Best of 2013: DC

This is the last in my Best of 2013 posts,  As such I decided to focus it on my beloved DC Comics  Anyone who listens to the Radio Bamf podcast or who follows me on twitter would be forgiven for thinking that DC's output for 2013 was all utter rot.  This is not the case.  I am susceptible for going off on a tangent and declaring the company's current direction rubbish, but that's not fair to them, as they have put some excellent series.  So let's look at them!

So, tell me about the art..

The creative team
In Japanese comics there tends to be one person creating the whole thing – the words and the art.  In American comics it is more complicated and there is usually a basic team of four different roles:

One person to write the words and plot the comic
One person to do the pencils – draw the outlines of the characters and background scenery.
One person to do the ink – they render another artist's pencils in India Ink.  They also do the shading on comic art, the black bits on the finished artwork.
One person to do the colours – literally, the colours on the art.  They fill in the bits the inker and penciller hasn’t.
One person to do the letters - that is, the text in the comics.  Different lettering styles have a huge impact on the way you perceive the characters and the mood of the story.