Yeah, Gonterman is classic cool. He still sometimes posts stuff and it's amazing just how little his completely nutso style has changed (it hasn't changed at all). It takes an astonishing creative brain to generate and regard as complete the things he did. For a while I thought he was the same person as Andy Reyes, the dude who did that comic of him and Princess Peach: "A MAP? ...BUT IT LOOKS LIKE... A CLOSE UP OF MY EYES.. ?" But he is one of the Giantess people now.
In anime we traditionally depict lots of things with shared bank of symbols - awkwardness or anxiety as sweatdrops, eyes as oversized soft globes with additional flexibility (Xs, hearts, turning blank), sex appeal as hemorrhaging blood etc. These are big dumb cartoon affections, first to be funny and then to be like other anime, so it's cool to see the whole set of symbols get intentionally adopted and then unconsciously expanded upon by Western artists who see them as means to tell serious stories while still maintaining an animesque atmosphere - partially or totally separating them from their original purpose as cartoonish humor. Gonterman, like many artists with no qualms about high-consistency idea recycling (and like children), uses entire POSES and POSTURES jacked from animes as symbols directing the response of the reader, who - in this case - is uniquely just Gonterman and an imaginary cachet of quasi-Gontermen. And when he does decide to do something like a big establishing shot that could give you an idea of what's happening spatially, it rockets into completely mad gibberish because his standards for what a readable shot is are so low. The fact that he peppers his whole oeuvre with this weird sort of incessant smugness and feigned clever dialogue (possibly actually clever, too difficult for non-spacemen to keep up with?) just makes it better, although most people strongly hate dire art with a big ego because it's uppity, i.e. because most people themselves have zero art ability and little ego, and are secretly jealous that someone much "worse" than them is getting attention at all. Anyway Gonterman is one of those special people whose output just has nothing to do with this world as the be-all and end-all of his creative drive is up in his head. (References to characters we never see, spoken like we have familiarity with them) The fact that he still draws things the exact same way tells me no one else could do it - By jacking many styles he constructed a style that is itself un-jackable.
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