I think your expectations are unrealistic.
Not sure who you're talking about. Canete and Stoffels, maybe? For anything besides Lim's and Ernst's properties, Iconic is just Tim Lim's version of Rippasend and it doesn't even ship to Europe.
Stoffels is a phenomenal artist.
Canete is also great.
And Douglas Ernst's stories are fantastic too.
I'm just saying, if you have the artistic eye, you can, of course, evaluate if someone else is a good artist.
I want my books to resemble a cross between early 2000's DC and modern manga. Others, like Dogman and they like Dogman so much, they don't care if he looks like a child drew him.
You call me a relativist, I call you that guy that analyzes the artistic merit of the banana duct taped to the wall.
This is where you got tricked, my friend.
You have at least partially accepted that all opinions have some value, but no, some people are worthless with bad taste, and if someone with bad taste likes bad art, it just reinforces that there is objectively good and bad art.
I don't mind analyzing the artistic merit of the banana duct-taped to the wall.
It's objectively of pretty low artistic value.
If you insist Frazetta's style be the standard by which the visuals must meet, there won't be a comic book medium based in America. You think the books are late NOW? Wait until every single panel has to be hand painted.
Frazetta famously could complete one of his oil paintings in a day.
@FROG, how long does it take you?
I get it; he is one of the best, so not a fair standard to hold EJ to, but I didn't do that. I brought him up because he is a good example of the existence of an obvious hierarchy in artistic quality.
I don't think Chuck and Mike or the Soskas are a bad fit, it's a new universe that's growing pretty fast and it's made some mistakes that come with growing fast. Again, IMAGE fucked up a lot. (Still does in my opinion.)
There is really no point in arguing about this.
I think EJ will not get the right people in the immediate future, and the next few comics he creates will suck.
But we will see what happens.
Eric July ain't drawing shit you imbecile.
Woosh