Thursday, October 2, 2008

Anatomy Lesson...

...Ed Benes style. Hey, let's start off a conversation by focusing on one of our female members' groinatological area:

Ha! Match that, Lohan! Hey, that was neat. How about a pointless close-up of their chestal areas!! That'll really illustrate the conversation well!!

No way are those real, Jefferson...No, I did not cut off the panel in my scan...that's all Benes' framing there...

It's amazing...it's a 4-page long conversation (?), and Benes' perspective and angles jump around like a hyperactive chimpanzee on Red Bull. People are turned different ways in consecutive panels, close-ups are randomly interspersed with long shots...just looking at it again gave me vertigo!!

So thank you, Ed Benes, for giving us close-up of heroes' clothed private parts. Just because.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Unless they used a different inker, that is not Ed Benes' art.

snell said...

There are 6 pencillers and six inkers listed on the splash page, with no breakdown given over who did which pages, or in which combinations.

I confess to an untrained artistic eye. But if the pages in question aren't Benes, that penciller has certainly enthusiastically adopted Benes' stylistic ticks of randomly roving "camera" and distractingly absurd close-ups and various body parts during conversations.

Unknown said...

Agreed. I actually bought this issue because there were different artists. Unfortunately, it still kind of sucks.