Dan got me some issues of Aphrodite IX, because I had been asking for it for a while… it’s a comic by Top Cow/IMAGE, and all of their titles have a particular style to them.
The art in Aphrodite IX is cracking me up- Image really pioneered the “less inking, more shaped gradient coloring in Photoshop” style which we see in modern superhero comics. Aphrodite IX herself is a good example of this extreme- the only part of her nose that is inked is a nostril and the shadow under the tip: her entire nose is coloring. That is, her nose is a collection of shaded gradients, shaped to imply a nose.
I like how not only does Aphrodite IX not have an inked nose, not only does the green dot on her face keep changing sizes, but she is wearing giant leather armor on every part of her body… except for her crotch… which is covered only by a flimsy square of tissue. Perhaps someone’s forgotten handkerchief they lost at the laundry.