Comments on: Strange Embrace Goes Back to Comics http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/04/29/strange-embrace-goes-back-to-comics/ Independent Opinions on Comics of All Kinds Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:59:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Richard Starkings http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/04/29/strange-embrace-goes-back-to-comics/comment-page-1/#comment-103516 Richard Starkings Fri, 01 May 2009 02:04:19 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/04/29/strange-embrace-goes-back-to-comics/#comment-103516 Johanna: All 8 issues made it into stores, and the hardcover collection has been on sale for some months now. David Hine, the writer/artist was hesitant at first about having his book coloured up, but was one over by Rob Steen's sensitive and muted palette. Steve: Thanks for buying the trade -- that sale rewards me as president of Active Images, the publisher of the original collection. Image is the publisher of the colour edition. I won't tell them if you don't. Rich! Johanna: All 8 issues made it into stores, and the hardcover collection has been on sale for some months now. David Hine, the writer/artist was hesitant at first about having his book coloured up, but was one over by Rob Steen’s sensitive and muted palette.

Steve: Thanks for buying the trade — that sale rewards me as president of Active Images, the publisher of the original collection. Image is the publisher of the colour edition. I won’t tell them if you don’t.

Rich!

]]> By: Johanna http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/04/29/strange-embrace-goes-back-to-comics/comment-page-1/#comment-63670 Johanna Tue, 01 May 2007 11:04:44 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/04/29/strange-embrace-goes-back-to-comics/#comment-63670 oooh, ick. Thanks very much for the description; I've been meaning to dive further into Graphic Novels, so I'll take a look there. oooh, ick. Thanks very much for the description; I’ve been meaning to dive further into Graphic Novels, so I’ll take a look there.

]]> By: Steve Flanagan http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/04/29/strange-embrace-goes-back-to-comics/comment-page-1/#comment-63477 Steve Flanagan Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:05:59 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/04/29/strange-embrace-goes-back-to-comics/#comment-63477 It has something of the macabre fascination of a Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine novel, albeit with a supernatural element too: the main characters are wicked and damaged and do terrible things to those around them, but the unravelling of their lives is quite compulsive. It's one to read only if you are in the mood for something nasty and disturbing. Paul Gravett gives it a double-page spread in his book <i>Graphic Novels</i>, and it struck me then that the art was highly appropriate, with its sharp, jagged outlines and stabs of black. I expect colour to blunt the edges. It has something of the macabre fascination of a Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine novel, albeit with a supernatural element too: the main characters are wicked and damaged and do terrible things to those around them, but the unravelling of their lives is quite compulsive. It’s one to read only if you are in the mood for something nasty and disturbing.

Paul Gravett gives it a double-page spread in his book Graphic Novels, and it struck me then that the art was highly appropriate, with its sharp, jagged outlines and stabs of black. I expect colour to blunt the edges.

]]> By: Johanna http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/04/29/strange-embrace-goes-back-to-comics/comment-page-1/#comment-63377 Johanna Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:42:44 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/04/29/strange-embrace-goes-back-to-comics/#comment-63377 Can you tell me more about why it appealed to you? I've only gotten a fuzzy impression of the book from the PR, so I'm curious. Can you tell me more about why it appealed to you? I’ve only gotten a fuzzy impression of the book from the PR, so I’m curious.

]]> By: Steve Flanagan http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/04/29/strange-embrace-goes-back-to-comics/comment-page-1/#comment-63247 Steve Flanagan Mon, 30 Apr 2007 06:12:11 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/04/29/strange-embrace-goes-back-to-comics/#comment-63247 When I heard this news, I ran out to get the black and white edition while it was still available. Perhaps not the type of additional sale the publishers had in mind. When I heard this news, I ran out to get the black and white edition while it was still available. Perhaps not the type of additional sale the publishers had in mind.

]]>