I wonder sometimes if there are things that particular artists can't draw that we don't notice in their art simply because they can't draw those things. Rob Liefeld has been given flack for years over his inability to render feet properly, but he still at least tries. There must be other artists who simply don't draw particular things because they've never been able to wrap their heads around them.
I kind of got this feeling today from Randy Queen's faces. Or rather, faces from particular angles. There's a few moments in this comic where Ariel Chylde seriously looks like she's got the Innsmouth Look, and I think it's just a particular angle on her face. It was a bit off-putting, but also kind of in keeping with the tone of the comic.
The story was pretty good, the art was also good, but I just think there's too many full on, almost model pose shots of the main character, something all of the "bad girl" comics suffer from. I get that part of the draw is impossibly proportioned and beautiful women, but the propensity to pose these characters tends to make the story a series of static images, rather than the sequential story it ought to be.
More to come...
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