Who awesomely ran out of image before he got to the title space!
RK@HM
4 years ago
Actually, this artwork would make for a pretty decent comic book page on the whole; a bit crude, but it’s drawn at least as well as any of the Silver Age comic book art I’ve seen. It just doesn’t make for a very good cover for a prose novel such as this one. The guy should take some hints on how to design his cover properly from some of the advice we gave the writer of another “superhero-themed” novel over at Cover Critics.
Also, I don’t think that blank space at the top is the artist “running out of picture” as Hitch says, but rather the artist choosing a cover aspect ratio taller than the picture’s so that there would be some empty space where he could put the title; which is a rank amateur’s mistake. Obviously, if he were doing the layout right, he should have left some space between the panels for things like a proper title and byline. (Heaven knows, if the designer can draw a muscle-bound dude in a cape this convincingly, he ought to be able to draw some decent comic-book-style word art for his title and byline too.)
Kregger
4 years ago
Still, $5 for 36 a page novel(a)? I haven’t read a comic book in ages, but isn’t $5 a lot for that length comic book?
Last I checked, comics were $2.99 for around 32 pages, about half of which are ads. But then, you’re paying for both art and story as well as printing and binding. So, yes I think $5 is a bit much.
Who awesomely ran out of image before he got to the title space!
Actually, this artwork would make for a pretty decent comic book page on the whole; a bit crude, but it’s drawn at least as well as any of the Silver Age comic book art I’ve seen. It just doesn’t make for a very good cover for a prose novel such as this one. The guy should take some hints on how to design his cover properly from some of the advice we gave the writer of another “superhero-themed” novel over at Cover Critics.
Also, I don’t think that blank space at the top is the artist “running out of picture” as Hitch says, but rather the artist choosing a cover aspect ratio taller than the picture’s so that there would be some empty space where he could put the title; which is a rank amateur’s mistake. Obviously, if he were doing the layout right, he should have left some space between the panels for things like a proper title and byline. (Heaven knows, if the designer can draw a muscle-bound dude in a cape this convincingly, he ought to be able to draw some decent comic-book-style word art for his title and byline too.)
Still, $5 for 36 a page novel(a)? I haven’t read a comic book in ages, but isn’t $5 a lot for that length comic book?
Last I checked, comics were $2.99 for around 32 pages, about half of which are ads. But then, you’re paying for both art and story as well as printing and binding. So, yes I think $5 is a bit much.