Richard Corben was--and remains--a great artist, but I've always had love-hate--or more accurately a love-disappointment--relationship with this story. The werewolf's rampage is highly atmospheric and a masterpiece of stylism. Then it abruptly ends. I think part of the problem is the background information about the circus is never represented pictorially, but then that ending is wholly random. It's not as if the other monsters have laid a trap for him or anything; they just happen to run into each other. And how come the werewolf doesn't know about their Halloween traditions? Have they been keeping him in the dark and not socializing with him 'cause he's a human most of the time? That's the real story: Racism! (Specie-ism?)
Corben always had a knack for drawing buxom ladies, maybe that is part of the reason his art is still so popular.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah I'm sue it is but he was also a pretty good artist too.
ReplyDeleteRichard Corben was--and remains--a great artist, but I've always had love-hate--or more accurately a love-disappointment--relationship with this story. The werewolf's rampage is highly atmospheric and a masterpiece of stylism. Then it abruptly ends. I think part of the problem is the background information about the circus is never represented pictorially, but then that ending is wholly random. It's not as if the other monsters have laid a trap for him or anything; they just happen to run into each other. And how come the werewolf doesn't know about their Halloween traditions? Have they been keeping him in the dark and not socializing with him 'cause he's a human most of the time? That's the real story: Racism! (Specie-ism?)
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