MARVEL COMICS

In a recent E-mail, you said that you wanted to hear what makes my blood boil.  Anymore, the answer is becoming Marvel Comics more and more.  The thing is, I've been learning how to draw comics for the past ten years.  I've already submitted.  My biggest wish is to get a job at Marvel.  If I can do that, maybe people will look at my work, and demand my style over the all-too-popular manga style. 

Manga, doesn't pass for me.  I look at covers from artists like John Buscema, and then I look at covers from people who can't, in my opinion, really be considered artists, and I think, if this stuff is newer, shouldn't it be better instead of worse? I look at John Buscema's stuff, and I say, "Man, this guys worst work is 10 times as good as Manga's best."  Comic books are stories about people.  Make the people look like people.  When I opened up an Uncanny X-men issue one time, Wolverine was on the splash page.  Joe Madurera had done the pencils.  The first thing I noticed is Wolverine's hand. Had a whole 3 fingers and a thumb on it.  Good job, Joe.  I mean, come on, we're not talking rocket science here.  5 fingers = 5 fingers.  And they said I couldn't do math.  Huh!  Showed them!  The average leg is one head wide.  I've seen Spiderman with legs that were about one tooth pick wide.  Maybe that's a bit much.  Try one needle wide.  

I like the work on Thunderbolts.  I also like what DC is doing.  To an extent. If they were going to do what they gone and done to Supes, they should have just killed him again.  It would have been more respectable.  I mean, it's like they sat there and said, "Hey!  This works!  Let's change it!" That's kind of like fixing what's not broken.  I could go on and on about Manga.  For example, you should not have hair that is so sharp that it is potentially a deadly weapon.  There is no doubt in my mind that the Manga hair style could stab someone.  Well, that's what makes my blood boil.

 Mark Schroeder