Showing posts with label Mort Drucker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mort Drucker. Show all posts

11.11.07

Mort Drucker - Our Army at War 4

- more of previous story.... In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved, and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.

8.11.07

Mort Drucker - Our Army at War 3

...moving right along... we have another DC War story - I don't know if this is another Kurtzman story swipe, but it does feel Kurtzmanish - Kurtzman-lite - again, a decent story IMO - y'know not the 'I laugh as the krauts break their fist on my solid jaw' or 'I'm so amazing as I fire a machine gun with one hand and throw a bayonet with the other' type of foolishness...  

7.11.07

Mort Drucker - Our Army at War 2

war stories... this story another Kurtzman EC Comics re-hash - I know the name this time- it's a story called 'Jeep', superbly illustrated by Jack Davis - good re-hash, though - It's a credit to Drucker's dynamic storytelling that such a potentially visually boring story featuring a tire isn't boring...
Book report stuff:
Shakespeare - Timon of Athens - This one starts off pretty good - the first two acts are quite good and witty but Shakespeare apperently didn't write all of this - it was a collaboration and so the second half loses steam and sort of peters out - so what are you gonna do, know what I mean?

6.11.07

Mort Drucker - Our Army at War 1

Here's another story - not a bad story - 
The story above is from DC Comics - it's a Harvey Kurtzman EC rip-off, story-wise -  which is good - they're very literate and humane, it's a good rip-off...