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I just bought a bunch of german editions of Lewis Trondheim books (Donjon, Lapinot) and i'm nearing the end of the 50 volumes of the Donald Duck part of the Carl Barks collection. But that's probably all foreign to you.
One of the last Image books i read was Black Cloak by Kelly Thompson and Meredith McLaren and i love it. It is an odd mix of a crime thriller with a bit of fairy magic and cyberpunk, drawn in a reduced "american manga" style. And it just works. The characters are interesting, the lore is deep and the plot is taking some turns.
Barks is a freaking legend, more people should be reading that. At the end of his life, he was just down the road apiece from me:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Barks
And, yeah, Black Cloak has been a good read... TBH I'm a little thrown by the art, every time a new issue comes out I'm like "I don't remember the art being this bad before..." then I go look and, yeah, it's consistently in the same style.
Good read though!
Yeah, the art reminds me of several books i didn't like - but that was due to the type of story that came along (the kind where the characters have an existential crisis over just about everything). I like art that follows an inner ruleset and Meredith McLaren's art has a lot of expression and moves from reduced lines to detailed surroundings and water colour backgrounds, but always stays in the boundaries of the style. It's not "bad" as you put it, it's different and it enhances the story. I somewhat expected to not like it, but i wouldn't want it any other way.
I think what threw me was I picked it up based on the strength of this variant cover:
https://cdn.imagecomics.com/assets/i/releases/922279/_5b6936c3e5.jpg
And really none of it has hit that realistic tone. That cover reminded me a bunch of the old Frank Ciracco stuff.
https://cdn.marvel.com/u/prod/marvel/i/mg/9/20/5ced485b1c801/clean.jpg
Those are nice covers. But the countless times i've seen a Neal Adams cover sell some mediocre story inside, made me detest this kind of bait and switch. With variant covers i like to make a point of buying the interior artist's cover if possible. And in this case they really hurt themselves by having variant covers for issue one, when customers don't know yet what to expect.