COMICS: First Look At John Romita Jr.'s Pencils From Marvel NOW! CAPTAIN AMERICA Series

I really hate Jrjr... Please fire him

A lotta people really bash JR's work. And admittedly, his stuff on AVX seemed a bit less than polished.

I enjoyed his WWHULK series a lot. Whenever he's not trying to push-push-speed-zipp out material and takes his time with it, I think he produces some quality work.

Not bad, I didn't like the first picture they posted (it was a cover I think) but his interior work looks better. I'm not a huge fan of his art but he's not the worse artist either.

Thought they got rid of the wings... Whatever Romita's art still looks liked boiled turds...

Romita Jr sucks.

Yeah not a fan. If you look up plain and boring in the dictionary youll find a pic of JRjrs. art.

Still, at least he's no pope or, god forbid, Igor Kordey

I love JRJR's art. Always loved his style.

@Shadowelfz - Why would there be a picture in a dictionary?

His artwork is cheap. Marvel must be saving alot of money hiring this guy for his art. Maybe he can produce art real fast, faster turnaround than most? Maybe thats why marvel hired him? He must be cheap and/or fast because otherwise why would Marvel hire him for all these books? I see his artwork too much in marvel. He seems to be drawing everything. I dont like his style...it is cheap and shallow and looks slopped together. Just my opnion.

JRjr is a good artist when he is drawing subjects he can feel or have some connection to other than that he does tend towards mechanical boring work, at least he has the ability unlike some who's art work at best is low grade.
in some ways it is marvels own fault having so many different comics in production some could be reduced to quarterlies or premium issues reclassed to graphic novel only giving writers and artists time to produce great quality work rather than rushed ok work.

The real debate should be whether the evil mastermind has a tree gun or not. Because that dude looks like he's growing branches out of his back.

I may have to drop this book from my monthly pull. I can't stand his work and this, regardless of the number of lines he uses to depict motion or shading, looks like crap.

Looks like I'm saving $4 a month.

SO PUMPED FOR THIS, I THINK HE DRAWS CAP THE BEAT OUT OF ALL THE AVENGERS

What's up with the wings? No one else is drawing them the old school way. This dude always has to be different

Normally I'm not a big fan of JRJR work, although his style works for certain comics. I was thinking of not picking this up, but I like this a lot! It's changing my mind and somehow it seems kinda fitting, an old retro pop comic with tons of action. Constant hyper realism or Jim Lee-esque pencils are kind of getting old. That being said, I would still love it if a DC artist would take a shot at this... Capullo, Roccafort... and ESPECIALLY Ivan Reis.

Those pages are outta sequence..top page comes after bottom page.
Romita Jr. is a good artist.
Rob Liefeld is bad..not artist,just plain BAD,as in NOT GOOD.

niknik - 8/17/2012, 7:13 AM
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The only thing I hate worse than JRJR's crappy art is Caps redesigned uniform. Why does everyone have to have padded, armored, line and patchwork filled uniforms now? Not only does it look like crap, but it's way overused on every character redesign now. Like a bunch of cookie cutters at work.


ABSOULUTELY AGREE NIKNIK..now I"m sure I'll get the ire of jimoakley666 again because I"m full of nothing but hate and vitriol ya know.. But yes, the uniform update...whichever version they are going to use since there's at least three now...all make Cap look "weaker"..I mean he's CAP! You put all this padding and armor on him, well it gives the impression that he can be hurt...vulnerable...which CAP isn't suspost to be. Sad state of affairs in the Team CAP camp.

Not a fan, but I do think JRJr's art looks better on Cap than it does on most other titles.

Don't like how the movies are bleeding into the comic, specially since the movies seem to be an amalgamation of 616 and ultimate, or it's it's own universe all together.

TruBeliever, you're only hurting yourself

@SpeedForce: Exactly.

dont get me wrong i used to love jr jrs art. but now......

Jr jr is either a hit or miss. Some of his art is good but others just look like he rushed.

But it would rather see someone else helm this, like Mike Deodato or Leinil Yu

That's some damned good storytelling. Love the panels of the plane crashing.

Jimoakely666- Because... there are dictionaries with pictures in them? You know, massive 'expanded' editions with pictures too. I have one, right next to my 'normal' dictionary and thesarus.

Smartass.