Tuesday, August 03, 2004

Even Alex Ross' young Superman action figure looks old. His Flash figure, oddly enough, reminds me of Darwyn Cooke's rendition of Flash in New Frontier. I say "oddly enough" because it's hard to imagine two more dissimilar artists in comics -- Ross is on the far edge of photorealism (most of the time, anyway; his cover of Marvel's 9/11 benefit book HEROES was much looser than most of his other work), while Cooke is, if possible, even more stylized and stripped down than Bruce Timm's "animated" style of drawing.

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