels. While on Generation X his stories usualy went all over the panels, breaking all rules yet it looked beautfiful and not messy.

[Filip]

Nothing on that list can even touch or come near Shade The Changing Man. That was perfect synergy of two geniuses.

Bachalo needs a good long run on a title. He has too many short runs that then switch over to another artist. Hopefully we'll get a decent run on his upcoming Uncanny X-Men title with Bendis.

I don't think he can pump out a lengthy run. He's been very slow these years, which is a shame, bc his pop art always makes me feel warm and fuzzy.