Vinny, Morrison felt Beast should look like the Beast from Beauty and the Beast because his code name is "Beast".

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Talk about not getting it.

Sheesh.

The Riot at Xavier cover is also a down shot, but there's no depth perspective, all the characters are 90 degree parallel lines and they're all the same lenght, none of them recede a little in the distance. It's a style. I'm not against it, but I don't find it exiting. And don't get me wrong, I always loved work by guys like Sam Keith and I love what I think are Quitely's influences. I also like work done with alot of parallels and perpendiculars like Charley Harper, or even naive art, but he just doesn't work for me. I have no clue what takes him so long to draw either.

And he drew the Shiar ship interior as some sort of concrete alleyways. I guess it could work and I have no imagination, but still. When Kordey arrived, I thought he looked like a god in comparison even if he was cranking it out.

Straight from the Bible.

Something that is a pet peeve of mine is when an artist will draw a picture of a hero or villain throwing a punch without stepping into it.  Look, if you've ever been in a fight you'd know that just swining your arms isn't likely to do much damage.  You could always get lucky, but typically you have to move into it with your body.  That's one reason I've always loved Sal and John's work.

Well, once upon a time, anyway.

Something began to creep into the industry a few years back... it was a sense that some of the creators, editors and publishers were embarassed that they were working in comic books, with comic book characters. Suddenly, everyone was making "graphic novels", and looking to realism in what was always an escapist medium. Everything became dark, moody, and grim. I thinkt here is room for all styles, but not all styles fit all titles and characters. Just my opinion.