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Dom Reardon Cabals Cover....please!

Started by DavidXBrunt, 25 June, 2005, 05:02:37 AM

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LARF

That is an excellent cover, but I would like to see a Dom cover as well, as for the 'Photoshop filter' situation, it's very easy for someone not adept at Pshop to actually bring in the obligatory filters line, but if you look at Clint's covers his work is an extremely good balance of his skills as an artist, digital manipulation and the aforementioned filters. It looks like he uses the filters sparingly, only when necessary and he uses them very well. I'm a great fan of Clint's work and do despair sometimes when there's the backlash against digital art because they think the artist cheats by using a computer - far from it, I would say it's a completely different way of working - and can be far more time consuming and difficult to attain the standards that Clint Langley works to.

So F**k off as well

:-)

Funt Solo

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Wils

Oh I *am* calm. It's just that "Wah! Another [insert 'persecuted' comic creator name] bashing thread! Winge! Winge! Power converters!" posts *really* piss me off.

My opinion (if I've not already said) is that I think his Photoshop work is great and does some marvellous texturing, but I think his core drawing skills (especially anatomy and storytelling) are quite poor and tend to be overladen with computer generated 'distractions'. Fate, of course, will have a problem with my critique and scold me accordlingly, I'm sure.

Dudley

While loving Clint's old painted artwork, and much of the work he did on the "Robin Hood" Slaine, and indeed much of his strip work, I have to say that his covers for Caballistics haven't exactly rocked my boat.

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Langley's very polished, and it just doesn't sit with the rawness of the Cabs strip work, IMO.

Funt Solo

AOTRMeme:  The one of Hannah Chapter and the Raising Hell one both stand out (IMO) as amongst the best covers of their era (if you spread all the covers out on the floor in an attempt to choose the best ones for your Wall of 2000AD).

I never liked that one in the middle.

Wils:  Power converters?  wtf?
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paulvonscott

He's having a crack at Luke Skywalker now.

Oddboy

Clint does do a great cover....

....it's not his fault that IMO Dom Reardon is an amazing artist, and as such would much prefer to see him do the covers for Cabs.

They are two very different styles, it does seem strange to 'advertise' (for that's surely what a cover is) the story-art by Dom with the cover-art by Clint.
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Funt Solo

Tis a very good point, and one that usually winds me up as well:  my fave artist doing the strip and then someone else doing the cover.  Or round the other way, where the cover is amazing and the strip art is by some grexnix.

Even worse:  the first series of a strip is gorgeous, drawn by someone with jaw-dropping talent (even on their bad days), gives the strip a certain look and feel and then they (they!) pass it over to someone absolutely average for every single subsequent series.  

(*cough* The VCs *cough*)
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Dark Jimbo

I've always thought the very same thing about *that particular strip*. And is it just me or was the first book written better too? When it appeared it quickly became my favourite thrill. When it returned, you'd better believe it wasn't.

Anyway, so as not to change the topic of this thread (sorry):

I like the idea of different artists doing the covers for stories they don't necessarily normally work on, it gives a new riff on old characters and keeps things fresh - AS LONG AS the original artist gets to do some too, which Dom hasn't.
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Oddboy

I like the idea of different artists doing the covers for stories they don't necessarily normally work on, it gives a new riff on old characters and keeps things fresh - AS LONG AS the original artist gets to do some too, which Dom hasn't.

Also - if different artists do it - so far, it's (with the exception of Frazer Irving's zombies-comin-ta-getcha cover - which didn't feature any of the Cabs team themselves) always been Clint Langley on the Caballistics covers.
If it's for variation's sake, more variety would be appreciated!
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Dark Jimbo

Yeah, that's sorta what i meant;
ooh look, a Cabs cover by Frazer Irving
ooh look, a Cabs cover by Dom Reardon
ooh look, a Cabs cover by SB Davis, etc etc

Instead of Langley, Langley, Langley (although i do like his stuff)
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Satanist

Wasnt there another cover with Chapter & Verse and something smashing through a window that was also Irving?

Id also like a Reardon cover.
Hmm, just pretend I wrote something witty eh?

Oddboy

Gah -  darn my memory! I'd forgotten about these two:

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Oddboy

But still, I don't rate those covers very highly either...


and while http://www.2000adonline.com/covers/2000ad/mediumres/1325.jpg"> is a very good picture, there's nothing in it that really seperates it between Caballistics, Inc. and any generic zombie horror he might do (Shaun of the Dead, The End is Nigh)
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longmanshort

Pffp, that's rubbish compared to http://www.tester.org.uk/adversecamber/endisnigh/image/frazer_zombies_small.jpg">

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