In this page which opens the second issue of the series, everything looks pretty straightforward in the first three panels. Then at the bottom, Seth gives the soldier a manga-style exaggeration to his surprised expression. (He is saying, "Megalosaurus?!?!") The readers who were expecting a regular superhero style book may have balked at the lack of seriousness of Seth's take on the whole story. I have to admit that except for Seth's I never read this type of comic book at all, so I can't compare it to others. But it certainly looks like camp to me. Though, considering the setting of the story, it seems appropriate to throw in a little manga.
The fact that the characters usually are drawn in more-or-less realistic proportions, and then occasionally are drawn in cartoony big-head style is one of the ways that he showed his amusement with the story. He drew a couple of those in the Batman story for DC also, but the editors there were having none of it, and took out his cartoons. I guess Batman is more of a sacred cow, as it were, than the Fantastic Four.
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Damn shame the editors took hold of Seth’s story, but yes I’d take a guess that Batman is consider the Holy Institution and can only be played with so much. Especially in an ongoing series.
Whereas Marvel seems to have a bit more of a laid-back attitude and were hiring Seth to be Seth. A miniseries entitled Big in Japan and the premise of monsters gone amuck just *has* to be fun!
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