Todd McFarlane gave Spider-Man a new look and his villains a new attitude. The whole project is still impressive when taken in context for when it was originally released, and that art stills proves impressive, but you can tell that Todd McFarlane still had a long way to go about learning to write a decent paced series. Chris Claremont and Jim Lee's X-Men and Todd McFarlane's Spider-Man Torment are comics us readers from the 90s read or collected hoping the values would sky-rocket with the 1 issues. Spider-Man: Torment by Todd McFarlane (Marvel, 1992 Spider-Man 1-5, 1990-91). So, overall this isn't a bad story, it just doesn't stand up so well to the test of time. At the time, with a month between issues, the coloring probably didn't stand out as much, but reading the entire thing at one sitting, you can see how poorly his coloring skills are in this one issue compared to the rest of the edition. And for whatever reason, the decision to let McFarlane color the fourth issue as well as illustrate and write it seems like a very poor choice now. McFarlane's use of a little known villain (Calypso) and taking another villain too far from their norm (the Lizard) seem a little too contrived now. I found myself skimming through most portions of the story, as the art was telling the story just as well as the writing, if not better in some cases. Now, it's overly atmospheric and ethereal. At the time, the writing seemed really atmospheric and ethereal. His writing has not held up so well over the years, though. It was impressive then, and it's still impressive now. He was really revolutionizing the look of comics at the time, getting away from the enclosed panels on white borders, having his characters break out of the panels, or even bleed off the edges of the page, with black backgrounds instead of white. The art is amazing I'll give Todd McFarlane that.
Well, that doesn't exactly hold up so much now. If a spider drops I shrink with fear : I should die outright in a haunted.
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Why not?" When the series was originally released, I remember thinking it was great, and loved the art and the story. She fell in love with At the feet of the man who sat betwixt Fuseli, the. I found a cheap, used copy of the recent hardcover edition of Torment and thought, "What the hell. Does it live up to its own hype now? Maybe. This was the ultimate in cool comics back in the day. One of the best examples of this comic craziness of the time was the new Spider-Man series headed up by Amazing Spider-Man fan-favorite artist Todd McFarlane, who was given leave to write the series as well as illustrate it.
It was a heady time to be a fan of comics. New series highlighting the best artists in the business.
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