Title

Warrior #3 (L)

Type

Fan letter

Description

Fan letter written to Warrior #3.

Transcribed text:

Dear Dez,

As someone who has followed your exploits through Fantasy Advertiser, House of Hammer, Starburst and Marvel and who missed meeting you in October 1979 at the New York Marvel offices by one week and a fellow Yorkshireman to boot, how can I refuse writing you a letter of comment?

Warrior 1 cover was nicely drawn, but hardly representative of the content, more a "grabber" I'd say, to get the casual reader.

Marvelman provided a very literate introduction to an old character. By firmly planting him in Earth-D (sorry) in the 1980s, by creating an adult relationship and a little pertinence in the opening story, what could have developed as "high camp" avoided the pitfall magnificently.

Steve Parkhouse's "Spiral Path" was what I would call a pot-boiler. With the forthcoming Conan film, I think this will be presented as a cover feature very soon.

How does one describe John Bolton's artwork? The improvement between "Father Shandor" and "Prester John" shows that John has learned a lot about the adult black and white comics medium. As for the story, the use of medieval imagery and medieval thought (based on precedence rather than rationality) worked very well. The characterisation of Ganelon was very subtle.

"Father Shandor" was readable without being worthy of continuance. To tell the truth Soloman Kane is a better example of this type of strip, simply because it takes place outside the mythical Transylvania and involves people who do other things than merely fight demons.

"V for Vendetta" was a mixture of "1984" and "Judge Dredd". The theatrical imagery and puritan cum Guy Fawkes led me to believe this an England where fiction is banned, and theatres have been closed. Let me change my opening sentence, "Fahrenheit 451" seems to be another source of inspiration, so does the Shadow. I'd better stop, the strip promised a great deal.

Axel Pressbutton has always struck me as macabre, unless the tone of the strip is changed to a more subtle approach, I'm afraid you're going to get "hammered".

Warrior might just succeed where Near Myths failed. It's just that little bit nearer to the 2000AD market.

Southgate, London N14

Language

English

Place

Southgate, London N14, England

-0.118563

51.636127

Publisher

Quality Communications