Comics Fondle

I know Bryan Lee O’Malley is famous and all (not to mention the impending movie), but keep him away from Brian Hurtt’s pencils. O’Malley inks the first issue and he does terrible, terrible things to Hurtt’s pencils. He sucks the delicacy from the art.
But otherwise, this arc is interesting. Rucka manages to turn a simple […]

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I tracked down Skinwalker because of Brian Hurtt. I think I’d always thought his first work was in Queen and Country or something, so this late 2001-early 2002 series was–I thought–going to be a discovered delight (discovered delights being forgotten works, the best example being Elia Kazan’s Wild River, which are mostly unknown and absolutely […]

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I hadn’t realized The Damned was from Oni. It doesn’t really make any difference, it’s just I’d forgotten Oni was out there, except the irregular Local release.
Simply put, The Damned is a Hammett-esque mob story with demons. They have Italian names still–one of them has Dante’s last name, which I’m too tired to look up–and […]

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