Len Wein (1948–2017)
Forfatter af Before Watchmen: Ozymandias/Crimson Corsair
Om forfatteren
Leonard Norman Wein was born in New York on June 12, 1948. He received an art degree from Farmingdale State College. He would become a prolific comic book writer. He and Marv Wolfman sold their first work to DC Comics in 1968. Wein wrote for Batman, the Flash, Superman, the Justice League of vis mere America, and numerous other comics series. He and Bernie Wrightson created Swamp Thing, who first appeared in 1971. In 1975, Wein and David Cockrum created new characters for the relaunch of Marvel Comics' X-Men including Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus, and Wolverine, who first appeared in an Incredible Hulk story Wein wrote. Wein was an editor for Marvel, DC and Disney Comics. In 1986, he was editor on the Watchmen series by Alan Moore. He had writing credits on numerous television shows, many of them based on characters he had helped create. He died on September 10, 2017 at the age of 69. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
Image credit: Photo (cropped) by Alan Light 1982. SDCC.
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- Fødselsdato
- 1948-06-12
- Dødsdag
- 2017-09-10
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- New York City, New York, USA
- Erhverv
- comic book writer
editor - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Guest of Honour, Eastercon, UK (1988)
Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame (2008)
Shazam Award for Best Writer (Dramatic) in 1972, for Swamp Thing (Dramatic)
Comics Buyers Guide Award as Best Editor (1982)
Nominated for the Bram Stoker Award (1999) - Kort biografi
- Co-creator of the Swamp Thing with Bernie Wrightson.
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First, Book of Thoth - this is origin story of one of the Conan's greatest antagonists, wizard Toth-Amon of Stygia. We follow him from his early days of youth in a problematic family with abusing father and [for all means and purposes] no-mother. Only person he has any love towards is his sister. Living in extreme poverty and forced by his father to beg and rob passer-byes in the street he is more than willing to grab first opportunity to achieve fame and fortune even if it means killing his friend and then orchestrating complete mayhem in Stygia to dark monstrous creature from the aeons past - Set. During this process Toth-Amon will slowly lose all of his humanity and soon turn his back to all people he loved. But his eternal hunger for power will be even too much for him and it will take rather unlikely allies to save his skin.
Story-wise this was excellent story, with powers of light and darking fighting through their avatars on Earth, population that gets pushed toward darkness thanks to thoth-Amon's actions used to push Stygians more and more to the brink until finally they can do nothing else but turn towards the cosmic darkness for safety.
Art is .... lets say not my cup of tea. This type of art is something Mignola is very good at and he makes it look very easy but believe me drawing characters on a high abstract level using only geometrical shapes and shade is very very complex thing and here it just did not work for me. While covers and some wide-shots truly look awesome rest of story did not click with me.
On the other hand second story - Mask of Acheron - had very decent art but story was ..... man. I might be wrong but this one seems o be comic adaptation of last Conan movie. Last I remember i did enjoy that movie but this story seems to be missing some of the pages. I dont know if it was rushed or actually missing story parts but it just jumps from one point to another without any explanation whatsoever. Weird.....
So as a whole mixed bag. But for me even with these .... issues? .... it was an enjoyable ride, especially the Book of Toth.
If you are fan of Conan give this one a shot but it might be good for you to first check art on the Net to see if it will sit well with you. Because lets not forget, comics are primarily bought for visual art.… (mere)