Normally I just shrug over not so great comic art, but this was really distracting me while I was reading.
And there are really no skin sores. Earlier his eyes were bleeding (not really explained yet, supposedly somehow connected to something with the Red and his power) but nothing is supposed to be wrong with his skin or forehead, so I have no idea what is going on with his face.
While looking at this I kept thinking that some maybe could have been salvaged if a good inker had taken some liberties, done away with the ridiculous zick-zack lines, the weird crap on their faces, the odd hair rendering etc etc, and instead either inked it maybe with a more dynamic brush linework with variations in the lines instead of all being thin and/or decent crosshatching for shadows and such instead of these scribbles you try to read as who knows what, and had been more bold with some more black areas and detail suggestions through textures. Like I haven't scanned this, but in other panels houses are just blocks with squares in them for windows, and actually the windows not even arranged in the most believable areas and such. But since the penciller did the inking at least in part, it looks like they just traced the pencil maybe? I mean, maybe the scribbles were initially in pencil and then didn't look so odd. IDK.
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And there are really no skin sores. Earlier his eyes were bleeding (not really explained yet, supposedly somehow connected to something with the Red and his power) but nothing is supposed to be wrong with his skin or forehead, so I have no idea what is going on with his face.
While looking at this I kept thinking that some maybe could have been salvaged if a good inker had taken some liberties, done away with the ridiculous zick-zack lines, the weird crap on their faces, the odd hair rendering etc etc, and instead either inked it maybe with a more dynamic brush linework with variations in the lines instead of all being thin and/or decent crosshatching for shadows and such instead of these scribbles you try to read as who knows what, and had been more bold with some more black areas and detail suggestions through textures. Like I haven't scanned this, but in other panels houses are just blocks with squares in them for windows, and actually the windows not even arranged in the most believable areas and such. But since the penciller did the inking at least in part, it looks like they just traced the pencil maybe? I mean, maybe the scribbles were initially in pencil and then didn't look so odd. IDK.