Frank Cho has the deepest understanding of the subtleties of visual continuity and its possibilities, and frolics more joyfully among them, than any other comic artist I know working today.
Thanks, JackButler. I remember a graphic novel featuring an old Batman which I like a lot (therein we are treated to a showdown between Superman and an augmented Batman), but I’d have to go back to refresh my memory on its opening text.
This one does seem strangely familiar, so I may have seen its inspiration somewhere before.
wwwenger and cdward: I don’t know of all the artists listed above, but I do admire Cho’s and McEldowney’s especially - and for pure art’s sake, Cho’s most of all. (Would I be forgiven if I said I like it best when he draws giant gorillas fighting one or more members of the species T. rex?) He makes me wish I’d learned to draw at all, let alone with that incredible facility, so that I could be illustrating my own fiction as a Web or print comic by now in just as realistic or even surrealistic a way. As it is, I can only hope to find someone remotely as deft…
(I ask my question because so many of Cho’s fans, of course, would vote for how he treats the human female form. That’s pretty spectacular too, but it’s like using “:Fat Boy” to exterminate the mosquitos in your neighborhood - it certainly gets the job done, but it leaves you totally blown away.)
Rakkav about 14 years ago
I wonder what Mr. Cho was parodying here.
WaltWenger Premium Member about 14 years ago
Frank Cho has the deepest understanding of the subtleties of visual continuity and its possibilities, and frolics more joyfully among them, than any other comic artist I know working today.
cdward about 14 years ago
Richard Thompson, Frank Cho, Wiley Miller, Mark Tatulli, and Brooke McEldowney - those are my main artists.
Rakkav about 14 years ago
Thanks, JackButler. I remember a graphic novel featuring an old Batman which I like a lot (therein we are treated to a showdown between Superman and an augmented Batman), but I’d have to go back to refresh my memory on its opening text.
This one does seem strangely familiar, so I may have seen its inspiration somewhere before.
wwwenger and cdward: I don’t know of all the artists listed above, but I do admire Cho’s and McEldowney’s especially - and for pure art’s sake, Cho’s most of all. (Would I be forgiven if I said I like it best when he draws giant gorillas fighting one or more members of the species T. rex?) He makes me wish I’d learned to draw at all, let alone with that incredible facility, so that I could be illustrating my own fiction as a Web or print comic by now in just as realistic or even surrealistic a way. As it is, I can only hope to find someone remotely as deft…
Rakkav about 14 years ago
(I ask my question because so many of Cho’s fans, of course, would vote for how he treats the human female form. That’s pretty spectacular too, but it’s like using “:Fat Boy” to exterminate the mosquitos in your neighborhood - it certainly gets the job done, but it leaves you totally blown away.)
Nighthawks Premium Member about 14 years ago
I suppose that it is fitting that these comments are as mysterious as today’s strip
my_discworld about 14 years ago
@JackButler Thanks for cluing us in on the parody! Wouldn’t have caught it.
Yukoneric about 14 years ago
Crazy Korean have a nice ring to it?
anthonyrosenthal74 about 14 years ago
Ha! Nice Batman-ish twist!