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El Mercenario - Part 1 Cover Art - by Vicente Segrelles (i.imgur.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Gosh, I'm still so blown away by Segrelles' painstakingly use of oil-paint to depict the whole series. There's just nothing like it in Euro comics, far as I know.

But also, I just intrinsically enjoy the series, however the art. Sort of like a 'Conan the Barbarian' deal but with less nonsense, haha. Seriously-- I thought there was sort of a legendary / mythological aspect to this wonderful series, sometimes aimed at kids, sometimes at adults, however it liked to do.

Kinda hard to describe properly, but oh well.
Me, I do think it *rocked*, as we Yanks like to say. :D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Yes! Segrelles way of realizing each panel as a little oil painting is one of a kind in the world of comics. I have always admired the unique look of his style from when I was a kid. However, for me it took the Splitter Collectors Edition, with it´s true to the art print and the very personal making offs at the end of each volume, to truly realize Segrelles genius and to understand how great the series in fact is. For example, in his youth Segrelles underwent apprenticeship in a mechanical engineering company as a technical drawer. This shows in all the machines and their technical details he drew. Check this out, he even painted the tearing of this metal ring in a correct way, based on how metal tears in the real world. You can tell it´s accurate if you compare it with the results of tensile testing done in engineering:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You can tell it´s accurate if you compare it with the results of tensile testing done in engineering:

So it stretched according to known tensile physics, then naturally found the weakest point, is it not? Is that actually from one of the albums..? oO

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

It´s from volume one, page forty/fortyone, depending on the edition. The constriction of the weak spots before breaking is nicely visible in the second picture. Please also appreciate how in the third picture, the puling force results in the broken endings of the ring, being not only pulled apart but also to the outside by the resulting force vectors. Here is the full sequence, with the fourth panel showing the realistic deformation of the ring after breaking and then being pulled apart by the acting force:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

It's... astonishing. oO