WWW: Ripping Off King Arthur #232 -- A Suicide in Destiny City (Part Sixteen)

Sun Mar 8 16:58:19 PDT 2015

On Sunday, March 8, 2015 at 6:14:43 PM UTC-4, Scott Eiler wrote:
> 
> This whole sequence has kind of a Watchmen or Dark Knight Returns feel 
> to it.  (This comes to my mind now because I'm plotting Powernaut 1985.)
> 

It definitely does remind me of 80s-type "revisionist" superheroes, but I think it works a lot better than many examples of that. (Including--potential heresy alert!--The Golden LNH-Men, which I felt was kinda underwhelming.) I think that's because it's not aiming for "realism" but for this surreal feeling which reminds me a lot of Bronze Age comics. A lot of Arthur's work reminds me of Steve Gerber--that kind of heightened alienation and weirdness.

Also, the coloring fits the mood really well.

Adrian (Do we have more prose or webcomics at this group right now? Hmm)