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scans_dailyTitle: Chip #1 (of 2) (Antarctic Press, 2010, 19 pages)
Creator: Richard Moore (story and art)
Availability: On shelves now!
While I generally enjoy Richard Moore's work, I've been approaching his recent offerings from Antarctic Press with some degree of caution. Boneyard and Far West are loads of genre-tweaking fun, but I've been less than impressed with The Pound and Fire and Brimstone, where the T&A went from being part of the humor (or just nice scenery) to being intrusive. So I was more than a little curious to see how his attempt at an all-ages story would turn out.
Chip is young gargoyle who lives on a farm in upstate New York, along with a lot of damaged gargoyles who have little hope of ever being sold and put to their proper use: perched menacingly atop some important building. Chip knows, of course, that he's in the wrong place. He's not damaged, and he's perfectly capable of being a fearsome sentinel of the night!
All eight ounces of him.
But he is working under something of a handicap -- it's hard to be fearsome sentinel of anything when your sidekicks are an overly-affectionate barn cat and a sarcastic fairy.
And so off to the haunted house they go!
The publisher has also provided a preview.
I think this turned out really well, all in all. I'm not a fan of the huge heads that Moore's been putting on his characters lately, but his expressions are still spot on, and the haunted farmhouse is actually really spooky. So I'll pick up the next issue.
Suggested tags: creator: richard moore, title: chip
Creator: Richard Moore (story and art)
Availability: On shelves now!
While I generally enjoy Richard Moore's work, I've been approaching his recent offerings from Antarctic Press with some degree of caution. Boneyard and Far West are loads of genre-tweaking fun, but I've been less than impressed with The Pound and Fire and Brimstone, where the T&A went from being part of the humor (or just nice scenery) to being intrusive. So I was more than a little curious to see how his attempt at an all-ages story would turn out.
Chip is young gargoyle who lives on a farm in upstate New York, along with a lot of damaged gargoyles who have little hope of ever being sold and put to their proper use: perched menacingly atop some important building. Chip knows, of course, that he's in the wrong place. He's not damaged, and he's perfectly capable of being a fearsome sentinel of the night!
All eight ounces of him.
But he is working under something of a handicap -- it's hard to be fearsome sentinel of anything when your sidekicks are an overly-affectionate barn cat and a sarcastic fairy.
And so off to the haunted house they go!
The publisher has also provided a preview.
I think this turned out really well, all in all. I'm not a fan of the huge heads that Moore's been putting on his characters lately, but his expressions are still spot on, and the haunted farmhouse is actually really spooky. So I'll pick up the next issue.
Suggested tags: creator: richard moore, title: chip
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Date: 2010-06-10 06:08 am (UTC)