Comments on: The Spirit #4 http://comicsworthreading.com/2010/08/17/the-spirit-4/ Independent Opinions on Comics of All Kinds Thu, 23 May 2013 00:29:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Barbara Blaisdell http://comicsworthreading.com/2010/08/17/the-spirit-4/comment-page-1/#comment-115958 Barbara Blaisdell Tue, 16 Nov 2010 04:13:49 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/?p=14325#comment-115958 My Dad, Philip ‘Tex’ Blaisdell, one of the great original dinosaurs of the cartoon world, worked with Will Eisner on The Spirit in the early days. As kids, my brother & I loved reading the old Spirit comics; still do. I’m wondering if any of the current printings include my Dad’s work, & how I’d be able to find that out….

-Barb

]]> By: Johanna http://comicsworthreading.com/2010/08/17/the-spirit-4/comment-page-1/#comment-113959 Johanna Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:52:19 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/?p=14325#comment-113959 Oh, yeah, Cooke’s Spirit was a great read. I’d forgotten about that, thanks for the reminder. So much of the appeal of the property depends on who’s doing it and whether they have the graphic skills necessary.

]]> By: Thad http://comicsworthreading.com/2010/08/17/the-spirit-4/comment-page-1/#comment-113958 Thad Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:24:10 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/?p=14325#comment-113958 I quite liked the Darwyn Cooke run, but yeah, everything after that has felt like a “Why bother?” affair. As you say, the Spirit is a cipher — Alan Moore commented, about the movie, that The Spirit was never about Denny Colt fighting crime from a graveyard, it was about panels on a page. Eisner was a genius at layouts — I remember thinking he would have approved of the Google logo Pac-Man game.

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