Ultimate Power #1-2 - Atop the Fourth Wall

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Welcome to Atop the Fourth Wall, where bad comics burn. In this episode, Linkara looks at the first two issues of a Greg Land miniseries! http://atopthefourthwall.com Originally uploaded June 15th, 2015. ORIGINAL INFO: Ultimate power must be what Greg Land has considering he still gets work. RUMINATIONS: We’re getting closer each day to being caught up! We’re now less than a year’s worth of material, as at the time of this writing the 400th episode was just released. It’s pretty amazing to believe… but not as amazing that it took me six years to finally review something by Greg Land. Sure, I had covered some of his stuff over in Longbox (which of course this was around the time the first Midsummer’s Nightmare was occurring), but considering Greg Land is a punching bag in comics for his own unique way. Frank Miller gets attacked for his writing and artistic foibles, Rob Liefeld gets attacked for his writing and artistic foibles, but both are unique in said foibles. Greg Land, while not a writer, has of course his own different foibles than those two and goes to show how there are so many unique ways to suck. What’s sad is that Greg Land COULD be really damn good, but at some point he just stopped trying and has been relying on lightboxing. Mind you, the hayday of his tracing was the 2000s and I know he still gets work for Marvel, but I don’t know how severe it still is. People have wondered how he still got work or hasn’t been sued. To answer the latter first – he has been on a few things, but most of the time comics just don’t attract that kind of attention and he’s good at hiding his sources… for the most part. Usually Marvel settles out of court and makes some grand proclamations about no tracing allowed… and gets right back to work. How does he still get work? Because he still turns in books on time and, at the time his tracing was discovered, he was actually a very popular artist because his work looked so realistic. That being said, I think more credit should go to his colorist, who was good at creating realistic skintones and shading rather than his traced drawings.

Ultimate Power #1-2 - Atop the Fourth Wall

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• published: 07 Jun 2016
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Welcome to Atop the Fourth Wall, where bad comics burn. In this episode, Linkara looks at the first two issues of a Greg Land miniseries! http://atopthefourthwall.com Originally uploaded June 15th, 2015. ORIGINAL INFO: Ultimate power must be what Greg Land has considering he still gets work. RUMINATIONS: We’re getting closer each day to being caught up! We’re now less than a year’s worth of material, as at the time of this writing the 400th episode was just released. It’s pretty amazing to believe… but not as amazing that it took me six years to finally review something by Greg Land. Sure, I had covered some of his stuff over in Longbox (which of course this was around the time the first Midsummer’s Nightmare was occurring), but considering Greg Land is a punching bag in comics for his own unique way. Frank Miller gets attacked for his writing and artistic foibles, Rob Liefeld gets attacked for his writing and artistic foibles, but both are unique in said foibles. Greg Land, while not a writer, has of course his own different foibles than those two and goes to show how there are so many unique ways to suck. What’s sad is that Greg Land COULD be really damn good, but at some point he just stopped trying and has been relying on lightboxing. Mind you, the hayday of his tracing was the 2000s and I know he still gets work for Marvel, but I don’t know how severe it still is. People have wondered how he still got work or hasn’t been sued. To answer the latter first – he has been on a few things, but most of the time comics just don’t attract that kind of attention and he’s good at hiding his sources… for the most part. Usually Marvel settles out of court and makes some grand proclamations about no tracing allowed… and gets right back to work. How does he still get work? Because he still turns in books on time and, at the time his tracing was discovered, he was actually a very popular artist because his work looked so realistic. That being said, I think more credit should go to his colorist, who was good at creating realistic skintones and shading rather than his traced drawings.