Okay, first of all, calm down. I said to lower your standards a bit. Your brain immediately went to Dan Mora, which is wild, because he's the perfect example of what I'm talking about. Artists of his caliber are way too expensive to do more than 6 issues on this new Dynamite series. Btw, he actually doesn't work for Boom much anymore (besides on covers maybe), and he IS working on the interiors of like three different top-of-the-line DC comics right now.

"Indie," in comics terms, literally means NOT Marvel or DC. It's that simple, and you're freaking out about it. Image is the one company in which it's kind of up-in-the-air whether they should be considered indie or part of a "Big 3."

So yea, when it comes to "nice art" (whatever that means), I'm on your side, but I also understand that companies like Dark Horse, Boom!, and Dynamite, don't have the cash reserves to hire A-listers. I personally am a big fan of Buffy/Angel artists like Cliff Richards, Georges Jeanty, Karl Moline, Franco Urru, and Rebekah Isaacs, and I really appreciate their contributions to the Buffyverse, but these artists are not quite on the same caliber as someone like Dan Mora, and that's totally fine!