Most Overrated of 2006: Artists
“I say this only because Marvel’s promotional material calls him a “comics legend,” but Howard Chaykin is not a comics legend. His work can be pretty good, and he is amazingly thorough with surroundings, I think his work often falls far below the lofty praise it’s given. Also, I’m not sure if anyone likes Humberto Ramos, but his run on Wolverine was catastrophic. What could have been a decent compliment to Civil War was rendered tacky and silly.”
-Jean-Claude Van Doom
“Michael Turner. I’ve considered spending the $10 to get variant covers so that I don’t have to look at his crap on my comics. Joe Madureira. Talk about finding the one way to get me to stop reading Ultimates. It hasn’t even happened yet but the NEWS of him illustrating Ultimates wins him the prize from me. John Romita, Jr. Not really, I just want him to post a comment on the blog again.”
-Jim Doom
“Jim Lee is quickly catching up to Rob Liefeld in the irritating sameness of his art.”
-Doominator
Bryan Hitch
“Don’t get me wrong, Bryan Hitch is a very talented artist. But putting out three issues in twelve months is ridiculous. Alex Ross put out six issues. John Cassaday put out eight. And they’re both much more talented than Bryan Hitch. Three issues? Give me a break.”
-Fin Fang Doom
Whoa, I call total BS on saying John Cassaday is more talented than Bryan Hitch. Doesn’t excuse his output rate, though.
and just because he stinks now doesn’t make Howard Chaykin not a comics legend.
I have to agree on Cassady. He doesn’t like the backgrounds.
As for Chaykin, he’s still riding on the credit for past deeds, which makes his current output overrated. And maybe I have too high of standards, but I don’t really consider him a legend.
[…] It should come as no surprise to regular readers that we hate Michael Turner … so much I had to extend this sentence to accommodate all the Turner-bashing links on this blog. So it was pleasing to read the comments section on that Newsarama post… […]