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#SCOTT MCCLOUD REINVENTING COMICS RAPIDSHARE LIBRARY SERIES#( Zot! also has an extensive group of minor characters, who have their own places in the schema – it doesn’t come across as contrived, but it’s an easy series to analyze and create theoretical structures from.) ![]() Zot was an optimist (without being a Pollyanna he simply believed in doing the right thing and nearly always managed to do it), while Jenny was a pessimist who continually wanted to get out of her world for Zot’s better one. Each of the six major villains was an image of a particular kind of bad future for the human race – as I said, some more plausible and frightening than others – and the tension between Zot’s “perfect” world and our own, clearly imperfect, one was the main engine of the series. ![]() ![]() The stories are much more about the relationships between characters, and even the relationships between ideas, than that would seem: McCloud has always been honest about his formalist tendencies and intellectual obsessions, and those came out regularly in Zot!, cloaked more or less well in fiction. (Though there’s also interstellar travel, and some of the other planets are not nearly as utopian as Earth is.) Our viewpoint character, though, is usually Jenny, a girl from our world about a year younger than Zot – she’s complicatedly in love with him and with his world. He battles various supervillain-ish caricatures of varying threat in an alternate world that’s essentially the gleaming, perfect future as seen from the mid-twentieth-century. Paleozogt, a fifteen-year-old boy with rocket boots, a ten-shot blaster, and an unstoppable sense of his own abilities. Zot! is a superhero comic, more or less – the hero is Zachary T. #SCOTT MCCLOUD REINVENTING COMICS RAPIDSHARE LIBRARY PLUS#(And maybe then we’ll get Chuck Austen’s art from two “fill-in” issues from the time of McCloud’s wedding, plus all of Matt Feazell’s “Dimension 10½ “ back-up strips.) Those color comics are now only available in the first, long-out-of-print, Kitchen Sink trade paperback collection of Zot! from ten years ago, though this book hints that they may be reprinted if Zot! 1987-1991 is successful enough. #SCOTT MCCLOUD REINVENTING COMICS RAPIDSHARE LIBRARY FULL#Zot! was McCloud’s comics debut, starting with a ten-issue storyline in full color in 1984-85 and continuing with twenty-six more issues in black and white starting in 1987. HarperCollins has been McCloud’s trade publisher as far back as Understanding Comics, so their imprint on this book implies a lot about their commitment to comics, and to McCloud.īut maybe I need to back up a bit, for those of you who weren’t around for the days of Eclipse in the late ‘80s. And since then, we’ve mostly just been waiting and hoping, living on crumbs like “Hearts and Minds” and McCloud’s other webcomics.īut now Zot! is back, in something like a definitive form, from one of those real big-time bookstore publishers that the comics field is so in awe of. We were heartened when Kitchen Sink Press reprinted three-quarters of McCloud’s Zot! run in three nice trade paperbacks in 1997-98, and then disheartened again when KSP went under before finishing up with the fourth volume to collect “Earth Stories,” generally considered McCloud’s best stories. (1998’s ]] is generally skipped over in these laments, as it is in all other discussions of McCloud’s career, including the one in this book.) Oh, sure, ]] was one of the great graphic novels of the early ‘90s, and a major roadmark towards the modern comics field, and ]] and ]] have their strong points as well, but, we keep wondering, what about ]]? There are those of us – only a few now, I bet – who keep hoping that Scott McCloud will finally get the comics-about-comics thing out of his system and go back to fictional comics. Zot! The Complete Black and White Collection: 1987-1991 ![]()
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