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A review by crookedtreehouse
Sun Bakery: Fresh Collection by Corey Lewis
2.0
I picked this book up because it looked visually cool, and it came recommended from a customer who who mainly purchases anthologies of up and coming artists with unusual art. He's a big fan of [a:Brandon Graham|7631424|Brandon Graham|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1417883118p2/7631424.jpg] and [a:Emma Ríos|2888650|Emma Ríos|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/f_50x66-6a03a5c12233c941481992b82eea8d23.png]'s [b:Island #1|25698308|Island #1|Brandon Graham|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1436949485s/25698308.jpg|45529677], which I also enjoy. Unfortunately, like a few of the stories that ran in Island, this book looked really interesting, but it just didn't hold my focus long enough for me to enjoy it.
Lewis's art falls into the Modern American Artists Heavily Influenced By Manga category, and like the most successful of those artists, he brings his own flair to it. It's cool that Image let him go through the stories he initially released as zines, and share them with a broader audience, but I wish they'd brought another colorist in. The vibrant and simple color schemes work really well on some pages, but on many of them it obscures his line work, which is a shame because his black and white pages and the more detailed colored pages at the end show that his linework sings when not muddled by the colors.
Story-wise, I just wasn't interested in it. I recommend it for people looking for manga influenced mech-suited action comics but want something visually different from the usual fare, and without a tight narrative structure.
Lewis's art falls into the Modern American Artists Heavily Influenced By Manga category, and like the most successful of those artists, he brings his own flair to it. It's cool that Image let him go through the stories he initially released as zines, and share them with a broader audience, but I wish they'd brought another colorist in. The vibrant and simple color schemes work really well on some pages, but on many of them it obscures his line work, which is a shame because his black and white pages and the more detailed colored pages at the end show that his linework sings when not muddled by the colors.
Story-wise, I just wasn't interested in it. I recommend it for people looking for manga influenced mech-suited action comics but want something visually different from the usual fare, and without a tight narrative structure.