http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en5DRgVpWeoIt was interesting to hear an artist talk about the way computers have changed the way comics artists work now, different even from 15 or 20 years ago.
Also interesting is how he said that it has sterilized the work and taken away much of the spontanaity and playful creative aspects from the work, and created a field that conforms and imitates many of the aspects of storytelling and "realism" in movies.
I still look at much of the early/mid 1980's work as a Golden Age of comics, with a lot of clever, innovative and fun stuff being produced, from the likes of Pacific, Eclipse, and First, as well as groundbreaking material in that era from Marvel and DC.
I think there was a lot of stuff in the 80's that were intelligent and clever stories, that were uniquely possible in comics form. And I have to agree that much the current material wastes pages and pages of cinematic panels establishing "mood", and yet it still comes off as a cheap imitation, of just trying to do movies in a comic book form.
Baron and Rude's NEXUS was never one of my favorites, but it certainly had a number of very good issues, that demonstrated the full potential of storytelling possible in comics.