![]() … they’re (almost all) just O’Henry twist stories and do not further the main storyline at all. Most of the issues have a backup story drawn by Steve Niles, who draws more like Will Eisner than Wally Wood, I guess? Or a mixture. I feel the need to know more, which is the best feeling with sci-fi. Even if I know that the story will come to, well, nothing (it stopped publication in the middle of a storyline if I remember correctly), I’m really drawn into the world here. Reading this edition now, I’m even more into it, for some reason. I read the series from Kitchen Sink back in the 80s, and I remember being quite enthused by it as a teenager. Instead of shiny, covered paper, we get matte paper that doesn’t hold ink or colour as well, which leads to… these unfortunate results. With the third issue, the quality of the paper stock takes a nose dive. While Schultz leans heavily on 50s comics for the aesthetic, he thoroughly modern in most other aspects. Like her face above there… There’s something… off? While Schultz’s artwork is something to behold, it does go slightly off the rails sometimes. There’s a progressive deepening of the milieu… or at least it feels that way: Schultz may just be dropping things in at random without a plan. It’s told as short stories (each issue is two or three of them), but in (almost) every story we learn something new about the world they’re in. It sounds like a cheesy concept, and I guess it is, but Schultz imbues the concept with more mystery and interest than there is, perhaps. It’s about a post-apocalyptic future where, somehow, dinosaurs have returned, which means that you can have entertaining actions scenes like the above: Who can object to a surprise WUNCH! from a … velociraptor or something? Schultz is, of course, really good at recreating the look and feel of EC comics (and in particular Wally Wood). I have no idea, but it certainly looks handsome here. This is… a more expensive edition? And the story was by no means complete when this was published (was it ever?), but I guess it’s still makes some financial sense to push this to newsstands? ![]() However, that was a complete story, and it was reprinted on newsprint, so it was a new, cheaper edition for a larger public. It’s not the first comic that had landed at Epic this way: ElfQuest was also reprinted and published for the newsstand market by Epic. This is a reprint of the Xenozoic Tales series published by Kitchen Sink.
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