I'm looking forward to that post! I've always been surprised by the separation of pencils and inks, tbh - colouring makes more sense to me to split off, but so much of a picture can rest on inking, in terms of mood and everything else? Thinking about this makes me want to see how the same artists pencils transform under different inks now, though.

(And the shiny, shiny muscle epidemic is an interesting one. I'm not a fan of it, but now I'm curious where it started. Jim Lee and Liefeld, maybe.)

Thank you so much for those recs! :D I've heard of Mignola before, but I've never actually read his books. The pages I've been turning up for him are wooow. And I'm definitely going to look into Maleev. (Although I see what you mean about the filter, haha.)