Nice Comic Book Covers & The Art Inside Being Horribly Disappointing & Made By A Different Artist

[CarlManvers2019]

Anybody notice this with the Western Comicbook Industry? Like their cover art tends to be much better than that of the interior.

The cover is Badass, Sexy/Fanservicey and more physically Detailed. Only for the art within to lack much of the three I mentioned. The art would tend to look real flat to the point even generic anime artists have more physical detail on their characters as well as THICC-ness for ladies and some muscle at least for the dudes

I think this is something that's been going on since the 2000s, just so you guys know

Lots of variant covers too

 

[Husky_Khan]

Elektra vol. 2 #7-22... It's actually collected in its own 400 page graphic novel now but this is the personification of sexy photo realistic covers and yet half of the issues are filled with ugly Chuck Austen mutated CGI or worse Carlos Megalia for two issues that are so awfully cartoonish that it's distracting at worst or almost unreadable (this is the artist I'm talking about here) at worst.

The story arcs themselves by Greg Rucka aren't bad. I liked the individual stories but taken as a whole the story eventually fell flat. And the artwork inside was just baaaaad for a few issues.

But Yeah the covers were sexy and amazing and almost made Elektra photorealistically beautiful. You can probably easily Google them for examples. I'd spam them here but... Too busy atm.

But them Greg Horn Elektra comic book covers. Top quality. He just needs to do cover art for every fulsome fictional femme fatale.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

Say, any chance that the nicer covers are essentially just "bait" to get people to buy the comic?

 

[Husky_Khan]

No I don't think so. I mean it was a big deal when it came out, but Greg Rucka was a good writer and while most people are hot or cold on his work on Elektra (I generally liked it) it seemed to me to be just part of a plan of making Elektra a bigger and more popular character. I think Bendis wrote the first six issues of the Elektra series and then Greg Rucka (who had a lot of success with his own books and DC ones I never read) then took over and Greg Horn made those beautiful and super popular covers. Half of the issues at the very least also had decent artists as it was.

Only the Austen issues and the two Megalia drawn issues were pretty bad ones.

Check out them Greg Horn covers... issues #1 through #22. Great work!

Elektra Vol 2

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[CarlManvers2019]

I was referring to comics these days in-general than just Elektra

 

[Vargas Fan]

The Dave Dorman covers for Dark Empire (who also did Dark Empire II and Empire's End)

However the interior art was this hideous two/three colour palette and had characters that bore little resemblance to their screen selves.

An example showing what's meant to be Leia

 

[CarlManvers2019]

The Dave Dorman covers for Dark Empire (who also did Dark Empire II and Empire's End)

However the interior art was this hideous two/three colour palette and had characters that bore little resemblance to their screen selves.

An example showing what's meant to be Leia

My god, that art is really wooden and flat

Somehow, I think this undetailed art style has been around only since sometime in the 90s

 

[Husky_Khan]

I wonder with all of the controversy over the stolen fan art in Marvel's Star Wars comics if that counts as disappointing.

Though maybe not horrible quality wise. Except for the fact that apparently while tracing various stolen fan art warships they often lacked the ability or desire to use multiple angles if they weren't provided and thus many ships had flat or featureless sides as well.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

I wonder with all of the controversy over the stolen fan art in Marvel's Star Wars comics if that counts as disappointing.

Though maybe not horrible quality wise. Except for the fact that apparently while tracing various stolen fan art warships they often lacked the ability or desire to use multiple angles if they weren't provided and thus many ships had flat or featureless sides as well.

TBF, I think I heard once that even the best artists in the industry before SJWism weren’t paid much

So why bother with greater skill and effort if you receive the same salary as the rest and not many know you exist

 

[Captain X]

Ideological purity is more important than merit in the new Marvel.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

Ideological purity is more important than merit in the new Marvel.

That and in the first place, even the guys getting books through ideological purity aren’t being paid much, I think

The comicbook industry, by the looks of it, pays even less than the manga industry due to how niche in comparison comicbooks are these days