/co/ - Comics & Cartoons

I remember all the comic journalists bloggers crowing about Silk being Asian and a girl, but like how the story goes every time, everyone suddenly stopped caring once the books came out. I decided on a whim to check it out, and Silk despite being in a bunker all of her life is peppy, upbeat and quippy, like all the others. What could have been an interesting character is just Whedon Action Girl #281. Having her get a job at the Bugle also just cements her as yet another SpiderMan. The 'lived her entire life in a bunker' thing is not used to try to make an anti-social or even a borderline autistic character, but just to make lazy pop culture references. Where's all the VHS tapes?? LOL

Very disappointing. However, the covers look really good.

>>1056985

I don't know that much about Silk, but making people horny is a Spider-Woman thing as she spritzes out pheromones. That power has diminished considerably as her new outfit has the uncanny ability to make no one horny. Her comic covers are just as bad as the interior pages.

>>1056986

If only the story and art had been by someone with a preggo fetish…

What are some other great comic covers in our great era of comics?

>>1056953

In Marvel, Gurihiru are the best artist team consistently working on interiors. Unfortunately, they are currently saddled with art duties for Unbeatable Wasp relaunch.

Tradd Moore is pretty good, but he seems to be Cho's replacement as the cover artist who sometimes does interiors to lure people in. Just like Cho, he will likely do less and less interiors as the time goes on. Moore is also getting a bit too extreme with his artstyle lately if New World is anything to go by. It slowly starts to look like western knockoff or Keisuke Itagaki's style.

DC has Sean Gordon Murphy. He is very good overall, but sometimes cuts corners and gets sloppy. Still, he is the best American comic book artist currently working when it comes to drawing cars, bikes, and other machinery. There is also Sean Williams, who is capable of some high quality artwork, but his layout experiments sometimes turn out mixed results. Other than that, DC has some competent people, but no one outstanding. Generally, it is easier to find competent art in a DC book than a Marvel one.

There are quite a few competent people drawing non-big two comics. However, the last person to be truly impressive was Jason Stokoe. I am not too up to date on more recent indie books, since I have less time to read comics nowadays, and prefer European stuff followed by manga.

>>1056937

MUST RAPE AGAIN!

>>1057012

This is probably my favorite cover from the series, barring the comic con variants

>>1057251

>Stokoe

He also did Alien: Dead Orbit and Orc Stain. Both comics are very good overall. Stories are basic but done well, and art is very good. Unlike most American creators, he does everything on both comics, so he uses panels for more than simply illustrating dialogue. Because of that stories and dialogue coexist and complement each other well, dialogues are not overused, and onomatopoeias fit in with the art perfectly.

There is other stuff, Stokoe worked on, but so far I only read Wonton Soup and Fire for Effect. Wonton Soup was ok, but not as good as Dead Orbit and Orc Stain. Fire for Effect is just a silly short story with lots of violence.

>>1057259

Thanks, that's who I actually meant but put Gordon Murphy's name by accident.