Thought I would mention some of the comics I have been reading recently. I have been grabbing collections of old Hell Boy comics, and Witch Blade comics. I’m finding that newer WB comics have a much deeper plot, but that the series never really understood the mythological source material it is drawing from. I love the art though, and the story is engaging even though half the time I have to ask if the long haired brooding character is Nottingham or Estacado. Hell Boy is another matter entirely. The art is simple and stylized. Every image is done in a way that gives the eye just enough information to tell what is going on. The author clearly does his research. He probably spends ten times more hours pouring over medieval myths than he does actually writing the scripts for each issue.
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