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And now, for your pleasurable perusal, the final half-dozen covers of writer/artist WALTER SIMONSON's ORION series by DC COMICS. Walter had a long and very successful run on THOR over at MARVEL, so it was only fitting that, having worked on an 'old' god, he should have a go on a 'new' one, even though, this time around, it was for only 25 issues.
Anyway, there's no point padding out this preamble any further when these cataclysmic covers are crying out for your attention, so I'll shut up now and let you get on with enjoying them.
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UPDATE: I've just read the entire run over the last few nights and quite enjoyed them. I remembered the early ones, but not so many of the later issues and I wonder if that's because, having missed #14 for some reason, I perhaps bought the subsequent issues without reading them. As I recently acquired the missing ish, that was no longer a problem, so I started at the beginning (as you would) and worked my way through to the end. Issue #5 was a major disappointment, being mainly a wordless battle issue and, good as Simonson is, he's no JACK KIRBY when it comes to staging page-after-page of extended fight scenes in a clear, coherent, and effective manner. I had to look twice far too many times to work out exactly what was happening from panel to panel.
Another problem is that JOHN WORKMAN Jr.'s uniform, one-style-fits-all sound effects are quite intrusive, seemingly pasted at random over the artwork, rather than being sympathetic to the panel composition and complementing the action. Unfortunately, they look as if they're sitting above the art, rather than being part of it. A bit more variety in style and shape would've worked wonders.
All in all though, a good read. If there's a collected edition, it'd be worth adding to your bookshelf.
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