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It was the best Flash interior art I’ve ever seen. Karl, the animated style in 2-D has never been visually pleasing to me, but you made the pages seem alive. Don’t lose the style you’ve developed that made you great, but DO persue this method. You’re tops!

BTW What is this next project? I have serious doubts you’ll ever be on a monthly again, but if it’s taking over Flash with issue #7 I’ll buy two copies every time.

Absolutely stunning.
Certainly one of my favorite Flash issues (art-wise) ever.
If only the upcoming DC direct-to-DVD movies could look this good.

I was talking about this to my LCS guy and we both agreed that it was pretty tremendous. It’s amazing that DC would let you completely upstage the regular, much-touted artist team. This is a great stylistic change from your Superman stuff and the colors were great.

I can’t wait to see more of your work in print.

Finally someone’s doing something fresh in terms of drawing!

Hey Karl, loved your Flash! Looking forward to the next project!

-Eddy

Holy heck!
I didn’t think anyone actually came to this site anymore, especially given its dormant nature as of late, but it’s nice to see people coming out to comment on this.
For my part, I’d like to go even more painty on the backgrounds than we did here - Stephane Peru followed my line art pretty closely, but I’d love it if he completely obliterated the background lines with lush, Miyazaki-style strokes. And as for the characters, I’d intended to exaggerate the anatomy a bit more than I did, but old habits die hard, and I relied a lot on stuff I was more comfortable with. The next thing will lend itself to greater exaggeration. And as for what it is, I’m not allowed to say yet. But it’s a miniseries, so you’re right, Brad - no monthly stuff on the horizon.

Thanks for all the feedback guys. I guess I’d better start posting more often!

I loved the artwork. I would like to buy some. How?

Great job on the art, this has definitely been one of my favorite issues in a long time. It was a pleasure to open up issue three and see something artistically different that looked really spectacular.

Just read it last night, and looked amazing. Can’t wait to see more of your stuff. Hope to see you get on an extended run again, been loving your stuff ever since your Majestic/Superman issues.

I have to admit that I have not been a fan of anything DC has done with any of the Flashes or related characters as of late, but your artwork on this issue was absolutely phenomenal. To be perfectly frank I prefer you and your art style twentyfold to the current “regular” artist. It’s fluid, it’s animated (which is perfect for a character whose entire concept is constant movement). There’s just so much to look at and take in, and at the same time, aesthetically, it doesn’t overwhelm you. The style is simple, but not simplistic and detailed enough to make you go nuts. Point blank - IMO it’s absolutely GORGEOUS. I seriously wish you were the regular artist of the book because maybe then I’d be interested in it a heck of a lot more than I am. Until then rest assured that I’ll be keeping up with your work in the future. Kudos!

I have to admit that I have not been a fan of anything DC has done with any of the Flashes or related characters as of late, but your artwork on this issue was absolutely phenomenal. To be perfectly frank I prefer you and your art style twentyfold to the current “regular” artist. It’s fluid, it’s animated (which is perfect for a character whose entire concept is constant movement). There’s just so much to look at and take in, and at the same time, aesthetically, it doesn’t overwhelm you. The style is simple, but not simplistic and detailed enough to make you go nuts. Point blank - IMO it’s absolutely GORGEOUS. I seriously wish you were the regular artist of the book because maybe then I’d be interested in it a heck of a lot more than I am. Until then rest assured that I’ll be keeping up with your work in the future. Kudos!

Hello Karl.

I’m from Chile and I’m a big fan of the Flash, I’m extremely dissapointed with the new series, but your fill-in was a breath of fresh air.

I discovered your Blog a couple of months ago and I stole an image of the Flash for my MSN icon, I usually came back but eventually your posts seemed to wander futher away from the comics I was interested on.

I was extremely pleased to see you work, since I haven’t liked Lashley work at all, I was expecting something similar to what you did for Adventures, but instead I saw this new style wich reminded me of Joshua Middletone, but better, because it wasn’t as cartoony as that style, and at least to me, cartoon style doesn’t fit totally well with Super-hero comics.
In my opinion, you’ve been the best artist despicting Flash’s abilities ever since Scott Kolins left the title (I don’t like Howard Porter’s style… at all), and I would have liked to see you staying on the title.

I have a question:

Lashley’s issues had a couple of flashbacks that really interrupted the narration in a bad way… those were taken of by the writers, or was that a personal choice of yours to not have them in this issue?
ohh, and one complain. I think that the last page would have looked better with the panels ordered backwards… it seems to me that the first panel could have been a much better last panel for the issue, but other than that I really liked what you did.

Best regards

Esteban Pedreros

The art in this issue was amazing, far better than the previous two issues. I was absolutely blown away. I am always amazed at how much you improve with each work. Keep it up!

gadzoinks, that’s a gorgeous first page! i guess i better get my ass to a comic shop!

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