01 July 2011
The Wonder That Is Flashpoint: Lois Lane & the Amazons of Gor
So I'm reading through the various absolutely wonderful DC FLASHPOINT event series that I have absolutely no complaints about. I think it's a great idea to spend the summer turning over your whole line to people from DCU Online who can't draw anatomy without Poser. For this is the 21st century, and no more Grandpa Pencils. I for one welcome our tracing overlords. And besides, how best to make sure people BEG for your relaunch?
That said, I felt I really needed to bring your attention to the standout achievement of the bunch: LOIS LANE AND THE AMAZONS OF GOR. I think they put it out under a slightly different title. It's just that, especially as someone whose business it is to draw women, I found so much to learn from in this expertly-wrought master class in female anatomy, perspective, and how clothes drape. Behold these four pages drawn by Eddie Nunez, and love them. LOVE THEM.
As you can see, Howard Chaykin has NOTHING on Nunez when it comes to realistic treatment of dresses on the body.
I especially find her incredible disintegrating paper dress to be clever. Best of all, nothing causes the ripping. She merely runs. Look at the page before and the page after. And look at that thigh in the first panel! Is that a muscle? Does he think there's anything between a woman's front and back?
And that pose in panel 2: DRAMATIC. EVERYBODY DO JAZZ HANDS! Her, and the little boy in the exact same pose in the panel below her.
And I really love the sense of mystery. Like how exactly it's clinging to her crotch. As it does in each and every panel.
Also, where does she keep her phone? A question no one wants answered.
Because Nunez has the genius to realize that clothes are just a few more lines you draw on a naked female body.
And the last two panels! WOW. SHE KNOWS BOTH HIS NAMES. It's like at first she was calling out to another Jimmy drowning, and then wanted to avoid confusion.
But here is the crowning achievement.
Look at the Amazon dressed up for a GOR cosplay party. DC, at the least, there are plenty of competent artists who know how to draw sexy women, if that's what you want, WITHOUT making me vomit. Yet you have the genius to not employ them.
And I am absolutely sure there's no reason to even think about a female readership with a Lois Lane book of any kind. KUDOS. Lois Lane fans, REJOICE!
I am full of admiration and my heart is filled with love.
And please, do not call it Trashpoint, because that would be rude. It should not remind you of ULTIMATUM. Not at all.
(all artwork (c)2011 DC Comics)
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OUR COMICS: RETCON-FREE SINCE 1997
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So I'm reading through the various absolutely wonderful DC FLASHPOINT event series that I have absolutely no complaints about. I think it's a great idea to spend the summer turning over your whole line to people from DCU Online who can't draw anatomy without Poser. For this is the 21st century, and no more Grandpa Pencils. I for one welcome our tracing overlords. And besides, how best to make sure people BEG for your relaunch?
That said, I felt I really needed to bring your attention to the standout achievement of the bunch: LOIS LANE AND THE AMAZONS OF GOR. I think they put it out under a slightly different title. It's just that, especially as someone whose business it is to draw women, I found so much to learn from in this expertly-wrought master class in female anatomy, perspective, and how clothes drape. Behold these four pages drawn by Eddie Nunez, and love them. LOVE THEM.
As you can see, Howard Chaykin has NOTHING on Nunez when it comes to realistic treatment of dresses on the body.
I especially find her incredible disintegrating paper dress to be clever. Best of all, nothing causes the ripping. She merely runs. Look at the page before and the page after. And look at that thigh in the first panel! Is that a muscle? Does he think there's anything between a woman's front and back?
And that pose in panel 2: DRAMATIC. EVERYBODY DO JAZZ HANDS! Her, and the little boy in the exact same pose in the panel below her.
And I really love the sense of mystery. Like how exactly it's clinging to her crotch. As it does in each and every panel.
Also, where does she keep her phone? A question no one wants answered.
Because Nunez has the genius to realize that clothes are just a few more lines you draw on a naked female body.
And the last two panels! WOW. SHE KNOWS BOTH HIS NAMES. It's like at first she was calling out to another Jimmy drowning, and then wanted to avoid confusion.
But here is the crowning achievement.
Look at the Amazon dressed up for a GOR cosplay party. DC, at the least, there are plenty of competent artists who know how to draw sexy women, if that's what you want, WITHOUT making me vomit. Yet you have the genius to not employ them.
And I am absolutely sure there's no reason to even think about a female readership with a Lois Lane book of any kind. KUDOS. Lois Lane fans, REJOICE!
I am full of admiration and my heart is filled with love.
And please, do not call it Trashpoint, because that would be rude. It should not remind you of ULTIMATUM. Not at all.
(all artwork (c)2011 DC Comics)
________________________________
OUR COMICS: RETCON-FREE SINCE 1997
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Labels: bad ideas, comics, lois lane, trashpoint, vladrushka
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The artist should be forced to stand for an hour in the actual position of the woman at the top of panel 1 of the last page.
I love it when I read a comic, know that everything is wrong with it (that new Firestormn thing) but can't pin point the details because I don't dwell on panels, as that is not how you read a comic. If the comic stinks I just don't have the energy to go back and reverse engineer it, but I do love it when someone else doses it and posts it. The crumbling dress was hysterical. Thank you.
Thanks!
By the way, the reason the comment didn't show right away is that I have to moderate them first. That's how I avoid asshole flamers shitting up my site.
I used to be on the Comics Journal Message Board. Never again will I force myself to debate trolls. :)
By the way, the reason the comment didn't show right away is that I have to moderate them first. That's how I avoid asshole flamers shitting up my site.
I used to be on the Comics Journal Message Board. Never again will I force myself to debate trolls. :)
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