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I figured it was time to start reading The Warlord. At least for a little while until I hit up some holiday issues.
I re-read what I'd written about this series before getting back into them, and one amusing thing struck me. When I read #1, I decided I was going to get the reprint volume, rather than try to track down all 133 issues and 6 annuals.
Except then I did track them down, and that's what I'm going to read now.
It's just so good, y'know. While Travis Morgan looks a bit clunky up there on the cover (wait til we get to some of the later ones - Grell draws a sexy, sexy Warlord), the story just clips along, giving just the right amounts of exposition, mystery, drama, action, and magic. One thing I brought up in my earlier reads was the amount of creative control Mike Grell has over the page in this series. He handles everything except colouring, and the result is a comic that simply flows better than the vast majority. There's something of the feeling of the auteur in Grell's work, which perhaps also speaks to the editing talents of Joe Orlando. A good editor will know just how much rope, so to speak, to give an artist. Mr. Grell, it seems, is a brilliant climber.
More to follow.
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