Last days for starting Round 2 votes today and we end with a very interesting one in the Classic Tourney.
I think by now we know each other well enough that I can just cut to the chase now, we can be straight with each other, right. So getting right to it, not dilly dallying around, hammering the nail home with the not faffing around hammer. Screwing the screw right in using the blunt and very Yorkshire screwdriver. No messing, dawdling, aimless wondering or nowt like that. See the target and shooting straight for it. Bish bash bosh point made. I'm here to tell you ... oh hold on I've lost my threa now... something about... errr Excalibur, Outsiders any of that Marvel stuff not counting. Some stuff about errrr not giving a fig about Beckerharrison being your delight... Tharg only... or some such. Arh forget it...
Alas we have to pick our favourite and to do so just pop the name of the art droid you'd most like to go through to the Quarter Finals, but please add anything else you'd like to say as well.
Alan Davis - more info (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=droid&page=profiles&choice=ALAND)
OR
Simon Harrison - more info (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=droid&page=profiles&choice=SIMONH)
This one will close and be counted on the morning of Saturday 23rd January
What the hell is all this? Current state of play Find out more about the Art Droid Tourneys and Round 2 (https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=47242.0)
Who made the 32 in both tourneys?
Entrants in the Current Art Droids Tourney (https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=47044.msg1042917#msg1042917)
Entrants in the Classic Art Droids Tourney (https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=47044.msg1042893#msg1042893)
Rules for what they are worth (https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=47242.msg1049293#msg1049293)
Anything else just ask and I'll make something up.
Alan Davis
Alan Davis
Davis for me
DR vs Revere:
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d0/e6/96/d0e6966ab1de279e1ab6f203b0060599.jpg)
vs
(https://comicvine1.cbsistatic.com/uploads/scale_medium/10/109303/2226847-revere.jpg)
Alan Davis
ooh..love Revere so I'm going for Simon Harrison.
Love Simon Harrison's work but it's Alan Davis that gets my vote here.
I'm going to have to go for Harrison, as I've really fallen out of love with Davis's work since the early days.
SBT
Simon Harrison
Simon Harrison for me!
Both had quite brief tenures and it's a case of punk vs trad here, with Harrison's raw energy vs Davis's refined work. For me, Davis has the edge.
Alan Davis. It's not remotely close.
Simon Harrison
Davis.
Harrison's skulls just annoyed me.
Simon Harrison for me. Alan Davis is great, but I think it's his stuff outside of 2000ad of which I'm particularly fond.
Obviously Alan Davis is brilliant. But there was something about Simon's work that had me riveted. It wasn't realistic, but it wasn't trying to be. His punky collage stuff was just the right fit for the Bradley run where he met famous bands, and later while everyone else was trying to be Bisley, he was doing experimental stuff with watercolours and it was absolutely perfect for Revere. I even liked his work on Strontium Dog, but that's just me. And it really is just me.
Harrison for me.
Alan Davis.
Simon Harrison.
I'm having the same problem in reverse here that I had with 'Simon Coleby' and 'Simon Coleby'. I think until yesterday I recognised him as two different artists, rather than the same fellow with two different styles.
Today, it's the turn of Simon Harrison and Mark Harrison. Somehow, I have conflated the two of them into one being, even though I knew that the names were different! What is going on in my brainses?!
Anyway, I quite liked Simon Harrison's messy loose edged stylings at the time, but I do prefer Alan Davis then and now, so Alan Davis is my pick here.
I like Harrison fine, a real original, especially on Revere, but Harry 20 and DR & Quinch do the trick for me. Alan Davis.
Something Something Davis Something
alan, clearly (and that's the operative word, for me, in this particular vote).
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 20 January, 2021, 01:55:18 PM
I even liked his work on Strontium Dog, but that's just me. And it really is just me.
And me. Welcome to Milton Keynes.
Quote from: Funt Solo on 20 January, 2021, 08:47:32 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 20 January, 2021, 01:55:18 PM
I even liked his work on Strontium Dog, but that's just me. And it really is just me.
And me. Welcome to Milton Keynes.
Glad it's not just me. It's a lonely road we walk here, Funt, but the scene you refer to was a thing of beauty.
Fairly sure I roll this one out from time to time, but I do love it:
(https://i.imgur.com/WeKzqu8.png)
simon harrison
Quote from: Funt Solo on 21 January, 2021, 01:54:53 AM
Fairly sure I roll this one out from time to time, but I do love it:
(https://i.imgur.com/WeKzqu8.png)
That's the one. I snecking love it.
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 20 January, 2021, 01:55:18 PMI even liked his work on Strontium Dog, but that's just me. And it really is just me.
Nah. Possibly my first ever post on here was about how much I loved Simon Harrison's version of Strontium Dog and how disappointed I was when Colin MacNeil was drafted in to take over from him.
Harry 20 on the High Rock was the first new Thrill where I was there from day 1 so I loved it maybe a little more than it deserved. A big part of that was Alan Davis and the way his art could seamlessly blend homemade space capsules and mutant squarks with expressive faces. Lovely.
Simon Harrison's art is a different thing entirely. It's just so full of dynamic energy and movement. Who cares if the faces look weird? Probably true that Revere was a better fit for him with its strange dream logic but putting him onto Strontium Dog was much more exciting just because it was an established strip.
It's
Simon Harrison for me.
Last call for the last vote of Round 2 for the classic side of the Tourney. Let us know your favourite today and I'll let you know the winner tomorrow.
" I even liked his work on Strontium Dog, but that's just me. And it really is just me."
It definitely isn't.
Whilst I would rather Carlos had drawn every Stront tale, I think Harrison was the ideal choice to follow him. Carlos was a totally unique artist with no clones or imitators and his own way of drawing faces. Harrison was the same.
His work on Strontium Dog was so atmospheric and bleak. Feral never looked as good again and Dougal the dog was a great creation.
I love that Harrison was forging his own path with his own style. Whilst others were starting to play with colour, Harrison was showing new ways to play with ink.
It's a shame that stripwise he was giving a poisoned chalice followed by two marmite strips.
I do wonder how things might have been had he been given the A.B.C. Warriors gig. Had there been three artists instead of two, it wouldn't have been pitting SMS versus Bisley in a way that pitting Fabry against Pugh lost us Pugh. Perhaps we might have been enjoying Harrison and SMS's work for a lot longer.
Oh, and Revere is just fantastic.
That is one of my problems carried over from my youth, I could never forgive Simon for "killing" Johnny. So whenever I see his work I have decided not too like it, irrespective how good the strip is. I disliked Revere when it was initial released. I have decided to get the new digital release and read it and judge it accordingly the contents and not my prejudice.
VOTING CLOSED
Have to be honest the fact that this was so close has surprised me. Its always great when these votes surprise you. Both artist drew loads of vote but unlike many votes I suspect that the individual decisions might not have been as close as in other votes? Simon Harrison is an astonishing talent but he divides opinion, some love him (I'm in that camp) some really don't get on. Alan Davis on the other hand is one of the stars of the early Prog but I'd dare to suggest he's not as fondly remembered as some of his contempories?
All that said
Alan Davis
Is into the Quarters.
Quote from: broodblik on 22 January, 2021, 03:32:46 PM
That is one of my problems carried over from my youth, I could never forgive Simon for "killing" Johnny.
In fairness, it was Colin McNeil who did the actual killing scene there. I always liked that story and hated that they undid Johnny's messianic death, but I'm in a minority there and the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, to quote some other little-known sci-fi franchise.
Hershey, now, that's another story.