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The Spirit #15
The Spirit's New Face
[Note: An earlier version of this page contained a major goof - - it identified this issue as The Spirit #13. Much apologies for the confusion.] With the departure of comic book fandom favorite Darwyn Cooke and crew, the team of Aragones and Paul Smith seems like a good followup. Smith has a good style to match up with Spirit's fairly light-hearted material, and his drawing and inking is very pretty stuff indeed. He gets a little carried away with the comic aspects of some of the caricature work toward the back end of this story (called "The Diamond Exchange"), but on the whole it is a very nice lateral move from Darwyn Cooke's art. Arogones' story is fine (this tale is also credited to Mark Evanier), but it has a large number of loose ends that glare out from the tale, and though it's not nearly as neat and tidy as a Darwyn Cooke tale (nor does it possess any of the depth that a Cooke story would shoot for inbetween the cartoon mayhem) it is nonetheless completely in the vien of a standard Spirit tale, and well within the range of goofiness many an Eisner Spirit tale possessed. It altogether is a very nice package, and the DC Comics revived Spirit series remains one of the best books coming out as a regular pamphlet comic book. Click the images below to see enlarged Paul Smith artwork from DC Comics' The Spirit #13 (images will enlarge to 1000 pixels wide)
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008 
