Not huge on JRJR. Same set of features & expressions for every character.
He has not been an A list talent for decades. Marvel and DC love him because he is fast and dependable. His art used to have some depth and detail, but he traded that in for speed a long time ago and his art just looks like a sloppy mess most of the time these days. You look at his early X-Men or Spider Man stuff and then look at anything he has done in the last 20 years and you can hardly believe it is the same artist. Most artists get better with age or at least should he did the opposite. His art is just ugly to look at these days.
I enjoy Romita, but his recent work hasn't been the best, so I'm not sure if this as big a get back for Marvel.
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I like a lot of things he's done, and that picture seems pretty cool, but he really hasn't been on the top of his game for a long time. I don't think he did anything noteworthy while at DC, but I really haven't been reading most of the current Marvel and DC material, especially if he's teamed up with Bendis, so I might have missed something. Of course, I'm curious to see what they'll do with him, not that I plan on reading it.
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I liked them together when John used to do full pencils and his art was very detailed, and I generally like Janson both as a penciller and as an inker. But lately (and also on Thor as he was pulling double-duty on that plus Spider-Man) Romita's art seems too sketchy and unfinished and I don't think Janson's inks help with that look. Compare Action Comics with Janson's inks with Superman Year One with Danny Miki, it's like looking at a different artist.
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