tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post4037739344968954924..comments2024-03-27T05:54:38.797-07:00Comments on <i>bare</i>•bones e-zine: The Warren Report Issue 88: September - October 1977John Scolerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14082147756474762000noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-18875918462222654002022-07-04T07:18:24.869-07:002022-07-04T07:18:24.869-07:00Luis Bermejo's art remains fairly strong on Th...<br />Luis Bermejo's art remains fairly strong on The Rook, but the story itself I didn't care for. I continue to be rather disappointed that Eerie throws away so many pages each issue on a series with no horror element to it whatsoever. Odd that the titular Rook doesn't even appear this time! I couldn't recall if Scallywag ever returned as the previous story seemed like a pretty conclusive ending, but here we are again with a spinoff of it. A so-so story for me but Ortiz's art is particularly strong here. "Years and Minds Forever" wraps up our Corben/Jones dinosaur trilogy going in some rather unexpected and crazy directions (hard for me to buy that they were able to fake the traveling to the past with the dinosaurs) and I can't say I understand why Jeff was willing to wipe out the entire human race including himself, which is ultimately what ended up happening. I too struggled with figuring out what was Gaffer's wish; I'd have expected it to be to let the mother live, but that doesn't happen. I didn't pick up on him getting more wishes either, but can say that isn't the case as the next part wraps up the series. That aside though, I continue to really like this series and Duranona once again provides us some extremly bizarre looking aliens. "Ira Israel" looks like quite the off day for Leopold Sanchez. He is usually a very strong and dependable artist but this story just looked totally off to me. A weakly written story too. "Hunter III" thankfully is a one time only parody story and doesn't kick off another drawn out Hunter series. I liked the story quite a bit though and it was a fairly fun read. This is Alex Nino's first time breaking out on his own after many stories with Carmine Infantino and you immediately wonder why they didn't do this sooner. Nino's art is about as impressive as anything you're going to get from Warren for the rest of its run and is stylistically very different than all the other Warren artists. Great stuff, and I look forward to reading more of it. <br /><br />Our third time with a Vampi only issue, and as usual I'd prefer that we instead got a brief Vampi story and anthology stories for the rest of the issue, but so be it. While this set of stories is absolutely overly complicated, presumably because Boudreau needed to keep the storyline going throughout the entire issue, I ended up liking it more than I thought I would. At the very least its better than the previous all Vampi issue as well as better than the recent individual stories of her we've gotten. The two things I didn't care for was Pendragon being in on it, which from a character standpoint doesn't really fit him (as he's pretty much always portrayed as an incompetent drunk) and the fact that the main storyline conclusion comes in the penultimate story, leaving the last one as a bit of a let down. Boudreau couldn't come up with more twists to keep the climax to the end?Quiddity99https://www.blogger.com/profile/17809157926893454731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-27111101825434920312022-07-04T07:14:54.873-07:002022-07-04T07:14:54.873-07:00Happy fourth! Nothing like reading up on some horr...Happy fourth! Nothing like reading up on some horror stories before heading out to a cookout. Got nothing to say on the Eerie reprint issue, but Vampirella #63 was my first exposure to Jenifer, so I appreciate that at least! Pretty nice cover too.<br /><br />"A Toast to No Man's Memory" was a bit predictable, but Severin's strong art saves the day. "Mrs Sludge" on the other hand surprised me with its ending and I liked it more than I thought I would. My understanding is that "Instinct" was an old inventory story that sat on the shelf for years before being used here. No idea why they'd sit on a Corben story for so long though. Just a year or two prior with this being the big issue of the summer this story would have been in color, but alas color stories are becoming rarer and rarer these days. Beyond being obviously written to justify the Frazetta reprint cover, "Towards High Places" is a fairly strong tale. Warren doesn't give us enough horror stories told in ancient Egypt. I'd agree that "The Executioner" seems quite out of place for a Warren comic, but Heath's art makes up for it. "Goddess in a Kingdom of Trolls" I enjoyed quite a bit due to Maroto's art. He is very well suited for these types of stories. "Everybody and His Sister" was a bit of a mess for me, with a rather lame ending. "Generations of Noah" was a strong conclusion to the issue. Duranona's human character may often be rather ugly looking, but he does a great job at drawing extremely bizarre aliens and monsters and this story is full of them. Quite a downer of an ending though! All in all I was quite happy with this issue of Creepy.Quiddity99https://www.blogger.com/profile/17809157926893454731noreply@blogger.com