review X-factor #12 Attenzione spoiler. avclub/article/all-new-x-factor-12-upgrades-x-team-going-corporat-208416?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=feeds Thanks Oliver Sava Carmine Di Giandomenico is one of Marvel’s most underrated artists, providing consistently crisp artwork that works for a variety of genres. There’s a slick minimalism to his environments in All-New X-Factor that reads as very Apple influenced, and the selective detailing makes Lee Loughridge’s hyper-saturated color palette hit with even more impact. (In a February Big Issues on Marvel artists, a connection was drawn between the rainbow colors of the Google logo and Loughridge’s coloring, and that theory still holds.) All-New X-Factor #12 is an issue of talking heads, but Di Giandomenico’s animated body language and facial expressions make the conversations visually engaging. There’s no shortage of detail in the character work, and the artist has done especially notable work balancing Warlock and Danger’s mechanical appearances with the more human emotions that have developed in their programming. Even well-staged dialogue can get tedious, though. Enter Loughridge with his intense colors to give each scene its own distinct atmosphere, taking advantage of the contrast between warm and cool shades to add an extra level of tension to the artwork. The quality of All-New X-Factor is even more impressive considering its accelerated shipping schedule. Twelve issues have been released in just eight months, meaning this title has been biweekly for half of its run with the same creative team on every issue. Twelve issues by a single creative team without any fill-ins is rare enough nowadays, but accomplishing that feat while on an accelerated schedule is all but unheard of. (When was the last time that happened? Brian Michael Bendis and Mike Bagley’s Ultimate Spider-Man?)
Posted on: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 16:34:19 +0000
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