Given how bug ugly Nightow's artwork used to be right back at the start of Trigun, his artistic style by now can be really impressive! He has a real sense of composition in some of these pages, and there are so many more of them, most making one hell of an impression without any words at all.

Nightow is brilliant with the emotional stuff. Well, it sure as hell works on me, anyway!

I agree with you on Livio - Nightow does seem to reuse his character designs a bit. That girl in Gungrave was very much Meryl with light hair. And as for the thomases in Gungrave, I never did figure out what they were doing there!