Hell On Earth (Finished reading): Intresting use of contrast in paneling. When things are more under control all the panels are very uniform when things start to go crazy the panels start to break apart and dissapear completely taken over by splash pages with erratic doodles and words and insanity consumes the characters and plot. The way many of the panels are drawn have nods to film, but definitely uses the medium of comics to the advantage by jumping drastically from one image to another at times to capture a feeling and the space without showing a panaroma of the whole thing. Lots of text, but the artist did a good job of showing in the panels what isn't said in the text.
Night Wings (Stopped reading, got bored and confused): Makes good use of varied vantage points and perspective intrestingly to make dramatic panels. Jumps between far out panoramic panels to very close up. Often smaller panels are over a splash page which illustrates the larger enviornment and the panels on top are close ups of character interactions.
Frost and Fire (Finished reading): A lot of text when it didn't really need to be there, the images communicated things very clearly without it. The actions were all show and described when more backstory needed to be in text and the action communicated only in image. It seems like certain text was maybe left out some and some important parts that needed to be there for explaination were cut as the exposition of the whole story is unclear and that made the subsequent events very confusing. Good use of variety of paneling and splicing panels together to create a short of visual sticatto feeling. Beautiful color work. I've noticed in the past few comics, probably because they are based on short stories, that they have a lot of text 'narration' explanations of actions and enviornments.
Merchants of Venus (Stopped reading, kinda plain, nothing exciting happening, wasn't a fan of the art style): The first person POV of the text in comic makes the story clear and the character is defined quickly. Many of the pages have multiple panels which transition into each other without actual line separation of the panels. The illustration techniques are very smooth and exact making the characters feel a bit stiff and plasticky. Though I did particularly enjoy the panel with the fish eye lense in the center with the panels radiating outside of it. The drawing of the fisheye panel actually gave the drawings some character by distorting them and I think that is why I was drawn to it.
