Article: Mighty Captain Marvel #1 Unlettered Preview

[Phil]

You can view the page at http://alphaflight.net/content.php?9...ttered-Preview

[Phil]

Comicbook.com have an Exclusive Preview: http://comicbook.com/2017/01/12/excl...tain-marvel-1/

It's just Puck and.... Sasquatch...

(I'll create an article as soon as Marvel release watermark-less versions to everyone, as the Edit function is still broken)

[-K-M-]

Do not like the renditions of Big beard puck and orangutan Sasquatch

[Le Messor]

I hope the writing will be good.

Gotta agree with -K-M- on the modelling decisions, though.

On the plus side, at least it's believable that Puck might grow a beard, and that's far from the worst professional Sasquatch rendition I've seen.

~ Le Messor
"First impressions are the most lasting."
~ Proverb

[Phil]

Yeah, I'm with you on Sas (hence my italics).
I don't mind Puck's beard though.

[Le Messor]

I'd wondered about the italics and ellipses.

[Le Messor]

Hmm... just re-read it in the vague and vain hope that wasn't Sasquatch but one of Red Skull's super-apes. (One of them is an orang-utan, I believe.) Carol straight-up calls him 'Squatch', though.

Looks like Ramon didn't do the research.

I'm thinking of writing a letter...

~ Le Messor
"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it."
~ W.C. Fields

[Le Messor]

... and then it hit me.
The artist must've only heard descriptions of the Alpha Flight characters and never looked at them (one look at Sasquatch will tell you that - though I did find a picture on Pintrest of a sasquatch that was an orangutan) - so somebody said 'Puck's a dwarf' and he thought 'oh, like Tolkien'. Hence the beard.

I face-palmed out loud in a supermarket when I figured that out.

[-K-M-]

Haha mystery solved

[Le Messor]

I've just sent this to Marvel:

Dear Captain Marvel creative team,


I saw a preview of some of the art from The Mighty Captain Marvel #1 on Saturday, and have a compulsion to discuss it.

What I want to think when I look at it is how skillful it is. I want to think about how Rosanas (I've just researched the artist's name) is very good at filling in backgrounds. I want to think about how good the detail is, about subtleties of expression that I can see in the artwork, about how clear everything looks. All of which is valid.

Instead, all I can think is, 'You never studied; you've got yourself a professional gig regularly drawing characters you weren't familiar with, and instead of doing due diligence (ie: spending five minutes on the internet), you just phoned somebody up and got a vague description.

You see, years ago, John Byrne created Alpha Flight as a team to go toe-to-toe with the X-Men. In doing so, he made Sasquatch this unique, distinctive, even iconic design; something that's instantly recognisable. What Rosanas has drawn is not Walter Langkowski's alternate form but an orangutan, a species of great ape from Borneo or Sumatra. While it might be Peotr, of Red Ghost's Super-Apes, it is not Sasquatch.


After that, I was thinking about why Puck (who was designed much later, for Alpha Flight #1, but that's not important right now) suddenly has a beard - a design decision I don't like, but I don't object to. (Meaning: it's not to my personal tastes, but it's perfectly believable that the character would grow a beard.) A couple of hours after seeing it, walking through a supermarket, it hit me: Rosanas heard 'he's a bald dwarf' and thought they meant Tolkien's dwarves, and that's what he drew. I face-palmed out loud in public when I figured that out.

So instead of thinking about how nice his artwork is (and it is!), all I can think is 'he's too lazy to do research - and the editor isn't bothering either'. At least, that's the impression that the artwork gives me.

I'm sorry that that's all I can come away with. :/

~ Mik Bennett,
Canberra, Australia

OKAY TO PRINT

That was the diplomatic version.

~ Le Messor
"The only mission statement a company needs: You shall know them by their deeds."
~ P.K. Shaw

[-K-M-]

haha oh my. Didn't hold anything back

[Phil]

The reason I was asking -
Legends Comics/Brain Trust Comics have two exclusive variants to #1:

[Phil]

As do Fried Pie Comics: http://friedpiecomics.com/post/15327...el-1-publisher

[Le Messor]

Thought it might be something like that.

[Phil]

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Puck's beard looks better later on, so not sure if it's just the angle of that panel.
He gets a few more panels, and I'm quite interested in the Puck/Brand chemistry personally.
Still hating the use of "Squatch" as even Puck is using it now...