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[furrykef]

But it's easy to crisize something that isn't yours.

For a good artist, it's easy to criticize something that is theirs, too.

[randomizer]

For a good artist, it's easy to criticize something that is theirs, too.

Like Silicate

[MaRaMa-TSG]

Hey! I loved Sam Maxwell's work. He made Robotnik awesome~

Sonic #108
The one comic I wanna hunt down every single issue in existence and torch them all!


Oh, and I don't mind criticizing "professionals" if their work looks worst than my "amateur" work. I believe it takes more than a title or certificate to say how much of an artist someone is.

Now excuse me while I go bleach my eyes and brain and go back to pretending that blasted thing ever existed...

[Shadow]

What mostly astounds me is how they forgot to color in Robotnik's pupils.How do you fuck that up?

[furrykef]

It might not have been an accident... it isn't the only time Robotnik's sported white pupils, though of course he had red ones for most of the comic's run.

Heck, in some of the oldest issues -- certainly the first one or two of the miniseries -- he actually had human eyes...

[randomizer]

The last picture of Robotnik reminds me of something...

[Glitcher]

Here's more of Ron Lim's work from issue #119. The art itself is bad enough, but what really kills me is the writing on the third panel:



Sonic: "It's a dangerous move, but if I vibrate fast enough to slip our molecules through Cater-Killer's... then we're in!"
Caption: Please don't try at home!

I mean, can you imagine if kids did try this at home? I can just picture hordes of demented children shaking rapidly while running into walls in an attempt to pass through them. Kinda makes me wish that warning wasn't there.

[Gojira007]

While I'll agree the writing is...sketchy, at best...I actually think this is one of Lim's better pages. Admittedly, that ain't sayin' much, but that last panel in particular is surprisingly well composed, Sonic looks effectively disheveled given the presumed intensity of what he just did (absurd though that is), and-while this isn't to Lim's credit since he didn't do it-the coloring is very nice and atmospheric.

It still sucks on the whole, naturally, but at least it's got that little going for it.

[randomizer]

He'd better be careful he doesn't vibrate his molecules apart from each other.

[furrykef]

Vibrate... to get inside...

God. That's as bad as the time Sonic threw dirt in his shoe while he was falling to construct a bridge he could run on (beginning of Sonic #48 or #49), or the time he reached into a lake or some such to use his super speed to craft a water ball (I think that was in Brave New World). And the time he oscillated his speed to create afterimages (Sonic #50) doesn't really make sense either.

Seriously, does Sonic's super speed mean he can just make up whatever superpower he wants?

[randomizer]

Perhaps he's a genius physicist and knows how to exploit the laws of nature?

[salamander]

I guess Superman, the Flash, etc. set a precedent that you can do anything if you move fast enough. Like how Superman can go back in time by flying around the earth backwards, or something. I think the Flash did the "vibrate through the walls" trick too. Just mumble something about molecules and space time and it just sounds sciency enough to work.