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Matt Fraction and Joe Mad new Inhumans series
I just learned that Matt Fraction and Joe Madureira have a new Inhumans series due out in 2014. I was a huge Joe Mad fan back in the 90's. I haven't picked up but one of his new comics since coming back to Marvel. I hoping this new book will have less humor and more edgy material. Anyone else a fan of Joe Madureira. I guessing if you've only read comics for the past 10 years or so you might not be familiar with his work.
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I know he was heavily involved with the X-Men for a period, but I wasn't buying any of the X-books at that time -- though I think I might have seen his work during the Age Of Apocalypse, which I did get.
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Zing! :-j
An example of Joe Madureira's Inhumans interpretation. I like it.
Another thing I like about it, from what few descriptions have been made, is that it seems to be about a new group or kind of people rather than just being about a team. The book is "Inhumanity" rather than simply "The Inhumans". I like the potential scope of it.
So, we'll see, but I will be there.
chris
I think his style is kind of posed and staticky, especially as of late. Even when he does dynamic poses (which he does very well) they seem like freeze-frames from an anime cartoon. It's not a bad thing at all, but I don't think it works will with the sort of decompressed/modern storytelling sensibilities at Marvel nowadays. It worked well in the '90s, when the panel-to-panel flow of the stories was somewhat slower.
For what it's worth, after the muddy coloring debacle of Ultimates 3 #1, I generally liked (not loved) his artwork on that series. I checked out an issue or two of his Avenging Spider-Man "run" with Zeb Wells... and the art felt too posed and overwrought for the story. But I didn't really care for the story either.
I'll probably at least check out his latest work, the Wolverine/Elektra thing, simply because I like those characters. 50/50 chance I'll actually want to buy 3 or 4 $4 issues of it, though. I WANT to like it, because I have such fond memories of his older stuff.
His stuff in the '90s was just magic. Maybe it was a right-style-right-time thing, but I can still look back at his X-Men and Battle Chasers stuff and appreciate it a lot. Those were really fun comics, and it definitely did feel as though his art was pushing the medium forward in a sense, bring a more Manga-influenced style or whatever. I guess he's developed his style for his own reasons, generally adding more lines and detail as he goes, but personally I wish he could go back to the cleaner style he was doing circa '96, and just do everything like that. He's known as a slow artist now, but back when he was doing his older style he was giving us, what, 10 issues of Uncanny X-Men a year. The way he drew all those characters was just classic to me. I think I prefer his Wolverine, Psylocke, Rogue, and Jean Grey to the Jim Lee versions. And his Archangel was just awesome.
I've only seen one image of the Inhumans series. I'm interested.
It strikes me from the conversation here that Madureira was running the same track.