Potential Evil Geniuses

[terrykun]

Outside of the drama and the high-handedness and bloodshed in the rest of the issue, two adorable genius children have lunch together. Enjoy.









 

Comments

[arilou_skiff]

God, this art is horrific.

[mrstatham]

I don't think Epting is that bad an artist - he did great work on Captain America, but for me, he's not suited to what I feel is a less realistic book like FF. As it is, his Val looks weirdly like Sharon Carter, which... Isn't a good thing.

[terrykun]

The Richards kids and Bentley are larval Captain American characters when in Epting's art.

Franklin - Steve
Valeria - Sharon
Bentley - James

[arilou_skiff]

Children do not look like that.

[mrstatham]

That's what I said, given Sharon isn't a kid. It's NOT a good thing Val looks like her. I was just saying Epting was better suited to books like Cap.

[nomadicwriter]

I quite like Epting's art, problems drawing child-like kids aside, but I've always felt that the F4 work best in a bright and bold cartoony style. I really couldn't stand Bryan Hitch's run on the title, despite loving his work on Ultimates. The F4 is just not a book that fits with muted tones and gritty realism, no matter how dark the storylines happen to get.

[mrstatham]

Putting people like Hitch or Epting on FF is like putting a 'realistic' artist like JG Jones on Final Crisis. These kinds of highly imaginative science fiction and fantasy pieces require people who can channel that Kirby energy into something astonishing, not ground it in realism.