D2 Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 Does anyone else have those thoughts that the color on a book or a cover was just... wrong? Like, they had to make a decision, and then, they got it wrong/ I like Uncanny X-Men 142's cover a LOT. I even liked the story how, apparently, John Byrne drew 142, mailed it to Terry Austin, and it never arrived. So in a pinch, Terry Austin enlarged a panel from the 142 issue and recreated it for the cover. Brilliant. But then for the final piece, they chose this awful green color. Why? I think it would have been immensely more impactful if they switched it out... to a red? Anything other than that green! Does anyone else really feel this too on other books where they just got the color wrong? Spider-Variant, B2D327 and Point Five 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post MetalPSI Posted October 12, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted October 12, 2021 It's colour lizards2, steveinthecity, ttfitz and 4 others 2 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post D2 Posted October 12, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 12, 2021 On 10/12/2021 at 2:19 PM, Dr. Dank said: It's colour I'm actually Canadian, so I agree with you. I was just pandering to the Americans. lizards2, gadzukes, Iceman399 and 4 others 1 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveinthecity Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 I actually like the contrast of green & purple on the published cover. The yellow trade dress stands out more to me, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave2739 Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 (edited) Marvel got Gabe Jone's color wrong on this cover. Not exactly what the OP meant, but it was the first thing that came to my mind. Edited October 12, 2021 by Dave2739 Larryw7 and lizards2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaard Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 I'm losing that steel trap of a memory I once had, but I seem to recall a Daredevil cover with a skeleton on horseback. That was kinda cool, but the liberal use of the color pink on the cover sucked big time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kav Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 On 10/12/2021 at 10:55 AM, D2 said: Does anyone else have those thoughts that the color on a book or a cover was just... wrong? Like, they had to make a decision, and then, they got it wrong/ I like Uncanny X-Men 142's cover a LOT. I even liked the story how, apparently, John Byrne drew 142, mailed it to Terry Austin, and it never arrived. So in a pinch, Terry Austin enlarged a panel from the 142 issue and recreated it for the cover. Brilliant. But then for the final piece, they chose this awful green color. Why? I think it would have been immensely more impactful if they switched it out... to a red? Anything other than that green! Does anyone else really feel this too on other books where they just got the color wrong? yeah green was a poor choice. Read a book on color theory and it said for broadway plays they found red posters sold the most tickets and green the least. D2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lizards2 Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 On 10/12/2021 at 12:08 PM, Amazeron said: I do agree that the red looks better; it fits the intensity of an issue where “everybody dies” Red? That looks like pooh brown. greggy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post lizards2 Posted October 12, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted October 12, 2021 On 10/12/2021 at 3:53 PM, Gaard said: I'm losing that steel trap of a memory I once had, but I seem to recall a Daredevil cover with a skeleton on horseback. That was kinda cool, but the liberal use of the color pink on the cover sucked big time. I always remembered saw that as purple..., I actually remembered the specific issue number!!! Must stop giving those sports trivia guys carp...., Ken Aldred, MetalPSI , Spider-Variant and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iggy Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 I have one takeaway here... lizards2 is color blind (or colour blind). onlyweaknesskryptonite, JollyComics, Brandon Shepherd and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kav Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 The biggest mistake they make coloring covers is they use too many colors. This looks childish. Again the color theory book said to use as limited a palette as possible and avoid using both warm and cool colors. Warm or cool-one or the other. Some of the most striking covers are single color or mostly single color. You give a kid crayons and a coloring book and they use all the colors. Professional artists/colorists should do better than that. Dave2739 and Point Five 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kav Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 In the ASM 50 it would have been even better if parker was wearing purple instead of blue. Purple can be either warm or cool depending on the surrounding colors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sckao Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 Yellowish Green and Magenta are complementary colors. They probably went with that as that was probably the design theory at the time. The Red in the title and Green also go together. (Color theory has greatly changed since then.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kav Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 Design and color theory are 2 areas that are sadly understudied by comic artsts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigLeagueCHEW Posted October 13, 2021 Share Posted October 13, 2021 On 10/12/2021 at 4:53 PM, kav said: Design and color theory are 2 areas that are sadly understudied by comic artsts. No one understands the beauty of taupe kav 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sckao Posted October 13, 2021 Share Posted October 13, 2021 I DO notice that when I'm rifling through a long box of Silver Surfers... I can pull these out instantly by seeing the merest sliver of their top cover. (They have a distinctive green background. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigLeagueCHEW Posted October 13, 2021 Share Posted October 13, 2021 On 10/12/2021 at 4:51 PM, sckao said: Yellowish Green and Magenta are complementary colors. They probably went with that as that was probably the design theory at the time. The Red in the title and Green also go together. (Color theory has greatly changed since then.) Looks good to me. The colors all compliment each other. The red cover above is just way to much red. greggy and steveinthecity 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
World Devourer Posted October 13, 2021 Share Posted October 13, 2021 (edited) On 10/13/2021 at 11:03 AM, BigLeagueCHEW said: Looks good to me. The colors all compliment each other. The red cover above is just way to much red. Hmmm...I think ruined buildings or a even a night sky would have been better. My point of contention is the childish caption. "The End..." would have encapsulated things perfectly. Edited October 14, 2021 by World Devourer kav and D2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turnando Posted October 13, 2021 Share Posted October 13, 2021 On an episode of Cartoonist Kayfabe they talked about and showed a modern book that had been colored wrong because the guy who colored it used the wrong color scale. I think he may have been used to coloring for another publisher or used an old scale that the publisher no longer used. I can't remember. All of the colors were shifted to crazy random values. The craziest part is that it got published. Maybe the editor just thought the colorist was going for something odd and different. I am in the jungle and don't have my notes. I wrote that one down because the colors are insane and it is a cheap book. I want it. I'll dig up my notes when I come back to the world. Readcomix, kav and D2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Aldred Posted October 13, 2021 Share Posted October 13, 2021 I prefer the original green background. The red option is a bit too intense and loud for me. greggy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
