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The Complete Classic Adventures of Zorro
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The art by Alex Toth: brilliant. Beautiful compositions and drawing style. I'm amazed this was done in 1957-61 (I think), the style is very much ahead of its time.
That said, the stories? at best pedestrian, at worst, utterly boring and lazy. To be fair, the stories target a young demographic, but still, I've read plenty of things geared for younger audience that were written with great skill and interesting cleverness. And I do think the stories could have benefitted from more "bite" but being a Disney property at the time the depiction of violence and zippo romance make sense. A few of the stories (longer ones) were a bit more interesting but overall meh.
Recommend for Alex Toth fans and fans of great design/figure drawing. And story-wise I do think it can still possibly be entertaining for younger readers.
That said, the stories? at best pedestrian, at worst, utterly boring and lazy. To be fair, the stories target a young demographic, but still, I've read plenty of things geared for younger audience that were written with great skill and interesting cleverness. And I do think the stories could have benefitted from more "bite" but being a Disney property at the time the depiction of violence and zippo romance make sense. A few of the stories (longer ones) were a bit more interesting but overall meh.
Recommend for Alex Toth fans and fans of great design/figure drawing. And story-wise I do think it can still possibly be entertaining for younger readers.
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