Comics Fondle

I’ve been waiting to make a comment about the editor checking the scripts (this issue takes place on night three of the full moon, as did the last issue and this one immediately follows the previous one), but Ploog’s inking himself here and I can’t say anything bad. I hadn’t realized how much the other […]

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I usually bemoan the state of “independent” comic books. These four dollar books with bad art and scripts adapted from unsold movie treatments (at best, more likely TV treatments no one ever showed interest in). Lousy printing, lousy paper. The modern lot is absurd when compared to, say, Comico. Except. Except there are possible exceptions. […]

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Four issues in to the regular series (and his last consecutive issue for a few), Gerry Conway has finally lost it. Not totally, but in every way that matters. This issue takes place over a night and is all action–a great white hunter goes after Jack (as the Werewolf) in an old Western movie set […]

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Conway really gets his pacing down in this issue again–it’s so dense, I kept expecting each next page to be the last because of that fullness. Even though it features the werewolf in another fight scene, it’s real abbreviated, instead giving Ploog the chance to draw Jack’s sister, Lissa, on the run from a deadly […]

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When Mike Ploog art can’t save a story, there’s something really wrong with it. In this issue’s case, it’s the pacing. Well, no, it’s actually not. The pacing is a problem–the story opens with the third night of one month’s full moon and an action scene, then a long pause, then the first night of […]

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