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Worth the purchase, @MaxCasino ?
So far, yes. I honestly just started it. I’ll let you know more later!
Ok, thanks! I loved the Batman book.
Me too! 🤓
Book one collects the first six issues of DCs update of The Spirit to the 21st century. Nowhere near the genius of Eisner, but interesting.
Also contains the BATMAN/THE SPIRIT special by Loeb and Cooke.
A collection of Spirit stories in colour from the period 1947-1950. Great stuff.
I finished 80 years of Superman. Some great stories and a surprising lack of Lex Luthor.
I aim to get hold of more of these somewhere down the line.
The post-war stuff is the best. Pre-war is interesting, watching Will learn his craft. During the war, Eisner was in uniform, putting out Army Motors magazine and farming out production of The Spirit to other hands. The material from this period is for completists only IMHO.
Excellent stuff!
It was! It will be interesting to see how they play out in the video game Gotham Knights next year! Now, I’m reading Django/Zorro: The Official Sequel to Django Unchained, by Quentin Tarantino and Matt Wagner. Fingers crossed that a movie on it is on the way, as rumored!
Oh yeah, I read the Django comic adaptation and its Zorro sequel years ago. Great stuff!
First read this at the age of seven, and have read it many times since then. Great stuff.
In this sixth Mac Coy story from 1977, we have reached the year 1873. It s been decades since I last read this. Marvelous stuff.
The Complete Dick Tracy Volume 21: 1962-1964
This is the volume where Dick Tracy goes insane.
Chester Gould got an energy boost in 1962. His already robust imagination, attuned to the macabre and hardboiled, went into overdrive, but this time in a grandiose, science-fictional direction that proved incredibly divisive. For 30 years Dick Tracy had been a police procedural, and many fans resented its sudden lurch from detective to science fiction. Those with fonder memories of the moon period tended to be children at the time; space cop Tracy was what they grew up with. I didn't start reading Tracy until much later and find myself in the middle. The strip was reinvigorated by these radical changes, but the elements underpinning them were sometimes ludicrous and unconvincing.
Whether or not the stories were in decline, Gould's artwork was reaching its peak. By the early 60s Gould (aided by assistant Rick Fletcher) was unrivalled in his mastery of chiaroscuro and spotting blacks. No one before or since has shown an equivalent sense of balance between light and absolute darkness. And now Gould was refining his linework too, gracefully alternating thick and thin lines with ravishingly delicacy. This volume is worth purchasing for the artwork alone. As for its five four stories...
01. The introduction of the Space Coupe, which looks airborne trash can but is able to reach the moon in three hours, thanks to the vaguely-defined powers of magnetism. Gould endlessly dotes over this toy, which he trumpets as greater than anything NASA could begin to think of, but it feels more like science BS than fiction. The Space Coupe gets hijacked by the 52 Gang, whose organization is quickly (and a bit too easily) infiltrated and destroyed by Tracy, who strafes the gang's headquarters with napalm in a freakish prelude of Vietnam.
02. Junior Tracy is targeted for death by femme fatale Thistle Dew, her vengeful uncle Punky, and their accomplice Patience Peek (whose chihuahua becomes an alcoholic like its owner ). The hardboiled story grows delightfully wacky with the introduction of talking raven who dispenses legal advice.
03. A meandering but imaginative tale set in Virginia, involving a pair of criminal modern artists who live in a hollowed-out mountain and employ an artistically inclined quasi-bigfoot named Lil' Dropout. Tracy and inventor Diet Smith employ advanced technology (audio and video bugging) to achieve another fiery victory.
04. A tale of rogue doctors engaging in heart transplants (only a few years before they became a reality). The story benefits from gory heart imagery but suffers from hasty plotting, weak villains, and the delusion that a new heart give an old man the gymnastic schools of a young one.
05. Gould flings the strip irrevocably into sci-fi with the introduction of Moon Maid, a curvaceous lunar nymph with horns who can drastically shift her body temperature and explode rockets by pointing at them. Gould tended to plot by the seat of his pants and much of this story is spent on Moon Maid showing off her powers while Gould decides what to do with her. Eventually he decides on rushing Junior Tracy and Moon Maid into an unconvincing romance, and the volume collection ends in melodrama. At this point Moon Maid is not much of a character; future volumes will determine whether she grows into one...
Who were the primary Duck artists around that time? As a kid I subscribed to book collections that reprinted all the magazines by year, and I remember the early 50's featured a lot of Carl Barks.
Carl Barks has been an eternal presence, being reprinted time and again. In the 60s, there was a lot of Vic Lockman, the most industrious Disney artist ever, and also people like Tony Strobl and Paul Murry.
Never read this one before. Great stuff.
Don't think I've come across anything by Vic Lockman. Paul Murry and Tony Strobl's comics on the other hand, I've seen (and read) reprints of.
1978
Very good book! And a good spiritual follow-up to Rick Remender's Black Science and Fear Agent series.
I would like to check out those as well. Best part of it is Opena s art. One can sense his Metal Hurlant background. Must praise the colouring by Matt Hollingsworth as well. Fantastic job with it.
SEVEN TO ETERNITY 2: BALLAD OF BETRAYAL (2017)
Collects vol 5-9. Vol 8 has art by James Harren. Although a competent artist, he pales compared to Opena.
Collects volumes 10-13. Looking forward to the final chapters. Noticed that this takes place around the year 3900.