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Yeah, but surely "based on" is the important part of that statement? Readers are capable of getting the 'weathered, hard-drinking PI' bit without having it forced down their throats in every. single. panel.
My main complaint about that particular current problem is that it jars so badly with the rest of the art in the book. It's like if Ray Winstone took over the part of Phil Mitchell in Eastenders: you know where the inspiration's come from, but the sudden appearance of a face that's so well-known in the middle of a universe that you also know, but is of a completely different nature, constantly pulls you out of the fictional reality that the writer's built up and screams the words "THIS ISN'T REAL" into your face.
The other main difference that causes Gulacy's Slam to be so annoying is that when you and Pulido drew him - and I need to say here that Pulido's three issues were absolutely bloody beautiful - he was obviously part of the same design scheme as the rest of the characters. The same amount of care and attention had been put into depicting all of them, when two or more occupied the same page or panel they all felt like they were in the same universe and none pulled attention away from any of the others. Whereas with Gulacy, he seems to have spent five seconds sketching out Selina, Holly or whoever, failing to get any of their features in proportion to each other, and half an hour making sure that Slam's eyebrows to look exactly as Mitchum's do in whichever reference he's used. There's a horrible cardboard cut-out hyper-reality sort of thing going on with Slam that pulls every scene he's in apart at the seams.
Also, your Slam didn't look like he was suffering from narcolepsy and your Selina didn't have anti-gravity ski-slope enormo-boobs.
FinderWolf> I'm with you on the feeling that the story's going nowhere now. To be fair, I think the writing is also at fault here - other than the ongoing thing with the cat statue, all the plot elements seem to be exactly the same as the last major arc. Selina puts people in danger by not thinking things through. Slam ends up in hospital. Selina gets told off by friends, throws a moody, but secretly knows that they're right. Selina makes efforts to refocus. Selina and Slam have big argument. Slam regrets big argument. |
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