BWS designed
the color for Weapon X specifically
to be printed on the cheap newsprint typically used for comics. When
Marvel collected the story in it's subsequent hardcover and paperback
trade
collections,
they
failed
to
adjust the color
levels to compensate for the better quality paper the trades are
printed on. The result is that the
color in the trade collections of Weapon X is lurid and oversaturated,
and does not represent what was intended by the artist. |
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Despite
the weaker blacks in the original Marvel
Comics Presents printings
(due to
the use of plastic printing plates Marvel was experimenting with
at the time to save money), those editions on newsprint are a truer
representation of the work. BWS has contacted Marvel to try to get them
to adjust the color on successive reprintings of the Weapon X trade
collections, with no response. |
Above:
Page 5 of Weapon X Chapter 4, as printed
on newsprint
in Marvel Comics Presents #76 (1991)
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Above:
Page 5 of Weapon X Chapter 4, as printed
on glossy paper in the trade editions
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