Astonishing how good something like say, Marvel UK books or the Malibu line, who used solid colors instead of the "dot" coloring scheme, but did not go for computer colorization, look today. I can't help but feel the industry missed a boat there with the Malibu color model.
That might've been due to Marvel buying out Malibu to get said computer colorization (and also to prevent DC from doing so).
I remember being kind of turned off by the way Marvel's comics looked after they started using said Malibu computer colorization, and it took the Busiek/Perez AVENGERS to get me interested again.
Is McFarlane STILL a millionaire? I would imagine that now worthless home run ball of his set him back a bit, and I haven't heard about anything he's done lately (with the notable exception of bothering Warren Ellis, and while I consider that angry Irishman to be a talentless wanker, a broken clock still tells the right time twice a day).
McFarlane's still successful I guess, although supposedly his publishing part filed for bankruptcy or something. But he's probably making enough on the toys (and apparently there's that second SPAWN/BATMAN crossover thing that also has a statue deal between DC Direct and McFarlane Toys/Statues/Whatever--that'd explain why McFarlane has the rights to make Hanna-Barbara toy-statues).
Oh, and I think Ellis is English, and Ennis is the one who's Irish (though yeah, Ellis was the one who mentioned the McFarlane-vocabulary thing).
