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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 12, 2014 11:51:11 GMT -5
I'm going to go ahead and agree with R.R. The re-coloring on the Conan trades is absolutely atrocious. Makes them virtually unreadable to me. I actually got e-copies through illicit means so I could read them in the original form. I figured I paid for the shit copy, I ought to be able to read them they way they should be.
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Post by Ozymandias on May 12, 2014 11:57:18 GMT -5
Surely this was not your intent? Yeah, you keep telling yourself that. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 12, 2014 11:58:37 GMT -5
The recolouring of the Conan TBP (especially the one including issues 11, as I recall) was often downright ugly. Adding insult to injury, it was even replacing Smith's own colouring with some ill-advised "realistic" and a complete change of palette. I agree: whenever recolouring is mandated, the original work should serve as a colour guide whenever possible. I liked the coloring on the Dark Horse reprints for whatever reason.
What did you think of the colors on the Treasury reprints?
If I recall the colors on Marvel Super Special 9 looked a little weird but I can't recall if that was reprinting a previously colored comic or an issue of SSOC.
I loved the colouring for the Treasuries, especially for Red Nails in #4 (and it was done by Smith himself). The colours on the Marvel Super Special #9 were quite all right for the main story, but did look unusual for the Red Sonja back-up (both stories were seen for the first time). The dark colours for Sonja were actually an artistic decision: the look and feel were closer to a European strip than to standard American comic-books. At the time I though it made the story harder to follow but I can't deny it looked beautiful and gave a unique mood to the tale. Marie Severin's colours for Marvel Super Special #2 were hit and miss; the night scenes looked neat, but on parts of the issue the colours looked washed out, sort of like some of the early issues of Dreadstar. |
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Post by Ozymandias on May 12, 2014 12:05:13 GMT -5
The recolouring of the Conan TBP (especially the one including issues 11, as I recall) was often downright ugly. Adding insult to injury, it was even replacing Smith's own colouring with some ill-advised "realistic" and a complete change of palette. I agree: whenever recolouring is mandated, the original work should serve as a colour guide whenever possible. I liked the coloring on the Dark Horse reprints for whatever reason.
What did you think of the colors on the Treasury reprints?
If I recall the colors on Marvel Super Special 9 looked a little weird but I can't recall if that was reprinting a previously colored comic or an issue of SSOC.
It wasn't just the coloring, reproduction in general was poor. The fine tracing on Barry's art, towards the later issues specially, was all but gone. |
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Post by Ozymandias on May 12, 2014 12:09:43 GMT -5
Marie Severin's colours for Marvel Super Special #2 were hit and miss; the night scenes looked neat, but on parts of the issue the colours looked washed out, sort of like some of the early issues of Dreadstar. That, and Alcala's inks look much better on B&W. |
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Post by paulie on May 12, 2014 12:22:29 GMT -5
I liked the coloring on the Dark Horse reprints for whatever reason.
What did you think of the colors on the Treasury reprints?
If I recall the colors on Marvel Super Special 9 looked a little weird but I can't recall if that was reprinting a previously colored comic or an issue of SSOC.
It wasn't just the coloring, reproduction in general was poor. The fine tracing on Barry's art, towards the later issues specially, was all but gone. As a former copywriter the amount of typos in the Dark Horse reprints was staggering.
I'll add that I wasn't even alive when the originals were out and I don't have any in my collection.
SSOC and Conan Saga reprints in B&W were my first exposure to Smith's Conan.
I guess it stands to reason then that I wouldn't be as appalled as some others about the color palate Dark Horse used.
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