Simone Bianchi

100% the art is fantastic.

The art in this issue and the two after it is by an artist named Simone Bianchi.

Other than this, my primary context for knowing Simone Bianchi, have you ever read Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers? No, I have not.

jots down in big notebook labeled next podcast series.

But yeah, in that sort of meta series, which is like a collection of parallel mini series, Simone Bianchi did the shining night.

And so, and I think Bianchi's style is, So some of the artists we've seen so far, Opinia and Deodato especially, and Lineal Francis Yu, even though I don't like him quite as much as those other two, but they have very much leaned into sci-fi as an aesthetic.

Yes, a lot more grounded sci-fi.

grounded but also stuff that displays big, stark space.

Marty Garcia and Rochelle Rochelle Rosenberg were the colorists.

There was more cover artists this time with Bermejo, David Nakayama, Simone Bianchi, Ario Anamito, Simone DiMeo, and McFarlane

Toys had a variant,

which I thought was interesting.

Um, you know, I don't, I know the Italian comic scene is pretty big.

But it's so funny, all the Italian artists I know are the ones that work over here, like Matteo, Matteo Scalera, like Gabriele Dell'Otto, and, uh, Simone Bianchi, and Simone De Meo.

Um, and then Spanish stuff I don't know too much, to be honest.

It's just whenever stuff comes my way that's translated, I'll look at it.