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So I was reading Marshall Law the other month, the first six issues about the Public Spirit, and it was awful. Really, really poor, with none of the irreverent power I remembered from when I was a teenager. The storyline barely made sense and the art was equally muddy and indecipherable. It was a complete waste of time, upsettingly bad, and I would have thrown it out there and then.
If it hadn't been, in #5, for Danny's budgie. That issue's an exploration of the villain's childhood, as pedestrian and offensive as the rest with motivations from a daytime soap opera. His budgie appears only as comic relief, a counterpoint, but what a budgie. The little green fella fair shines off the page, done in that lovely O'Neill flat-but-detailed style. He reminded me of my own green bird at home, and for those couple of panels I almost forgave Marshall Law.
A silly thread, and another sign of how far the Comics Forum has fallen and possibly of a forthcoming apocalypse? Hey, it's almost Christmas. Come on. Let's name the best-drawn animals in comics, and if there can be pictures all the better. |
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