Greg Land - you bite.

[logansrogue]

I've only just been shown the evils of Greg Land. It's very frustrating to see someone like that get work when I know plenty of good comic artists who could do a better job at pencilling than him. To encapsulate his work, I give you two panels from very distinctly different issues:









But, don't take Greg Land's crapness from me. See for yourself.

ETA: I don't think people get it, and it's my fault for not stating it. He's well known for tracing people, and people are pretty sure he *traces Porn Stars* in a lot of instances. He's getting paid to TRACE.

ETA2: HE DID IT MORE THAN ONCE WITH THAT FACE!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!

Comments

[asweetdownfall.livejournal.com]

Eugh. :\

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

That was pretty much my reaction. *nods*

[canellaphile.livejournal.com]

Oh god...it's terrible! That comic parody made me rofl though. Porn meta keywords....LOLZ!!

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

I know! ROFLMAO!!!

[zebeckras.livejournal.com]

Ick. I hate it when comic book artists just keep drawing the same girl over and over again. (Although compared against the beacon of shit that is Rob Liefeld, he's not that bad.)

Meanwhile, "they're coming flowers now" without context sounds extremely wrong.

[starfyre01.livejournal.com]

It just smacks of laziness more than anything else, doesn't it? He's not bad as you noted, especially when you compare him to Rob Liefeld, however :-P

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

At least Rob Liefeld draws HIS OWN PEOPLE. I don't think you guys understand the gravity of the situation...

HE TRACES PEOPLE!! LOL!

[starfyre01.livejournal.com]

ACK! I hadn't clicked on the link you provided beforehand. Holy crap on a stick, LOL!

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

PORN PEOPLE! LOLOL!!!

[rainfletcher.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh, no, Robbie did more than his fair share of tracing. In one of his biggest promotional posters for X-Force he traced the Cable pose directly from (of all things) a GI Joe comic. Didn't get outed on it for a couple years, probably because it took them that long to find a GI Joe reader. I guess he figured no one would notice?

But dang, that's some funny stuff. The spliced dialogue rocks.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

HAhahahaa. Like I need any more reason to loathe Rob. Bwahahahaha. Thank you! :D

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Oh - no. No no. It IS wrong. I took the panel from a re-cap by mightygodking. VERY funny.

And he's not just drawing the same because he doesn't have imagination. He's TRACED the SAME WOMAN! LOL

[starfyre01.livejournal.com]

Okay, that just made my eyes cross.

[esicardi.livejournal.com]

I think it must be true he traces photos, because the comic images in the link seem like a "collage" of characters with several perspectives mixed incoherently and superimposed one to the other, instead of a coherent image of characters interacting. (I hope my english made sense)

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

It did, you said it beautifully, my dear. Said in once sentence what I couldn't cause I was too mouth-foamingly mad. Bravo! :)

[esicardi.livejournal.com]

Thanks. It seems the guy also traces other artists work (See the link below).

[esicardi.livejournal.com]

Have you noticed that characters look kind of different from one pic to the other (ie: he traces different people for each position/expression of the same character)

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. That's one of people's main complaints about his work!

[esicardi.livejournal.com]

I just found a link with examples of the tracing:
http://remix17.livejournal.com/12070.html

[demosthenes91.livejournal.com]

I'm a DC girl myself, so I had never heard of Greg Land. So, of course, after reading this, I had to do some searching....

http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/2722106.html

HOLY CRAP!

The guy is teh suck! I cannot believe he gets away with this stuff. Unbelievable!

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

I know!

Dude - what is your icon from?

[starfyre01.livejournal.com]

*raises hands wildly*

That's from The Cutting Edge! Great movie - a must see!

[demosthenes91.livejournal.com]

Yes indeed...The Cutting Edge.

And the more stuff I read on this guy, the more I wonder how in the hell he hasn't been sued yet, or how he even still has a job!

Considering how difficult it is to break into the field, even with all the talent out there, how is this guy still getting a paycheck?

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

The fact that Marvel STILL EMPLOY him makes me loathe Marvel even more than I already did. They are the root of all comic evil! They are Satan! Marvel cares not about talent! RAAH! (watch me splooge with rage).