My Funny Picture

That s why artists like J H Williams III are God s gift to superhero

Summary: That s why artists like J H Williams III are God s gift to superhero picture talk These are pages that slap you in the mouth and say holy shit I am here While other superhero pages sit at the bar chatting dryly amongst themselves the Williams page of the genre works against focused appreciation of the visual aspect storms into the room with a bouncer still clinging to one ankle knocking down tables and fetching a whiskey bottle to smash over the head of some clown that looked at it wrong Or maybe the whiskey was crap so the bottle was the real target philosophical questions abound Either way I trust it s not denigrating to note that the excellence of Williams art also manages an excellence at steering attention to its excellence enough so that the commentator feels like an idiot not devoting copious space to its many other self evident strengths appeal It s funny though because superheroes tore away from pulp characters with the might of visceral two fisted pictures behind them and now the structure economics and possibly the very And just look at that page above I don t want to come off as saying Williams material is without subtlety some of his work with writers like Grant Morrison and Warren Ellis is marvelous at drawing out added layers of meaning quietly through purely visual means but he does occasionally flatten a thinner script via blast force of style see his last And then there s even simpler troubles a lot of superhero art just doesn t warrant a lot of discussion and the serial format though obviously not superhero exclusive makes it hard for frequent commentators to find substantive things to say about perfectly competent nondescript work while self contained books proffer the option of evaluating even uninspiring visuals as a closer to equal part of the closed experience Put simply sometimes looks nice doesn t fuck up really is the most you can say without contorting yourself into suffocation and the knot only gets tighter with each new chapter Could this mean waiting for the trade they re right down with the worst of em posts and check how much space is devoted to Cameron Stewart Hell Detective Comics

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