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Andrew Hilsmann
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Post subject: David Mack's Kabuki  Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2004 1:47 pm |
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Late to the party as usual, I've only recently discovered this title. Neil Gaiman meets the Bill Sienkiewicz of the Dazzler covers. Themes about trauma, identity and healing. Consistently beautiful artwork. Anyone else out there reading this?
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Post subject: David Mack's Kabuki Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2004 2:12 pm |
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I met David back in the late 90's at a show in Orlando, Florida. He GAVE me the first few miniseries. I mean he gave me a lot of books. He is an amazing artist. Good stuff.
(Actually we traded my measly 3 Shadowflame books for a TON of stuff. Great Guy!)
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Allen Berrebbi
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Post subject: David Mack's Kabuki Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 1:57 am |
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Charles K
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Post subject: David Mack's Kabuki Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 5:39 pm |
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Andrew Hilsmann
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Post subject: David Mack's Kabuki Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 8:17 pm |
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Charles K wrote: So what is it about? Kabuki is a Japanese woman with horrible kanjiesque scars on her face, a former secret agent and assassin who is attempting to break her ties with the underworld spies known as the Noh -- essentially similar to Elektra's relationship with the Hand. Don't know much more than that, though Mack's writing is lyrical and the mixed media artwork is stunning and complex. It reads a little like Miller and Sienkiewicz's Elektra: Assassin, though a bit more lucid than that rather Joycean 80s mini-series. David Mack has been producing this fully painted series for ten years now.
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Ocean Doot
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Post subject: David Mack's Kabuki Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 11:54 pm |
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Dendritic Oscillating Ontological Tesseract
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They are coming out with a big omnibus that collects the entire series, and I am considering ... pur-CHAY-sing it.
There were seven mini-series originally, I've only ever read the first five. I loved 'em.
This might be a good opportunity to finally read the entire series.
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Post subject: David Mack's Kabuki Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2025 12:32 am |
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That meddlin kid
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Post subject: David Mack's Kabuki Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2025 11:35 am |
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Was it ever completed? I recall years ago that it was one of those series that was running months and months behind its original solicitations.
The few glimpses of it I recall seeing long ago were impressive, but also off-putting. I get the feeling that Mack's style was an acquired taste.
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Ocean Doot
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Post subject: David Mack's Kabuki Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2025 2:16 pm |
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That meddlin kid wrote: Was it ever completed? Yeppers. That meddlin kid wrote: I recall years ago that it was one of those series that was running months and months behind its original solicitations. Yeah, Mack is not cut out for monthly comics work. His Daredevil stuff was also consistently late. But always worth it! One might say he was ... growing roses.
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Ocean Doot
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Post subject: David Mack's Kabuki Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2025 1:02 am |
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Hm, reviews of the new Omnibus are distressing. Quote: That said, this book is not the best version of his work. The publisher enlarged the original art but didn't so in a linear fashion, so the images in the book are stretched out wider than they were made taller. It leads to some really weird pages that just look off. The published also chose to crop some of the most iconic images which made me really unhappy with the purchase. Quote: Amazon had great delivery but the product itself has wrong graphic ratio. Compared to the original David Mack edition, this one is stretched horizontally by 10-15% ... everything looks flattened a bit!! This is a blatant mistake from the publisher!
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Jason Michael
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Post subject: David Mack's Kabuki Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2025 6:53 am |
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I'll definitely skip that.
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That meddlin kid
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Post subject: David Mack's Kabuki Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2025 10:52 am |
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Ouch! Given how distinctive the art is, a botched reproduction would really defeat the purpose of reprinting it.
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Ocean Doot
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Post subject: David Mack's Kabuki Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2025 4:26 pm |
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Jason Michael wrote: I'll definitely skip that. Here's hoping they'll put out a corrected edition ... Don't let me down, Dark Horse!
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Ocean Doot
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Post subject: David Mack's Kabuki Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2025 7:17 pm |
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Dendritic Oscillating Ontological Tesseract
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Doing a little more research into this ...turns out the bardcover collections in 2016 had the same problem.
Seems crazy that Mack wouldn't have tried to correct it for this new volume.
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