Dave Sim

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Title: Crossing Over
Series: Spawn #10
Author: Todd McFarlane
Rating: 4 of 5 Stars
Genre: Comic
Pages: 25
Words: 1K

Synopsis:

From Imagecomics.fandom.com

When Spawn tries to examine Angela's abandoned lance, it transports him into a realm beyond his wildest imaginings. While in this strange world, Spawn encounters imprisoned heroes, faces a mockery of Blind Justice in the form of the Violator, and glimpses a dreamlike scenario of happiness for him, Wanda and Cyan.

He witness captured heroes who plead to take their power. They reach out from a prison with men tied and bound with rope and burlap sacks covering their faces. Cerebus explains these are comic creators who have sold the rights to their creations and they are now held powerless.

My Thoughts:

Wow, this was as subtle as a concrete baseball bat made of dynamite smacking you upside the head. This must have been done during the Death and Return of Superman because Supes plays a big part in talking on behalf of the trapped heroes.

While on one level it felt like a real waste of an issue, at the same time it was pretty much the only way McFarlane could tell the world how he felt about the corporate policies of both DC and Marvel and why he had rejected them. Authors gave up control of their creations to the Company and got money in return but at the cost of their hearts and souls. McFarlane makes it clear he can do whatever he wants with Spawn because Spawn is HIS and nobody else's. As much as I tend to despise McFarlane, I do applaud his stance on this issue and am glad he apparently made it work.

So the four stars is more for the Moxie attitude than for any actual content, because there wasn't any :-/

IMAGINE A CAN OF MOXIE HERE SINCE LT WON'T ALLOW PIX.… (mehr)

Un’edizione davvero imponente per il primo volume di Chiesa e Stato, l’opera magistrale di Sim. Che sia un lavoro complesso e sicuramente ambizioso si capisce subito, è immediata la percezione della volontà di fare un’opera summa, a fumetti, si, ma una sintesi analitica di un rapporto complesso come quello tra Chiesa e Stato, insomma, non si pettinano le bambole, direbbe qualcuno. Il protagonista è Cerebus, uno strano animaletto che vive nelle contraddizioni tra sete di potere e paure il dissidio nel sistema di governo delle principali istituzioni umane, la Chiesa e lo Stato. Le premesse sono clamorose, come il titolo e, perché no, le dimensioni del volume. Il risultato, invece, estremamente più modesto. Infatti, ne esce un lavoro pesante, inutilmente ripetitivo, le trovate lasciano il passo alla noia, la sintesi è una chimera, la lettura diventa ostica, le pagine mattoni. Eppure la complessità dell’argomento non richiedeva per forza un lavoro pesante, gli spunti per rendere più fruibile il lavoro l’autore canadese ce li aveva. Ma si è perso alla ricerca del libro perfetto, con un risultato, a mio avviso, discutibile.… (mehr)