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volksjager (volksjager) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-10-31 09:27:00

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char: deadman/boston brand, char: phantom stranger, creator: kelley jones, creator: mike baron, publisher: dc comics, theme: halloween week, title: deadman

Happy Halloween ! See you in the pumpkin patch...
Halloween week.

You can't have Halloween week without some Kelly Jones art.

This was a really cool idea for a story. There is a being trapped in a place that has trapped travelers to the new world Romans, Vikings,St, Brenden,Spaniards ( no Chinese ,sorry 1421) and used them to try and enter our reality. Deadman and the Phantom Stranger try to put a stop to it.

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glprime
2009-10-31 02:32 pm UTC (link)

The one thing I like about superbeings like the Stranger? They seem to know every single other character in the DCU. It's not just his near-omniscience, he's really been around so much he knows who the right people are for each job. You see that sometimes with Supes and Bats, but the Stranger would even call on forgotten little guys to help out.

DC's got a wealth of cast-off C- through Z-listers, I wish they'd get more focus in compelling stories (though all these back-up series aren't a bad idea).

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	volksjager 2009-10-31 02:36 pm UTC (link)
	I myself am very please to see the return of the Back-up story feature in Comics. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jlroberson 2009-10-31 03:55 pm UTC (link)
	The Great Pumpkin is a false paternalistic idol designed to distract children, via greed, from their true savior, Jack Skellington. Repent, heretic! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	volksjager 2009-10-31 05:36 pm UTC (link)
	I call for Jihad !!! The Pumpkin wills it!!!! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jlroberson 2009-10-31 07:28 pm UTC (link)
	Pah. Your Pumpkin, who never shows up. A dog dresses as him in mockery, and not only is not struck down, is rewarded with a lucrative insurance career. Your Pumpkin is merely food for fruit flies. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	aaron_bourque 2009-10-31 07:15 pm UTC (link)
	Jack Skellington just dresses as the Great Pumpkin for Halloween. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	uadlika 2009-10-31 06:50 pm UTC (link)
	"One day a man shot me for no apparent reason." Were you in Reno at the time, by chance? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	volksjager 2009-10-31 10:28 pm UTC (link)
	Nope Oakland. (Reply to this) (Parent)

psychop_rex
2009-11-01 06:25 am UTC (link)

Kelley Jones does gorgeously horrific artwork, but I'm not sure I like the way he draws Deadman. I get that Deadman has gotten thinner and more skeletal-looking the longer he spends time as a ghost, but he looks really bizarre here - his ribs and backbone are sticking out in unnatural ways, and his collar, which is supposed to be broad and Dracula-like, is here about four inches wide and sticking straight up like a ruler, when it's included at all. Deadman looking creepy I have no problem with, but this version of Deadman is just frickin' WEIRD.

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	volksjager 2009-11-01 02:58 pm UTC (link)
	Yes, people tended to either love it or hate it :) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	psychop_rex 2009-11-01 08:30 pm UTC (link)
	I don't hate it, per se, I'm just weirded out by it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	volksjager 2009-11-01 11:25 pm UTC (link)
	I see :) (Reply to this) (Parent)