tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5862722106761723755.post2442150178294742088..comments2023-11-13T13:46:13.960-06:00Comments on DC Bloodlines: Review: Stalker #1Diabolu Frankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04685199809207954223noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5862722106761723755.post-23673418745935534682011-06-02T02:29:53.353-05:002011-06-02T02:29:53.353-05:00I couldn't remember where I'd read about B...I couldn't remember where I'd read about Beowulf's insanity, and now I know Luke was to blame!Diabolu Frankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04685199809207954223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5862722106761723755.post-79361315431064733182011-06-01T06:36:51.004-05:002011-06-01T06:36:51.004-05:00Thanks for the comments! This was a lot of fun for...Thanks for the comments! This was a lot of fun for me to write. And there is more to come!Anjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10023193805914075078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5862722106761723755.post-89039486007624968382011-05-31T21:24:11.444-05:002011-05-31T21:24:11.444-05:00Stalker is a fantastic little title. Thing really...<b>Stalker</b> is a fantastic little title. Thing really get bizarre in the last issue as Stalker goes after Dgrth including a battle in the underworld. Definitely a title I want to pick up at some point.<br /><br />Regarding <b>Beowulf, Dragon Slayer</b>. I LOVE THIS COMIC. <a href="http://ljaconesbunker.blogspot.com/2008/07/discount-bin-finds-beowulf-dragon.html" rel="nofollow">Like seriously</a>. I mean, like <a href="http://ljaconesbunker.blogspot.com/2009/08/two-panels-two-questions-beowulf-dragon.html" rel="nofollow">SERIOUSLY</a>. This is the single most insane sword and sorcery comic I have ever read, and I have read a few of them in my years. I wish that both of these titles had caught on along with <b>Warlord</b>, because the awesomeness they would have achieved fills me with all sorts of zany ideas.<br /><br />Nice review Anj!Lukehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352646370918575626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5862722106761723755.post-51532582550816299392011-05-31T11:46:11.038-05:002011-05-31T11:46:11.038-05:00Once again Anj, you totally "get" the bl...Once again Anj, you totally "get" the blog by digging into the obscurities at the fringes of the DC Universe. Plus, I love it when you go to places I've never really been myself, like these fantasy titles.<br /><br />Okay, so Conan came out at Marvel in late 1970, and at least part of its success was the dynamic new art of Barry Smith. Two years in, the more veteran John Buscema took over, but his passion for the project was evident in its superior quality, and sales rose further. I mention this because DC seemed to be trying to jump on Marvel's bandwagon, but their route was kind of screwy.<br /><br />The only one of these books I had as a kid was <i>Stalker</i>, but I'll save my nostalgia for your second review. What strikes me about the book is how much closer the characters' designs and settings are to <i>Prince Valiant</i> over Conan, plus the day-glo costumes that seemed to interpret Foster by way of Kirby. Wood over Ditko is one of the most bizarre combinations of talent in memory, with something like fifty years of combined experience by 1975. <br /><br />Looking from the outside, <i>Tor</i> seemed to only have savagery and loinclothes in common with Conan. With Joe Kubert's career going back to the Golden Age and his prior work on the somewhat more similar Tarzan, there wasn't much sense of freshness there.<br /><br />I don't think I've even touched an issue of <i>Beowulf</i>, but from descriptions it sounds like the Atlas/Seaboard book that got away (and lasted six issues instead of two!)<br /><br />I don't ever recall reading a single <i>Claw the Unconquered</i>, but the talent and style of that book seems to have come the closest to the Conan standard. I guess it was killed by the DC Implosion, but it would have been interesting to see where it would have gone otherwise, especially since Giffen was very reminiscent of Smith, and Ernie Chan drew his weight in <i>Savage Sword</i>.<br /><br />While this was an oddball lot, I'm glad DC stuck with fantasy long enough for <i>The Warlord</i> to hit it big. That book was a forgotten titan, DC bestselling title at one point, and another book I have fond childhood memories of.<br /><br />Anyway, I regret rambling on with this ancillary stuff, because I enjoyed your review a lot, and want to talk about that, too. Next time for sure...Diabolu Frankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04685199809207954223noreply@blogger.com