I don't even know what you'd call this "style" but it's deeply unappealing to me in a way i can't articulate
Why does every new American comic look like this?
I don't even know what you'd call this "style" but it's deeply unappealing to me in a way i can't articulate
>I don't even know what you'd call this "style"
"Well drawn"?
It seems to me like you've gotten too used to tumblr webcomic amateurish garbage.
Maybe it's the colors? All is this looks worse than literally any 90s vertigo book.
From a technical standpoint, the Vertigo books were pretty poorly drawn. The OP image is well drawn.
It's just a very generic cover showing three characters somewhat posing for no reason. I never liked these kind of covers. It works more like a display of action figures.
It makes me think of the whole comic as hackwork before I even read it.
>Dave McKean, Glenn Fabry, John Totleben, Brian Bolland, Charles Vess
>poorly drawn
Sad to say none of these covers look interesting.
>Hehe nothing is good enough for me unless it was already considered a classic before I started reading comics
Okay homosexual.
Classic capeschizo response.
Except almost none of the comics you were so nonplussed about were capes and you were jerking off famous cape cover artists (ones I admittedly like as well), so who's really the capeschizo here dumbass?
You are.
>Dave McKean, Glenn Fabry, John Totleben, Brian Bolland, Charles Vess
Most of those were 80's Vertigo or largely covers, not interiors.
I'm discussing covers, since the OP image is a cover.
except Frank is drawing the interiors as well.
Again, I only talked about covers.
It's overly rendered and abit boomery looking in terms of "greeting fellow kidsters, this is what you think is cool". It's well drawn but that almost makes it more cringe
>. It's well drawn but that almost makes it more cringe
please explain this to me, is this how zoomers think or something?
The lame characters drawn so detailed makes them more cringe. If they were rendered simpler with a more appealing/unique style, even these lame early 2000s looking character designs could have worked.
that's fricking stupid.
>lame characters
How exactly are they lame?
What a moronic opinion.
Seriously.
Don’t liek it, don’t pay for it, there’s 50,000 free wannabes that cater to your… “taste”.
Then don’t read it
"House style" is a cancer killing comics. Gary Frank is just your typical perpetrator of this unremarkable slop. It's always so static/lifeless and he sucks at drawing faces in particular.
>new
Mate, Ghost Machine is just an assembly of talent who was more notable a decade and a half ago
You can find PLENTY of variety in just Image alone
House style hasn't been relevant in years
>House style hasn't been relevant in years
So why is so much of DC and Marvel's output so samey?
Because they tend to be Italians for some reason these days
Regardless of any current "house style" there is, it's nowhere near as identical as house style back in the 2000's
It isnt lol
I’d actually argue that’s a major problem. There hasn’t been a house style or consistency in character models for decades.
There shouldn't be.
Wrong
There shouldn't be, in comics as a whole
There should be, in Marvel/DC so that the ones who break from it, stand out
Nah, consistency is overrated, variation is the spice of life. If anything it needs more controlled experimentation. Now just because something deviates from the boring house style doesn't make it inherently good since there's plenty of wonky looking shit out there but stylized stuff tends to be more interesting on average.
image comics and its consequences have been a disaster for the comic industry
What? It's just Johns and his group of artists he sniped from DC working on his imprint. Image overall has greater variety than DC and Marvel so I don't know what the frick you're talking about.
>meanwhile at Image Comics right now
Complain about the content of any of these all you like but you'll need to elaborate more on what the unifying factors of this supposedly pernicious and ubiquitous style are
I really hate how disingenuous the entire Ghost Machine imprint is.
I don't care for it but I'm also perfectly fine if it takes off and satisfies people who want to hold onto Johns era DC
This is comics, it needs every possible success it could find
>Witty wienery Han Solo quipster knockoff
>The Girl Boss. She's super serial.
>Skull guy- probably the comic relief Deadpool type, designed to get cosmic ghostrider sales.
It's so fricking lame. Is this the power of Johns without DC ips?
guy- probably the comic relief Deadpool type, designed to get cosmic ghostrider sales.
Geiger's not comic relief, he's actually the closest thing to a mascot for this Imprint given his comic was the first and his setting was nicknamed the Geigerverse until being offically declared "The Unnamed"
>Girl Boss
She's not the main character of her comic actually
I could tell he was the mascot
I Like it, I love house style and it's one of the reasons I stick to comics.
Which is exactly why capeshit is dying
It's true, stagnation is the name of the game. There's a reason sales have been nothing but a downward trend for a long while now.
it's just a boring cover
House Style is better than most
ai art
I'm not the biggest Gary Frank fan but come the frick on Anon
it's called lazy
/co/ntrarianism at it's finest
Why does the one character with breasts have a boob window?
Coomercore art is bad.
shut the frick up moron.
I think it's a combination of composition (just three figures standing) and the color scheme. It's not inherently bad, but it does feel a little plain.
friendly non-harmful post apocalyptic style, you call it that way.
It's basically just an evolution of 2000s DC house style and the more "realistic" look of 2000s comics. Technically well drawn but utterly boring to look at. Lots of details but completely lifeless.
are these even cape books?
Modern comics trace over real life photos, this is why it often looks ugly and unnatural. Plus awful coloring.