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Tor #2
Tor, Vol. 2
The second edition of the story of Tor, the noble yet uncompromising primitive man attempting to survive alone in a savage world of dinosaurs, disasters, and devious men.
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144 pages, Hardcover
First published October 1, 2002
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Joe Kubert
715 books57 followersJoe Kubert was a Jewish-American comic book artist who went on to found the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art. He is best known for his work on the DC Comics characters Sgt. Rock and Hawkman. His sons, Andy Kubert and Adam Kubert, have themselves become successful comic-book artists.
Kubert's other creations include the comic books Tor, Son of Sinbad, and Viking Prince, and, with writer Robin Moore, the comic strip Tales of the Green Beret.
Kubert was inducted into the Harvey Awards' Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1997, and Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1998.
Kubert's other creations include the comic books Tor, Son of Sinbad, and Viking Prince, and, with writer Robin Moore, the comic strip Tales of the Green Beret.
Kubert was inducted into the Harvey Awards' Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1997, and Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1998.
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October 17, 2012
The second volume of Joe Kubert's Tor is fascinating as Kubert's trademark style evolves as the pages turn. Where the style was crude in the first volume, here the technique is evolving into the art style that would grace hundreds of comic book pages in series like Enemy Ace, Sgt. Rock, and Hawkman.
The stories are overwrought and overdramatic as was the fashion at the time, but with Tor, you also see the beginnings of the humanist philosophy that creeps into Kubert's later work.
Make no mistake, Tor is a bad ass. He is clean shaven and carries a stone axe which had to make his morning ritual complicated. Tor is also the Jack Bauer of his age. In one scene he kills a raging tribesman and as his allies prepare to leave, Tor picks up the corpse and throws it at them.
The back of the book has drawings and sketches of the character which showed Kubert's affection for Tor, long after the contents of this volume were all but forgotten.
The stories are overwrought and overdramatic as was the fashion at the time, but with Tor, you also see the beginnings of the humanist philosophy that creeps into Kubert's later work.
Make no mistake, Tor is a bad ass. He is clean shaven and carries a stone axe which had to make his morning ritual complicated. Tor is also the Jack Bauer of his age. In one scene he kills a raging tribesman and as his allies prepare to leave, Tor picks up the corpse and throws it at them.
The back of the book has drawings and sketches of the character which showed Kubert's affection for Tor, long after the contents of this volume were all but forgotten.
February 20, 2017
This volume delivers the paleo-fantasy goods: cavemen, beast-men, lizard-men, dinosaurs, and sabre-tooth tigers all blended up with Kubert's great art. It is a real shame that he never got a Tor comic series running with DC or Marvel.
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