[joezlo]

Erik and Dan get a ton of credit for sure, expanding and building upon a GB universe when fans had nothing for a long time - even effectively adding ATC to the mix, writing those characters possibly better than the film.

Give the new crew some time.

Erik and Dan probably want to move on anyway.

[timeware]

What's the cost of comics these days? I haven't been to my local comic store in like 15 years but the last Sonic i bought was nearing five dollars. My complaint isn't with the writing team it's the quality of art. It looks like inserts from a coloring book someone traced over in MS Paint. I don't want to sound like an ass I just want something that would inspire me to copy the artists style. I can go to Barnes and Noble and buy a manga for half the cost with better hand drawn art from twenty years ago.

[ccv66]

I'm not sure i liked the old art style, but the style was done well. Back in town looks like a school project

[mrmichaelt]

The variant cover artist Colin Lorimer for #4, I'd like to see him do interiors.
https://previewsworld.com/Catalog/MAR241077

What's the cost of comics these days?

In the $4-6 range nowadays.

[timeware]

That's a tiny bit of scratch for a poor product.

[mrmichaelt]

That's a tiny bit of scratch for a poor product.

It sort of varies from store to store when it comes to the variant cover because the store has to order x amount of regular covers to get x amount of variants. So depending on the type of variant cover and the comic book store having to manage their finances, the variant cover could be in that $6 range or double digits when you get into the Retailer Incentive variants. I think these Back in Towns were $3.99 for the regular covers. Variants were pretty reasonable between 4 and 6 on the low-end of prices I saw.

But I noticed after a long gap of not buying comics on ebay after the IDW run ended, the prices are still reasonable but the shipping has jumped to the point that with shipping included you're paying at least double versus going into a physical store and getting the same comic. Sellers on ebay used to be pretty generous and even threw in free shipping with USPS First Class just 6 years ago.

[Kingpin]

That's a tiny bit of scratch for a poor product.

Blame the economy.

[timeware]

I'll blame the economy for the price, not the quality of art. You have to start somewhere I suppose but you, Fritz, and I can draw circles around this dude.

[Kingpin]

but you, Fritz, and I can draw circles around this dude.

Blue would draw circles around me when it came to people, they have a broader handle on things... Whereas I specialise in buildings and inanimate objects.

Based on Blue's other work, I don't think Back in Town represents their work nearly as well as other examples, like O Human Star, Across a Field of Stars, or The Stan... I'm not sure if it was maybe tighter deadlines, or Sony keeping a close eye on things, but I'd like to believe some of the issues people have complained about could've been improved potentially with more time to work on the project, and maybe better reference for the equipment.

I can't provide an explanation for it, but I do believe Blue is a better artist than Back in Town presented

[timeware]

I'd have to see examples of their work . Drawing for fun is a bit less stressful than drawing professionally. If you have a company that doesn't want the best from their employees that can be an issue to. Companies not utilizing their time to complete a project they were hired for is kind of BS.

As for not having good reference pics, yeah I could see that being on Sony, but really people do have access to smart phones with web browsers these days.

[mrmichaelt]

I'd have to see examples of their work . Drawing for fun is a bit less stressful than drawing professionally. If you have a company that doesn't want the best from their employees that can be an issue to. Companies not utilizing their time to complete a project they were hired for is kind of BS.

As for not having good reference pics, yeah I could see that being on Sony, but really people do have access to smart phones with web browsers these days.

Unless they lied during that one interview, which I doubt, Blue said they had photos from online - A LOT - of the equipment and also from looking up New York photos. So it's not an issue of quantity of reference pics. And they got descriptions of the entities and was to told to design them like it was practical for puppets on a movie set. And got to deliver the art in stages, such as a thumbnail stage in a page as a rough pass to show staging of angles and such. They got notes to like add more slime here, change angle, or "great, love it!"

edit: 11/21: Nothing in the February solicits.