Colan Rides Again

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Four scans from Captain America #601, Gene Colan's one-issue return to drawing (so, another candidate for "the last full comic illustrated by Gene Colan").

This was written about three years ago, I believe; I recall hearing some mention of it around then, though as an annual.  The framing device is set circa Civil War #3-4, as Bucky (in his post-Winter Soldier, pre-Cap garb) talks with Nick Fury about one of their past adventures in a little town in Belgium, following Patton's raising the siege of Bastogne.  Brubaker said he consulted with Colan as to what he was interested in drawing, and ended up with a mix of his Cap stuff and Tomb of Dracula.  A vampire's on the loose, killin' folks, and Steve and Bucky are on the case.  When the Wehrmacht originally rolled on through, one of the officers was a vampire, but he was long gone, leaving only his legacy behind.  It seems they've uncovered the person behind it, one of the famous ladies participating in a USO show, but Cap is suspicious (since it's not clear how the departed vampire-Nazi could have been involved, and it seems unlikely they'd be unrelated).




Colan's one of the greats, but this reveal image lost a lot of its impact for me because I was focussed pretty much entirely on trying to figure out the perspective on that huge hand.

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Gene Colan? Doing horror? With his pencils showing their beauty? AND gloriously tonal colours? This is on the MUST BUY NOW list.

Seriously, the man is now 82 and has only just given up taking commissions. A genuine legend and an object lesson to every person with a pen out there who calls themselves a professional artist.