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Post by Action Ace on Oct 3, 2014 19:02:49 GMT -5
Star Wars Rebels now only an hour away. The trailers looked great and my expectations are high.
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Post by Jesse on Oct 4, 2014 9:03:27 GMT -5
"Spark of Rebellion" was outstanding! I thought the CGI was quite good especially the use of texture.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2014 9:19:45 GMT -5
I enjoyed the first series by marvel but have never read any other series .
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2014 14:51:39 GMT -5
"Spark of Rebellion" was outstanding! I thought the CGI was quite good especially the use of texture. I liked everything except how the Wookis looked. -M
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2014 11:18:13 GMT -5
Has anyone read Shadows of the Empire (the story that occurs between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi)? I read two of the comics that came with the action figures but never tracked down the other issues. I know that they released a TPB, a novel and a sequel ( Shadows of the Empire - Evolution) and I'm wondering if them are worth checking out. Yeah, it was not great. I don' recall any think glaringly terrible about it, but it was pretty meh. It focuses on organized crime in the Empire, IIRC, and the Empire's interactions with it. Sorry about bumping this thread up a notch or two - I totally agree with you and my two nieces who are Star Wars Fans - consider this book too much focus on the Empire that they were somewhat turned off by it. I have read it and I was very disappointed in it. Matter of fact, I even gave the book away to one of my niece so she doesn't have to borrow it from the other one.
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Post by Jesse on Oct 11, 2014 14:18:39 GMT -5
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Post by thwhtguardian on Oct 11, 2014 16:57:23 GMT -5
"Spark of Rebellion" was outstanding! I thought the CGI was quite good especially the use of texture. It was pretty good, though I didn't really notice a difference between the animation used in this series and the animation used in the Clone Wars. The color pallet was perhaps slightly darker than the clone wars but like wise the pallet of the prequel movies was brighter than the originals so the shift makes sense.
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Post by Jesse on Oct 16, 2014 13:03:43 GMT -5
Interlocking Skottie Young variants for Princess Leia, Star Wars, and Darth Vader series.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2014 13:45:48 GMT -5
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Post by Confessor on Oct 17, 2014 5:52:43 GMT -5
Interlocking Skottie Young variants for Princess Leia, Star Wars, and Darth Vader series. I have such a love/hate relationship with Skottie Young's artwork. I think it works great for certain things -- like the Frank L. Baum Oz book adaptations that he worked on a while back -- but I really don't think his style is suited to superheroes at all, or even action/sci-fi heroes like the Star Wars cast.
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Post by The Captain on Oct 17, 2014 6:50:23 GMT -5
Interlocking Skottie Young variants for Princess Leia, Star Wars, and Darth Vader series. I have such a love/hate relationship with Skottie Young's artwork. I think it works great for certain things -- like the Frank L. Baum Oz book adaptations that he worked on a while back -- but I really don't think his style is suited to superheroes at all, or even action/sci-fi heroes like the Star Wars cast. The Oz adaptations are great, and I don't mind Young's renderings of superheroes if they are just as alternate covers, but I wouldn't want an entire book of his art on Iron Man or Thor.
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Post by Confessor on Oct 17, 2014 11:20:08 GMT -5
I have such a love/hate relationship with Skottie Young's artwork. I think it works great for certain things -- like the Frank L. Baum Oz book adaptations that he worked on a while back -- but I really don't think his style is suited to superheroes at all, or even action/sci-fi heroes like the Star Wars cast. The Oz adaptations are great, and I don't mind Young's renderings of superheroes if they are just as alternate covers, but I wouldn't want an entire book of his art on Iron Man or Thor. Depending on what you mean by "I don't mind Young's renderings of superheroes if they are just as alternate covers", I may agree with you. Skottie Young's alternate covers don't bug me or annoy me at all, but by the same token, I wouldn't buy a comic with one on it either. Given a choice and assuming that there's no price difference, would you consider buying a Skottie Young Thor cover over one by another, less stylistic artist?
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Post by The Captain on Oct 17, 2014 11:28:36 GMT -5
The Oz adaptations are great, and I don't mind Young's renderings of superheroes if they are just as alternate covers, but I wouldn't want an entire book of his art on Iron Man or Thor. Depending on what you mean by "I don't mind Young's renderings of superheroes if they are just as alternate covers", I may agree with you. Skottie Young's alternate covers don't bug me or annoy me at all, but by the same token, I wouldn't buy a comic with one on it either. Given a choice and assuming that there's no price difference, would you consider buying a Skottie Young Thor cover over one by another, less stylistic artist? I would certainly consider it, especially depending on the subject matter. I bought the Skottie Young alternate cover for Moon Knight #1 over the regular cover, even though it cost me $1 more; I just liked it more.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2014 14:10:20 GMT -5
I on the other hand adore Skottie Young's work, and think his Rocket Raccoon is one of the most fun adventure books on the market right now. If a Skottie Young variant is available and the same price, I will more often than not get the Young variant. I also adored the John Carter covers he did for Marvel (though Phillipe Andrade on interiors was atrocious), so the appeal of his style is not limited to one specific genre or property. His art, though stylistic, is still excellent when it comes to visual storytelling-the narrative is clear, the eye flow is intuitive and the characters distinctive and identifiable, something you don't always get with less "stylistic" artists working the big 2 mainstream books these days, or even in the days f yore when so called classic artists had to fill up the page with arrows so you knew what blasted order to read the page in because their visual narrative was a mess and so called hot super-hero artists who, if it weren't for the costumes, you would be able to tell the characters on the page apart. I understand Young's style may not appeal to everyone, but his technique is superb and I would have no problem with him doing interiors on a book I read. I've show the Young Star Wars triptych to 5 Star Wars fans so far, none of whom are regular comic readers, and all 5 have asked me how they can get those covers as they loved that rendition of the characters. So there is an appeal there.
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Post by Pharozonk on Oct 17, 2014 14:16:47 GMT -5
Has anyone read the novel Splinter of the Mind's Eye? Is it any good?
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