tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post7959612887730967527..comments2024-03-27T05:54:38.797-07:00Comments on <i>bare</i>•bones e-zine: The Warren Report Issue 14: September/ October 1967John Scolerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14082147756474762000noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-32864584796896790242019-08-18T09:54:26.292-07:002019-08-18T09:54:26.292-07:00Quid- As far as the blog goes during the "Dar...Quid- As far as the blog goes during the "Dark Ages," we'll just double (and sometimes triple) up on our coverage since each issue will have no more than four new stories. I've already read most of them and about 90% is swill (no spoilers there for those of us who've read this stuff before). If I wasn't the completist, I'd talk Jack into skipping the whole era altogether. <br /><br />Quid & BT- I cannot stress enough just what a pleasure it is to gaze upon the work of Tom Sutton. His material is virtually the only thing worth reading during that long stretch of garbage Warren published from 1968-1970. Sutton starts off a little weak (and much of that has to do with the material) but, by 71 or 72, he's going to be the best artist in the bullpen. Since we're covering so many of the issues in each post, the "Dark Age" will be over before we know it.Peter Enfantinohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04317575598411394944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-72510445242756425082019-08-18T09:47:04.684-07:002019-08-18T09:47:04.684-07:00Which is more than you can say about the war comic...Which is more than you can say about the war comics you rave about! (smiley face emoji inserted here)Peter Enfantinohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04317575598411394944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-79182829465078345802019-08-17T17:02:54.909-07:002019-08-17T17:02:54.909-07:00Thanks to both of you for taking the time to comme...Thanks to both of you for taking the time to comment! I always read them and pay close attention.Jack Seabrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216640325305820140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-44252361103012372302019-08-13T22:31:51.670-07:002019-08-13T22:31:51.670-07:00I sometimes think of Tom Sutton as a “One Man EC B...I sometimes think of Tom Sutton as a “One Man EC Band” — besides Ghastly Ingels, I see flashes of Jack Davis, Wally Wood and even Bernie Kriegstein in his stuff. <br /><br />In any case — I adore him. HUGE fan.<br /><br />-b.t.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-82038758752188061282019-08-12T17:37:13.952-07:002019-08-12T17:37:13.952-07:00And so the Archie Goodwin era comes to an end. Thi...And so the Archie Goodwin era comes to an end. This era of Warren garners almost universal praise, but you two were a lot more down on it than what I'm used to seeing. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. The stories had gotten repetitive quite a while ago and your coverage of it has evidenced that. Goodwin writing somewhere around 90% of the stories himself shows just how overworked he was, and thankfully Warren for the rest of its run spreads its stories across a wider number of writers. <br /><br />The bigger blow is the mass departure of the nearly all of Warren's artists; we will see Warren work its way through some inventory stories over the next few issues, but aside from those, Angelo Torres, Steve Ditko, Eugene Colan, Johnny Craig and Joe Orlando are all gone for good while John Severin, Alex Toth, Grey Morrow, Reed Crandall, Wally Wood, Jerry Grandenetti and others will be absent for quite a while. Not to mention those Frank Frazetta covers! Bye to those for a while as well. I'm interested in seeing how you guys are going to start handling things when we soon get into issues that are at least half reprints.<br /><br />The emergence of Tom Sutton is quite a boon for Warren though, his style is quite a bit different than much of what Warren has featured to this point, but it suits horror and sci-fi extremely well. By my count he is the most prolific American born artist for Warren, doing approximately 60 stories (in fact he's the only American born artist in their top 10 most prolific artists, which just goes to show how much the Spanish and Filipino artists dominate later on). Speaking of Ghastly Graham Ingels he does a tribute story for him eventually, although that is a super far way off (one of his last stories in fact).<br /><br />As for these issues themselves, the Eerie one is pretty decent, as your ratings would indicate, also I believe the first Warren issue to have 8 stories, something that is quite the rarity. Tom Sutton's debut, Eugene Colan's finale, a strong Poe adaption drawn by Grandenetti (whom you seem to be coming more and more on my side on...), good stuff from Jones and Craig as well. I don't even mind the cover that much. <br /><br />Creepy on the other hand is fairly mediocre, "A Night's Lodging" in particular is quite pathetic being nothing more than a redrawn version of "The Invitation" as you mentioned. Tom Sutton's story aside not much I liked here. One last Frazetta cover. Roger Brand doesn't do much for Warren, but we will see his wife work for them quite a number of years down the line. Quiddity99https://www.blogger.com/profile/17809157926893454731noreply@blogger.com