The Spider #2

[TheMicrozone]

Great second issue. the art was even nicer this month. LOVED the ending. This comic needs to be out every week. Waiting a whole month is murder.

[positronic]

It takes time to create darkly beautiful, atmospheric, creepy, and cinematic artwork like Colton Worley's. While the covers by Alex Ross, John Cassaday and Francesco Francavilla are great, I'm not sure this book would really work without Colton.

One of the really unusual things about this character is that everybody seems to know, yet not be able to prove, that Richard Wentworth is The Spider. That's going to lead to some sticky situations for The Spider for sure.

[TheMicrozone]

Everyone (esp Kirk) suspecting that Wentworth is the Spider was a constant back drop to the pulps as well. Liss is handling it very well here.

[positronic]

Just curious. Your screen name, "TheMicrozone" -- anything to do with Micronauts (aka Microman Zone in Japan)?

Micronauts -- there's a license I wouldn't mind seeing Dynamite take a shot at.

[manga4life]

I enjoyed this issue quite a bit. I enjoyed the continuation of the story from the first issue and even though I felt the first issue was a little better than the 2nd I did highly enjoy it and would recommend this book to ANYONE looking for an alternative to spandex superheroes. The art was tight, the story was tight, the setting was great, and the overall feel of this book is just stellar, people need to give The Spider (and The Shadow) a try and I bet they'd be extremely happy at what they end up reading.

Awesome stuff!

[Colton Worley]

It takes time to create darkly beautiful, atmospheric, creepy, and cinematic artwork like Colton Worley's. While the covers by Alex Ross, John Cassaday and Francesco Francavilla are great, I'm not sure this book would really work without Colton.

Why, thank you, sir. Glad you all like it.

-Colton

[positronic]

Why, thank you, sir. Glad you all like it.

-Colton

I must admit you are certainly kicking butt on this book. It's like "a movie in my mind" (to steal GraphicAudio's tagline). How do you do all those diffuse lighting and laser-web targeting effects? Some kind of computer rendering? Because I FEEL just like I'm watching a movie.

Hope you don't mind if I share these images of The Shadow from your website (http://coltonworleyartist.blogspot.com/) with The Spider's readers:

[Colton Worley]

I must admit you are certainly kicking butt on this book. It's like "a movie in my mind" (to steal GraphicAudio's tagline). How do you do all those diffuse lighting and laser-web targeting effects? Some kind of computer rendering? Because I FEEL just like I'm watching a movie.

Hope you don't mind if I share these images of The Shadow from your website (http://coltonworleyartist.blogspot.com/) with The Spider's readers:

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I must admit you are certainly kicking butt on this book. It's like "a movie in my mind" (to steal GraphicAudio's tagline). How do you do all those diffuse lighting and laser-web targeting effects? Some kind of computer rendering? Because I FEEL just like I'm watching a movie.

Hope you don't mind if I share these images of The Shadow from your website (http://coltonworleyartist.blogspot.com/) with The Spider's readers:

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I should update that blog a little more. And I haven't done anything for that Snake Burton blog in a while (but that will change later today!). That first one is a Big Trouble in Little China / Shadow mash up and the second is an old oil painting I did couple years ago (his hat looks to tall in that one, doesn't it? And the guns don't look quite right...). The laser webbing is actually pretty easily done in Photoshop. I do them a bunch of different ways depending on the scene.

I'm glad you feel like you're watching a movie when looking at the book, as that is what I'm going for at this point. Well, actually at first I was going for the video game crowd with the first three issues. Now I've shifted more to what movies can do, because I feel that's closer to my style of drawing. I've also been looking more and more at Drew Struzan and Travis Charest's work as well.

I'd say issue 4 (which I just completed) has the best cinematic look to it so far. That issue has so much more detail than the first three issues. There's more texture and better lighting throughout the book; you'll understand when you see it. It's the same style to be sure, but just more intense I think. I don't think I'm allowed to show any samples besides the ones that were already shown on Bleeding Cool (which is frustrating, I know) but you'll understand when you have the full issue in your hands.

Here are those images from issue 4 Bleeding Cool put up (scroll to the bottom). Maybe someone from Dynamite could authorize a different page to be put up here (to better get my point across)? Maybe page 7 or 9 possibly...huh? huh? huh? Maybe not. You can't give too much away, you know. But you can see even on these pages, there's a lot more detail to them than there was before. Same style, yeah, just done better.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/05/...-second-print/

Off to work on issue 5!

-Colton

[manga4life]

I just re-read The Spider #2 and I'm still blown away at the ending where Hilt gives away who he thought The Spider was and his file to the enemy, what a brilliant hook into the 3rd issue and a great piece of storytelling! I also loved that we got A LOT of The Spider in costume in this issue, I hope this trend continues because Wentworth himself is pretty cool but The Spider is 10x cooler and I love seeing him in action. Man, if you would have told me 6 months ago I'd be a fan of The Spider I would have told you that you were nuts, but here I am.....a fan of The Spider!

I change my statement from before, issue #2 was BETTER than the first!