I have to be honest I was shocked when Dom Reardon went out in the first round of the Current Tourney, though it was a very close run thing with Simon Coloeby. His high contrast art perfectly captures the grotesque horrors of Tharg's darker side. Simon Harrison also shocked me in the first round of his tourney knocking out personal fav Colin Wilson, but I do love his art, but it can be marmite, losing out to the clean lines of Alan Davis in the next round.
Both artists show 2000ad's dark underbelly but which one tickles you the most?
Time for you to decide your favourite as the droids square up to the tee...
Dom Reardon - more info (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=droid&page=profiles&choice=domr)
OR
Simon Harrison - more info (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=droid&page=profiles&choice=SIMONH)
Remember for this tourney you have 5 votes to distribute as you please between these two artists, whole numbers only. So you can vote 5 - 0; 4 - 1; or 3 - 2; either way depending on how much more you like one artist's work over the other.
If you can't be doing with that just name your favourite - remember bold tags, or other ways of highlighting always appreciated - and I'll give them 3 votes and nowt to the other droid.
Three day votes, so this one ends morning of Saturday 15th May
Remember we only consider work for Tharg in these Tourneys
What the heck is all this about - well we have a thread for that (https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=47534.0)
How does this new voting work? Look here (https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=47534.msg1059536#msg1059536) and why again? (https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=47534.msg1059557#msg1059557)
I don't understand how this works, what are the rules of the Ryder Cup - yep got ya covered there too (https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=47534.msg1059595#msg1059595)
Anything else just ask and I'll make something up. Most importantly have fun!
5-0 Dom.
So glad he's back in the prog.
5 - 0 Dom
Love Simon's work on Revere, and, yes, I think he did a decent job on Strontium Dog. Dom's hugely atmospheric work brings a lot to the table, so for me it's Simon Harrison 2, Dom Reardon 3.
Dom 3 : 2 Simon.
Simon has drawn some truly incredible intricate things for the prog, and I even count myself as a member of the Final Solution-liking* minority. But there's somethIng about Dom's slabs of black, negative space and spiky outlines that are exactly what I want from comics art.
*This is definitely a problematic phrase in more than one way.
Simon Harrison 3, Dom Reardon 2.
Dom Reardon 5 : 0 Simon Harrison
Dom Reardon - 1
Simon Harrison - 4
Harrison 3
Reardon 2
SBT
Reardon 4 - Harrison 1
I get the feeling I might change my mind on this once the UCs volume with Revere in it appears as the snippets I've seen look phenomenal
Surprised by the way this is going! I'm a BIG Harrison fan, and much as I love Reardon's work he's not in the same league.
Harrison 4, Reardon 1 for me.
Reardon 4 Harrison 1 for me. Big Dom fan!
Ay Yi Yi! My all-time favourite versus the first artist whose work I owned a piece of.
Both intensely stylised artists whose idiosyncracies shine in black & white but who can also produce beautiful colour work. Simon is definitely my preference but I can't split them by a significant margin.
Reardon 2 - 3 Harrison
Dom Reardon (3) Simon Harrison (2)
Harrison 4, Reardon 1
Reardon Rovers 5 Harrison Town 0
Only a day to go on this one and we'll close it down and I'll annouce the result first thing tomorrow morning - so any votes get them in today... could this be the tie Current Team so desperately need?
To that end about time I did. ... hmmm do you ever think you are swimming against the tide? That your view of art and artists is a little out of step. Here, much as I love Dom Reardon's art Simon Harrison's quality was so fresh and innovative that I can't look too far beyond him, its just the scale of the margin that's in debate. I think give just how bold Simon's art is I have to be bold with my vote, but I can't ignore how much I love Dom's work so I guess that leaves me:
Dom Reardon 1 : Simon Harrison 4
VOTING CLOSED
The Current Team needed a win, Classic were stretching their lead and no one, not even ageless stars like Brendan McCarthy, or finalists in their own tourney seemed able to stop it... it was beginning to feel like they were going to be sweep aside. And so step forward an unlikely hero. Maybe not one of the superstars of this team, but a fantastic artist all the same. There might not have been quite as many votes as normal, but to use the cliche it doesn't matter, a scrappy result would be a result just the same and no one would care how it came. Dom Reardon has done it for them with a solid win and the question now is can others build from this?
Current Team 2 : Classic Team 6
Current Team 326: Classic Team 469