I've talked about the joint publication Point Blank before, and enjoyed the first issue so much I had always planned to find the other issues.Sadly, that should be other issue, singular, because Point Blank folded up shop after a measly two issues.
Which is a darn shame, since both the conception and execution of the magazine was well done--presenting European "noir" strips, in black and white in a nice big magazine size.
Maybe if Eclipse had started out with some more commercial material(to American comic readers, at least) instead of the low-key stuff they chose Point Blank would've lasted longer. Oh well.
Like the first issue, the book opens up with "Marvin" by Giancarlo Berardi and Ivo Milazzo, about a private eye who was a former Hollywood screen idol and who is now working on a case ("The Case of Marion Colman") to find a missing girl, but gets in way over his head.
The story and art are just great, very atmospheric, but there's even an extended sequence set on a battlefield, which artist Milazzo does as well as any war comic I've seen in a while:
...I love that final panel. That feels like an explosion to me.
Next is "Dieter Lumpen" by Jorge Zentner and Ruben Pellejero, starring in two stories, "Time Bomb" and "His Master's Voice." Having won a game of Russian Roulette in the previous issue, Dieter finds himself wandering across Asia, where he meets a dangerous dame(of course!) and gets caught up in a local war. Like the last issue, this story features a superb noir-ish splash page:
Next is "Dieter Lumpen" by Jorge Zentner and Ruben Pellejero, starring in two stories, "Time Bomb" and "His Master's Voice." Having won a game of Russian Roulette in the previous issue, Dieter finds himself wandering across Asia, where he meets a dangerous dame(of course!) and gets caught up in a local war. Like the last issue, this story features a superb noir-ish splash page:
While "Marvin" was a continued strip, "Dieter" wraps up here, to be replaced by a new strip in the third issue...*sigh*.
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