I'm loving Zama/Burcham's work on the art. it works well for the Junkions. it's the kind of heavy shaded/gritty look that hack Ramondelli tries so hard to do. but there is enough colour and the characters are actually drawn on model enough to tell them apart properly. also, yeee New Lady Junkion. toy of Rum-Mag please Hasbro?
Ooh, I actually really like Wreck Gar here. Paneling took me a second to understand he\'s able to detach his head willy-nilly, but I like the idea. Looking forward to this.
The way the Junkions are colored here they can\'t help but remind me of hair metal bands outfits from the eighties.
Looks like Barber's pulling his usual magic of weaving the stuff we'd rather forget into a forward moving part of the narrative. I approve.
I like the different, junk-parts used to create patchwork style Junkions, but the overall art looks too dirty and obscure. I client really understand what was going on. Mind you, that seems to be the norm in IDW comics that I\'ve read.
he's just thinking what everyone else who isn't a Junkion in the preview is thinking UP "the frag is wrong with them?" or "iiiiiii (or weeeee in Victorion and the Torchbearer's case) got a bad feeling about this" or maybe "this is gonna end badly, I just know it will end in blood (or Energon) shed"
Wreck gar just said "Nonpartisan practical alternatives to violence. We're slathered in the stuff. Now who toom speaking. .." I would said uh? too As close a quote as I could remember without checking, wreck gar talks weirdness, and is sort of awkward when someone shouts how nonviolent they are as part of their introduction. I think it was actually a really nice touch by Barber, his writing has been excellent recently
Exactly. Thought it was just me but reading these comments sends me an "Emperor has no clothes" vibe. this art work and coloring is annoying at best.
Yeah. I personally am really digging the art/color combination, but I get not everyone will. The me of 10 years ago might not have dug this, for that matter.
Hm... who's this Kei Zama. I guess I've had my head down for a little while. At first I thought it might be Milne introducing a new style. There are little touches of Milne in the way the robots are drawn (not a bad thing) but definitely with a whole think of his own. Reminds me a bit of the old G2 Japanese comics, with those strong shadows. I knew the colours were Burcham immediately, of course... even with the old dot-printing overlay. No mistaking that palette. I like the art, though it's a bit compressed and chaotic. Maybe if Zama expanded his panels larger on the page, it would read better... but then, these days everbody reads digitally anyway, so I guess that doesn't matter anymore. In any case, it has a definite flair. It almost makes me want to slog through Barber's tired dialogue. zmog
Whoops, my bad. Serves me right for assuming. But, what's interesting is that, subconsciously, I recognize Zama's work as being a "masculine" style... like, I didn't even think to check on her gender, because the art looked like "male" art. Obviously I was wrong, but the artwork itself still feels like it has a "masculine" vibe to it. I know that makes no sense, except to say that male and female Transformers artists often seem to gravitate in slightly different stylistic directions, and Zama seems to buck that trend, which is cool, just for its own sake. zmog
I get what you mean. Is it just because the only female artists who've been very well publicised or given official work to do are the ones that tend to draw in a more manga-influenced style? I really like Zama's work panel by panel, but I confess I also find it a little difficult to follow.
