OK, just let that image sink in for a minute.
Announced this morning on The Source, Jesus Saiz is the new ongoing artist of Birds of Prey, starting with issue #12 in May. The Gail Simone-written book has had approximately 350 artists (well 4 or 5, and all pretty great) in its run since last year’s relaunch, but it’ll be nice to see an impressive regular artist joining the team. Plus, he draws everyone as individual people! Look! They all have different faces! With Brave and the Bold Saiz drew a lot of the DC Universe, and Simone is excited to have him on board, according to DC’s blog:
“Jesus is at the top of a very short list of dream artists on our, “Oh, man, wouldn’t HE be fantastic?” list. His previous work has been silky and sexy and powerful all at the same time. He’s fantastic with design, storytelling, body language…an artist this good frees up the writer to make the stories even bigger and more complex.”
Now, of course, Barbara Gordon is front-and-center on that cover, but is also at the heart of the current BoP storyline, “Death of Oracle.” What does that mean for the title of the story? Your guess is as good as mine, so why not share it below?
January 12th, 2011 at 9:44 am
I’ll point out that there’s a typo in the article. I THINK you mean 35 different artists.
I think, at least, because I don’t think there are 350 artists working in professional comics. (Even if there were…wow. Even at one per page you wouldn’t fit them all in.)
…Even 35 is quite a few, since Nicola Scott did a couple issues on her own.
January 12th, 2011 at 9:54 am
haha, Sage, have you heard of exaggeration for effect? ‘Twas just a joke, remarking on the fact that there have been a lot of artists so far on the book. not literally 350 though, thankfully.
January 12th, 2011 at 10:24 am
I went back to all the old issues since Gary Frank and it’s 349 including the inkers…
(I keeed)
January 12th, 2011 at 11:52 am
I got momentarily very excited; Canary looks a lot like Saiz used to draw Chase on that cover, and it got me too hopeful for my own good!
January 12th, 2011 at 12:07 pm
Lucas, were you also exaggerating when you said the cover caused incontinence?
January 12th, 2011 at 6:22 pm
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. I love it and I’m looking forward to it. And I’ll happily take this cover at face value. It may be a river in Egypt, given the solicitation for BOP #10, but I don’t care. Hope dies last.
January 17th, 2011 at 6:24 pm
haha you wrote a typo! other than that I’d say this is a great blog! Keep up the nice work
January 17th, 2011 at 9:28 pm
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