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i once told the guy who got me into comics "i hate frank quietlys artwork"
and i really thought i did.
but then i was re-reading the first half of All Star Superman...an i realized how much better it was compaired to the morrison/quietly x-men run. just because some of those lines were not drawn in black, but were colored in a darker tint from their background.
and if you know frank quietlys work, you know there are a lotta lines!


coloring too, is an important thing-if the colorist didn't do a good job(or messed up and no-one caught it, like that couple of Infinite Crisis where animal man's little girl is wearing two different colors of jumper within a 5 secound period. and no, she does not posses super-speed)

there is a pic on my profile that shows the entire history of the Justice League. and it starts grainy on the left, whjile moving to better quality for printing technique (as the decades pass and technology improves, and so does the money and time put into comics) that is an excelent example of coloring, i think. or mabie it's a better example of just history?

ok, look at a green lanturn comic or something by michal turner and then try and say it would look even a third as good as it does if it were a line-drawing only. go on-i'll wait.
i just know it'll be a while...

as for editing, like in movies or even amvs, it's a delicate art. taking shots that were not secuencial before, nessasarily, or that were not even meant to go togeather and peacing them into a coheasive whole. that takes Work!

i couple weeks ago i saw a gaara/what's love got to do with it avm. the first half was good, but later it was just a bunch of shots of gaara looking cool (which are easy to get) and they have no conection to the song. bad editing.

while good editing can have someone moving their molth to words that they were not meant to say, like sasuke whispering to naruto or sakura a line from a song that's playing alongside those clips.