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When Alan Moore was developing his America's Best Comics, he and Rick Veitch created Greyshirt, an analogue of Will Einser's The Spirit. This collection is written by Veitch alone and focuses on the origins of Greyshirt (with art by Veitch) and other assorted stories (illustrated by different artists). There is some of the interesting experimentation that Eisner showed in The Spirit and that Moore and Veitch carried on in their stories (e.g., the page that walks us down a staircase panel by pane...
Veitch had co-created the titular character with Alan Moore, and this series gives Veitch a chance to really flesh Greyshirt out on his own, and he's exceptionally good at it. The main story over the six chapters is the origin story of our hero rolling into the present, with flashbacks and tying the supporting cast that turned up in the Tomorrow Stories features to the longer history of Greyshirt. In between these are Tomorrow-Stories-esque tales that follow the view of Greyshirt as being in the...
it is the 80s and criminals are looking to the past for inspirational-theme, thus, gangsters are reborn. corruption fear and greed run the streets of indigo city when one gangster finds reason to join the other side: science heroes. now, acting as a vigilante approved by the city mayor, the protagonist is doing all they can to undo the lifestyle that is favored and idolized, but his best friend is in the way...that concept alone made this a good read. what made it great was the delivery. i loved...
Stylish, cool, Greyshirt was an excellent part of America's Best. this story is a perfect example
Excelente tomo de punta a punta avanzando en el tiempo haciendo gala de las infinitas posibilidades de mezclar dibujo y narración, una pequeña mini joya casi desapercibida.
Uneven and slightly surreal attempt at a character that is a clone/homage/ rip-off/take your pick of Will Eisner's Spirit.Like the hero's design, it's a very cool, pulp influenced look, and there are some decent stories, but it all gives you the impression of somebody trying too hard to be clever and ends up feeling a bit unsatisfying.
3.5 really
Rick Veitch continues the homage to Eisner's Spirit which he co-created with Alan Moore, keeping the same sense of formal playfulness and willingness to experiment. But he also takes the opportunity of a larger canvas than the Tomorrow Stories anthology afforded to gradually tie all the strands together, building an origin story for the masked vigilante and his neo-noir hometown of Indigo City which come together in a present day payoff. It wouldn't be right to call it a solo outing, mind - Veit...
Some very funny items, some very serious. It goes to both extremes
Really clever stuff, really well done. Can be read in small installments, but it definitely builds up to a larger story.
I was a little hesitant going into this volume, having just finished all of Alan Moore's Tomorrow Stories, in which Greyshirt makes his debut. The entire approach to Greyshirt was to present him as an unassailable, distant figure, whose presence is more felt than seen. The Greyshirt stories in that book were some of my favorites, as well, with Rick Veitch utilizing a lot of very unique, creative narrative techniques to set those stories apart from typical hardboiled comics fare.So, the idea of t...
