Martial Arts Week: Shitty comic, great fights

[kingrockwell]

Chuck Dixon's 2004 Richard Dragon series was lousy, to be sure, but it definitely had one thing going for it. Scott McDaniel's art, while no one is accusing it of being pretty, has an energy and flow that fit the series like a glove and made every fight a joy to read.
As evidence, I bring you the climactic clash between Richard and Lady Shiva.

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In Nightwing in particular it was the dynamic image-trail effect he used. Sure it's a Frank Miller-ism, and HE I think got it from manga (and the Chinese equivalent whose name escapes me), but he made it work. You can see how someone could move into that position from the one before,