tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post7860216044784403049..comments2024-03-27T11:04:31.390-04:00Comments on From the Sorcerer's Skull: Wednesday Comics: DC, April 1981 (wk 2 pt 2)Treyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647628467658839351noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-91092958877031050272022-01-30T06:54:20.191-05:002022-01-30T06:54:20.191-05:00Mr. Colletta's inks on Mike Grell still piss m...Mr. Colletta's inks on Mike Grell still piss me off to this day, 40 some years later. I understand he was fast and could make not-ready-for-Prime-Time pencillers look pretty good. But he just flattened everything out.Dale Houstonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07499145456396606662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-15821738465416337192022-01-26T16:11:17.352-05:002022-01-26T16:11:17.352-05:00That Detective Comics cover is really attention ge...That Detective Comics cover is really attention getting, and the story sounds pretty good. Hopefully they won't mess it up in part 2.<br /><br />I think the over-complexity you mention in the story where a Superboy from one universe trains a Clark Kent from a different universe comes from the editors deciding to really commit to the ideas of continuity and systemization. The problem is, once you start doing that, it leads to more complexity, not less. The original Crisis on Infinite Earths was successful by many metrics, but I don't think we can honestly say that the DC universe became significantly less complex afterward.<br /><br />You mentioned the Holocaust mini-comic making you uncomfortable, and I have to say that I have that reaction to a number of their "historical" stories, whether in the war comics, Westerns, or whatever. The conquistador story from Unexpected sounds pretty terrible too.Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15493700749333105771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-80709459376465968522022-01-26T08:05:14.082-05:002022-01-26T08:05:14.082-05:00Heh. The comments on the old Warlord issue mentio...Heh. The comments on the old Warlord issue mentioning how much Grell hated Vince Colletta's inking of his work gave me a good grin. Jack Kirby eventually got fed up with Colletta's work as well, and these days the Kirby fandom excoriates him for ruing a lot of Jack's work by removing details and characters to save time. Jack wasn't mena enough to chop one of his hands off by proxy, though. Dick McGeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14521293874696659063noreply@blogger.com