![]() ![]() ![]() 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. ![]() (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. 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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