Friday, January 31, 2014

Graphic Novel Review: A FROZEN WORLD

A FROZEN WORLD
EYEKON PUBLISHING – @afrozenworld

CARTOONIST: Nick Andors
ISBN: 978-0-9895312-1-4; paperback (2014)
120pp, B&W, $15.95 US

Suggested for mature readers – Thriller, horror, sci-fi

Artist and illustrator Nick Andors sent me a copy of his new original graphic novel, A Frozen World, for review.  This black and white comic links four stories and, according to Andors, is “…a psychological thriller filled with twists and turns...”

A Frozen World is set in Irongates, which is basically a city as an endless expanse of concrete and iron.  In this futuristic urban dystopia, cloud-piercing buildings stretch as far as the eye can see and also belch smoke that smears the skyline.

The first story focuses on an unnamed scavenger who introduces us to Irongates.  His nocturnal activities put him at odds with the city authority, as he violates the 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew known as “Lockdown.”  The night we meet him, the scavenger is just looking for smokes and finds that and more.  Next, we meet 86-year-old Geoffrey.  He works for “Body Patrol,” the organization that picks up the bodies strewn on the streets and disposes of them.  The day we meet Geoffrey falls on a tragic 60th anniversary, and we get to see his bizarre ceremony of remembrance.

Next, Anneka is a young girl consumed by the fear inside her, but as she grows older, fear becomes hate.  Anneka runs from her abusive past and to a life of murder and mayhem.  However, her brutality initiates a war with The Hidden Hand, the most powerful entity in Irongates.  The final story focuses on Ivan, who concludes A Frozen World by revealing his deepest and strangest secret.

Nick Andors describes A Frozen World as being “in the vein of The Twilight Zone…”  Both Andors’ graphic novel and Rod Serling’s classic television series do share a visual sensibility.  Both use the black and white visual to create a sense of mystery.  Light and shadow form the landscape for the interplay of the known and the unknown.  Andors takes advantage of black and white graphics to create a world in which danger hides in the dark, and where the light reveals the rotten fruit of danger’s labor.

I have to admit that the opening story made me think of director John Huston’s classic film noir, The Asphalt Jungle (1950), in particularly, cinematographer Harold Rosson’s photography for that film.  As the scavenger walks the city, there is even a touch of Warren Ellis’ late comic book series, Transmetropolitan.

I think that the reason A Frozen World sparks my imagination and memory is because it so evocative.  It has a dreamlike quality, but it uses common imagery and elements so that the story is familiar, allowing a broad range of readers to understand this dream.  Conceptually, Irongates is recognizable – the dystopian metropolis or the urban hell-scape.  That is the familiar. The players and their actions within this dream, however, are subject to different interpretations, depending on the reader.

If, as one of the characters says, the world of Irongates is frozen, the characters certainly are not.  Through exposition, dialogue, and action, Andors builds the characters, transforming them from the ciphers to which we are introduced into the complex, engaging players they become.  For all that they and Andors tell us, we can never be sure of them, and Andors makes them worth exploring.

I found myself wanting to plumb the depths of these characters, even if ultimately, I was wrong about them.  So what if I project upon these characters motivations and personalities the author never intended.  That isn’t an assault on an author; rather, it is a sign of how I have grappled with the author’s narrative.

Early in this year that finds much of the United States and Canada frozen, we already have a top-quality original graphic novel.  I hope that readers leave their usual favorite story worlds and take a trip to A Frozen World.

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https://www.facebook.com/AFrozenWorld
https://twitter.com/@afrozenworld
http://afrozenworld.com (the book is available for purchase on the author’s website)

Other reviews and commentary concerning A Frozen World:
http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/briefings/commentary/45606/

http://www.craveonline.com/comics/lists/617243-the-20-best-graphic-novels-of-2013

Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux

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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

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Sunday, January 26, 2014

I Reads You Review: THE INCREDIBLE HULK AND WOLVERINE #1

THE INCREDIBLE HULK AND WOLVERINE #1
MARVEL COMICS – @Marvel

WRITERS: Len Wein, Mary Jo Duffy
PENCILS: Herb Trimpe, Ken Landgraf
INKS: Jack Abel, George Perez
COLORS: Christie Scheele
LETTERS: Artie Simek, Michael Higgins
EDITOR: Roy Thomas, Jim Shooter
EIC: Jim Shooter
COVER: John Byrne and Jack Abel with George Roussos
48pp, Color, $2.00 (October 1986)

In the summer of 1986, Marvel Comics published The Incredible Hulk and Wolverine #1.  This was a one-shot, single-issue comic book that reprinted The Incredible Hulk #180 and #181 (cover-dated November 1974).  Issue #180 (cover-dated October 1974) contained the first appearance of Wolverine, as a cameo in the final panel of the last page.  Issue #181 features the first full appearance of Wolverine.  Of course, Wolverine is a member of the X-Men and one of Marvel Comics’ most popular characters.

The Incredible Hulk and Wolverine #1 also includes the short story, “Wolverine and Hercules,” which originally appeared in Marvel Treasury Edition #26 (1980).  “Wolverine: The Evolution of a Character” is an essay at the back of this comic book.  It is written by former Marvel writer and editor, Peter Sanderson, and details the creation of Wolverine and also provides a fictional biography of the character.  This text piece includes spot illustrations and other art drawn by John Romita, Paul Smith and Joe Rubinstein; John Byrne and Terry Austin; John Romita, Jr. and Dan Green; and Frank Miller and Joe Rubinstein.

The Incredible Hulk #180 finds the Hulk returning to Canada.  There, deep in the Canadian woods, the emerald behemoth finds himself caught in a conspiracy involving Marie Cartier and Georges Baptiste.  Marie’s brother, Paul Cartier, bears the curse that transforms him into “the hideous cannibal beast,” known as the Wendigo.

Marie has devised a plan to transfer the Wendigo’s form to the Hulk.  Events don’t follow her planning once Hulk and Wendigo engage in an epic battle.  Meanwhile, at a top secret Royal Canadian Air Force Tracking Installation, military authorities are not about to allow the Hulk to rampage through Canada again.  They’re sending something called “Weapon X” to take care of the green giant.

The Incredible Hulk #181 begins with Wolverine revealing himself to the Hulk and the Wendigo and launching himself into their battle.  This three-way fight devolves into a death match between the Hulk and the Wolverine.  Meanwhile, Georges Baptiste makes a fateful decision about him and Marie Cartier’s plan to save her brother from the curse of the Wendigo.

When The Incredible Hulk and Wolverine #1 arrived on newsstands and in comic book shops, it gave me a chance to read the story in which Wolverine made his first appearance, and I was ecstatic about that opportunity.  I would read the story again in a single-issue facsimile reprint of The Incredible Hulk #181.

I long ago lost or sold my original copy of The Incredible Hulk and Wolverine #1, but a recent at sale at super comics retailer Mile High Comics’ website allowed me to get another copy.  I had forgotten that even with a $2.00 cover price, The Incredible Hulk and Wolverine #1 was just a cheapie reprint.  At a time when comic book publishers, large and small, were moving to heavier and whiter paper stocks, Marvel Comics printed The Incredible Hulk and Wolverine #1 on newsprint.  The print quality ranges from mediocre to tolerable, and the colors don’t “pop” off the page the way they do today.  With newsprint, things like details, borders, and lettering can fade or even not fully print.

I think that at the time this was originally published Marvel Comics was printing anything that would help with their market share and that could make a lot of money with little investment.  The Hulk stories here were bought and paid for over a decade earlier, and who knows if the creators got any royalty payments from this reprinting.  Like I said, high return on low investment.

That aside, I like these old Hulk comics.  Writer Len Wein’s ability to create a compelling story out of monster comics and supernatural melodrama is a sign of the skill that made him a standout comic book creator and editor in the 1970s and 1980s.  Penciller Herb Trimpe, one of my favorites, mixes the dynamism and fury of Jack Kirby (who was obviously an influence on Trimpe) with the cartoon mysticism of Steve Ditko.  This is classic comic book art and graphical storytelling – monster comics and mystic mumbo-jumbo.

It is also fun to look at this early Wolverine-in-the-raw, which is practically nothing like what the character would become in the decades that followed his first appearance.  So I grade this comic book not on the cheap newsprint reproduction, but on the fun old comics.

B+

Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux


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Thursday, January 23, 2014

I Reads You Review: SCOOBY-DOO, Where Are You? #41

SCOOBY-DOO, WHERE ARE YOU? #41
DC COMICS – @DCComics

STORY: Scott Gross, John Rozum, Keith Champagne
PENCILS: Scott Gross, Scott Neely
INKS: Scott Gross, Jorge Pacheco, Scott Neely
COLORS: Heroic Age
LETTERS: Saida Temofonte, Sal Cipriano, Randy Gentile,
COVER: Scott Gross
28pp, Color, $2.99 U.S. (March 2014)

Rated “E” for Everyone

I currently subscribe to DC Comics’ most recent Scooby-Doo comic book series, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? (2010).  I bought the subscription through a fundraising drive by the school my nephew attends.  I just received the third issue of my subscription.

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #41 opens with “Annunaki” (written and drawn by Scott Gross).  The story finds Mystery Inc. on the road and lost.  The gang ends up in the small Ohio town of Chillicothe.  There, they discover that an “ancient astronaut,” is terrorizing locals and keeping them away from the area’s pride and joy, local Indian mounds.  Faster than you can exclaim, “Jinkies!” Velma Dinkley has a plan.

In “Chupacabra-Cadabra” (written by Keith Champagne and drawn by Scott Neely), the gang takes a road trip to celebrate Shaggy Rogers’ birthday.  No-thanks to the legendary “El Chupacabra,” which has a penchant for kidnapping, Shaggy is about to have his worst birthday ever!

Once again, I experience the joy of reading a Scooby-Doo comic book.  Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #41 offers three good stories, although some of this material is not new.  Some of the comics here were previously published in Scooby-Doo (1997) #130 and #140.

Even at eight pages, “Chupacabra-Cadabra” is a complete and fully developed story.  However, “Annunaki,” at 10-pages in length, is the victim of a rushed ending.  The story is a good idea, but it should have been a full-length, single-issue story of at least 20 pages in length.  The last two pages are crunched together, when this last act needs at least six pages.  Talk about compression.

Overall, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #41 is a good issue.  And I’m ready for the next issue – as usual.

B+

Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux

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Tuesday, January 21, 2014

DC Comics from Diamond Distributors for January 22 2014

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