Alex Ross vs. Greg Horn

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― Leeeeeeee (Leee), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

I love the fact that Greg Horn is called Greg Horn.

I also think that he is more honest in terms of the endpoint of "what if they were REEEEEEEEEAL" art.

That said his pictures are horrible.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

Are we all Alex gRossed out already?

― Leeeeeeee (Leee), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

That image looks like Superman is standing in front of an interestingly formed rock.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Monday, 22 August 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

I agree - the cape was the first thing I noticed there, and how wierd and stiff it looks.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 22 August 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

He couldn't get his uncle's dentist's tablecloth to billow in the correct way.

― Vic Fluro, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 06:29 (twenty years ago)

I love how Mike Hill is so much more talented than Alex Ross, but doesn't need to push himself because Alex pays him such ridiculous amounts to make models for him to copy.

Seriously, talk about photo-realism? One of Mike's bits of art was almost pulled from the auction at Bristol a couple of years ago because nobody would believe it wasn't a photograph.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 08:43 (twenty years ago)

Greg Horn is much worse because he only ever does pictures of ladies carressing their bosoms and biting their lower lips etc.

― Mark C (Markco), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 08:55 (twenty years ago)

I also think that he is more honest in terms of the endpoint of "what if they were REEEEEEEEEAL" art.

I think this is the crucial thing, really. Horn is rub, but pretty much everyone knows why, whereas you still get some otherwise relatively sensible people who take Alex Ross seriously.

What I like best about Ross is the dignity he brings to classic characters. DIGNITY.

― Flyboy (Flyboy), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 09:35 (twenty years ago)

This is the first I've heard of Greg Horn, but you can't tell me that huge knockers geing squeezed together by anit-gravity spandex isn't dignified.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:21 (twenty years ago)

Did Greg Horn ever draw an actual comic?

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:23 (twenty years ago)

no, because then he would have to paint MEN and everyone would think he was a GAY

(ok, I have no idea really...)

― Mark C (Markco), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:26 (twenty years ago)

YES HE DID!

He contributed a few pages to a super-sized issue of Bendis' Daredevil - I think it was a sequence involving Spider-Man. I remember being kinda amazed at how odd everyone looked.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:36 (twenty years ago)

Paul O'Brien's not a fan

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:36 (twenty years ago)

Men! (This may actually suggest that he will one day provide a serious challenge to Ross)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

By the way, Horn (fnar) is the new She-Hulk cover artist. I imagine Marvel projects a upward turn (fnar) in sales.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

http://www.greghornjudge.com/bacardi_greg_horn_dj_ad.htm

URBAN!

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

http://www.greghornjudge.com/Necromancer%201%20from%20Top%20Cow%20Productions%20by%20Greg%20Horn.htm

Painful!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

Greg's stuff is actually pretty funny, no?

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)

Cheesy and funny

The basketball team look as though they are standing on one of the stages for Tekken!

― Mark C (Markco), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

It's hard (fnar) to say, Tom.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

There's something really wrong with this Horn guy, his art looks like taken from one of those cheap trading card collections from the nineties, you know, "Marvel Masterpieces" and stuff like that.

"What I like best about Ross is the dignity he brings to classic characters"

Hah! For all the love I have for my superheroes, Ross always makes me wonder if I have become too old for this... I mean, for me there's no Superman there; all I see is some really freaky guy with a terrible taste in clothing.

― iodine (iodine), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 02:28 (twenty years ago)

Alex Ross. I don't hate him as much as most round here. I can definately see the 'superheroes aren't supposed to be realistic, for christ's sake' point of view, but he's tecnically a pretty good painter. Artists like that Greg Horn guy is what gives us nerds a bad name.

― chap who would dare to thwart the revolution (chap), Thursday, 25 August 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

...ARE what gives us nerds a bad name.

― chap who would dare to thwart the revolution (chap), Thursday, 25 August 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

what about michael paulus?

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 2 September 2005 07:19 (twenty years ago)

Based on that link, he is the greatest artist of all time.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Friday, 2 September 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

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