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Those Spider-Man panels while not bad are about average, compared to all the amazing stuff out there. Sooooooo many great artists out there right now. My god, Ivan Reis. The fact that this guy does what he does, and still manages to meet mainstream book deadlines is a miracle. He is in my opinion, the greatest penciller in comics history. Then there's stuff like X-Force which has been one of the most consistently gorgeous books the last few years. Captain America, Future FoundAtion, Cable, Iron Fist, Punisher, and Wolverine also comes to mind. On the DC side, in addition to Ivan Reis, there's guys like Phil Jimenez and the iconic Jim Lee.
And it's not just the art itself which is great. Scenes are often drawn from more dynamic angles than the straight shot with goofy poses of decades past.
Now there are a lot more artists with unique visual styles than there used to be, and I can understand if some of them aren't your cup of tea. Stuff like Quietly and Yu can be a love it or hate it affair. However to say the art as a whole is bad is just absurd to me. I can't really be kind about it, because I've been reading comics regularly since 1987, and in my opinion, the art today is the best it's ever been by an extremely wide margin.
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