I bought Image's C.O.W.L. , first issue #6 , a Done In One palate-cleanser origin story , now I have bought the first TPB , to-day .
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I hope it's good! Please post a review when you have time... it's a series I'm curious about.
#6 was ,furthermore,done by a different artist than the main series (with said MA contributing a Kirby-esque cover),and drawn in a quite intentionally " retro 'funny book ' "style~ I was put to mind of the sort of"comic book " art that mainstream magazines,when they do a"comic book "--type story ,tend to do (I posted here in the past about how ,similarly,they tend, when doing a fake comic book cover ,tocopy that roughly 1971-3 Marvel standard design , with the squared-of fmain scene, and a title at the bottom,didn't I?????)...........
I'm curious about it as well!
...I have neither of the two publications (#6 or the TPB of #s1-5) in front of me now - I wish to continue discussion - & finish up the discussion , at least on the " surface " leavel , of #6 so I'll add that it featured that curious " retro tempura dots " effect , the intentional appearance occasionally of those " dots on Caucasian faces " that old funnybooks are seen as having in public memory/legend , anyway - Well , at least I didn't call it " a Roy Licstenstein effect " !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;-) - appear- that sometimes appear for " retro "-ish sequences in modern-era comics .
Does anybody know of-notice/can you describe this effect . For instance , I saw it in an 00s AQUAMAN with a sequence of Akky and Aqualad looking as they did in the Filmation 60s series , before switching back to the modern time . The last issue of that " THE LAST PHANTOM comic I saw , too , had a dream sequnce?? where TLP met something like a 1960s Gold Key Phantom - and they fought !!!!!!!!!!! - using that effect , IIRC :-) .
Comics no longer use this process -- I think they use continuous tone, or CT, like magazines -- but newspapers still do. Hold a magnifying glass over a newspaper photo, and you can probably see the dots.
...Well , yeah , but my point is that modern-day comics do , at times , bring in something that creates a tempera dots-style effect for a " retro " feel , such as the 2 , maybe 3 (maybe the LAST PHANTOM one didn't have dots) examples I cited above !
C.O.W.L. has been described , in one of the pre-release pices I found while looking for - and failing to find !!!!!!!!!:-0 - a Wikipedia piece (maybe I could go from editing to my first contribution ? :--?) as a " super-powered characters' union " or similar , but it contains super-powered costume-wearers , non-powered costumers (such as now-kicked upstairs Cowl founder/leader The Grey Raven , whose origin is #6's subject) and even cop-like non-powered , non-code-named or costumed , either , members .
A touch of dialogue in the TPB mentions " over three hundred " members , but , the TPB concerns itself with only 8 , of all 3 categories mentioned above ~ Not spoiling , but reading #6 first led to a reversed suprise when I saw the ending of #5 !!!!!!!!!!! One character's fate is spoiled in #6's lettercol .