Is Andy "Andrew" Wildman any good?

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Is Andy "Andrew" Wildman any good?

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Stick with this a second. No debate about the late US art, great stuff. But has anyone ever seen anything half decent of his that wasn't inked by Stephen "Baskerville" Baskers? Because I haven't. I always remember his "I wasn't getting paid much, so I ****ed over anyone buying the comic like the wanker I am" convention confession regarding the UK Armada comic, and yet the odd thing is while his first five or six strips are a bit awful, as soon as Baskers comes on board, it looks alright.
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His work on the Target free comics was actually a hell of a lot better than anything he's done on comics people have actually read in years.
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I thought that the pencils for War Within 2 were just about excellent before the colourists got their sticky styluses all over them. But he's got a real tendency to get sloppy when he feels like it. That latest GI Joe crossover wasn't anything to write home about.

But yeah, Baskerville's the man behind the curtain.
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I like Wildman. He, Geoff Senior and Jeff Anderson were like, my top 3 favourite artists on the UK comic.
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Damolisher wrote:I like Wildman.
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He certainly polarises opinions but I have to say that while I like his work (I even enjoyed his UK black and white strips) it always looks much better when Stephen Baskerville is his inker. Having seen what his work is like when paired with other inkers (his Hulk fill-in issue and X-Men Adventures for example) you do sometimes wonder whether or not he could put more effort in.

Looking at the UK material when he was drawing for black and white there was more life to the material and a bit more substance to the work. Anything he's done for full colour work without Baskerville has for the most part been languid for want of a better word.

He obviously has gone for a slightly cartoony - minimal line approach similar to Alex Toth but it just isn't quite working out.

Anyway that's my tuppence worth on the debate.

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What a masterly summation by Cliffjumper. I think I'll start a religion in his honour - the Church of Cliffology.
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The Ideon wrote:What a masterly summation by Cliffjumper. I think I'll start a religion in his honour - the Church of Cliffology.
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On topic: Wildman's Transformers always seem a bit human to me. Also, they tend to have a lot of fluids flying around (drool?) sometimes... :lol:
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Yeah, Lousy duplicate avatar....
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While I havent exactly seen much of his non TF work, and of that the majority of it is the late Marvel US stuff... Well... I think his work definitely depends on the inker, which does make me wonder quite how much of the work on his late M-US stuff is his, I'd love to see pencil pages. What I love about his good stuff (with Baskerville) is that it feels so organic, alive, the lines and spots and marks on the bots just make it feel as if theyre grafting beat up bots in war, the oil stains etc...

Basically all his later work the lines are so crisp and clean, theres none of the organic feel that I loved, so was this Baskerville? or did Wildman just change his style?
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Post by Bluestreak75 »

Wildman,Senior and Staz were some of the better artists from the original transformer comics and the british artwork was 100% better than the american at the time
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I'm intrigued by his work on recent IDW covers. A very scratchy Gary Gianni (is that the dude's name? Did that back up strip in Hellboy a few years back, anyway...) style of drawing. Its his proportions being a bit off that bother me - that Fort Max illo on the Titan TPBs springs instantly to mind. Tiny feet, small head and a gun that looked like a sausage.
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