>Jonny Double--is that a new comic or are you talking
about the old Dick
>Giordano series that had an issue or two on its own,
but ran mostly in
>the back pages of one of the Batman comics, I think
Detective, maybe
>Brave & Bold. He used to "become" people who had
been threatened,
>trying to draw out the killer.
No, that's the Human Target. Jonny Double was created back in
the sixties
by Len (Swamp Thing) Wein in DC Showcase, as a sort of
counter-culture P.I.
He's back in a DC/Vertigo series where he's grown older, and
a lot more
cynical, and gets involved with a runaway girl and her punk
friends' plot
to rob a forgotten bank account of Al Capone's. I've only
read one issue so
far, but it seems pretty good, and the artwork reminds me a
lot of the
Alack Sinner series, and other European BDs.
And I hate to poop on anyone's parade, Mark, but am I the
only one who
thinks Miller's Sin City is over-rated? Overdrawn,
over-worked images
interrupted occasionally by a double page spread of black ink
is not art,
or even particularly good story-telling; it's overkill,
bordering on
pretension. And I guess I resent the fact they're marketed as
something
more important than they are, and priced as such. I far
prefer the clean,
direct story-telling of something like Stray Bullets.
Oh, and as for the latest troll bait on the list, let's all
ignore the
white bastard, tell him what the topic on this list is, or
send him over to
DorothyL.
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