Who in this bitch prefers black and white comiXoR?

I thought the Titan reprints were a bit of a rip-off and didn't like them as much. The colouring on Swamp Thing was particularly gorgeous too, unlike the rest of the DC line at around Crisis time which looked disgusting.

2000AD - obviously MUCH better in b/w, as b/w drawn not painted art is much more in line with the comics' aesthetic strengths and roots (no nonsense storytelling, quick turnover of episodes). Plus it made the colour pages something very special. Within about 2 years of the change 2000AD was routinely awful, reliant on HORRIBLE painted art, and running all its stories in 6 or 8 part chunks because the artists coudn't cope with doing longer things (either that or hot new stories got their second runs delayed for aeons). This has since been sorted out a bit I believe.

Colour Hate is less good than B&W Hate. Marxist Science proves this. It was fundamentally less interesting. However, it was not bad as such, just less good, and did have great moments.

I think liking B&W comics is a feature of being roughly my age and growing up on B&W 2000AD and then seeing all these obviously rubbish colour American comics.

Usually, I find that the problem with color is that the artist feels too compelled to put in as much detail as possible to achieve some sort of amateurish verisimilitude but more often it comes off as cluttered and distracts from what ought to be the focus. Even with an actual painter, color is almost a crutch that keeps them from being really interesting (see: David Mack's Kabuki vol 1. vs the color stuff).