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cyberghostface ([info]cyberghostface) wrote in [info]scans_daily,
@ 2009-08-02 18:21:00

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Entry tags:char: green goblin/norman osborn, char: spider-man/peter parker, char: victoria hand, creator: john romita sr., creator: karl kesel, creator: stan lee, event: dark reign, title: amazing spider-man

Dark Reign: The Goblin Legacy

The Goblin Legacy one-shot was basically a reprint of the classic Amazing Spider-Man story in which the Green Goblin and Spider-Man discovered each other's identities in #39-40. What makes this one different is that the story was completely recolored. 

For comparision, the final page of #39 as it originally appeared...



...and the recolored version...



Thoughts? Is it an improvement, or does it ruin the classic story?

Also, there was a wraparound story in which Ms. Hand, Norman Osborn's Deputy Director at H.A.M.M.E.R. interviews Peter Parker about what he knows about Norman (given that he's friends with Harry.) Afterwards...







Hmmm...does this mean Norman's going to remember that Peter Parker is Spider-Man?

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[info]thehefner
2009-08-02 11:33 pm UTC (link)
There are tons of old comics I dearly wish we could see recolored, but the original coloring works much better here. I think it has something to do with the art style.

This coloring works better with Silver Age stories, but dear lord, there are so many reprints of comics from the 70's and 80's especially that I wish to god someone would take the time to recolor. Nothing too drastic, but just to clean it up and make it look a little less garish and dotty.

That said, I'm reminded of how some people hate the recoloring for the Neal Adams BATMAN hardcovers. I thought they were gorgeous, but some felt the new colors ruined 'em.

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[info]kingrockwell
2009-08-03 12:01 am UTC (link)
I think a lot of it has to do with the shading. Older comics did most of their shading in the pencils and inks because the color was so expensive to print, leaving everything with only one tone in the coloring stage. Nowadays it's shifted, so more of the shading in the pencils is carried over in the coloring stage instead of the inks, but when you apply modern coloring to older comics, the color shading looks a little redundant.

As for Neil Adams, they only recolored a couple stories from the Flash backups in the Green Lantern/Green Arrow trades, so comparing the recolored stories with the other stories that kept their original colors does leave you feeling like something's missing. It's not the worst I've seen (compare the Brent Anderson's art with the colors in X-Men: God Love, Man Kills with the colors on his art in the first Astro City trade), but it could be so much better.

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[info]thehefner
2009-08-03 12:39 am UTC (link)
What do you mean they only recolored stories from the Flash backups? I have one of the Neal Adams Batman hardcovers, and it's all been totally redone, with new effects. Look at the new version of "The Joker's Five-Way Revenge," which is currently collected in the JOKER: THE GREATEST STORIES EVER TOLD tpb, and compare it to the version collected in the original GREATEST JOKER STORIES EVER TOLD.

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[info]kingrockwell
2009-08-03 12:59 am UTC (link)
I guess I ordered that a little weird, I meant that the Flash backups were the only recolored stories in either volume of Green Lantern/Green Arrow, being the only Neal Adams trades I have handy.

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[info]oddpuppets
2009-08-03 03:05 pm UTC (link)
The sad thing is, loads of concept artists and colourists I see on Conceptart, DA and the like do some amazing retro-flavored coloring which puts most modern colorists to shame. The idea is to keep the same flavor of the original but with our more modern digital palette, so the coloring has more range while being very simplistic.

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[info]thehefner
2009-08-03 03:31 pm UTC (link)
Ooh, have you any links?

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[info]the_jeff
2009-08-05 01:27 am UTC (link)
I'd like to see some links as well, but it would be nice to have a seperate post, just to find it easier. :)

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[info]oddpuppets
2009-08-05 01:42 am UTC (link)
I'll try and see if I can compile such a list.

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