First Neal Adams, now Tim Sale.
I’ve been meaning to write about Tim Sale’s muscular, stylized artwork for quite a while, but I haven’t gotten around to it and today won’t be the day… But I will say that I have no small degree of fondness for the way he imbued, not just the live characters, but also supposedly inanimate objects with a potent vibrancy (not to mention a symbolic charge). By skewing the lines just enough, Sale could make a pistol look determined or sewer pipes feel haunting and oppressive! Hell, he even turned Batman’s symbol into a menacing grin:
