Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watcgl.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!watcgl!drforsey
From: drforsey@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Forsey)
Newsgroups: net.comics
Subject: Re: Love and Rockets
Message-ID: <443@watcgl.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Nov-84 13:05:46 EST
Article-I.D.: watcgl.443
Posted: Thu Nov 15 13:05:46 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 16-Nov-84 04:48:19 EST
References: <289@sdchema.UUCP>
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
Lines: 28

> This is not an Attack  and with that disclaimer...
> 
> On the advice of the net, I bought Love and Rockets #2
> (I figgered that I'd start at the beginning, and my dealer
> had no #1)
> 
> I found the art amateurish.  All the faces looked the same.
> The printing was muddy, in some panels, the details were impossible
> to make out, and the story was incomprehensible.  I have no 
> desire to continue this.
> 
> I realize that I am in for many hot responses, but what the
> H-E-double-toothpicks.  In one way I am glad, because now
> my opinions do not coincide with those on netland entirely.
> 
> I am
<Hi GINO>
The faces certainly don't look all the same to *me*. I can tell
them apart no problem. However, the *subtlety* with which Jaime
Hernandez distinguishes among them is the mark of genius. Just
like his amazing control and economy, which might look like
amateurishness to someone raised on "rivet-men" artists. I know
from personal experience that trying to draw in Jaime's style or
techniques is a HELLUVA lot harder than ripping off Neal Adams!
Jaime Hernandez is the greatest comic artist around!

					The Gray Mouser
> GINO