Your comment about the formalism on some page made me want to tell you to check out "El último Recreo" by Carlos Trillo and Horacio Altuna. Twelve 8-pages stories make the whole thing. I Have the Astiberri (spain) edition. It's Awesome and is really curious what Altuna does with the page and word balloons layouts.
Love what Jose did here and wish he would be hired to handle all older reprints. As for where these issues line up in regard to Alan Moore's run, this volume only covers to issue 13 out of 24 total issues of Swamp Thing Vol 1. Swamp Thing Vol 2 started over some years later with a new #1 in 1982 and was written for 19 issues by Martin Pasko (with a couple of issues written by Dan Mishkin) before Big Al took over on #20. Bissette & Totleben actually started their tenure on issue 16, so they had a few issues already under their belt before Swamp Thing got utterly reimagined and perfected by the bearded magus and friends, IMHO.
Which ones? I think it is pretty obvious the colorists knew how the colors were going to change in print, which Jose speaks about at length in his From A Colorist's Perspective posts. They had guides of what each color would look like printed and so on.
Your comment about the formalism on some page made me want to tell you to check out "El último Recreo" by Carlos Trillo and Horacio Altuna. Twelve 8-pages stories make the whole thing. I Have the Astiberri (spain) edition. It's Awesome and is really curious what Altuna does with the page and word balloons layouts.
That is a strange and intriguing duo of artists, thanks for pointing it out, sounds awesome!
Love what Jose did here and wish he would be hired to handle all older reprints. As for where these issues line up in regard to Alan Moore's run, this volume only covers to issue 13 out of 24 total issues of Swamp Thing Vol 1. Swamp Thing Vol 2 started over some years later with a new #1 in 1982 and was written for 19 issues by Martin Pasko (with a couple of issues written by Dan Mishkin) before Big Al took over on #20. Bissette & Totleben actually started their tenure on issue 16, so they had a few issues already under their belt before Swamp Thing got utterly reimagined and perfected by the bearded magus and friends, IMHO.
I really wish they had used Jose for the Absolute Editions of Moore's run.
Thanks for clearing that up. I am obviously a shit comics historian.
I'm just Alan Moore's pool boy!
You were right. Nailed it. Definitely buying this! Thanks again. Ray
My pleasure!
great review thanks
Thanks for watching! -Carson
A bit sad that colouring is an afterthought for most publishers when they reprint the old stuff
Everything seems to be an after thought with a lot of these projects, sadly.
Do you think the artists didn't consider what the effects of the material printing process was?
Which ones? I think it is pretty obvious the colorists knew how the colors were going to change in print, which Jose speaks about at length in his From A Colorist's Perspective posts. They had guides of what each color would look like printed and so on.
id love to see you review mike ploog's werewof by night
That's be a fun one. I will keep an eye out for a copy. -Carson