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It's an interesting idea. Take FF #1 and Annual #3 and have a whole bunch of contemporary artists redraw these two classic tales in one issue. Some pages are drawn by one artist, some by two, and others three, though both stories retain Stan Lee's original scripting. One cover is a homage to the 1961 ish, the other (variant) cover is a tribute to the '65 Annual and uses the original lettering. To be honest, I think I'd have preferred to see Jack Kirby's original pages given the modern colouring on display here, but I think they're nice little collectors' items and I'm glad to have them. Contents are the same in both comics, only the covers differ.
Anyway, thought you Crivvies might like to see this modern take on these '60s classics, so enjoy!
That's a great cover it's both modern but harks back to those classic 60s covers at the same time. Sadly, I doubt that many new readers are interested in the original Kirby classic issues. The art and story telling are far removed from what is presented to today's readers as entertainment.
ReplyDeleteYeah, today's comics are all talking heads and 'pin-ups', McS. They're paced to make sense when they're all collected in the one edition, but that hardly makes for exciting and entertaining monthly mags - with a few exceptions of course.
ReplyDeleteI first read the wedding of Reed & Sue in the FF Pocket Book #1 in 1980 and I'm still wondering why Dr. Doom is reading the back page of the newspaper - I suppose he'd already moved on to the sports pages by the time we joined him.
ReplyDeleteOr maybe the front page carries the headline and there are more details on the back page, CJ. I've still got that FF Pocket Book from 1980 - the original one I bought at the time.
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