Coupla Things

[beckyh2112]

Dragon*Con post will probably go up tomorrow. Today is winding down, unpacking, and trying to become sane again. (I have a plush kiwi bird, eeeeeee

Comments

[dunmurderin]

Oooh! Plus kiwi bird! *is jealous*

[beckyh2112]

He is adorable and lovely and I love him!

[charles_rb]

#24 is co-plotted by Roberts, thus proving once and for all that it's not the idea so much as the execution.

Though it helps if the idea is ORION PAX RIDES A CORPSE AT HIS ENEMIES. He's the REAL Ghost Rider!

[invisiblemoose]

That'd make him more of a corpse rider than a ghost rider, wouldn't it?

And yes, execution needs to be good too. I think the other problem was that it was scripted by the other guy.

It's also worth noting that the artist, Alex Milne, was also the artist for TF Origins: Megatron, but the breakdowns were terrible and nonsensical and yet in 22 & 23 they are crisp and easy to follow. So sometimes it's not just the artist but the script he has to work with, too.

[charles_rb]

#22 and #23 is crammed with detail and character and incident and word balloon, so Milne's art really shouldn't look so much better than Origins. A big chunk of that is Milne being better than he was four years ago, but clearly Roberts knows how to communicate to artists.

[invisiblemoose]

Au contraire. If you look at his TF: Energon work in 2004,milne was doing vastly better working with Furman, then he did in Origins.

[invisiblemoose]

I am amused at how America calls kiwifruit kiwi, and now seems to call kiwis kiwi birds.

I totally agree with you re: the last three TF issues. I wanted to really like the art for issue 24 for being different, but yeah, the colourist kinda messed it up.