tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post1365863415007249836..comments2024-03-27T05:54:38.797-07:00Comments on <i>bare</i>•bones e-zine: The Warren Report Issue 29: March-May 1971John Scolerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14082147756474762000noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-1812326738528415922020-03-18T13:19:10.530-07:002020-03-18T13:19:10.530-07:00Even though my knowledge of the writers and artist...<br />Even though my knowledge of the writers and artists themselves in incredibly small, even I can appreciate it when I hear people refer to the "Spanish" phase of Warren, due to artists and Sanjulian and Maroto and Bea, so I'm glad that that's starting in these reviews.<br /><br />Unlike probably a lot of people, I never seem to get tired of stereotyped early '70's stuff in comics, so those very few panels of "Sleepwalker" (including the heroine, of course) really made me want to find the whole issue.<br />Granthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09603892208775996594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-66177074997667813212020-03-18T10:13:17.713-07:002020-03-18T10:13:17.713-07:00Quiddity, I hope future stories by the new artists...Quiddity, I hope future stories by the new artists are better than "The Escape," which I thought was a stinker.<br /><br />Grant, I promise to pay close attention to Vampirella's costume and report back on what I find.Jack Seabrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216640325305820140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-11985804441363582862020-03-17T17:20:51.283-07:002020-03-17T17:20:51.283-07:00Even though I "wouldn't change it even if...Even though I "wouldn't change it even if I could," I can understand the comment about Vampirella always wearing the costume.<br />In # 42 (which is nearly the only one I've had forever), she's on a plane wearing only it and a coat, and a prudish passenger has a real problem with it. (Think Mae West and Margaret Hamilton in MY LITTLE CHICKADEE, I guess.) <br />I wonder how often the skimpiness of the costume DID become a plot point?Granthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09603892208775996594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-20918243847587312842020-03-16T19:21:01.481-07:002020-03-16T19:21:01.481-07:00What a dog of a Creepy issue! Good to have a Wally...What a dog of a Creepy issue! Good to have a Wally Wood story although it is so similar in nature to the "Degeneration Gap" story we just got in your last Warren post. Ken Kelly's cover is quite good, and my recollection is the Ernie Colon story was decent art-wise but I'd have to pull out that issue to say for sure.<br /><br />"243 Blank Pages" seems quite similar to a very famous anime called Death Note, where a teenage boy comes across a notebook dropped by a demon. Any person whose name is written in the book will die within a set period of time. They get a lot out of that concept and it is a fairly strong show, available on Netflix I believe. A so-so Eerie issue, but I like the art jobs by Larry Todd, Richard Corben and Pat Boyette.<br /><br />Tom Sutton's final Vampirella story! Very excited for the debut of the great Jose Gonzalez next issue. You speak of the lack of focus with the Vampirella stories, and unfortunately what I recall is that if anything, this period of time when Archie Goodwin is writing the stories is when it is at its most focused. We've got several recurring characters being introduced in the Van Helsings and Pendragon and a recurring villainous entity in the Cult of Chaos. We'll eventually hit a point where Vampirella stories are seemingly stand alone and can be read in virtually any order, at least for a good long period of time (although those stories will at least contain amazing artwork). My recollection is Bill Dubay will eventually take over writing and provide more continuity, but not until we're in the 40's issue wise, which seems forever off at this point. <br /><br />Anyway, the big news about this issue of Vampirella is our first story by a Selecciones Illustrada artist, "The Escape" by L.M. Roca. Roca won't last at Warren very long, only a few stories if I remember right, but his story is the first of the very fruitful arrangement between Warren and Josep Toutain that will bring Warren the best artists to ever appear in its pages. Its been a long wait through Warren's dark ages and recovery especially suffering through all those Tallarico/Fraccio stories, but we'll soon see a huge jump in the art quality as the Spanish artists arrive and eventually dominate the magazines.<br /><br />andy: The Wood material isn't old EC stuff; they wouldn't have held onto it unused for all this time (EC generally didn't do inventory stories) and his Warren stories often don't fit into the EC formula, with the massive amount of text or the very uniform page lengths (always exactly 8, 7 or 6 pages at EC!)<br /><br />Quiddityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13986124694445522253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-42966794502198579812020-03-16T17:13:29.227-07:002020-03-16T17:13:29.227-07:00Thanks, Andy! I love "The Fugitive" so I...Thanks, Andy! I love "The Fugitive" so I'm looking forward to Vampi bumping into a special guest monster every issue. I never thought of the idea that Wood's stories might be left over from EC. Is it possible that anything was left over? Wouldn't the obsessive fans have dug out the evidence by now?Jack Seabrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216640325305820140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-74439045947860886912020-03-16T13:02:20.747-07:002020-03-16T13:02:20.747-07:00"Coincidental" is a good description of ..."Coincidental" is a good description of Vampirella. Even if there will be some continuity, it is mostly like our heroine stumbles upon this or that monster. I think this is more difficult to like today than in 1971. For instance how many popular tv series worked after that pattern in the tradition of The Fugitive? Today this feels rather a rather bland and boring approach.<br /><br />The cover of Vampi 11 is in my top-twenty of the Warren covers.<br /><br />I love the Wood tales, but I always wondered if they really were done for Warren or old material from the EC days.andydeckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01312309519462680892noreply@blogger.com