Okay. Time to blog this one.
I have to say that these magazines have tired me much more quickly than I thought they would. Though I'm still enjoying some of the features, there's a lot in this one, and admittedly the last one, that was just okay.
Perhaps this is why magazines are published on a monthly basis? So that there's a bit more distance between things, a palette cleanser.
(Just looked up palate and that last sentence was a completely unintentional pun!)
Back to Heavy Metal, next week? Or perhaps DW Weekly.
I don't want to suggest that the stories aren't well done. They are. But it really seems that the magazine is struggling to differentiate itself from Heavy Metal and the be Heavy Metal all at the same time. It's inevitable, as the artists who are represented in Epic Illustrated are likely discovering all of the European greats at the time, through Heavy Metal, like everyone else in North America. I'm curious to see what changes come over the magazine in the next few issues - many of the letters that are printed are offering suggestions on, or critiquing, the features, the style, of the magazine. I wonder how much the editors listen to their audience?
As always, it's great to see Rick Veitch's work anywhere. He's one of the few artists whose work I love that genuinely creeps me out. There is this unsettling visceral quality to his art that is both beautiful and discomforting. One of these days I'll (re)read his Can't Get No graphic novel and I'll still have no idea what to say about it. His Greyshirt miniseries, and the Tomorrow Stories stuff is some of the coolest looking comics I've ever seen. Today's "Shipmates" applies that viscerility to a spaceship, rusting and hanging in space.
Onward!
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