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SKINBREAKER #8:
Wow, what a conculsion! I had no idea how Kirkman and Finch were going to wrap this up, but I couldn't be more satisfied.
I didn't think my LCS was carrying the TE version (oversize stuff doesn't sell for my retialer), but the other day I turned around to discover one of the oversized color issue on an end-cap behind me (one I seldom see because I don't often turn around, I guess). I was a bit disappointed that, rather than slick paper stock, it was printed on high quality newsprint. I will definitely be buying one of TE collections, either b&w or color, on November 3, but I sure hope the color one is printed on slick paper. If it's printed on newspreint, I may opt for the b&w TE... depending on the paper stock.
Bottom line: I strongly urge anyone who passed on this series to buy one of the TE collections this coming November.
King Comics' Flash Gordon #1-2, 4-5 (1966-67), Western Comics' Flash Gordon movie adaptation (1980) and Marvel Comics' Flash Gordon mini-series (1995), all in Al Williamson's Flash Gordon: A Lifelong Vision of the Heroic.
The underground world story in the King Flash Gordon #1 was Williamson's homage to Stanley Pitt's Silver Starr in the Flameworld.
ADASTRA IN AFRICA:
After reading Monsters recently, I was in the mood for more BWS, so I decided to read Adastra in Africa. It's not the first time I've read it, but it is the first time I've read it without reading "Lifedeath" and "Lifedeath II" first. The back-up feature remains as funny and insightful as the main story is poignant.
FREEBOOTERS:
Adastra in Africa in turn put me in the mood to read Freebooters (and I'll bet you can guess what's up next).
YOUNG GODS & FRIENDS:
I remembered the Storyteller "going away party," but I had completely forgotten BWS's explanation for how these diverse characters could co-exist in the same "universe."
PARADOXMAN:
It was very frustrating to read of BWS's difficulties with "OP" (Storyteller's "original publisher") in the Freebooter and Young Gods collections. The Young Gods one was almost not published because BWS could no longer find his creative "voice" for the characters. There was to have been a "Paradoxman" collection, but since it was never published I can only conclude that the trouble he had with Young Gods was even worse for P-man. Although I have read Freebooter and Young Gods more than once since their collection/"completion", I hadn't re-read Paradoxman since its original publication in 1996-97 (and this is the first time I have read it in a single sitting). I would really like to see this one given the same treatment as the other two, but I doubt that will ever happen. (Then again, I never thought I'd see the conclusion to Rick Veitch's Swamp Thing run, either.)
Paradoxman, as the science fiction portion of Storyteller, is the most memorable one for me. Unfortunate that it has never been collected. BWS certainly had his troubles with publishers over the years.
THE BIG GUY AND RUSTY THE BOY ROBOT:
When I was buying Storyteller in 1996-97, I also bought the slipcase to keep them in. As we all know, BWS brought the experiment to a premature close with the ninth issue, leaving some room in the box. As I was reading "Paradoxman" yesterday, I discovered that that's where I kept The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot by Frankl Miller and Geof Darrow. Like Paradoxman, I hadn't read TBG&RTBR since its initial publication. (Kinda puts me in the mood to re-read Hard Boiled and Shaolin Cowboy next.) I always hoped there'd be more. There was an animated cartoon series as well, but I never saw it. Hey! 26 episodes are available on YouTube.
From a reading aspect I really liked the oversize format of Storyteller and Big Guy but there was the problem of where to store them. I wound up giving my copies of Storyteller to a friend who was a big fan of BWS. My Big Guy copy is somewhere in a stack of magazines.
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