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Thursday, 28 April 2011
Space Clusters.
A nice big treat for you all, today. You remember when DC first started putting out graphic novels? there was that really cool one, Star Raiders, by Elliot S. Maggin and Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez, that was the bollocks. And there was Jack Kirby's Hunger Dogs. Ah, happy days, indeed. And, well, among the other graphic novels they released, which were, as I recall, largely more miss than hit, there was this little beauty, that completely passed me by, at the time, and which I only saw for the first time this very morning when I skanked it off Crosseyed Cyclops. It's by Arthur Byron Cover and Grantbridge Street favourite, Alex Nino, and it's called Space Clusters. Have fun.
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It's quite a step up in your level of commitment to the cause when you scan a squarebound comic, because it will in all likelihood bugger up your original. So bravo that man.
Thinking back, I've got more of these lurking in my attic that I initialy thought. Got HUNGER DOGS, METALZOIC and one by Fleming and Giffen, an adaptation of a Robert Bloch horror novella. Can't remember its name.
that'd be Hell On Earth. I didn't read it when it came out, but a long time later. Metalzoic was the first comic/graphic novel I ever got signed by the creators. they were all ok for the time, but they weren't really what I was looking for in comics, back then. Star Raiders was more my thing.
I read HUNGER DOGS quite a while after reading DC's baxter reprints of NEW GODS. By then, I'd heard years of people complaining about it. So when I picked it up cheap off a German Ebayer who had no idea what it was worth at the time, I was amazed at what a great piece of SF it was, and what a great ending for the saga it was. And it was prescient - if NEW GODS was the greatest comic book metaphor for the Cold War, Kirby predicted the end of the soviet era with surprising accuracy by a few years.
Space Clusters... That brings back memories. A decidedly keen graphic novel.
Reminds me of the Delaney novel illustrated by Chaykin. The name escapes me.
Speaking of Chaykin, I found the Epic edition of The Stars My Destination that Chaykin illustrate. Fun, fun, fun until Daddy takes the T-Bird away.
Have this - the story itself, while interesting, is just so-so, but the art more than makes up for it. So many of these pages are just breathtakingly gorgeous. Nino is truly a master.
By the way, Nathaniel, that Delany/Chaykin book is called Empire. Both that and the Preiss/Chaykin adaptation of The Stars My Destination are very high on my want-list - but it's hard to come across reasonably priced copies.
Empire. That's it. Thanks.
I stumbled on a copy of The Stars My Destination for, I think, just the cover price. I was kind of floored.
Man, need to look for Empire as well.
Empire! that's a great book, I'd completely forgotten about it. I've definately still got my old copy of it, I'll have to dig it out. haven't read Stars My Destination in yarons - not the graphic novel, anyway, the book tends to get a quick read at least every year or so, fucking love that book.
While Empire is good, to me the best Chaykin art was in the graphic novel he did with Michael Moorcock, which I think Heavy Metal put out.
Swords of Heaven, Flowers of Hell. yep, terrific book.
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