Re: The Spirit

Posted by pijon on 2009/1/19 3:10:57

Ugh... reading what everybody's saying... it appears my worst fears have been confirmed. Initially, I was quite pissed that this release didn't come to my podunk little town but I'm sure I would have been totally outraged if I'd gone the extra mile to see it. The minute I saw the trailers, it was evident Miller was gonna piss all over this which is a shame because I actually like Miller's comics and thought Sin City was a good movie... but a former friend of the late Mr. Eisner or not, it's pretty evident he wasn't right for the job. I see a lot of folks posting never read Eisner's Spirit; I would strongly urge that you do! In Eisner's Spirit, story and character are extremely important to the work and the graphic narrative is no less compelling. I understand comics have come a very long way since the 40's and honestly pretty much every reworking of those old characters has been an improvement however I just read the first DC collection of Darwyn Cooke's new Spirit stories and while they weren't at all bad, they still pale in comparison to Eisner's original work. In fact many of the best moments in those books were the parts directly derived from Eisner. In many ways, Eisner wrote the book on graphic narrative through comics and was light years ahead of his peers at that time. I could go on for volumes about his brilliance as a cartoonist but rather than boring you all to death, I'll just close by saying forget the movie, read Eisner's comics!!