![]() ![]() He tends to pull a character out of panel to place them into prominence - there are times where it works exceptionally well as a spotlight, such as a portrait of Raven in a crowded shop as she tentatively attempts to see whether her empathic power will be overloaded, and times where it makes following the narrative across the page a bit confusing. His work in Raven doesn't feel as clean as the work he's best known for, and while he does play with panel layouts and white space in eye-catching ways, the effect is somewhat inconsistent. ![]() ![]() Potentially maintaining a consistent aesthetic across the line also seems to put Picolo, a celebrated Teen Titans fan artist with his own webcomic, at something of a disadvantage. Calderon's soft watercolors are beautiful to look at, and the moments where they do make sense go a long way in elevating the drama of a page. ![]() Stephen Bryne's spot-colors in Tidebreaker were a highlight David Calderon's color work in Teen Titans: Raven isn't necessarily bad, but feel applied somewhat inconsistently even from page to page - Raven is sometimes drawn in full color, sometimes not, and the decision about who to render in full color and when doesn't always make narrative sense with who's the focus of a panel or page. ![]()
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