"Buffy" Comics Vampires

[white avenger]

I hadn't read any comics in a long, LONG time before the Season 8 series came out, and I've read some of the other non-genre earlier issues since then, and I've noticed something that maybe someone here can clear up for me. Why do they draw the vampires with green skin, pointed ears, and talons like some sort of predatory bird?

[littlewilly]

thats the sort of stuff that puts me off the comics(that and Angels dragon)

[goldenboy]

Why do they draw the vampires with green skin, pointed ears, and talons like some sort of predatory bird?

They should redo Buffy: The Origin with better art. Hated the vamps in that one, ugh. They are all over the place in terms of style with the old Buffy comics (just looking at the omnibus volumes). Some artists were true to the look of the Buffy vamps, others...you wonder if they'd ever even seen the show.

I think Ryan Sook (http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/buffy/ecomics/ring_of_fire/index.shtml) is actually my fave non-Season 8 artist, although I could imagine his style would be a turn off for some.

[Joyce Summers]

Yep, Ryan Sook's style really grated me. I just couldn't get into it. It seemed too....I can't quite think of the word. But everything seemed to sharp, dark, and didn't flow for me. I like the characters to be drawn like the actors, and the likeness wasn't there enough for me with Sook. Though he did too quite well with Kendra.
I think it was the eyes. I didn't like how he did the eyes, and sometimes there seemed to be one too many lines. You know?

My personal favorite is Paul Lee. He really captures the characters and doesn't sexualize the women in the way many comic book artists do. He just captures how they look perfectly for me, they seem to leap off the page with incredible likeness to the actors and actresses. I know he's worked on season 8 but I liked his stuff BEFORE season 8, so I'm counting him. Haha. I just think he's a fantastic artist.

[littlewilly]

I dont know who the artists are but in the last week ive read no future for you, Queen of hearts, a stake to the heart and ring of fire and i was impressed with all of the art and storylines.

[goldenboy]

Yep, Ryan Sook's style really grated me. I just couldn't get into it. It seemed too....I can't quite think of the word. But everything seemed to sharp, dark, and didn't flow for me. I like the characters to be drawn like the actors, and the likeness wasn't there enough for me with Sook. Though he did too quite well with Kendra.
I think it was the eyes. I didn't like how he did the eyes, and sometimes there seemed to be one too many lines. You know?

My personal favorite is Paul Lee. He really captures the characters and doesn't sexualize the women in the way many comic book artists do. He just captures how they look perfectly for me, they seem to leap off the page with incredible likeness to the actors and actresses. I know he's worked on season 8 but I liked his stuff BEFORE season 8, so I'm counting him. Haha. I just think he's a fantastic artist.

I hear ya. I think Lee probably does the best, most effortless-looking likenesses of the characters...of any Buffy artist.

Sook's stuff was really jarring to me at first. Off-putting. I've just grown to really like it. He creates this all-encompassing, distinct world that I dig...kind of retro, very gothic, storybook. Similar to Mike Mignola's Hellboy stuff. It's definitely different than the feel of the Buffyverse TV shows though.

Some day, I'd love to see Jo Chen do a whole (painted) issue.

[The Chosen]

Personally, I really REALLY like Cliff Richards. But before season eight. The horrible coloring made his art SUCK in "Anywhere But Here." In the omnibi it's MUCH better art. He really made Buffy look like SMG. I love his art.

Plus, he drew the vampires realistically. That's a plus. It's very plussy. (Shut up...:p)

[white avenger]

Plus, he drew the vampires realistically.

One of the reasons that I REALLY like the Boards and the people here is that a statement like that seems completely logical and acceptable...