Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 4:44 pm
Exactly what I was thinking. I think that's a better look if your going to use the ink splatter.
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Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 6:42 pm
Perhaps blend the color with the TT banner, kinda a explosive effect? but I like it!
Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 10:26 pm
Really nice work on this!
My previous hesitation about the design was that the two styles tended to clash. Whereas with the now-legendary comic book series it made perfect sense to have your characters exploding forth from the paper into your ultra-hip styling, the mixture here came off a bit more as just "this looks cool." I think you've taken it a very long way, though, to the point where, yes, it looks cool, but it also seems to work.
Suggestion-wise, it looks like you can easily get away with cutting off the splatter at the spine instead of having those extra little specs on the spine and back (unless you add another splatter on the back). Other than that, I'm tempted to suggest making the bottom "Legacy Series" text one or two points smaller so it isn't exactly lining up with the sides of the frame, decreasing the spacing on "Karloff" a little bit, and making the size difference less severe on the drop caps in the tagline, but I'm sure that's stuff you're either still fine-tuning or have already played around with and found this setup to be best.
So yeah, all that text for no real suggestions.
Keep up the great work. 
My previous hesitation about the design was that the two styles tended to clash. Whereas with the now-legendary comic book series it made perfect sense to have your characters exploding forth from the paper into your ultra-hip styling, the mixture here came off a bit more as just "this looks cool." I think you've taken it a very long way, though, to the point where, yes, it looks cool, but it also seems to work.
Suggestion-wise, it looks like you can easily get away with cutting off the splatter at the spine instead of having those extra little specs on the spine and back (unless you add another splatter on the back). Other than that, I'm tempted to suggest making the bottom "Legacy Series" text one or two points smaller so it isn't exactly lining up with the sides of the frame, decreasing the spacing on "Karloff" a little bit, and making the size difference less severe on the drop caps in the tagline, but I'm sure that's stuff you're either still fine-tuning or have already played around with and found this setup to be best.
So yeah, all that text for no real suggestions.
Keep up the great work.