CBR First Wave

Pulp fiction's greatest heroes united!

Don't miss out my previous pulp heroes-related reviews!

Will Eisner's THE SPIRIT
Darwyn Cooke's The Spirit: Book One - Will Eisner's The Spirit (2005-2009)
The Rocketeer: Jetpack Treasury Edition / THE ROCKETEER: The Complete Adventure

The Rocketeer (1991 movie) / The Rocketeer: Movie Adaptation / The Rocketeer: 3-D Comic
Rocketeer Adventures - Volume Two
Cargo of Doom - Hollywood Horror
The Rocketeer (NES)
Ghost and The Shadow

#RIP Darwyn Cooke

I just learned one of my favorite comic book artists just died...

RIP Darwyn Cooke.

This year is starting to sound really bad. Not only did we lose David Bowie and Prince already this year, but now Darwyn Cooke passed away from cancer at only 53....

He did a ton of fantastic work I particularly love such as the fantastic DC: The New Frontier and the modern DC Comics The Spirit series which I adored. 

He will be missed.

I'm still shocked, he was so young...

I didn't knew what to do, to celebrate this artist, so I'm just using this post as an excuse to post some of his best works.

If you didn't know the guy, take this occasion to check some of his work, his artwork is really well worth a look!

ComicPageOfTheWeekend: Frank Miller's The Spirit

You might now I'm a huge The Spirit fan. But let me tell you, Frank Miller's a pretty bad fit for the character. The Spirit's supposed to be a fun, pulp, old school quirky hero. Not a buff, tough, gritty noir vigilante.

Why did they let him direct the film? Oh, right. That was right off the success of Sin City. I have no idea if Miller or the producers were the ones asking for more of that. And The Spirit license was easy to snatch at that time... but it still doesn't make sense to me to this day.

And let's not pretend Miller's familiar with the character. The only actual thing he did related to the character was providing the below pinup cover art poster for his own film adaptation. Which is immediately just another Sin City pinup poster art. Sure, it looks nice and all, but it absolutely doesn't screem "Will Eisner" to me, personally...

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Will Eisner's The Spirit © Frank Miller

CBR:Quickies Will Eisner's The Spirit (2005-2009)

How about some Action/Mystery/Adventure, with a bit of Humor while we're at it?!

Following my review of the classic Will Eisner's The Spirit, here's the Darwyn Cooke's The Spirit successful modern revival!

Don't miss out my previous pulp heroes-related reviews!

Will Eisner's THE SPIRIT
Darwyn Cooke's The Spirit: Book One
The Rocketeer: Jetpack Treasury Edition / THE ROCKETEER: The Complete Adventure

The Rocketeer (1991 movie) / The Rocketeer: Movie Adaptation / The Rocketeer: 3-D Comic
Rocketeer Adventures - Volume Two
Cargo of Doom - Hollywood Horror

ComicPageOfTheWeekend: Ride 'im, Plastic Man!

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Police Comics #28 © Jack Cole

ComicPageOfTheWeekend: Look out Plastic Man! - Quiet, Spirit!

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Police Comics #21 © Jack Cole

ComicPageOfTheWeekend: Plastic Man meets The Spirit

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Police Comics #27 © Jack Cole

CBR Will Eisner's THE SPIRIT

 

It's time for some classic Action/Mystery/Adventure... Humor as well!

Revisit one of the most original and all-time classic iconic characters of all comic books!

Don't miss out my previous pulp heroes-related reviews!

Darwyn Cooke's The Spirit: Book One
The Rocketeer: Jetpack Treasury Edition / The Rocketeer: The Complete Adventure

The Rocketeer (1991 movie) / The Rocketeer: Movie Adaptation / The Rocketeer: 3-D Comic
Rocketeer Adventures / Volume Two
Cargo of Doom / Hollywood Horror

CBR The Spirit

 

Time to go back to a genre of fiction I love, pulp!

Back in the late 2000s, DC let Darwyn Cooke attempt a revival of Will Eisner's classic hero The Spirit.
The whole project sounded to good to go through, and even though Cooke left the book early on, the series manage to go through over 30 issues, a little mini-series crossover event and about 20 more issues of a second series.
(until it got canceled, thanks one again to DC's New 52... -sigh-)

Anyway, let's go back to the beginning and have a look how it all started!
This book has it all, Action, Mystery, Adventure! And as such sports this awesome little stamp on the cover (presented on the right here) .

#AwesomeCosplay Pics of the day: Zatanna & The Spirit

Simply what the title says, Zatanna & The Spirit!

Awesome! :D