Quote from: SM on Mar 20, 2021, 12:11:24 PM
Since I don't collect the toys, I didn't even notice it in Fire & Stone until someone (RidgeTop I think) pointed it out. Now I can't unsee it.
Apologies for that. That was the first comic in these franchises that I noticed did this.
Patrick Reynolds for Aliens: Fire & Stone.
I met Reynolds at Salt Lake FanX (Our Comic Con), and he was a nice guy, nothing against him. I don't understand the deadline schedules that artists work under in the comic industry, which is an industry that's changed a lot since even the 90's and early 2000's. I understand different artists have different methods and Reynolds can still effectively structure a scene.
But this sort of stuff just doesn't fly with me, and I'm seeing it more and more. I recently finally got around to Alien: The Original Screenplay and in that one as well, a bunch of retooled backgrounds used for the ship nearly ruined the experience for me of an otherwise good comic.
I think SizzyBubbles illustrated it nicely here. You can draw from reference, that's what they teach you in art, but that reference should be a starting point to get the basics down, not the foundation of the piece itself.
https://twitter.com/SizzyBubbles/status/1359306469254918146If one can't draw Aliens, one shouldn't be working on an Alien comic. This is just so lazy and really should be called out. If I'm seeing reused environments and elements I've already seen before just tweaked a bit, it takes me right out of the experience. Art needs to be prioritized just as much as writing in Comics, and this sort of thing just isn't good artistic practice. I want to see an illustrator's skill and imagination, not what they could collage together and draw over in Photoshop.
Tristan Jones also noticed the background from that terrible looking scene in Alien #1 was also ripped:
https://twitter.com/tyrannojones/status/1373256996699348993