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Ben Templesmith

 
 
Quantum
09:51 / 24.09.05
Ben Templesmith does most of the zombie and vampire comics recently, AFAIK. I think he's got a great artistic style, especially for dark toned material like '30 days of night'.

But his writing is pretty poor. I just read 'Singularity', and although the style was great, the story was a cobbled together bastard child of the Matrix and Terminator. Nanites take over the world, civilisation huddles together underground hunted by cybernecrosoldiers, meh. Cheese.

Anyone else have anything to say about him?
 
 
sleazenation
12:28 / 25.09.05
My only interaction with his art has been in Warren Ellis's Fell. It's interesting stuff, infusing a more varied and dynamic carttoning element into the McKean/Barron Storey mix mould, I'd like to see what he can make of stuff that is slightly more than Warren Ellis doing warren Ellis- I might well have to check out 30 Days of Night at some point...
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
13:09 / 25.09.05
I thought 30 Days Of Night was excellent- though (and I know this is supposed to be about Templesmith, so I'll keep it short) Niles seems to be incredibly patchy... either very good (30 Days) or fucking terrible (Remains).

I really like the combination of paint and sketchiness... some of his facial expressions are fab, too.
 
  
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