Great art previews!
Who is the artist for Iron-Man: The End? I've been waiting on an announcement, but hadn't seen one. Looks a bit like Paul Smith.

I love Guice's art for Captain America, but this brings up an interesting question that I doubt will ever be answered.

Why is it that Warren Ellis and Mark Millar never have fill-in artists, no matter how long the delays are, but Ed Brubaker doesn't get the same favoritism, when he is clearly a vastly superior writer?

Posted by Dusty. on 2008-02-01 18:41:22
Fill-ins
I'd say that gets decided on a case-by-case basis. How much input does the artist have? How important is it to get homogenous artwork? Ever since Bryan Hitch moved away from the early Alan Davis influence, his style is something unique. It's hard to find an artist that could replace him for a stopgap issue or two, the style change would be too jarring.
In the case of Captain America, I'd guess that it's much more Ed Brubaker's brainchild. Steve Epting probably has a certain amount of input, but I've seen some of his script excerpts, and they don't leave much wriggle room. There have been issues in the past where Mike Perkins filled in for Steve Epting, and their styles are similar enough to work. #!@#@@! Guice is the current inker of Captain America anyway, so I guess it's not that big a departure from the style we're used to.

Posted by Michael Heide on 2008-02-01 19:04:36
Oops.
Okay, make that "Jackson Guice". Didn't know that his nickname gets blocked out as an obscenity.

Posted by Michael Heide on 2008-02-01 19:06:25
really impressive
Thunderbolts , The Twelve, Cap America and the New A are dream :
comics like it haven't been done since a reallly long time ago.
Gosh.
Deodato's shadows and lights, Weston sequencing, Guice's inking....
okay then

Posted by notapotatoe on 2008-02-02 05:59:23
New Avengers 41
who's the artist on New Avengers 41? i know Jimmy Cheung is doing 40, but i cant tell if that page is him or not. and btw, eli manning is a skrull and thats why my patriots are gonna wreck the giants tomorrow!!!

Posted by cryhavok01 on 2008-02-02 13:09:14
Judging by Spidey and the Tyrannosaurus, it's definitely not Cheung, but I can't place the style.

Posted by Michael Heide on 2008-02-02 15:49:19
Dusty
Once again you stop, and the whole world just runs on by. First of all, Epting was only ever replaced as Captain America (a book you don't even read), artist when his child DIED. Thats right, DIED. Furthermore, as has been stated from here to eternity, Mike Perkins and Jackson Guice are close enough in style that the change is noticeable.

With Ellis, you don't get "fill-ins", because, as Ellis himself has stated in the past, his scripts are typically written with an artist in mind - in this case, Thunderbolts was written as a project for Mike Deodato. Not enough of Ellis' scripts are online, but I'd guess the script he'd send Templesmith, is very different from one Deodato would get.

With Millar, , have you ever noticed (of course you haven't, you don't read enough Marvel to care), that almost all of his projects are announced as a writer/artist collabaration? Fantastic Four was announced as a Millar/Hitch project - Wolverine is Millar/McNiven project, Kick %&*&$$ is Millar/Romita, War Heroes is Millar/Harris. If we got a "fill in" on any of these books, I'd be insulted.

Saying that, I have every faith in the talent of Bryan Hitch to deliver all sixteen Fantastic Four issues on time, but I won't cry if they're not. You'll like 'em when you get them.

Posted by Dave James on 2008-02-02 18:08:47
Dave
Please stop dumbing down this blog with your participation. Please. You didn't get a fact right in the above dribble, including the part about me NOT reading Captain America. Just quit confusing yourself by trying to figure out the process of thinking. You're not ready for that yet.

Posted by Dusty. on 2008-02-02 22:21:58
YEAH!
I really like the NEW AVENGERS art, and I love that they are finally putting it together that they need to go back to the Savage Lands! Duh???

Posted by bigdaddyhub2 on 2008-02-02 22:43:00
HOLY FREAKIN' COW!
Spider-Man's fighting a T-REX?!? I'm picking that s*** up!

Posted by FuzzyDan on 2008-02-05 09:00:34
A few things...
First of all, CryHavok, where are your Patriots now? Relegated to obscurity and banished to the realm of "Could've Been"? Nothing more than a good season pocked with scandal after conspiracy after hype after headline...it's abundantly clear the way we were force fed the Patriots by the media all season that they would be the NFL's babies...And then what? It takes the city of NY to stomp that ish into the history books.

*phew*

Now that that's outta the way, just wanted to say that the way I see it, Brubaker's Cap book must maintain a certain level of ambience, so he sticks with a couple artists who are not necassarilly similar in execution, but similar enough in tone to keep the narrative immersive.


Oh, and New Avengers is drawn by Billy Tan I believe.

Posted by LazGreen on 2008-02-05 20:49:10