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I think I've said before how much I love the Kyle Rayner version of Green Lantern. He just always seemed a much nicer, more relatable character than Hal Jordan. In a recent review of Green Lantern: Rebirth, I suggested that Hal would have been one of the kids that picked on me in high school, whereas Kyle is more likely to be one of the ones who was indifferent at worst, and friendly at best. I loved him in Morrison's JLA, and he's pretty great in the few issues of his solo title that I've read.
Today's featured creator, Darryl Banks, did most of the art chores for Kyle's run on this title. I like his work - it's very mid-90s DC, which is a great art style, emblematized by work like Howard Porter's previously mentioned JLA run, or by the various artists who supported Mark Waid's Flash. It's not quite the grim 'n' gritty that was overwhelming Marvel in the wake of the Image exodus, though it does retain bits of that, but it's also more stylized and more, well, DC. Perhaps it's the colour palette, actually. DC comics just seem to be a little brighter than their competitors. In fact, when I come across a DC title that is dark or resembles more Youngblood than Young Heroes in Love, I find it slightly off-putting.
A Green Lantern artist has to be dynamic, and Mr. Banks' art is certainly that. There's lots of flight, lots of things moving around thanks to the ring's power, and lots of bodies in action, as one might expect from a superhero comic. All of these fluid moments are very nicely-rendered. It's a vital part of comics that the static images you see on the page actually look like they're moments of movement - this makes it easier for us to take the disparate images and stitch them together into what our brains perceive as actual movement. One of the greatest tricks of comics is to make you forget that you're looking at a bunch of static images. Well, one of the greatest tricks of well-made comics. Which this one is.
More to follow.
Further Reading and Related Links
I've got a couple of other pieces by Darryl Banks in the project, and it turns out of them was one of his very first works.
There's a bunch of Green Lantern stuff on the blog. Have a look.
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