Waaaaayyyyy back in the early days of this project, I had the wacky notion that I would read my collection in alphabetical order. I stuck with that for a surprisingly long time, until, I think, Alpha Flight bogged me down enough that I started jumping around. Here is what I had to say about the AD&D comic back then, as well as some reproductions of the old advertisement comics from the 80s.
The reason for my having the series make a comeback is that this week's theme is fantastic and important female creators from mainstream comics. Long seen as a boys' club, there is a really fantastic tradition of lady creators in the mainstream, though they rarely attain the heights that some of the rock star male creators do. I'll just say that this is not because the men are better, and leave it at that for now.
Jan Duursema is today and tomorrow's focus. Her work on AD&D is virtually flawless. She translates the chaotic and strange environment of the Forgotten Realms to the page in a way both believable and fantastic. Much of DnD is played, of course, in the head, and even when one uses miniatures, they're static. Comics, though a static medium, conveys a good deal of motion, and I think it's that that I appreciate about these comics most - they convey a breath of life to things very often only seen by the mind's eye. Ms. Duursema does this, and more.
"Curse and double curse me not to have forseen this!!"
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