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Comics Prose: Short Stories by Comic Writers
Comics writers have fertile imaginations and great story-telling skill. Here they step out from behind the artists to show off their prose writing abilities. Included in this volume are: "Louise," a tale from Max Allan Collins about his comic book detective, Ms. Tree, "Toto, I Have a Feeling We're Not in Kansas Anymore," a humorous science fiction tale about some odd mayhem taking place at an amusement park that hadn't been there the day before, "The Black '59," a rock'n'roll horror story about a guitar that holds the soul of a musician, a crime story by Kurt Busiek, "Life in Fur," which is about as sensitive, caring, and sweet as a werewolf story should be, and five more.
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180 pages, Paperback
First published June 23, 2004
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February 19, 2011
It's called Comics Prose because it's a book of short stories written by comics pros, get it?
Okay, pun time is over.
This is a fairly short collection, and although almost all the stories are written by men who have made their name writing some of the best super-hero comics of the past 30 years not all of the stories involve super-heroes. In fact, I think less than half of them do, including the one story written by a guy who does NOT write super-hero comics.
Kurt Busiek (of Astor City, The Avengers, and, well, everything) contributes a great story about the perils of answering personal ads; Mike Baron (of the classic Nexus) contributes a story about a Halloween rock concert gone horribly wrong; Bill Mumy (from Lost In Space and Babylon 5) and Peter David (The Hulk, Fallen Angel) also spin a classic rock and roll tale (and to tell you more would give too much away); Dennis O'Neil (classic Batman and Green Lantern/Green Arrow) pens a great mystery story with a twist.
Most of the collection is very good. Marv Wolfman's sci-fi tale falls a little short of the mark, and Steve Englehart's prose Coyote tale (one of his classic characters) isn't his best writing.
Okay, pun time is over.
This is a fairly short collection, and although almost all the stories are written by men who have made their name writing some of the best super-hero comics of the past 30 years not all of the stories involve super-heroes. In fact, I think less than half of them do, including the one story written by a guy who does NOT write super-hero comics.
Kurt Busiek (of Astor City, The Avengers, and, well, everything) contributes a great story about the perils of answering personal ads; Mike Baron (of the classic Nexus) contributes a story about a Halloween rock concert gone horribly wrong; Bill Mumy (from Lost In Space and Babylon 5) and Peter David (The Hulk, Fallen Angel) also spin a classic rock and roll tale (and to tell you more would give too much away); Dennis O'Neil (classic Batman and Green Lantern/Green Arrow) pens a great mystery story with a twist.
Most of the collection is very good. Marv Wolfman's sci-fi tale falls a little short of the mark, and Steve Englehart's prose Coyote tale (one of his classic characters) isn't his best writing.
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