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Captain Canuck has influenced Canadian cartoonists for more than 30 years! Now Richard Comely and George Freeman's best-selling opus returns with the first of two beautiful, hardcover collections, completely re-mastered from the original coloring. Collects issues #4-10, as well as the never-before-printed Captain Canuck newspaper strip.
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An old friend from the past,
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This review is from: Captain Canuck Volume 1 (Hardcover)
I very much enjoyed these high quality reprints of the old Captain Canuck comics. I just realized how much I missed that old series!
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This review is from: Captain Canuck Volume 1 (Hardcover)
When I read that the original series was going to be collected I was really excited.I have a complete runof the comics and dig them out every couple of years and read them again. The thing I was looking forward to the most was the color reproduction on good paper stock and using current printing technology. The book looks fantastic and it's great to have them in hard cover to boot. But could someone please explain the thought process behind reprinting Vol.1 4-10, Vol.2 Special & ,11-14, then Vol.3 1-3,15 that is if 2 and 3 are ever printed? This will be really confusing for anyone not familiar with the original books. Especially considering that Vol.1 starts in the middle of a story and the lead in won't be printed until Vol.3. I'd really like to see all the missing material collected. The un-released #15 with back-up and the supposedly finished second Summer Special. Maybe this will all happen eventually but for now this Volume is a great read for Captain Canuck beginners.
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This review is from: Captain Canuck Volume 1 (Hardcover)
It is interesting how Captain Canuck has been a part of my life. As an about-10-year-old kid who loved to draw and loved comics, I remember inventing a character called Captain Canada and thinking he would make a neat comic book hero. Shortly after I heard (with a mixture of disappointment and excitement) an interview on the radio with some fellow named Richard Comely talking about his new comic book, Captain Canuck. I was not happy that someone else had my idea, I guess, though I was excited to see what he had done with it. I suppose I was also intrigued to learn that anyone other than DC and Marvel made super-hero comics (which, at that time, was about the limit of the business). That Summer, my family vacationed at Cleveland's House in central Ontario, and I had the thrill of stepping into the resort's variety store to see Captain Canuck Issue No. 1 sitting on the shelf. I purchased it immediately, and a kind of a kinship was born. Although Richard Comely's artwork was not as sharp-edged as the DC/Marvel style (nor as much so as George Freeman's), he was clearly a very competent artist. Also, the unique colouring, linework and interesting use of photographic backgrounds suggested a new, perhaps more essentially Canadian take on comic book art, which I greatly appreciated. I also liked some of the extra features in the book - a page on how to draw Captain Canuck, and the extra Catman story (I wish the new book contained those extra stories, but, alas, all I can do is encourage IDW to consider a third volume containing them). I believe I became one of Comely Comix first subscribers, but, due to whatever mishaps often happen to fledgling businesses, my subscription petered out after issue number 3. I actually never saw any issue later than that for years. However, though I never saw the Captain during those years, the character remained a key component of the pantheon of mythic and fictional heroes I have kept stored in my heart. Then, a few years back, I had the pleasure of discovering that Richard Comely and I live quite close and have several mutual acquaintances. I have now had the pleasure of getting to know him and learning a great deal more about the history and substance underlying the Captain Canuck series. It is great thrill to see Richard's and George Freeman's work get this additional and long overdue recognition. Captain Canuck is not merely another comic book, but should be considered a key component of Canadian pop culture - an image and icon that has been quietly woven into the background of our cultural identity and which really deserves a good deal more notice than it has generally had. I hope that more than just 'die hard' fans will pick up this volume. It should be on the shelf of every Canadian graphic art collector's library.
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