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kingrockwell (kingrockwell) wrote in scans_daily,

I definitely think that's a big part of it. There are a lot of other factors that deal in to Land's particular brand of faux-torealism, but the airbrushed feel certainly contributes. The other trade I got was Nightwing: The Hunt For Oracle, which was primarily done by Land in his pre-thief days, but it's still recognizably Land (as opposed to the much older New Titans Annual scans in xdoop's Terry/Donna post), his linework is distinct as well as the way he renders women's faces (not talking about the porn face so much as tendencies in the features). And while it would never make him my favorite artist or anything, I could at least read old!Land without retching.

Hell, even more recently, the cover to Phoenix: Endsong, prolly the first thing I'd ever seen by him (and wrote off more as blah than blech), has a more conventional inking/coloring and is almost tolerable to recognize as bland cheesecake. But BOP 67 is shitty even for Land. It's right up there with that X-Men splash image that swipes the same three poses for everyone in the picture. And of all its problems, the general feeling that I've picked up an issue of Playboy instead of a book featuring characters I care about is ultimately why it has me so bothered. And airbrushing is one of the things that makes Playboy totally nonviable as a source of porn.