Have you ever read a comic and think, what 5th grader drew this? 0

[JazzMan]

I was bagging up some new acquisitions and as I typically do, read through the story.  In this particular case it was Spider-Woman 46...close to the end of the run which lasted only 4 more issues.  It's drawn by Steve Leialoha and the splash looks fine for the time period:

 

There's a note at the top right corner acknowledging that a couple of additional, unplanned, artists helped out.  Both of them are veterans and I think nothing of it.  Then I am faced with this (just look at the hands):

I know it's now a common practice to use multiple artists on a single issue and I, for one, hate that.  Is it me, or does it look like Marvel just gave up on that issue?

Edited June 24, 2020 by JazzMan

[kav]

49 minutes ago, JazzMan said:

I was bagging up some new acquisitions and as I typically do, read through the story.  In this particular case it was Spider-Woman 46...close to the end of the run which lasted only 4 more issues.  It's drawn by Steve Leialoha and the splash looks fine for the time period:

 

There's a note at the top right corner acknowledging that a couple of additional, unplanned, artists helped out.  Both of them are veterans and I think nothing of it.  Then I am faced with this (just look at the hands):

I know it's now a common practice to use multiple artists on a single issue and I, for one, hate that.  Is it me, or does it look like Marvel just gave up on that issue?

Good lord *choke*
Also WTF

[comicginger1789]

I don’t hate the splash page but man the rest is rough. Kingpin looks terrible.

[Ditch Fahrenheit]

 

Have you ever read a comic and think, what 5th grader drew this?

  Definitely.  Quite often actually.

Comic Book Art That Sucks

[Ken Aldred]

Leialoha has done some really nice artwork in modern comics such as Fables, and for me, much better than his Bronze / Copper Age style.

Edited June 24, 2020 by Ken Aldred

[Ken Aldred]

It does thank Robbins and Anderson for ‘lending a hand when needed’, and so if they were used as hand models, and their hands were drawn into the comic from life, then there’s no excuse whatsoever for shoddy hand artwork at this level.

Edited June 24, 2020 by Ken Aldred

[Larryw7]

Anything by Frank Robbins.

[Myowncollector]

I usually find the art terrible. Half the time it's so bad I cant read the book. Those hands are bad but other than that not even close to being the worst I have seen. 

[Ken Aldred]

Maybe the hands should’ve been hidden away? Why should Rob Liefeld’s technique only be used with feet?

[valiantman]

4 hours ago, JazzMan said:

 

You got a problem with tracing directly from a Pat Benetar photo?

[Number 6]

The acknowledgment box kind of makes it sound like there was some kind of last-minute emergency that required the help of those two artists. So maybe time constraints played a part. 
 

But I get the impression from those last two pages that those “helper” artists were trying to mimic Miller/Janson...and really weren’t up to it.  That seems to be part of the problem too. 
 

I think it’s ironic that in acknowledging their help, editorial uses the expression “lending a hand”.  More like ‘lending a meat-paw’. 

Edited June 24, 2020 by Number 6

[JazzMan]

13 minutes ago, Number 6 said:

The acknowledgment box kind of makes it sound like there was some kind of last-minute emergency that required the help of those two artists. So maybe time constraints played a part. 
 

But I get the impression from those last two pages that those “helper” artists were trying to mimic Miller/Janson...and really weren’t up to it.  That seems to be part of the problem too. 
 

I think it’s ironic that in acknowledging their help, editorial uses the expression “lending a hand”.  More like ‘lending a meat-paw’. 

I thought the same, but not knowing Trina Robbins and Brent Anderson's  art style, I googled them and it wasn't anywhere close to that monstrosity.

Trina Robbins:

 

Brent Anderson:

I think one of their children also "helped".

Edited June 24, 2020 by JazzMan

[01TheDude]

can I try drawing the ladies hands, dad?

 

Take your kid to work day - backfire!

 

 

Edited June 24, 2020 by 01TheDude

[mattn792]

6 hours ago, JazzMan said:

I was bagging up some new acquisitions and as I typically do, read through the story.  In this particular case it was Spider-Woman 46...close to the end of the run which lasted only 4 more issues.  It's drawn by Steve Leialoha and the splash looks fine for the time period:

 

There's a note at the top right corner acknowledging that a couple of additional, unplanned, artists helped out.  Both of them are veterans and I think nothing of it.  Then I am faced with this (just look at the hands):

I know it's now a common practice to use multiple artists on a single issue and I, for one, hate that.  Is it me, or does it look like Marvel just gave up on that issue?

 

 

You got a problem with art inspired by Charles Bronson?

[bb8]

15 hours ago, JazzMan said:

Brent Anderson:

I think one of their children also "helped".

Brent Anderson is great. He still draws one of my favorite books, Astro City.

[littledoom]

Jock?

[HuddyBee]

20 hours ago, Larryw7 said:

Anything by Frank Robbins.

I dunno. You'd have to be a pretty screwed up 5th grader to draw this  

[catman76]

Some fifth graders art is almost always way more interesting than some professional artist stuff. I must be weird, almost every time I see someone say some art sucks I like it and almost every time I see art that's praised as being amazing I don't like it.

[kav]

6 minutes ago, catman76 said:

Some fifth graders art is almost always way more interesting than some professional artist stuff. I must be weird, almost every time I see someone say some art sucks I like it and almost every time I see art that's praised as being amazing I don't like it.

You could have inverse art syndrome.

[F For Fake]

16 hours ago, catman76 said:

Some fifth graders art is almost always way more interesting than some professional artist stuff. I must be weird, almost every time I see someone say some art sucks I like it and almost every time I see art that's praised as being amazing I don't like it.

I've gone to the state fair with my best friends every summer since we were in middle school. When we were young, we spent the whole day on the midway. Now that we're old, we'd rather stay inside the air conditioned pavilions, and look at the art, photographs, etc. Our favorites are always the kids art entries. I've seen some unhinged, beautiful stuff that I would love to own. Kids have no filter. Sure, you have a lot of traced pencil drawings of Sonic the Hedgehog, but sometimes you get bizarre watercolors that look like something out of Hellraiser.