Marvel Comics Artist Greg Land Pays Homage To Gwen Stacy SPIDER-GWEN: GWENVERSE Launch Next Year

@dragon316 - There will be about 50 variant covers,it's the Marvel way. So expect them both to have a cover.

@KingdomUniverse - She's Gwen Poole from a version of the real world where Marvel characters only exist in comics and movies, so when she accidentally arrives on 616 she can break the fourth wall like Deadpool and know everything about everyone and the mechanics of the format and storytelling, giving her a unique advantage as a mercenary.

But I always hold out hope that she's technically a Gwen Stacy due to some maiden name somewhere down the line.

@bkmeijer - That's the problem with Greg Land. Any individual image might look fine, because he traced a pose that already looks fine. But he can't tell a story to save his life because 80% of the panels are just him reusing the same hundred or so pre-traced drawings. It means there's no thought put into any character's posture or expression and making it fit the scene. None of the characters look distinct because they all have to be interchangeable generic porn models. Reading a Greg Land comic is like trying to decipher a lazily edited meme.



Lots of artists use similar techniques Greg Land (though not to the same extent), and they can still create interesting and engaging visual stories. But Land's relentless recycling of the same drawings erodes everything special about the comic book medium into this featureless homogenous mediocrity.

But, as you said, it looks fine on the cover. Sometimes it even looks kind of good in a trashy cheesecake kind of way, and all Marvel publishing apparently cares about is to get casual horny teenagers to buy the comic because of that cover (at this point, the habitual readers who don't like Land's art are probably going to keep buying the title out of habit anyway). So, you don't realize at first everything you're giving up when you give a job to Land. It seems like "even if it's a trace, it still mostly looks okay". But every time you see the same drawing reused, it chips away at the illusion that there's some merit in the comic you're holding. And if you read enough Greg Land books, you get disgusted with the whole genre and industry. (At least, I did.)

Comic book art is hard, and I have nothing but respect for people who do it, even if I don't personally like their particular style... Except hacks like Greg Land. Even setting aside that he has stolen other people's drawings without attribution. Even setting aside that he's got all the creative merit of a DeepFake algorithm. He's just a [frick]ing terrible storyteller who keeps getting work because his process is fast and his drawings look like porn (which they often are traced from). He treats his characters like disposable objects, and that vibe insinuates itself through every comic he's ever touched, (regardless of the writing, which is usually trying so hard to make those characters feel distinct and alive). Land sabotages his writers by making them feel like hacks, too.

[frick] Greg Land.

@bkmeijer - did dragon316 hack you???

@bkmeijer - 🤔🙄😳 😂 😂 genius.

@bkmeijer - One problem is her head is twice the size of her hips.

@bkmeijer - Right?
If you like there's a whole tumblr exploiting his nasty escapades, including art theft!
https://[frick]-no-greg-land.tumblr.com/post/628165558666493952/greg-land-up-to-his-old-art-thief-tricks-again-but

@Spock0Clock @bkmeijer - BUT HE'S SO SUBTLE ABOUT IT.