tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post3958049386778202742..comments2024-03-27T05:54:38.797-07:00Comments on <i>bare</i>•bones e-zine: The Warren Report Issue 37: August-September 1972John Scolerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14082147756474762000noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-14632076380630353442020-07-08T07:22:46.966-07:002020-07-08T07:22:46.966-07:00The girl in "The Beginning" has a real D...The girl in "The Beginning" has a real Dolly Parton look, at least as far as the hair.Granthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09603892208775996594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-12586864053693603362020-07-06T17:36:49.573-07:002020-07-06T17:36:49.573-07:00I actually really love "The Land of Bone"...I actually really love "The Land of Bone" because it brings a clever twist on the old chestnut "The main character was dead the entire time." The thing is, it's not the ring that brought Costan back to life, it's the sorcerer himself who's a descendant of Costan's brother. The ring was what was keeping Costan's beloved in an eternal slumber until he came to take the ring off her finger. Yet I digress, what makes it clever is that everybody in the story except for Costan is alive, it's just that we're looking through the long dead eyes of Costan who sees everyone as living skeletons because that's what he actually is.Glowwormhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01621527075382017998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-68979280746351446792020-07-06T13:27:27.650-07:002020-07-06T13:27:27.650-07:00Vampirella 18 is an unreadable mess. You know some...Vampirella 18 is an unreadable mess. You know something is wrong if a Glut story becomes well told and straightforward. (Not that the conclusion makes sense, but still). TCB doesn't write dialogue, everybody only does speeches. The characters are all mentally imbalanced, every second page they do a 180 change. I love him, I hate him, I despair, no, I love him. A seemingly endless tale starring a deus ex machina. But the artwork is gorgeous.<br /><br />Still it reads like a thriller compared to the really endless pretentious nonsense McGregor delivers. How a writer can sink a story like that if he has such nuanced artwork to work with is beyond me. What masterworks could have the Spanish artists have delivered if they had competent material to illustrate?<br /><br />I thought the Moench tale also crap which didn't made any sense until I saw your scan. The folks at Dynamite managed to omit the page where the guys hacks Cates into pieces in their expensive reprint. Well done! Still it is a murder-plot which makes Coyote Ralph seem like a master strategist.<br /><br />Love the Enrich cover though. It was used in Europe as a promo piece back then. It captures a potential of Vampirella only few stories could deliver.<br /><br />The same could be said of the Sanjulian cover. It's breathtaking. Compared to the garbage on contemporary commercial covers this is a work of Art. I envy the guy who has the original on his wall.andydeckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01312309519462680892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-10823116267442533692020-07-06T10:29:17.819-07:002020-07-06T10:29:17.819-07:00Quiddity-
Yep, we'll do "double duty"...Quiddity-<br />Yep, we'll do "double duty" or "time and a half." Typing out all those title names and "Reprinted from..." is a whole lot of work but someone's got to do it. Peter Enfantinohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04317575598411394944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-59089701120056708382020-07-06T09:42:18.261-07:002020-07-06T09:42:18.261-07:00I wouldn't be too worried about being in for a...I wouldn't be too worried about being in for a long haul with Brennan as the Vampirella writer; I think he only does 2 more stories before they find a replacement? "Kali" was at least a littler better than "Horus", but the Tomb of the Gods series continues to be a total mess story-wise. "Song of a Sad Eyed Sorceress" is for all intents and purposes McGregor (and Garcia) revisiting the story "Welcome to the Witches Coven" from a mere 3 issues ago. Both have this really odd take from McGregor where he takes feminism/male-female relations, goes to extremes by having a man killed, and then punishes the woman and has her killed or her body stolen. Absolutely awesome, spectacular art by Garcia here, but McGregor's driving me even more crazy here since he is now repeating the same general plot. "Won't Get Fooled Again", with its various twists and turns makes me think much of the type of stories that Bruce Jones will write (and Auraleon will draw many of) during the Louise Jones era in the late 70s. <br /><br />I was a bit higher than you on "West Coast Turnaround" with its hilarious ending. "The Caterpillars" is essentially a redo of the story "Spiders Are Revolting" from an earlier issue of Eerie, which also had pretty good art by Tom Sutton, although hard to outdo the greatness of Luis Garcia whose art alone makes this story worth it. "Derelict" is just a so-so story but is notable for being Paul Neary's debut; he will do a ton of work for Warren including the well known "Hunter" series and is primarily used for sci-fi stories. I wonder why "The Safest Way" is even included in a Warren magazine as it has no horror element associated with it. "Chess" is one of the more well known Dax stories, and if I remember correctly is the one that gets the color treatment when most of the series is later reprinted in Eerie. Like you I'm quite happy that Dax sticks to character and doesn't do well at the game.<br /><br />I agree that "The Land of Bone" comes off like a Dax story, but I really enjoyed it and found it quite a bit superior to the type of story we'll get from that series. "Mark of the Phoenix" reminds me of one of my favorite EC stories, "The Automaton" where a man repeatedly kills himself to escape an oppressive government only for the government to revive him time and time again, so he jumps into a vat of molted metal (only to get revived yet again, this time as a robot!). Unfortunately by this time Reed Crandall's art quality has deteriorated tremendously, if I remember correctly due to drinking problems. He'll do another half a dozen or so stories for Warren over the next year or two but none will have the quality we used to be able to expect from him. "The Law and Disorder" featuring campus rioting seems rather fitting considering the times we are in, but agreed, horrible story, and largely repeating themes we just saw in "The Safest Way". A real treat to have 3 stories drawn by Luis Garcia this time though. "This Burden This Responsibility" was a total mess storywise that I couldn't make sense of at all. I agree that it comes off as very much Philip K. Dick inspired. I think the intention for the last page was for them to paste in an Uncle Creepy image but they somehow forgot to do it before the issue went to the printers. "The Beginning" has always remained with me as a very memorable story, its hard to get out of my head the continuous flashbacks to our protagonist as a little kid wanting a spoon and that amazing final panel by Sutton.<br /><br />The next issues are all reprints with the exception of a brief new Vampi story, as I read ahead, safe to assume you'll be covering the following issues as well next time?Quiddityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13986124694445522253noreply@blogger.com