Title

Warrior #18 (B)

Type

Fan letter

Description

Fan letter written to Warrior #18.

Transcribed text:

Dear Dez and friends,
I don't know if I approve of the new logo, and I know I don't approve of the cover painting on Warrior 13. Oh well.

The new format is not to my liking. When I first saw issue thirteen I was convinced that it was an inch smaller around the edge and at last ten pages thinner. It took a direct comparison and page count to convince me otherwise. The old cover format was much more substantial than this one; Warrior looks cheaper now. Still, I won't try to second-guess you on sales and logistics; you'll know best what to do with Warrior. If it helps sales (I've heard that beautifully rendered covers sell badly), go ahead. Whatever works. The contents are as good as ever, so I'll keep buying.

A year or so ago I saw a copy of Warrior 2 at a speciality shop. There was a recognizable version of Marvelman and the word "Kimota" in a flash of light, so I figured I knew all I needed to know. "They're reviving a '50s takeoff of Captain Marvel because he was a native product. It'll be a childish nostalgia trip of no interest whatever."

A few months ago I more or less by accident bought a copy of Warrior 11. I read the Marvelman story therein first, cold to the series or to Warrior. Wow, I was impressed. I went in expecting "Holy Moley, wot?" and instead I got "... Dr Emil Gargunza." Interesting how effectively horror can be evoked by a silly little mad scientist. I'm not sorry that I ignored Warrior for so long (especially since I've been able to get a complete set since then), since that allowed me to be thrust headlong into that strange, awful episode. My feelings then were much like those I felt when I read the interlude in issue four.

By the way, I want to congratulate Alan Moore for his strict and rational chronology in the Marvelman series. This is what 'Marvel Time' was supposed to be, rather than just an excuse for not allowing characters to age. Marvel's become caught in a 'deficit spending' trap: the writers borrowed time by having given stories separated by months in real time be 'a few days' or 'yesterdays' apart. By now they've fallen so far behind that I wouldn't be surprised if they introduced their version of Earth-II (which was DC's explanation and which also established a promise to continuity which was never kept).

Corvallis, Oregon, USA

Language

English

Place

Corvallis, Oregon, USA

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44.571651

Publisher

Quality Communications