Heh. Yeah, the Dracula stuff was just about my favorite thing so far. I liked The Chain and the webcomic Always Darkest (I think that's the right title). The really silly stuff, like Mecha!Dawn, Vampycat, and pomeranian-toting reality star Harmony tickle me plenty. Absurdity is my cuppa, mostly, but when the core characters (well, Buffy, anyway) can't seem to behave sensibly for long, long stretches of presumably unbespelled time, I don't know what to say besides, "WTF".
I'm not crazy about the artwork from either publisher, for very different reasons. Jeanty's non-painterly style is more my usual preference, as I'm an old-school comics fan, but the failures are vast and have been a disservice to the story. When I am confusing Buffy with Andrew, we have a problem, Houston. I'm no comics newbie, either, so when people (you, maybe?) say they wish they were able to more fluently read comics, I feel I must mention that the problem lies not with the reader in this case. The execution is just really (needlessly) bad or else deliberately left unclear. I guess we'll find out in January which it is. *iz grumpy*
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Date: 2010-10-19 11:53 pm (UTC)I'm not crazy about the artwork from either publisher, for very different reasons. Jeanty's non-painterly style is more my usual preference, as I'm an old-school comics fan, but the failures are vast and have been a disservice to the story. When I am confusing Buffy with Andrew, we have a problem, Houston. I'm no comics newbie, either, so when people (you, maybe?) say they wish they were able to more fluently read comics, I feel I must mention that the problem lies not with the reader in this case. The execution is just really (needlessly) bad or else deliberately left unclear. I guess we'll find out in January which it is. *iz grumpy*