Tuesday, February 15, 2011

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Title: Superman and Wonder Woman (a tribute to Gene Colan)
Author: STEVE GERBER (screenplay), Gene Colan (drawings), among others
Editorial: PLANET
Pages:
464 PVP: 40 €

Today I recommend, directly and without further ado, the magnificent reading The Phantom Zone miniseries included in that thick book of tribute to Gene Colan has recently published Planet. Yes, I must warn you that the story in question takes up little more than a hundred pages, that the total four hundred and sixty book are many, and that the matter is priced accordingly. Episodes of Wonder Woman posed by three-quarters of the billet will have to look anywhere else opinion, personally I consider filler. And, even with the excuse of the common art of Gene Colan, we have included here two arcs of the early 1980's that resemble each other as an egg to a chestnut. The chestnut, I hope they have made clear, is what the Amazon princess.
Focusing on what matters, I regret to retrieve from oblivion made The Phantom Zone, it was not devoted the attention it deserves, for now, the front page. The miniseries set in an outdoor prison dimension Krypton by his father Superman, pushes the limits of the DC universe by adding exciting concepts, exploring assumptions and bringing unprecedented early realism to comics some cattle with ad aptations film, especially with the footage shot by Richard Donner. It's a delicious comic, epic and slow, well drawn and written by the best weighted never sufficiently Steve Gerber, who signed here one of those many gems that dot the literature. What can I say, feel great read arguments as exciting, fraught with believable characters, charming and intelligent dialogue concepts. What, in short, has been read to Gerber-who, unfortunately, but Fortunately, there is much to discover in our language. If above is interpreted visually by Colan, ecstasy is complete.
For reasons of cost savings, but above all, narrative consistency, one would have preferred to see this wonderful miniseries in a separate volume. Once this was to ask, I think the hypothetical little volume had been more round than being listed number 97 of DC Comics Presents, a sort of epilogue to The Phantom Zone also written by Gerber. I will not deny that the dressing I propose, drawn by Rick Veitch who do not feel anything right inks by Bob Smith, has a rather less than the miniseries, and I admit also that the narrative tone of both is heterogeneous, but no longer complementary. The sum helps to understand the intent of Gerber to give Superman a tragic dimension and explain the essence of heroism, that has nothing to do with flying or lifting cars to pulse.
Well, finally and perhaps, take this opportunity to remind the editors that their other contributions to the character, the fun mini-series and the binomial A. Bizarro Last Son of Earth, Last Stand on Krypton-two belonging to the Elseworlds- still out there in limbo pending the translation. Javier Fernández

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