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Creativity starves insanity
Among the myriad of perfectly circular breasts, rippling biceps and ponderous gazes, there stood one comic. Defiant and distinctively seperated from the rest. No colours, nothing but a black, solemnly empty cover. There was only one left on the shelf.
There are a whole load of comics that still live in white bags waiting to be read before they get packed away in a cool, dry place. Among these are that of both of the current continuity Spider-Man comics, Amazing Spider-Man and Peter Parker: Spider-Man. A three year run of issues still have yet to be read.
The black hole on the shelves was issue thirty-six of Amazing Spider-Man.
Knowing that this was the issue that Spider-man came to terms with what had happened on September 11, the current continuity and storylines took a break. Of all the comics I have yet to read, I read this because it wouldn't break into a thread I might want to read the beginnings of during the summer break. Everytime I flick through a comic pencilled by John Romita Jr. it just seems as though he still wasn't finished with the art before they ran off and had the issue printed. The sketchy, raw feeling—something like a better styled Klaus Janson—didn't feel at all out of place in this issue. This could have easily been done without the words. In the end I learned that there is more to a penciller than drawing fine lines, they need to convey emotion.
Summer is here and with three years in comics to read, I'm hoping it won't pile up to a forth year in unreads.
Soon Van - Tuesday, 4 December 2001 - 10:15
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