Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27441478-20160708150137/@comment-27441478-20160709010632

BlueSpeeder wrote: First off, Matt Herms is probably the absolute best colorist that the Sonic comics have right now...

...Plus, you're comparing a scene with tons of lighting to a scene where the mood is completely darker along with the lighting. The scene from StH #217 is outside in broad daylight: SU #81's scene is inside in a dark facility. I am not saying Matt Herms is not that bad, but I can definately see some colouring style changes over the years, and not necessarily the better.

I am not talking about the lighting in doors, the colouring style also occurs in outside environment where there is more global illumination like the beginnings of SU#79. Matt Herms used to color very well back in the day where we would see him using all sorts of shades and stuff but nowadays it appears as if he only stick to like 2 colours and that is all.

Same thing which plagues Cassata's, but is inconsistent among different issues and different pencillers.

Any penciller who was not Evan Stanley, Tracy Yardley or Jen Hen gives me cancer everytime I read. Jamal Peppers isn't that bad in some aspects. I sorta got used to his.

Steven Butler made me cringe. Good riddance he's gone.

Too many new people coming in. Some deserve what they deserve while others should just up and leave, srsly.

Also, is Yardley getting too old or too busy over other things? He used to draw everything back in the day, even the Universe Issues and everyone liked it. Now he is barely around and supplemented by these new kids on the block. Is he planning to retire early? Is he going the same way Jensen or Butler is?

Megalodon Commando wrote: For the comics at the moment. Both colour and the art has gone a bit crap. It hasn't gone off to completely sh** but obvious lacking of detail and vibrance like the comics used to have is clearly visible. Maybe the legal case and character purge took out all the life of the old artists? Maybe they went "In the end, it doesn't even matter."

Mystic Monkey wrote: I'm not really all that familiar with the Archie Comics staff to know them all yet. I dont know them by person personally, the only closest thing I got was their DV pages. But since I read all the comic issues and have done so for so much and so long, I can almost instantly recognise staff member by art style, coloring etc the second I see the issue without looking at the credits. "Yep, thats by Yardley without a doubt!" "That's by Herms without a doubt!" etc.