What's the logic behind recolouring classic comics?

>Digital colours over pre-digital pencils are horrible. The two styles are awful together because the pencils weren't done with it in mind

This is why I hate Bolland's whole "its what I wanted to do" reasoning, digital colors weren't happening until what, 1991? If he colored it traditionally, fine, but not with digital

In case of Flex Mentallo: Morrison and Quitely had no say in the coloring so DC simply picked somebody who was quick and reliable.

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The Big Guy and Hard Boiled recolors were prolly done so Geof Darrow could have all his works colored by Dave Stewart.

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>Writer: "Then-- unholy FIRE."

>Colourist: "Fuck you, it's a water dragon."

The recolor is terrible. I'd be pretty pissed about this.
This one is also bad. The lighting on the right side is fucked. It draws your eye to the center of the monster instead of allowing you to take it in as a whole like the left side does. Looks like the color of the laser and fire was changed as a last minute decision because the light bouncing off of the monster is orange instead of blue. Also the heavy shadow on top of the monster doesn't make sense with a sky that bright. The scene should have been switch to night so that the lighting dynamics work better.

A lot of pencillers/inkers really have no eye for color. People shit on the idea that American comic art is so partitioned, and while there’s a lot of cases of bad color jobs a lot of the time, when pencillers can art direct a lot of the time it looks bad. Like Jim Lee seems to love Sinclair’s eye searing digital colors.

That's not a shadow on the top of the monster, and that orang colouring isn't lighting from the beam.

The monster just has a black back and orange underbelly.

Otherwise, it's claws and chin spikes wouldn't also be black. And it's clear from how the colour follows the form of the tail that it's not a shadow.

You're right. I'm still not a fan of the updated color.

Reminder that Eddie Campbell added colour to From Hell a few years back and completely sucked out all of the atmosphere that came from the black and white style. He even went and redrew some bits to make it more colour-friendly
Thank god this isn't some new replacement main version

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>It draws your eye to the center of the monster instead of allowing you to take it in as a whole like the left side does.
And thats why I prefer the recolor, it helps to structure the narrative of the art, while the original colors makes it all look like a cluttered mess. Darrows pencils are really dense and rich in detail, so you need a good colorist to guide you through.

It's referencing the colour of the beams godzilla shoots.

from soul to soulless. If there is something I can't stand from Comics is the ugly as fuck coloring style, there is no substance to it, it's always base color>base color but darker for shadows. There are no color palettes, or trying to create an atmosphere or include the coloring into the narrative, it's just there just because it's part of comic culture I guess.

left looks so much more interesting but i get that most people don't like weird color schemes

I actually really like The Killing Joke re-color. Though I might be biased because it was how I first read the story. That said, I am of the opinion that comics should remain to the original artist’s/colorist’s intention. COIE is a good example of this.

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He's a solid painter, but it seems with a lot of writer-artists, they kind of stop caring about craft and look for time-saving methods. I don't know what madness compelled Campbell to revisit From Hell this way, but it's been clear for a while that he kind of lost it. If he somehow redid From Hell with traditional paints, it would probably look pretty solid.

What annoys me about this is the fact that the art style of From Hell was so clearly meant to replicate the style of sketch that would be in newspapers of that era. Recolouring it completely misses the point.

The intensity of this scene has just been sucked out on the right.

Sometimes they don't like the original colors.
Sometimes, they don't have the same ink/paper limitations that the original had.
The old ink colors probably wouldn't look the same on modern paper hues anyhow.

That's my thinking as well. It's very clearly emulating the wood-cut style and the book is much more sinister and atmospheric like that
In this one, the original seems more like a grey and dour London day. The recolour makes the sky all blue and cheery

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Gives someone a job

Looks like another case of "muh realism" thats constantly regurgitated by batretards

I agree. It's just that digital coloring is the worst approach he could have taken.

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I remember most people loving the new "updated" coloring when it was released.

Although I prefer the color choice of certain costumes here, The skin tones look much better in the new version. There were some areas where the values didn't make much sense in the original.
imo Hard Boiled looked much better with the original coloring, it's a shame that you can only find the newer one.

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Some of the new colors aren't bad. The biggest issues are
>digital shit instead of flat coloring
>bat symbol looks stupid

Same. I mostly prefer the recolors, except for this page.
Quitely should have kept some of this color.

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Oh fuck I just realized that this comic gave me my tf fetish

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It's too comic booky. They want comics to be more like movies, so everything has to be R E A L I S T I C™

That was done by the artist

>recolors look like shit
>original scans are faded to shit

Can't win

What matters is if it fits the tone, not who did it.

The fade just makes it better.

I disagree. Faded black looks terrible. Ruins the intended contrast

I disagree with your disagreement. The black, while faded, is still darker than the surrounding colors because they've also faded so it all balances out.

And these recolors are over Simonson's art of all people which makes it even more egregious, at least for me, even the "Thor by Walt Simonson" tpbs have the weird recolors too. If you want a collected version of the run with the normal digital non-recoloring, the "Thor Visionaries" tpbs from like 10 or so years ago are the way to go, it's what I have and it's the next best thing outside of having the original issues.

So the artist is ruining their own work. But deal, still looks awful. Dull. Lifeless.

>collectorfags won with all these dogshit recolors
Even like 5 years ago both companies would publish collections of older comics on the stock they used to be published on. I was told that paper was cheaper why would they change away from that cheap paper?

Why is that when retards are proven wrong they completely brush off how wrong they were and run to a new, equally incorrect conclusion to assuage their ego?

money. Zoomers will rush on everthing that has a "NEW AND BOOMERS HATE IT" sticker on it.

If I ever make a comic, I'm going to put that on the cover to see how many Zoomers buy it. The irony being that my tastes align more with Boomers.

cutting tax royalities to authors

>That was done by the artist
How does that make it less bad?

The best way to do it is when they use the original issues as a basis for a much richer and not desaturated printing, while not actually changing the colours that were originally used
The Silver Age Marvel books that do this look really vibrant and colourful

Examples?

Basically any of the main ones. I don't think they've done recolours, or if they do they haven't been popular enough to stick around
They keep the original colour scheme but the printing means the colours don't fade. It looks great imo

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Everything inside the amusement park looks worse in the recolour and everything outside looks better.

Isn't the subtle shading removed in these? That's what I read

The original colorist fucking up.

>time saving
>revisiting a work, altering the art and then coloring it.
user, the recolor sucks, but are you fucking drunk?