Re: The Spirit teaser--It's not on its way, it's here.

On Apr 22, 1:10 pm, Will Dockery <will.dock...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Apr 21, 1:03 pm, ~consul wrote:
>
> > and thus Howson inscribed ...
> > > "Warchild" wrote...
>
> >> Nothing like a Spirit story.  Will Eisner produced a color comic. 
You
> > >> notice that the movie is no longer titled 'Will Eisner's The
Spirit' and
> > >> that the logo no longer is in the style of the classic logos.
>
> As I noted earlier, the ''classic'' Spirit logo is that there /was/ no
> regular ''logo''... it changed with every story, and was a part of the
> story/opening scene.
>
> > > Funny that. I always forget that the Spirit was originally in
colour. Until
> > > the recent DC Archives, most of the reprints I'd seen were in b&w -
same
> > > goes for most of Eisner's other works. I actually prefer the b&w
Spirit but
> > > I guess it's not what Eisner intended. Maybe Frank Miller was only
familiar
> > > with the Kitchen Sink and Warren series ?  (Ok, no excuse really)
>
> > In Colour? Really? Huh. I've always seen it in B/W. I just thought it
always was. I mean, I did recall seeing some colour versions, but I
thought they were reprints ore recoloured from the B/W.
>
> Well, the originals were a sort of /insert/ comic book type thing that
> Sunday newspapers carried, with the usual four color all comics used
> to use, most of the Warrens of the 1970s were b/w, then around 1984
> Kitchen Sink began a chronological reprint series using eye-poppingly
> lush color... the cut to b/w again since not many of us were buying
> it, apparently.
>
> The main thing that'll be the most difficult to deal with is the
> endless appearances and personalisty/dialect of Ebony, which is just
> downright racist by todays standards.
>
> Maybe Miller will have him running around shouting, "I'm the Goddam
> Ebony, mo-fo...''
>

Considering Miller has gone all conservative since 9/11, I'd say
there's more than even odds Ebony will not be P.C.

Tom