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Who’s the best comic artist of all time in your opinion (I’d have to go for Alex Ross or Tim Sale)
8 upvotes, 16 comments. Yik Yak image post by big_al_the_riddler in Marvel. "Who’s the best comic artist of all time in your opinion (I’d have to go for Alex Ross or Tim Sale)"
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Anonymous 7w

I like Ross’s art so much I have his Superman as my wallpaper, huge fan of his realism

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Anonymous 7w

My personal fave is Bruno Redondo. I know his designs are simpler in comparison to Alex Ross or Tim Sale, but his style to me perfectly combines old school comic charm with really interesting panel setups

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Anonymous 7w

Todd McFarlane

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Anonymous 7w

Rob Liefeld making this

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Example

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 7w

Mcfarlane’s big strengths are his excellent sense of dramatic lighting and his ability to make highly detailed scenes easy to parse without being cluttered

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 7w

Also: his capes. This man knew how to draw some sick as hell capes

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Anonymous replying to -> pirosnake 7w

Off of this

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Anonymous replying to -> pirosnake 7w

If we’re talking bad comic art, this Superman panel always cracks me up

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Anonymous replying to -> pirosnake 7w

Or this atrocious Wolverine cover

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Anonymous replying to -> big_al_the_riddler 7w

This was just a bad idea 👎

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Anonymous replying to -> pirosnake 7w

After this came out I briefly browsed through a Twitter thread that highlighted the worst panels and it’s not even “haha fart funny” juvenile humor, it’s literally fart fetish material. Characters get turned on by farts in it every other page. The plot is apparently Harley wanting to resurrect infamous fart fetishist and author James Joyce because she likes the smut fart fetish letters he wrote his wife. Even the fucking tagline is “calling all sickos”. Poor Harley, man

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Anonymous replying to -> big_al_the_riddler 7w

I don’t think the anybody that had anything to do with this got fired.

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Anonymous replying to -> pirosnake 7w

They should be. The thing has full on scratch and sniff pages. It’s like the DC execs secretly hate Harley or something and wanted to progressively ruin her character by making her spout reddit humor constantly and this was their attempt at a final nail in the coffin. The Poison Ivy x Harley shit has gotten really cringe in the comics as well because there’s currently a whole plotline about Harley getting cucked, no exaggeration (panel

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Anonymous replying to -> big_al_the_riddler 7w

Panel related*

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Anonymous replying to -> big_al_the_riddler 7w

They can only lie to shareholders for so long.

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