"The fugushi are harmless."
Is it so wrong to declare my boundless love for Seth Fisher?
If it's wrong, then I don't wanna be right no more. Just finished reading Fantastic Four/Iron Man: Big in Japan after going through a relatively sucky work day and now I can't wipe the grin off of my face. Part of that has to be attibutable to the droll scripting by Zeb Wells, but the larger part of my glee is fueled by Fisher's imagination unleashed. Yes, there's been a lot of comparisons between his work and that of artists like Geoff Darrow and Jim Woodring. Though Wells is cleaner by far than the former and more frenetic than the latter.
He's certainly not a typical superhero cartoonist. I'm sure his lack of twitchy musculatures and heroic poses and pneumatic females does a lot to turn off the average cape fan. But the his determination to not do the Same Old Thing pleases me to no end. And it's odd, because there's not a lot of variation in his line (which is something that I usually keep an eye out for, and why I like a lot of the expressionistic superhero cartoonists like Darwyn Cooke and Cameron Stewart), but there's character. Man is there ever character on the page! His design sense is pretty flawless, too.
Chris Chuckry's colors should get a shout-out, too. Nicely modeled, but not overly fussy, and matching the tone of the artwork perfectly. And he managed to get a sense of dimension, which complements the flatness in Fisher's work quite well.
All in all, a pleasant surprise. Looking forward to more of this. And maybe even checking out some of his other work in the meantime.