TOMORROW: More Jack Cole!
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I can still hear you saying
You would never break the pact
FANTASTIC STORY AND ART...........NOBODY CAN TOUCH COLE. NOBODY!!! REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO THE REST OF THE WEEK!!
Jack Cole + Web of Evil, a terrific combination. Standard tale turned into an event -- that splash, those nasty little demons, that RAIN... just great.
That splash page was so awesome that I saved it as my desktop picture.
I don't know about how bad things were for this dude; he ended up jumping off the bridge anyway, but at least he got ten years of money and debauchery first. Yeah, he is now going to hell, but don't Christians say that suicide makes you go to hell anyway? So why not get tens years of party time first?
I think he wasn't going to jump initially, so he got 10 years of party+eternal damnation instead of being heartbroken for a couple of weeks.
Liked the artwork too, but the story was weak IMO - no twists, overlong opening, and no likable protagonist.
Yeah, the story was weak (or "standard," as blackwalnut put it) but it's the telling here that I think has us all so excited. I know I've never seen any other creator in any medium use a simple signature to haunt a protagonist (or in this case, anti-hero) in so effective a way. I really loved that. It's the inventiveness of Cole that makes so many of us admire him and just about everything he does.
The other thing is how much info he could get into a panel. Very few other artists in comics could do it. Few even tried. That one panel where we first see Masters has four layers of focus. Masters and the phone pole, then the churchgoers, then the house, then the bridge, and it's all very clear -- and all in a smaller than average sized panel. Amazing.
I worship Jack Cole. His horror is superb and his pin-up stuff is sexy. The guy could do no wrong.
Cole has a touch of Ghastly Graham Ingels in him.
You ever get the feeling that Satan isn't really a nice fella?
Love the art, and even though the story WAS a bit standard; Cole saves it through little touches like the signature remaining even after the paper is burned. Badass.
OMG, I NEED Lily Munster's wolf shawl!!
Birthday's coming up...
>OMG, I NEED Lily Munster's wolf shawl!!
I thought you'd like that...
thanx again for the p-p-p-plug, Kars!
Is it just my depraved brain, or did this whole story read like one of those manic, over-the-top Jack Chick religious cartoon tracts?
...Anyone?
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