PotD – Worship
January 20th, 2009 ryan
Beware of This and That
PotD – iNaugural iChat
April 4th, 2008 ryan
Pretty much.
Cthomics: Subpar
January 10th, 2008 ryanCame across a comic that somehow got tucked into a manila folder with all my paperwork. Purchased perhaps 14 years ago it has traversed many a state, as countless of my nomadic belongings, and I had forgotten how horrid it was. Behold:
Yes, that’s an ad depicting the eldritch cthulhu in bipedal form, wielding a chainsaw and sporting what appears to be an apron. I desaturated because the whole page is pink on white and my already bruised mind couldn’t bear to share this monstrosity in its raw form.
I remember browsing the mouldering cardboard boxes of a certainly soon-to-be out of business comic shop and seeing the cover:
Naturally I took the bait, as many a fan boy does when confronted with the full-page colored cover of a book that is otherwise inked and produced by lackluster subordinates chained to their weathered cubicles. The deadworld comics were the same way.
Betwixt the lies that are cover art I was confronted with scenes such as this:
Alright that line is bad ass but the rest of the story, artwork, and dare-I-say intended homage is just terrible.
I understand that differing tastes in even related subjects bring about the best in terms of creative output. I’m far from one that would classify themselves as a purist on any topic, be it the location of orc tusks or the size of an eldritch being’s vestigial wings, and I enjoy new depictions and interpretations, honest. It’s just unbridled mediocrity that gets the blood boiling, clear non-attempts at something regardless of the level of talent.
I could go on and on about dark, cringe worthy pits of despair such as elfwood or the majority of deviantart but I have way too many posts to catch up on over at conceptart.