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Heck, it frankly does more for me than any of Jim Lee's LSH variants have so far! Am I that far off the median here?!?!
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It looks all right to me. I mean, I'm not drooling over it but I'm not foaming at the mouth, either.
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Except for the kind of goofy looking Superman, I'd say it's okay, but not anything great.
I'd also agree the Jim Lee covers are nothing to go ga-ga over.
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quote:Originally posted by Chief Taylor: Heck, it frankly does more for me than any of Jim Lee's LSH variants have so far! Am I that far off the median here?!?!
There is no median. I think the Annual cover is incredibly bad (Imra, in particular!), and Jim Lee's covers are beautiful. But opinions on art are always gonna be subjective.
I would, in a second, chose the deliberately distorted and 'toony' art from the cartoon series in a second as 'serious art' over that cover. At least with cartoon art, with their tiny little waists and ankles and wrists, and bulging calves and forearms, the distortions of body proportions are obvious stylistic choices, and consistent within the medium, as opposed to that cover, where Wildfire is all hippalicious, Superboy's leg attaches very strangely to his torso, and Timber Wolf looks stretched-out and slightly deformed. In the case of the cover, the physical malformations don't appear to be any one consistent stylistic choice, but wander all over the place, making me think the only consistent theme is 'deformed.'
But that's just my own perspective. I'm sure Giffen had some unifying theme that I'm missing. There's a faint Kirby feel to it, but it lacks the blocky and bold sense of weight or presence that a Kirby picture would have.
And now I've gone totally off the deep end, referring to Kirby's art as having weight. Next I'll sip my soda and comment on its fruity undertones....
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I don't mean to imply that I'm in love with the Legacies cover (not the Annual's cover, Set, which is as-yet unsolicited), but it has a nice nostalgia factor going on with an obvious homage to several past Legion covers in its format. In contrast Lee's covers just haven't grabbed me at all in any way. I'd say that Perez's character-focused L3W were much better and didn't require any of the extra dough that owning Lee's require.
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Cosmic Boy has a Plastino feel to me, while barrel-chested Garth is very Wayne Boring. Wildfire's pose mimics Grell's cover to the 1st tabloid & Superboy reminds me of Staton's cover to S/LSH # 250. Timber Wolf & Imra I don't like at all.
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quote:Originally posted by lil'rhino: Cosmic Boy has a Plastino feel to me, while barrel-chested Garth is very Wayne Boring. Wildfire's pose mimics Grell's cover to the 1st tabloid & Superboy reminds me of Staton's cover to S/LSH # 250.
See, I knew there had to be some sort of unifying theme going on. The images just seemed too discordant, in notably different styles. If he's picking characteristic images from the past and trying to emulate the styles of those artists, that's a valid technique, even if I'm not nearly experienced enough of a Legion fan to recognize those homages.
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Yeah, I think it's pretty clear that he's going for a "imitate different eras" kind of feel, but I don't think he's being all that successful at it.
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