Nicholas Hyde Boils Down the X-Men, Batman and Superman [Art]

These are not good at all...

I'd expect better from Comicalliance.

I don't know where to start, but... lets start with the weakest of the weakest, the Cyclops poster. I think that's THE worst of the posters (not that there's any good in there), and he just... its a half-assed made poster, a really, really bad poster, on a "first month graphic design student" level, at best. Putting on some clip art red lenses randomly placed over the X poster, and throw some "grunge" stuff over there, is that the poster? Amazing.
And the rest is the same! Some couple of snowflakes here, a clip art thunder there, a really burned out and repeated image of As cards, and oh look, Wolverine is ripping off another poster. Again. Like, for the twentieth time in a year. I think he's paid for doing that on as many posters and comic covers as he can. And the Supes and Bats posters are supposed to be, like, painted on, or sprayed on the wall? Supes could, for a little chance, pass off as sprayed, but the Bats poster? It looks, and look well, it looks like someone peed on it! No, really, the bat is screaming for help as the urine deletes him to oblivion! These posters are not good, at all, the fonts doesn't help, the obviousness less. And I don't know if he made them with love or care for the characters, but it doesn't show. At all.
And now for the funnies:
- The Rogue poster looks like its gonna punch someone, and no, I'm not talking about Rogue, I'm talking about the ACTUAL poster, ripping itself out of the wall, and he's going to kick someone's ass in an alley, in a glourious 2D beatdown. And it stole Mr. Peanuts' monocle.
- Apart from being thrown there randomly in the little space of the poster, like it doesn't give two effs, the Nightcrawler "Bamf" looks plainly weird... and then, you notice that something is in the center of it. Like a "boar man" from the Narnia movies, or maybe Cerebus? Maybe its just Bebop from the TMNT series.

I don't know where to start, but... lets start with the weakest of the weakest, the Cyclops poster. I think that's THE worst of the posters (not that there's any good in there), and he just... its a half-assed made poster, a really, really bad poster, on a "first month graphic design student" level, at best. Putting on some clip art red lenses randomly placed over the X poster, and throw some "grunge" stuff over there, is that the poster? Amazing.
And the rest is the same! Some couple of snowflakes here, a clip art thunder there, a really burned out and repeated image of As cards, and oh look, Wolverine is ripping off another poster. Again. Like, for the twentieth time in a year. I think he's paid for doing that on as many posters and comic covers as he can. And the Supes and Bats posters are supposed to be, like, painted on, or sprayed on the wall? Supes could, for a little chance, pass off as sprayed, but the Bats poster? It looks, and look well, it looks like someone peed on it! No, really, the bat is screaming for help as the urine deletes him to oblivion! These posters are not good, at all, the fonts doesn't help, the obviousness less. And I don't know if he made them with love or care for the characters, but it doesn't show. At all.
And now for the funnies:
- The Rogue poster looks like its gonna punch someone, and no, I'm not talking about Rogue, I'm talking about the ACTUAL poster, ripping itself out of the wall, and he's going to kick someone's ass in an alley, in a glourious 2D beatdown. And it stole Mr. Peanuts' monocle.
- Apart from being thrown there randomly in the little space of the poster, like it doesn't give two effs, the Nightcrawler "Bamf" looks plainly weird... and then, you notice that something is in the center of it. Like a "boar man" from the Narnia movies, or maybe Cerebus? Maybe its just Bebop from the TMNT series.

Wow. These are seriously lame. They're not really minimalist, so much as poorly excited without many elements. The fonts don't match half the characters. It looks like somebody just ran a bunch of photoshop filters.

Bleh. I'm over minimalist designs.

When this fad first started happening, it was very fresh and very creative.

Now its just lazy crap.

Recipe:
1 part two-color background
1 part obvious symbolic item

Directions:
Apply symbolic item on top of 2-color background.
Optionally add a title.


Which, BTW, the titles RUIN it as well really. You don't need it to say 'Wolverine' at the top to know it's Wolverine.

I do like minimalist design posters, a lot actually... which is *exactly* why I dislike these.

Also, I'm sorry- the Superman and Batman posters are just the characters' names and logos. Really, graphic designer guy? Really?

These really aren't very good. Firstly, adding a whole bunch of photoshop filters to 'minimalist' art kind of ruins the point. Secondly, the filters are ugly. Thirdly, the use of colours in the storm poster is really ugly (the yellow seems to clash with everything else). Fourthly, the artist didn't actually draw most of this stuff. Aside from the Rogue image that Protokitty claims ownership of, it seems that most of the other images were just taken from google image search. The feather, the sunglasses, and the playing cards just seem to be stock photos with a bunch of ugly filters attached to them. This is not inherently bad, as the collage is a valid art form, but I don't know whether the artist can actually sell these legally.

Is he really selling this on Etsy?
The hands on the Rogue poster were taken form my art from my deviantArt page. I DID NOT give him permission.
http://protokitty.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d41pddv

The Rogue one is great. I knew there was an aspect of her personality that was sorely missing from the movies.

Feel like he didn't even try with superman and batman.