I really like the art, it's excellent stuff. I'm really confused as to the *point* of it though. It's not filling in any blanks, it's not telling us something we already know, it is just repeating Grimlock's oft-repeated motivation before going to Hydrus 4 in the Marvel comics. There's a heck of a lot of time and effort put into this, but there's nothing actually new here. I felt like I'd read it before I'd even started reading. Please don't take this the wrong way, I mean the art's lovely, and it is obvious a ton of effort has gone into it, it's just that it is repeating almost beat for beat something from the original Marvel comic, rather than adding something new, or looking at it from a different angle.
Thanks for the kind words, everyone! Very pleased with the results myself.
It might interest you to know that at the Kapow Comic Convention in London this spring, Paul and I gave a print of the pencils (plus letters) of this page to Simon Furman himself, to thank him for the impact he had on our childhoods.
Sam.
Sam.
Seriously, Sam - you're really pushing your game forward a lot in the more recent samples of yours I've seen. Great to see!
It might interest you to know that at the Kapow Comic Convention in London this spring, Paul and I gave a print of the pencils (plus letters) of this page to Simon Furman himself, to thank him for the impact he had on our childhoods.
Shouldn't Grimlock's "I" be "Me" though in Panels 2 and 7?