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Ed Love
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Also look at the light sources in the images. In the middle panel there is a fire on the ground. However, in the first panel, Saturn Queen and Phantom Girl are lit from something above and in between them. Then in the last panel, despite there being an explosion of light and color in front of her, Saturn Queen has highlights on the back of her hand and the back curves of her breast, back and waist.
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When I read older comics I never feel like there is anything missing from the coloring. To me that means the modern standard technique of more realistic coloring is unecessary to make beautiful comic art. That doesn't mean beautiful comic art can't be made with digital coloring. I have seen coloring I like and dislike on both sides of the fence - the one thing they both have in common that bothers me is when the blacks are no longer blacks for whatever reason.

I agree with those who have said it is the colorist's technique not the hardware or software utilized that makes it or breaks it for me.

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I've had a theory for a while that the reason so many new comics with the computer coloring look so dark has to do with the process. The pages are colored on an electrically-lit screen, then the artwork is printed onto an opaque page. It seems to me that some colorists compensate for this, while many others don't. I've seen a few books from Marvel in the last year that were so dark, I couldn't tell what was drawn under the color.

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I would hope that someone who works as a computer colorist would at least know the basics of color management. And own monitor color calibration equipment.

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Yes, one would hope.  But then again, this is comics and one would hope that someone who writes would have a respect for the characters and the writers before them; that someone who pencils would have a basic grasp of anatomy and perspective; one who letters would proof-read before saving; etc, etc.....
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I may be a bit unfair though, the colors on the Legion are overall ok, that's just that this kind of choice in this last pic...... i mean what is left of the art?

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Strange to think how utterly blank the original art for that page probably is!
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Yes.

 

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It is true there's some weakness in the coloring of the Legion, like in most of DC and Marvel books, yet the flaws pointed by Ed aren't for me such a problem as can be flashy colors or computer stuff like the energy-or-i-don't-know-what thing of the last page (only 2/3 of a page actually, to remove any spoilers). I don't fing computer generated pic fit very well a drawn page, at least not in a case like this one. I miss penciled energy.

I wonder if there, we have at least some lines turned from black to color(s) by the colorist or if everything is added by him on a white space.

Anyway i don't like it.



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