By: Aaron White
I had the exact same whiplash going from the first BatGrendel to the second. It’s like Wagner looked at the stuff Image was pumping out and thought “Why am I trying so hard?” What makes it even worse...
View ArticleBy: Fing Fong Foom
This article mentions the three years between the publication of Batman/Grendel and Batman/Grendel II, but the first series was actually written and drawn many years before it was published, the delay...
View ArticleBy: Jason Michelitch
My understanding is that Batman/Grendel was worked on for those many years, but not necessarily finished and sitting on a shelf. Wagner makes specific mention in the collected edition that he spent a...
View ArticleBy: Ng Suat Tong
I think there’s a whole article to be written about the wasted promise of Matt Wagner. He was undoubtedly one of the most innovative mainstream cartoonists working in the late 80s and early 90s. As far...
View ArticleBy: Fing Fong Foom
“So when I think of Wagner, it’s not hate which I feel but sadness at talent violently thrown away.” He has children to support and a house to pay for. Doesn’t seem to me “violent” as much as the...
View ArticleBy: AB
What Fing said. In a recent interview, Howard Chaykin basically ruled out creating his own strips any more — he’s a father and grandfather, he has a mortgage to pay…so it’s Wolverine from now on....
View ArticleBy: Jason Michelitch
See, but Chaykin is still doing Black Kiss II, and Wagner still did his second Mage book after Batman/Grendel II. But that Mage book, as I write, showed a lot of the same problematic aesthetic shifts...
View ArticleBy: AB
Sure, I’m just repeating what Chaykin said. It might be a decision taken after finishing Black Kiss II. Myself, I haven’t any real problems with that second Mage book…
View ArticleBy: Kelly
I love Mage the Hero Discovered. Mage 2 was a huge disappointment. I think if Mage 2 had come out in the summer of 1989 like it was originally planned it would have been great. I agree with Marc....
View ArticleBy: Jonathan Baylis
I thinked you’ve nailed something I couldn’t quite put my finger on. I discovered Grendel WAY late in the game and in the early days of EBay, sought out the whole Comico series up to Batman/Grendel I....
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