![]() These deaths were just thrown in there, made the main characters angry, and we moved on. Gwen Stacy's death wasn't tossed away as a minor plot point-it still resonates today. I can deal with the damsel in distress if it's done the right away but this one's so ham-handed (either by Chaykin or his source) that I can't get around it. The deaths of the women before we even get a reason to care is so senseless and typical of so many fantasy stories-and yes, I include comic books in this-that my feminist-leaning side said, "this sucks" and nothing could get the story back on my good side. Typing this, I realize that's the problem. After the typical revenge, they then just sort of plug away as though they'd lost at cribbage or something and had to kill a few people to make up for it. ![]() Fafhrd and gthe Grey Mouser are rogue thieves who mess with the thieves' guild and lose their sweethearts violently. I just could not get myself interested in the two protagonists. ![]() Now perhaps that's the failure of Chaykin to translate it to the comic medium, but I think a lot of it has to do with the source material. Well, not always, at least not for me in this case.Ĭhaykin and Mignola both have a strong attachment for Fritz Leiber, a writer who came after Robert Howard and Lovecraft and wrote sort of a hack-and-slash-meets-noir world that works great for them but frankly falls flat for me. ![]() Illustrated by Mike Mignola and Al Williamson ![]()
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