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Friday, March 13, 2020
A Cacophonous Collection of Captivating Coolness Calculated to Corral Your Consciousness!
Groovy Age Splash Page of the Week
Groovy Age Spotlight On... Thirteen #13s for the Thirteenth!
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Decent Comics: "Promise for a Princess!" by Albano and DeZuniga and "A Time to Die" by Bates, Adams, and Wrightson
Howdy, Groove-ophiles! You'd have thought that when DC changed All-Star Western's moniker to Weird Western Tales with ish #12 (April 1972), that Jonah Hex, the mag's new star, would have been the cover feature. Well, t'weren't the way it was. El Diablo actually got the coveted cover spot (illoed by none other than Joe Kubert)...
...but Hex did lead off the mag with "Promise for a Princess" by co-creators John Albano and Tony DeZuniga. Hex's third outing shows the creators getting comfortable with who Jonah really was (a savage barbarian out of time--Ol' Groove thinks of Hex as a sort of Conan with guns). The tale is action packed, emotional (and admittedly a bit manipulative in that department), and beautifully illustrated. Check it out...
Speaking of beautifully illustrated, if you're still wondering why El Diablo got the cover on this ish, well, Ol' Groove can't tell you for certain--especially when you notice that his story is only four pages long. Perhaps editor Joe Orlando just had a beauty of a Kubert ED cover lyin' around? Or maybe four pages worth of the art combo of Neal Adams and Berni Wrightson illustrating a Cary Bates western automatically made it cover-worthy...
All Ol Groove can say for sure is that Weird Western Tales #12 was one fantastic comicbook!
...but Hex did lead off the mag with "Promise for a Princess" by co-creators John Albano and Tony DeZuniga. Hex's third outing shows the creators getting comfortable with who Jonah really was (a savage barbarian out of time--Ol' Groove thinks of Hex as a sort of Conan with guns). The tale is action packed, emotional (and admittedly a bit manipulative in that department), and beautifully illustrated. Check it out...
Speaking of beautifully illustrated, if you're still wondering why El Diablo got the cover on this ish, well, Ol' Groove can't tell you for certain--especially when you notice that his story is only four pages long. Perhaps editor Joe Orlando just had a beauty of a Kubert ED cover lyin' around? Or maybe four pages worth of the art combo of Neal Adams and Berni Wrightson illustrating a Cary Bates western automatically made it cover-worthy...
All Ol Groove can say for sure is that Weird Western Tales #12 was one fantastic comicbook!
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