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The Black Forest
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by Todd Livingston, Robert Tinnell, and Neil Vokes
Sales Rank: 151523
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List Price: $9.95
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 104 pages
Published by: Image Comics April 28, 2004
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1582403503
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1582403502
Book Dimensions:
10 x 6.8 x 0.3 inches
Weighs: 9.6 ounces
From Publishers Weekly
A mixture of familiar genres, literary characters and story lines, this cinematic comedy adventure comic has a dash of horror. It borrows heavily from the Indiana Jones series while integrating literary elements of Frankenstein and the legend of Nosferatu. Jack Shannon, a brash young American WWI pilot, volunteers to find a castle in the legendary German Black Forest, where the Kaiser is housing his latest war weapon: an army of resurrected Frankenstein soldiers who have the ability to regenerate themselves. Gathering a predictably colorful band of misfits to solve the mystery, Shannon is soon taking on an indestructible army of resurrected corpses, accompanied by a French spy disguised as a seductive gypsy woman, and effete occultist Archibald Caldwell. Formulaic and predictable, this work relies on age-old dialogue, banter and plots. However, its optimistic humor and rousing action sequences could make it suitable for teenage audiences. Vokes's art maintains a casual sketchy style; the loose drawings are free and fluid. Alas, the watercolored grays and blacks often look muddy on the page.
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Comic Book Marketplace, August 2004
"Admission to this monster rally is essential for cmics and horror fans alike."
Reader Reviews
Long-time horror lovers will appreciate the old-style, light-hearted classic monster fest by Livingston, Tinnell and Vokes. The stylish black and white artwork is reminiscent of Harvey Kurtzman's comical figures combined with a dash of Gene Colon's fluid and dynamic panels. This is another edition that cries out for a magazine-sized format. If I were to list any quibbles, it would be with the length: the work needs just a few more pages, especially the monster battle royale toward the end between the Frankenstein monster, the werewolves, and the vampire Graf Orlock. The story takes place in 1916, during the Great War, and the German army, through an especially evil scientist, is trying to find a way to revive dead soldiers (yes, zombies!) to fight another day. Holed up in the Black Forest, in Graf Orlock's castle no less, whom they have imprisoned in his own dungeon, the especially evil mad scientist feverishly toils away using Dr. Frankenstein's crib notes of life and death for his experiments; and yes, the monster, too, to supply a steady stream of cadavers. Enter our valiant, but foolhardy American hero, Jack (not sure why every valiant but foolhardy American hero is always named Jack, or a monosyllabic name), and Archibald Caldwell, magician and occultist, who, like real-life magician Jasper Maskelyne during World War Two, uses his special skills to assist British Intelligence in the war effort. Along the way, there are Alan Moorish-like bits that enrich the story, including Caldwell's ability to regurgitate lock picks that he has swallowed, a skill that Houdini was purported to have used, and Caldwell's dead wife is pickled upright under glass, in a panel very similar to the scene in the film The Black Cat, where Vitas Werdegast's wife is preserved by his arch nemesis, Hjalmar Poelzig, the evil cult leader. Boy, these evil guys do get around. The adventure is written in a pulp-style, and is fast and furious. I highly recommend it to those classic monster and zombie loving horror-heads among us.
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