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Posted in Daily Random Panel
Where in the World is Black Hand?
Where In The World Is Black Hand?
By: Andrew Hines
Anyone who is familiar with Green Lantern should know that the GLs weren’t the Guardians’ first attempt at amassing an army. Before the first rings were handed out, they had the Manhunters, an intergalactic android police force that eventually went all HAL 9000 on all sentient life. They figured the GLs would be better since they could actually distinguish between, right wrong and that pesky grey area that lawyers live in. Then Hal Jordan had to become Parallax, kill half of the Corps and bring us around that whole Blackest Night fiasco. Now the Guardians want to bring about a mysterious Third Army. Apparently, Hal's old sparring partner Black Hand may have something to do with it. He seems to also be a Black Lantern still. Just sayin'...
As far as issue 11 goes, the “Revenge of Black Hand” (there’s a clue somewhere in that title), it starts off with Hal turning the tables on Sinestro, which made me smile. They’re starting to figure some things out and thankfully just said that Blackest Night definitely happened. There’s some great dialogue and Hal makes a rookie mistake or two. All in all Geoff Johns has done a pretty good job of pacing and storytelling. I’d go into more detail, but you should pick up the issue to read it for yourself.
The art really only ranks at a B. Doug Mahnke is a decent artist, but this really isn’t the title for him, especially since it started with Ivan Reis. The last half dozen or so, haven’t been as great as his potential has shown in the past. Likewise for Christian Alamy’s inks. It just seems excessive in places where some extra color could make a big difference. The same goes for Tony Avina and Alex Sinclair’s colors. Sinestro’s more pinkish than purple, but you’d never know it by the deep colors here.
As a whole, it earns a B+ from the art team and Johns’ writing. I recommend the title, but this issue isn’t their best.
Update: Comments and critiques are welcome and encouraged. As usual, please be constructive with them rather than negative. Thanks.
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New dblade items
I've just uploaded the following Noses, Mouths, Hair, and Ears to HM3 thanks to the artistic stylings of one Mr. dblade. Be sure and thank him in the comments for his hard work!
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Nominations, please!
Instead of the usual Open Critique Day, I wanted to make a thread where each of you can nominate one however many HeroMachine illustrations you want (either of yours or someone else's) that you think ought to be in the Hall of Fame gallery here on the site. Just post a link to them in the comments along with a few words about why you think they should be enshrined for all posterity.
Have at it! Tomorrow I'll add at least one to the gallery from the received nominations.
ETA: I changed it so you can only nominate a piece by someone other than yourself and as many as you want. I think that gets more to the spirit of the thing, which is that I want to see what you think is a "great" piece of HM art. Not just good, but great, something that ought to make people sit back in their chairs on viewing and go "Wow".
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I dunno, it looks hot to me
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"You WILL Find Salvation!" by Zyp
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