Title: THE SPECTRUM IRA Author: MICHAEL FLEISHER (screenplay) and Jim Aparo (drawing)
Publisher: Planeta de Agostini
Pages: 208
RRP: € 13.95
How do I explain? The year was 1974, Wild Dogs, Peckinpah's film was already a classic, and the Dirty Harry saga had two titles to his credit, the last of 1973. The Summer of Love was over and America was preparing for a long and violent fall of imminent surrender of war, energy crisis, social political disappointment and anger. So it is not difficult to understand that popular culture is filled Avengers suddenly of bloody and reactionary, bordering on madness and painfully emerged from the cracks of that rosy image of calm and order of the previous decades. Punisher is the son of that time, was created precisely in 1974, also Wolverine, although wild attributes defining the latter would eventually come a little later. And, of course, in 1974 came the Ghost of Orlando, Fleisher and Aparo.
will see that I have placed the name of the editor Joe Orlando next to the writer and artist of those angry ten episodes of supernatural superhero turned-executioner who were born in Adventure Comics, most notably in the numbers from 431 to 440-three
scripts are left in the drawer when the show was canceled abruptly, Aparo drew them to the end of the next decade, and these are also included in the volume published by Metro a few years ago. It happens that, in the words of Orlando, the inspiration for relentless tone of the series, the zombie vigilante ruthlessness, came from a traumatic personal experience: "I lived on the West Side and my wife was eight months pregnant. We were docked in broad daylight. We pushed against the wall of a church, and they were just kids around 14 years. My wife began to mourn and quiver and opened her purse and I I gave all the money in his pocket. Then they went walking slowly so arrogant and inflamed the fury I can not do anything about it. I went in search of a policeman and suddenly I was struck by the loneliness of the victim. All that anger went outside and fit the needs of Fleisher, so we created some pretty cool horror stories. " It is recalled that Orlando had grown as an artist on the legendary EC and its working with Fleisher recalls, at times, that of Gaines and Feldstein, the editor creates the premise and the writer's narrative unfolds. Russell Carey, a friend of Fleisher, also contributed their ideas and helped develop the series visually. Murderers who have just turned into broken glass and are then mercilessly metamorphosed into cactus or die, or melt like wax, or cut in two by giant scissors, or transformed from wood and later severed with a chainsaw ... The wrath of Spectrum is a collection of one thousand and one ways to wipe out the evildoers, the "lumpen rats" as they are known in the textit that opens each episode of this unique compilation. Quite a relief that Harlan Ellison did Fleisher devoted to the adjectives as a lunatic, insane, crazy and deranged. And no matter how innocent these cartoons may seem to modern tastes, well read is a real bomb.
Javier Fernández
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