Anyone know whether he'll be contributing to Tooth anymore? Nice, clean & clear artwork - love to see some more.
been wondering that myself, blackblood. love to see him back, he was the best thing about lawman of the future.
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Mmm. I'm rereading Missionary Man: Goin' South just now, and his art is gorgeous. It isn't always suited to the strips he's worked on (Sin/Dex & Rogue Trooper spring to mind) but he clicks perfectly on Dredd & MM.
He and D'Israeli are the two artists I'd most like to see returning to 2000AD - Mike McMahon aside, of course ;-)
ever since first encountering d'israeli in deadline i've always wished to see his take on dredd.
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I imagine D'Israeli's take on MC1 would be quite something. I'd like to see him let loose writing & illustrating a few one-off Dredds - something in the style of Citizen Snork, looking at the weird side of life in the Meg.
i'm probably going to get shot to bits for this but here goes anyway. i think McMahon is overated....there, i said it! i have just read Howler in the Megazine and the art is complete crap. i struggled to read the story as Mcmahon seems to have left his roots from the earlier dredd to a more picasso look were everything seems to have bee drawn with a ruler and bears no resembelance to the human form whatsoever. it all angles and bright colours and looks a bloody mess. i agree that his earlier work was good (but by no means my favourite) but his seems to have dwindled to impressionism as his ego has gotten bigger. i await your insults eagerly :o)
I said something along those lines a while back & apparently I was wrong & uncultured.
I like his old stuff but Howler was rubbish.
thanks for the support. what happened to the dead girl then?
The answer is complex and not very convincing but you all read 2000AD so you'll believe anything, so here goes:
I'm a clone of Dead Oddboygirl whose personality was, just prior to its untimely demise, recorded onto a bio-chip which has now been inserted into my new cloned brain - therefore restoring me to my former lively self.
I droped the 'girl' part because Oddgirl is a nonscrot & is unlikely to ever visit this site so our gestult entity guise was slightly misleading.
It seems that death is just as complicated as life.
Err, right then. i'm an engineer, i'll believe most things really......
I doubt Alex will return to comics,
hes now a 3D computer artist in Glasgow.
He gave me a couple of original pages
of MM art when we worked together.
Very under-rated artist...
Alex always seemed to get the worst of it on the input page in 2K. I hated his work on Rogue Trooper and Vector 13, it was just too static and inexpressive. Going South was good, but I could never really get into his work.
I'd love to see more D'Israeli too. Lazarus Churchyard really got me interested in his work. Other than a bit of Sandman, though, I can't seem to find much that he's done (pardon my ignorance), anyone know what he's up to now?
Well, Disraeli was working for Cool Beans, but they went bust last week, so who knows where he'll pop up next.
Oh, and I think Alex Ronald's stuff was generally bloody atrocious. Can't draw faces so you couldn't distinguish one character from another, bodies are always just lumpen shapes, no movement or dynamism in his lines at all, and always either going in too close in things so that sometimes you weren't sure what you were actually looking at, or going the opposite way and pulling back too far so that you weren't getting a good look at what was going on in the panel. A bit of an all-round disaster, really.
Milo, you're right.
Cool Beans has gone bust?!
They were good, but were too ahead of their time, media wise. Sad, though.
I'm not so sure about them being ahead of their time. I think the 'subscribe-to-comics-on-the-net' idea was always a bit iffy.
The allegendly miniscule number of subscribers they had would seem to back up this idea.
And, as someone pointed out to me, the Curse of Marshall Law strikes again.
so i take it that everyone gives ups to my howler sequel idea, then? excellent, if you'd just like to hang on for a mo' whilst mr kingsley gets his chequebook, mr mcmahon...
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Should online comics be free?
What would make an online comic worth paying for?
I think the idea of online comics generally, free or otherwise, is a bit of a non-starter. The very expensive failure of Cool Beans kind of illustrates that point.
I like to read comics elsewhere than in front of a computer. Crashed out on a sofa, or in bed or summat.
I have to say Ronalds art is pretty much the worse I've ever seen in 2000 - Milo sums it up perfectly. Everyone looks llike theyve been badly moulded out of plasticine and dressed in bin liners. Their feet are weird triangular stumps that merge with the ground and the figres are utterly staric and lifeless - how anyone could pine for this stuff, I don't know. Art is a weird thing I know, but just how obviously poorly drawn, badly designed and ill thought out does something have to be to not draw a few fans? Sampsons a case in point - people still say they liked his obviously traced and badly coloured versions of catalogue and glamour photos!
What is it you like about Ronald, as I'd be interested to get some idea about what others see in work I hate (and vice versa?)
>>>I have to say Ronalds art is pretty much the worse I've ever seen in 2000<<<
The worst? Have you seen the last Sin/Dex strip? ;-)
LOL Blackblood !
I actually hadn't posted anything about that after I'd slagged off that Tales of Telguuth artist and people had defended what I thought was pretty indefensible art. But you're right - it does actually make Ronalds stuff look good! Particularly hilarious is Thargs spiel about the art having a "zarjaz dynamic John Woo kinetic style" or some such nonsense. If Tharg is praising this tripe, rather than just putting up with it to fill the pages, I seriously worry about his sanity.
Now I look at that art (and Ronalds and Brashills and Sampsons) and can see no merit in it whatsoever. Yet others can rave about it - when you compare it to the old masters like McMahon, O'Neill and Bolland who sweated blood to produce top quality art its almost like a slap in the face...
Tharg's always hyping his stories - whether they're good or not. He can't criticize his 'mighty organ' & his big head has always been part of his charm.
Oo-er that could be taken the wrong way!
Hmmm! You might be interested in reading this- from the Ninth Art website. It's basically an article about how the internet and comics should be working together, although it doesn't talk about online comics).
Link: Ninth Art
I thought his stuff was a bit iffy at first but the MM stuff won me over. I think his work would be a great loss given the progress that has been made over recent years. I loved the strip with JD bringing the mean machine into glasgow for the head butting contest against the local muties.
Contrasting the humour of that with the bleakness of 'Going South' gives a good show piece of Mr Ronalds talents.