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Quote: Originally Posted by ChrisBaleBatman Wow, I'm actually a little happy to hear that atleast some (or was it all?) the art was retouched, which would modernize it really. Um, should I skip vol. 1 or is it a must have? I'm interested in picking these up really. I've never really been exposed to Neal Adams art before. Some (not all) of the art in places that was rushed originally has been retouched by Neal. Just save your...

Quote: Originally Posted by snipe Just the 3. That's great for my wallet. But I would have loved to have more Neal Adams work.

who did the coloring though? you mentioned adams doing the re-penciling and inking...but its the new coloring that kills me. i hate coloring that is so obviously done by computers. it makes the art so cold and inorganic. theres no life to it. id take old school coloring over tha any day. and i think the computer coloring in this instance looks especially bad...it appears to be so amateurish...i dont care if neal adams did it himself, i dont...

Recoloring old comics does have it's pros and cons, while the newer colors make the pages more lifelike and realistic, the coloring makes the pages appear too dark at times, although most of the time it depends on if the colorist is any good.

Wow, I'm actually a little happy to hear that atleast some (or was it all?) the art was retouched, which would modernize it really. Um, should I skip vol. 1 or is it a must have? I'm interested in picking these up really. I've never really been exposed to Neal Adams art before.

Quote: Originally Posted by Cobblepot Thanks, next month I'll be getting 3 and the month after that perhaps 1. How many volumes are there going to be? Just the 3.

Ugh. I hate it when old-comics are re-coloured with modern computer-style colouring with smooth gradients etc. It looks nice but it's not representative of how it origianlly looked. It's like Lucas shoving tonnes of CG into the original Star Wars. I'm not against re-colouring per se but they should keep it closer to the original and keep the colours *flat*. Nice flat colouring can bring out the linework better anyway.

I don't really mind recoloring. Some of the coloring jobs of the old stuff aren't that great to be honest. Some stories in Tales of the Demon had really bad coloring jobs.