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Sentinel of Liberty Saturday with Mark Waid

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It´s often difficult to separate an artist from his work but since I already wrote about my concerns about Mark Waid´s attempts to destroy the comicbook industry ( which in light of the current crisis seem even crazier ) last year we can focus on two of his comicbook series I can recommend.


Well, technically three of the series he has written but I´m counting his run on CAPTAIN AMERICA and the series CAPTAIN AMERICA : SENTINEL OF LIBERTY as just one book. I was a bit reluctant if I should do a post for Mark Waid but it gives me the opportunity to post some of the great original art for this series that I have been collecting. And with Ron Garney and Adam Kubert we have two really great artists working on these books.


Speaking of great artists, the second series written by Mark Waid that I want to feature a bit in this post is DAREDEVIL and by all rights I should not have read this series because Chris Samnee is one of these artists I try to avoid. You know, the more realistic artists who use these thick lines and do really simple - almost basic - drawings with not a lot of detail.


Not that I have anything against this kind of style but you normally find this in independent books and I am not one of those guys who think that a superhero comic should look like an independent comic if that means you can sell more copies. So by all rights I should not have read this series.


Somehow I did - I think I read the first issue because it was free online - and I have really grown to appreciate Chris Samnee. Not that I think he is right for every comic series but he really has a more varied line thickness, he draws a lot of detail - when necessary - and he has a real knack for page layout and design which helps to elevate the book. As for Mark Waid´s writing let me just mention that when I was slowly quitting reading Marvel Comics the last two books I bought on a regular basis were Mike Allred´s SILVER SURFER and Mark Waid´s DAREDEVIL. As soon as those two books wrapped up I was out of Marvel Comics and with all the crappy material that followed I did not make it out of the door one second too soon.


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