I can never make up my mind whether I _like_ this guy's _books_, but his artwork is one of the pros on my list - he paints the pages. With a brush, and all. http://www.nocturnals.com/?q=node/107
Pros: usually-positively-portrayed female characters, lack of assholity from sympathetic male characters, nifty character naming (of course "Eve" would be short for "Evening", if your dad's name is "Doc Horror", interesting _ideas_, sometimes, and always the art (except for that one ugly orange-and-black section).
Cons: in many ways, its a horror comic - at the very least, gothic and/or grotesque, which is not usually my thing. The protagonist-type characters do usually have fairly stereotypically comics-y body types. The plots are sometimes difficult to piece together.
Pro-again: despite the horror themes, usually not gory, which makes up a ot of the ground that would be lost to that, for me.
Anyway. I keep meaning to check out Umbrella Academy. Was about to go walk over to the neighborhood independent comic store. Maybe I will see if they've got any. Thanks for the reminder!
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http://www.nocturnals.com/?q=node/107
Pros: usually-positively-portrayed female characters, lack of assholity from sympathetic male characters, nifty character naming (of course "Eve" would be short for "Evening", if your dad's name is "Doc Horror", interesting _ideas_, sometimes, and always the art (except for that one ugly orange-and-black section).
Cons: in many ways, its a horror comic - at the very least, gothic and/or grotesque, which is not usually my thing. The protagonist-type characters do usually have fairly stereotypically comics-y body types. The plots are sometimes difficult to piece together.
Pro-again: despite the horror themes, usually not gory, which makes up a ot of the ground that would be lost to that, for me.
Anyway. I keep meaning to check out Umbrella Academy. Was about to go walk over to the neighborhood independent comic store. Maybe I will see if they've got any. Thanks for the reminder!