Hoping initially for a role as one of the Joker’s henchmen, he winds up, predictably, in way over his head and looking for a way out. Frost tells his tale with a sense of growing fear and irony. Tasked with collecting the Joker upon release, he is quickly invited to the villain’s after-party, and it is through his naive eyes that we observe Joker’s subsequent rampage through Gotham. Frost is a typical Gotham scumbag, a thug fighting his wife over divorce papers, trying to make ends meet. Her son gained all of the knowledge she was implanted with, as well.Ingeniously narrated by muscle for hire Johnny Frost, Joker begins with the clown prince of crime’s unexplained release from Arkham Asylum.

In exchange, he also alters her body so that she can bear children. It is about a post apocalyptic Earth where a woman agrees to have her body altered so she becomes the host for the knowledge of a dying wizard-king. Kane came up with the idea for the comic, but Archie Goodwin scripted the book (also, Neal Adams and Harvey Kurtzman helped Kane hit the deadlines in the latter stages of the project). The deadlines were brutal on Kane, who had to still fit in his regular comic book assignments to keep the proverbial lights on. Kane cut a deal with Bantam Books where he would deliver EIGHT books in a line of comic book paperbacks. Had it been a hit, who knows how different the comic book marketplace would have looked like in the 1970s. Blackmark by Gil Kane and Archie Goodwin (1971)īlackmark was an attempt by Gil Kane to try to do a whole new approach to comic books that sadly did not work out. It's a heartfelt look into the regrets that we have in our lives, but with a fun and magical twist to it. The people on Dropsie Avenue change, but what stays the same is the general prejudices that define pretty much all of modern society, namely lots of fear of foreigners or the 'outsiders,' even as the outsiders become the insiders themselves they, of course, distrust the next batch of immigrants. Follow a single block in New York City through a few hundred years. The concept of the book was deceptively simple. It was the final book in the 'Contract With God' trilogy, which was more of a trilogy in tone than actual plot or anything like that. Will Eisner released Dropsie Avenue (subtitled 'The Neighborhood') in 1995. He feels like he is trapped in the same small town that will inevitably turn himself into his father and, if he is not careful, he might be right.

Of course, this obsession strains his current marriage and the pressures of becoming a father make Jack want to re-visit how much he is like his own dad. He travels to the past and the future along the way. He becomes obsessed with the watch, and it becomes a magical sort of nexus point where Jack tries to get to the bottom of the mystery of what happened to his father and what truly led to his dad's death.

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