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Boyan.P
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Croatia
2773 Posts
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 Posted - 15/07/2006 : 00:38:43
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jeli ko citao ovaj strip?
Moonshadow
Story by J M DeMatteis
Art by Jon J Muth
Published by Vertigo
Before Gaiman there was DeMatteis. Before Ross there was Muth. And before Watchmen there was Moonshadow. It is amazing how we can forget these things.
Moonshadow came out before both Watchmen and Dark Knight Returns, and this book is outstandingly overlooked in the canon of Comic Book Literature. In his afterword for the Wolverine trade paperback Frank Miller lists Moonshadow as one of the adult/mature comics that was changing the landscape of comics alongside Watchmen. These days, while people hail Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns left, right and center, Moonshadow is forgotten; not because it is inferior, but (most likely) because it is completely different from the other two works.
The series begins with the story of how Moonshadow's mother came to be kidnapped from Earth by a member of a erratic and incomprehensible race of happy-faces called the G'l-Doses, and how Moonshadow was born of the coupling of "Sunflower" and her kidnapper. From there, the story sprawls through Moonshadow's life, growing ever more wonderful and strange... and heartbreaking.
Moonshadow is a character who is easy to identify with, as the variety of his experiences allow almost anyone at one point or another to stop and say "yeah, I know how that feels." Moonshadow plumbs the depths of human experience, from the joy of falling in love, to suicidal depression, to feeling like an outsider, to the wonder of life itself. These things, along with death, sex, drugs, sex, spirituality, insanity, sex, war, the nature of the universe, and sex, comprise the themes of the series.
Along with a cast of something that can feel like hundreds, Moonshadow is a prototype of what would come afterwards in the industry with works like Sandman and Preacher. The writing of DeMatteis in Moonshadow is twice as poetic as that of Gaiman's in Sandman, and although it has a lighter overall theme there are darker subtexts as Moonshadow deals with what goes on during his two year journey of self-discovery. And to add to the splendor of DeMatteis' words is the water color paintings of Jon J Muth.
The paintings of Muth in Moonshadow range from highly realistic, to cartoonish depending on the characters and the situation. The art denotes a certain maturity, even with the cartoonish aspects, the closer you get to the end the more realistic the paintings are. Muth's art is an attention grabber, easily flipping from soft quiet moments to violent revelation to desolate hash wastelands of War. Moonshadow shows Muth's work at his absolute best, as his ability to bring life to the characters, be it outlandish aliens or pensive humans in a realistic style is virtually unparalleled. His interpretations of the characters suit them perfectly, and the moments he captures them in show them in all their glory.
In comics today most writers drive for a hard scathing edginess, something that cuts to the bone hard and furious, slashing away until it gets to the guts of the issues. If you only read because of the hard edge, Moonshadow may not be a first pick for you on the surface, but in fact the knife that Moonshadow wields is sharper and can cut deeper than you realize. The only difference is that you don't notice it at first, the knife is sharper and less painful, the poetry of the words and paintings distract you from the fact that the ideas that are dealt with in Moonshadow are a edgy as any other work out there now.
Strip je zakon
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sigismundus
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Slovenia
1043 Posts
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Posted - 15/07/2006 : 05:14:04
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strip je izvrstan. debela je to knjižurina, a Muthov crtež je zakon. Mislim, da je bilo 12 samostalnih sveski, tako da je trade zbilja debeo. onako uzgred, kad smo vec kod Mutha, preporucio bi i kolaboraciju sa Kentom Williamsom, po mome jednom najboljih americkih ilustratora, u produkciji 4 svešCice sa Havokom i Wolverinom. Bio i trade, ako se ne varam.
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mcn
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Croatia
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Boyan.P
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Croatia
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Mr. Bushido
stripovi.com suradnik
Croatia
12974 Posts
Member since 23/09/2005 |
Posted - 15/07/2006 : 16:16:24
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Meni je od DeMatteisa najbolji njegov rad sa Keithom Giffenom na JLI i JLE, kao i mini serijalima Formerly Known as the Justice League i Defenders.
A od njegovih samostalnih radova mi je definitvno najbolji Kraven's Last Hunt i run na Spider-Manu koji se bavio smrcu Harryja Osborna, drugog Green Goblina.
Moonshadow nisam citao, ali sam cuo dobre stvari o njemu.
"Oh, Alex. You made a LOT of mistakes. You underestimated Superman. Superboy. Me. But the biggest one? You didn't let the Joker play." |
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