Catalyst Comix #5

[superboyprime]

'I wanted to make sure to pull in artists that I knew would do soul-bending work, but also happen to draw in styles that, for some unknown reason, seem to keep them outside of the mainstream superhero artist loop. I have no idea why that is, because this is how I personally want to see more superheroes done. McDaid, Maybury, Farinas -- these artists are as different from each other as they are from most of the folks who do get hired to draw the monthly books at Marvel and DC right now. At those publishers, these guys would be -- and have been -- shunted off to the occasional stories in Marvel's "Strange Tales" anthology or DC's "Bizarro Comics." I love both of those books, but they're definitely built and marketed as something "other." Meanwhile, these guys would never be let loose on the monthly, primetime adventures of Captain America or Wonder Woman or whoever. But the way they depict superheroes is so much more exciting and individualistic to me.' - Joe Casey

Amazing Grace in "The Truth About Mr. Seaver!":









A couple of pages of smooth moves later...





The Agents of Change:







And lastly, the latest chapter of The Ballad of Frank Wells: "Who Beds Wins"...







"--but epitomizes supervillain rage in all its righteous fury!"

Comments

[captainbellman]

...Joe's not been reading any Marvel books lately, has he? I can't think of an output more visually disparate and varied. DC, of course, has been trying to make every single book look vaguely the same, but one couldn't really confuse the style in Mike Allred's FF with that of Tan Eng Huat's X-Men: Legacy, nor Jamie McKelvie's Young Avengers or Chris Samnee's Daredevil.