Showing posts with label bagley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bagley. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Bagley and Williams III Fistfight in Heaven

Since my last WWC column, I've been getting plenty of e-mails and Tweets from people defending Mark Bagley's work and saying stuff like "while it's true that Bagley couldn't have drawn 'Promethea,' Williams III couldn't have drawn 'Ultimate Spider-Man.'" Yeah, that's just plain wrong.

Why is it hard for people to accept that drawing is a skill and some people are better at it than others? Sure, there are plenty of fuzzy areas, and I would have trouble saying that J. H. Williams III is better than Dan Clowes, for example, but Williams III vs. Bagley? Really, there's no contest.

Williams III:


Bagley:

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Trinity #21 Review

Recently reviewed by me at CBR: Trinity #21, about which I write the following sentences: "If you read 'House of M,' you'll remember how stretched out it felt. 'Trinity' is like that, but over seven times as long and with way more word balloons and captions. The text-heavy pages don't add much depth to the story, though. They just repeat the obvious again and again. Ultimately, 'Trinity' might prove to be a complex diversion from the continuity-heavy DC mainstream, and the final victory of Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman may illuminate the importance of those characters within their fictional universe. But as of issue #21, there's not all that much to recommend this series. At fifty-two issues costing three bucks each, 'Trinity' seems like a gigantic investment that's not paying off."

Read the entire review HERE.