I just opened Spike #5, and I couldn't read it... Like, I literally thought I'd gone blind from just how horrible the artwork was. I couldn't read the dialogue. I'm going to try again later, but.... *hides under a rock*
I saw a panel where Spike's knee was up in his stomach. It's like I know they were trying to show him sitting with his knee upraised, but sweet merciful Christ, the anatomy is not rooted in reality nor are the characters rooted to any type of grounding.
I'll be so glad when the last IDW Angelverse comic ends. I know that Dark Horse won't write or illustrate the series any better, but at least there'll only be one company screwing up our 'verse, not two. The ghastliness will be concentrated in only one area, rather than being spread out across the map.
I just want all the comics to be over. This is too horrible all around. DarkHorse went back to Jeanty for the artwork for S9 instead of getting one of the other, better, artists they were considering. I just am so disappointed. At this point, even Franco Urru's artwork couldn't have saved the Spike series from just being an amalgam of badness. I mean, I'm not sure if this series would have been better if it had been done the way Lynch was originally planning it to be for two years before Joss came down off the mount and decided that Spike needed to be in S8 so all the stories had to match up or they wouldn't be CANON. Even Lynch is disappointed that he feels that he had to add in a bunch of S8 references... he didn't have to, but he felt like he should... and he shouldn't have... because it's just awful. Willow may have been a character he wanted to write, but there were enough characters in the story already and she's just not necessary.
And OMG, I just got a peek at that picture of Spike with his knee crammed up against his chest...and his other leg is bent in all kinds of weird ways; apparently the leg has grown two extra joints. He looks like a large, lumpy, cotton-stuffed Spike puppet.
Perhaps Lynch has learned a long, hard lesson about putting celebrities on pedestals and idolizing them. He kissed Whedon's butt and it blew up in his face. The Fart of Betrayal.
Well, ultimately, Brian would have had to have done what IDW told him to do, so he had a long list of people to answer to who influenced how his stories were supposed to go. Even if he had wanted to defy the Word of Joss by doing something, a higher-up could have stopped him and said, "No, you can't do that." It's the curse of not being your own boss.
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That's totally my new catchphrase! :D And, it's true. XD
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Hahahahahaha! I want that on a T-shirt!
And OMG, I just got a peek at that picture of Spike with his knee crammed up against his chest...and his other leg is bent in all kinds of weird ways; apparently the leg has grown two extra joints. He looks like a large, lumpy, cotton-stuffed Spike puppet.
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