Showing posts with label grumbling about stuff. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grumbling about stuff. Show all posts

Friday, 28 April 2017

Research Failures Type 1


Research Failure Type 1

NOT DOING ANY BLOODY RESEARCH IN THE FIRST PLACE

I don't mean to single out this particular comic production team for ridicule but this turned up on my Twitter timeline and it is soooo bad that I just had to make fun of it. But for a serious purpose.

Both these scenes are set somewhere in the UK...




Now I write comics so I know about deadlines, I marvel daily at an artist's ability to get that much good ink on paper(1) within the time allotted. I always try and source pictures of things and places to speed the process along.

Even ten years ago this could be a laborious task but now I found the following in less than 30 seconds.




30 Seconds. Now it's quite possible that the people who created this comic don't give a shit about research. That's fine in which case they wont mind being used as an illustration.

(1) Although these days it's more likely to be pixels on.....um.....whatever