Richard Corben
Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher 2 (June 2013)
While Corben had a sense of humor in the first issue–the lead, Allan, is always bumping into things–he really plays it up this issue. There are a bunch of fight scenes and about a third of each one is for comedy, maybe because Corben knows his goofy English guys look funny engaging in fisticuffs. The […]
MoreEdgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher 1 (May 2013)
With the exception of the decaying corpses, Richard Corben actually goes for bright and well-lighted for Fall of the House of Usher. I’m unfamiliar with Poe’s source story, but Corben has a protagonist called to visit an old university friend. They’re both artists and the friend–the titular Usher–has taken to doing incredibly like life portraits […]
MoreEdgar Allan Poe’s The Conqueror Worm (November 2012)
Richard Corben adapts Edgar Allan Poe’s poem in The Conqueror Worm. The poem, reprinted at the end of the comic, doesn’t have much narrative (if any). So Corben stitches the poem his own narrative, which feels a little like Hamlet, but it all fits. Corben does well with angry men and forbidden lovers. There’s a […]
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