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mschlat's review
2.0
When [a:Alan Moore|3961|Alan Moore|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1304944713p2/3961.jpg] was developing his America's Best Comics, he and Rick Veitch created Greyshirt, an analogue of [a:Will Einser|17892364|Will Einser|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]'s The Spirit. This collection is written by Veitch alone and focuses on the origins of Greyshirt (with art by Veitch) and other assorted stories (illustrated by different artists). There is some of the interesting experimentation that Eisner showed in The Spirit and that Moore and Veitch carried on in their stories (e.g., the page that walks us down a staircase panel by panel and landing by landing, the use of kid's comics art styles when we look at the young Greyshirt, the use of newspaper strip comics to communication information, the fact that every cover refers to a tale that is covered in text pages and not the main story). However, Veitch's prose gets way too florid at times, and the plot circles around a strange creature called the Lure that isn't that interesting. Veitch has used the eerie to drive the story and examine the characters before (most notably in [b:The One|22394460|ONE, THE # 1-6 by Rick Veitch Complete Story (ONE, THE (1985 EPIC))|Rick Veitch|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1401748127l/22394460._SY75_.jpg|155659]), but here it falls flat.
I reread this to see if it's staying in my collection --- it isn't.
I reread this to see if it's staying in my collection --- it isn't.
neven's review
5.0
Really clever stuff, really well done. Can be read in small installments, but it definitely builds up to a larger story.
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