The Compleat Moonshadow
by John Marc DeMatteis, Kent Williams, George Pratt, Kevin Nowlan, Gaspar Saladino
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Author: Gaspar Saladino, George Pratt, John Marc DeMatteis, Kent Williams, Kevin NowlanIllustrator: Jon J Muth
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1998-02-01
ISBN: 1563893436
Number of pages: 464
Publisher: DC Comics
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Book Review: Muth's best
Summary: 5 Stars
The first thing is Muth's delicate, expressive watercolors. Even if you look at nothing else, this is a wonderful, sustained effort in visual story-telling. It tracks Moonshadow, the hero, from before his birth into his old age and death. The style perfectly captures sensuality, fear, and the sense of the bizarre.
The second is the story. It's baffling, by design, a product of hippie culture and the whims of whimsical and omnipotent beings. That really captures a lot of a kid's experience - with all-powerful adults acting in incomprehnsible ways. It has more, though: coming of age, destroying any romance there might be around war, and loving (and being loved by) people who aren't very lovable.
This book is thin, but includes over 400 pages of generally good color printing. The original 1980s comics are all here. So, unfortunately, is a 1997 accretion. It's a newer addition to the Moonshadow canon, also, illustrated by Muth. This add-on relies more on text than on illustration, and is painted in a rougher and more garish style. After the nuance and control of the original story, it's a let-down.
Anyone who like comic art should check into this. Anyone who likes good storytelling, where will is pitted against a universe with a sick sense of humor, should like it too. It's a true classic.
//wiredweird
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