Clamp and Marvel?!
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HeavyMetal
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CLAMP education.
For the love of art I hope Marvel is taking pointers from CLAMP.
Artistically American comics have some good ideas, but horrible carry them out.
If you want examples of why I think this here you go:
1. Frame by Frame soap opera exchange dialogue.
2. Darkly colored backgrounds to avoid drawing backgrounds.
3. Darkly shaded foregrounds to avoid drawing details.
4. RPG style fights and drama. (back and forth)
5. Overly extended story lines artificially extended for marketing purposes.
6. Discontinued issued to increase "value".
7. Page format: a little static, low grade paper, held together by a staple etc.
8. Censored to appeal to a larger number of readers, but curtails part of the design and story.
I'm just pointing out that Comic to Manga, Manga more artistically uses imagery and dialogue. Esp. imagery.
Please don't attack for my dislike of American comics. I like X-men and Spiderman I just have a problem with the art and marketing.
I am sure you could find counter examples, but the majority fit what I have listed.
I like what the movies have done.
Mainly solidifying some of the story and smoothing out plot holes and things that never get answered so more comics will sell.
Allowing Logan to actually be a bad-ass that smokes and drinks. Giving a greater depth to the story with a more solid and consistent history.
Oh and CLAMP doesn't really do yaoi so much as it does shoujo and shoujo-ai.
The designs of both yaoi (which you may be thinking shonen-ai) and shoujo parallel.
The characters tend to have extra wide spaced eyes, pale coloration of hair, elaborate clothing, and tall thin feminine frames.
Artistically American comics have some good ideas, but horrible carry them out.
If you want examples of why I think this here you go:
1. Frame by Frame soap opera exchange dialogue.
2. Darkly colored backgrounds to avoid drawing backgrounds.
3. Darkly shaded foregrounds to avoid drawing details.
4. RPG style fights and drama. (back and forth)
5. Overly extended story lines artificially extended for marketing purposes.
6. Discontinued issued to increase "value".
7. Page format: a little static, low grade paper, held together by a staple etc.
8. Censored to appeal to a larger number of readers, but curtails part of the design and story.
I'm just pointing out that Comic to Manga, Manga more artistically uses imagery and dialogue. Esp. imagery.
Please don't attack for my dislike of American comics. I like X-men and Spiderman I just have a problem with the art and marketing.
I am sure you could find counter examples, but the majority fit what I have listed.
I like what the movies have done.
Mainly solidifying some of the story and smoothing out plot holes and things that never get answered so more comics will sell.
Allowing Logan to actually be a bad-ass that smokes and drinks. Giving a greater depth to the story with a more solid and consistent history.
Oh and CLAMP doesn't really do yaoi so much as it does shoujo and shoujo-ai.
The designs of both yaoi (which you may be thinking shonen-ai) and shoujo parallel.
The characters tend to have extra wide spaced eyes, pale coloration of hair, elaborate clothing, and tall thin feminine frames.