tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post7448688619803765799..comments2024-03-27T05:54:38.797-07:00Comments on <i>bare</i>•bones e-zine: The Warren Report Issue 36: June-July 1972John Scolerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14082147756474762000noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-44195189734149753932020-06-25T11:42:48.761-07:002020-06-25T11:42:48.761-07:00I thought it was a good issue too!I thought it was a good issue too!Jack Seabrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216640325305820140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-92102406562767413272020-06-24T21:33:32.289-07:002020-06-24T21:33:32.289-07:00I really can't say enough about Eerie # 40, an...I really can't say enough about Eerie # 40, and only partly because it was my first Warren magazine.<br /><br />"The Prodigy Son" really terrified me. About my only complaint is that first picture of the circus strongman in the final scene. He's given an accidentally funny sort of square-jawed look, almost right out of a COMEDY comic.<br /><br />It took me a long while to know Medieval mythology outside of King Arthur, and then I realized that "The Paradise Tree" is partly inspired by the "Tannhauser" myth.<br /><br />And "Deathfall" is the first place I heard the famous "Chuang Tzu dreamed he was a butterfly" story.Granthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09603892208775996594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-14776274036732621252020-06-23T10:14:58.509-07:002020-06-23T10:14:58.509-07:00Thanks, guys! I get such a kick out of the profile...Thanks, guys! I get such a kick out of the profiles and the explanations from the writers.Jack Seabrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216640325305820140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-85986426814429587972020-06-22T12:12:49.397-07:002020-06-22T12:12:49.397-07:00If you had any doubts Archie is no longer here, af...If you had any doubts Archie is no longer here, after reading Pendragon 's clumsy recap in Vampirella they will be gone. How not to write comics. TCB has arrived. The story is at least 5 pages too long, and do the characters never shut up?<br /><br />McGregor's statement is good fun. When I read his stuff, Bierce is the first writer which comes to mind. Right. At least the guys had a big ego.<br /><br />I may have read Corben's "Friedhelm the Magnificient" a dozen times over the years, and I never understood the ending. Also it is terribly overwritten. How often does the text kills the art? Maybe Warren's writers were indeed paid by the word.andydeckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01312309519462680892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-59255102091943913772020-06-22T08:53:30.158-07:002020-06-22T08:53:30.158-07:00"Tomb of the Gods" is the start of a ser..."Tomb of the Gods" is the start of a series that will run for the next 4-5 issues or so of Vampirella and is actually reprints of stories Maroto had originally done in Europe. Most are as nonsensical plot-wise as this story was, although we do get some nice and very surreal Maroto artwork, especially in issue 20's story. My recollection was the series was quite unpopular so they just stopped it after a while. Garcia continues to impress considerably with "Death in the Shadows", alas for a very weak story. Overall, aside from "A Man's World" which has slightly weaker than usual art from Bea, this is an issue with stark contrasts, some very good art but some very lackluster stories.<br /><br />The Brain of Frankenstein reminds me a bit of the Frankenstein Book II series in Skywald, which was fairly good at first (being handled by Tom Sutton) and also involved Victor Frankenstein being resurrected within the monster itself. "Impulsive" is the perfect words to describe Dax. Expect to see more such behavior from him in future stories. "Pity the Gravedigger" is another great effort from Auraleon, and a sad reminder that despite him working for Warren for another 10+ years, his art will never look better than it does right now. I'm not particularly a fan of Targos or the Sanho Kim story, but otherwise a strong issue of Eerie.<br /><br />"Cross of Blood" comes off much more like a Skywald vampire story to me than the typical Warren vampire story; kinda fitting since plenty of art from this story will be swiped by Jesus Martin Sauri for the story "My Flesh Crawls" late in Skywald's run. Rich Margopoulos has a pretty strong debut, and will do some good work for Warren for a while, especially those Poe adaptions, although he is the writer that I recall above any other who does some extremely mediocre work for Warren in its final years, especially in Eerie. That is still many years off though. "I Invisible" is the type of story that has a simple premise and an unsurprising ending, but Jose Bea's artwork is just so out of this world bizarre that it elevates it considerably. No other Warren artist can pull off things as strangely as he can. "Spellbound" I've always been fond of due to Garcia's great artwork on it; it was the first story I can recall reading from him. Warren's fantasy stories don't do much for me either when lesser artists are handling them, but I'm on board if we have someone with the talent of Garcia or Maroto doing them. Very happy to see Corben return as well! Quiddityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13986124694445522253noreply@blogger.com