Darwyn Cooke - Will Eisner's The Spirit - Volume 1 & 2
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Description
Clever die-cut dust jacket (protected with a mylar cover) allows the beautifully painted cover to show through the letters. Book two is still sealed.
This collection completes Cooke’s too-brief run on the slightly modernized revival of Will Eisner’s classic crimefighter comic. All Cooke’s efforts display his breezy storytelling and dynamically economical art, but the last he did, a retelling of a tale in which the Spirit is reunited with his childhood sweetheart, Sand Saref, epitomizes Cooke’s remarkable accomplishment of honoring Eisner’s singular talent while displaying his equal giftedness. A handful of stories by other leading writers and artists fill out the book; while they are creditable, they drive home by contrast the fact that Cooke was perhaps the only contemporary creator capable of replicating Eisner’s distinctive seriocomic tone.