Tuesday, March 30, 2004

Hero and heroin? I generally like Mitchell Breitweiser's work well enough, but I thought Greg McElhatton's assessment of the art for Phantom Jack #1 was funny (and fairly accurate):

"On the downside, though, Breitweiser draws people's faces so strangely it's actually distracting. Every time Jack appears, his face is oddly glazed over like he's just injected heroin into his veins a couple of minutes earlier. Adding in strange poses and stances by characters (the Iraqi soldiers dragging Aziz to their death, for instance, seem to be standing on slippery floors that are causing them to involuntarily do the splits) and some bizarre anatomy (the heroin seems to make Jack's neck grow) and the entire comic ends up looking nothing short of odd. In a book that (aside from a certain invisibility power) tries to ground itself in the real world, being unable to draw people is a bit of a hindrance."