I expected this, honestly. Solicits really turned me off of it because I thought it was going to be exactly that. But it got a lot of hype and people were gushing about it so I thought I'd check out the first two issues.
Its trying to be a million things and is ultimately about nothing. That fight with Batroc made no sense. Why are they using ships in the first place when they have teleportation mutants and technology? Why is the Hellfire club infighting right now when they are supposed to be united? Krakoa was only just formed, so why are 3 ongoing series about black ops and going around laws that have only been in place a few weeks? Etc.
Blee knows exactly what he is doing. He is a highly experienced colourist. Over 100 Marvel issues alone.
I understand why some are concerned about depictions of skin colour but there is no official declaration from Marvel that I have ever seen that everyone needs to make Storm as dark as Alex Ross makes her. It would be a good choice, but that choice has not been made as far I can tell. Blee is not wrong, he just isn't depicting things the way many of us would prefer. His choice. Marvel's choice.
The fact is, Blee likes using using environmental lighting effects on skin. Sometimes he might push that further into oranges and pinks on black skin than some are comfortable with, or in the case of Gateway in this issue light blues and purples as a foreground shadow contrast and yellow in reflection, but he uses such effects on all of his characters. Look how artificially purple Shaw goes in the "How is this possible" panel.
In general his palette choices are made to balance out the page and provide contrasts with complimentary and contrasting colours. These help separate out the panes of the composition which is the hallmark of a great colourist. He is not attempting to naturally colour anything, he is making stylistic and compositional choices.
Look for example at how he colours Kate in the kissing panel in blues and low saturation reds. He isn't saying Kitty is blue or red, he is depicting the outside neon lighting and the relative more neutral light and shade in the studio.
He is a professional that understands colour theory and how to make a page pop.
“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.” ― Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I can't tell this by his coloring work on Marauders.
http://www.multiversitycomics.com/wp...w=588&zc=1&a=t
I'm using this piece by matthew wilson Eisner award winning colorist
Even with the light we can tell who is white and who is black
Sorry for de decapited head but this is the best example I found
Last edited by spirit2011; 11-20-2019 at 04:52 PM.
“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.” ― Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.” ― Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Some people really don't like Kitty and some people REALLY hated gold add that to the fact that Kate Pryde is a leading a team with senior X-Men on them and the conspiracy theorist come out claiming this to be Gold 2.0 the major difference being that this book is actually good and has heart as opposed to it being a writer disrespecting every other character in the book in favor to prop up Kate.
I think the coloring on the book is mostly really lovely. I think it's also clear the coloring on Storm and Gateway needs work, and in this day and age after having systemic attempts by editorial to lighten up characters of color where possible at the Big Two it's worth pointing out for improvement. I was giving it a pass on Storm in the first issue given lighting effects, but Gateway looks like an anchovy.