well i see you've had a more technical conversation about it, but to me they decided that they finally wanted to make the art FUN ART and not just story boards for their wordy scripts. to actually tell stories with flare instead of, as you said, tedium.
im using this technique left and right in my own work.
Well, it's definitely an improvement. I love Green Lantern but some of these old books are mind-numbing. I can only imagine how it will be when I go to read the Alan Scott stuff... LOL
I'm curious if you know, at what point in the history of comic books did the trend toward drawing outside the individual frames became commonplace.
im using this technique left and right in my own work.