Bill Messner-Loebs!

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God bless The Chunk.

(BTW, I'm changing my answer to the question posed above to Tom's.)

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 31 January 2005 21:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Wow, poor Bill Messner-Loebs. I had no idea about his background.

I really liked his old Flash comics as a kid, but I can't remember anything about them.

― Matthew "Flux" Perpetua, Monday, 31 January 2005 22:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I seem to remember his Dr Fate series being pretty good. It was Dr Fate in the 'hood, but somehow neither patronising nor awful. Still, I stopped collecting it around that godawful War of the Gods x-over -- wasn't that by him, as well?

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 00:34 (nineteen years ago) link

War of the Gods was Perez, I think.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 00:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Did Loebs do Dr. Fate? I thought it was all JM DeMatteis...?

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 01:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Didn't he also co-write The Maxx, comic's great mystery failure?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 12:15 (nineteen years ago) link

For me, Messner-Loebs' best work was his creator-owned series Journey, set in North America early in the 19th century. A wonderful, whimsical, magical-realist series that deserves book collection.

I must dig my set of them out and have a good wallow sometime.

David A

― David Simpson (David Simpson), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 13:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Checking http://www.fantagraphics.com/cart/, I see they have two Journey collections for sale. Five bucks each, and well worth it.

David A

― David Simpson (David Simpson), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 13:09 (nineteen years ago) link

thirteen years pass...

https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/03/27/comics-william-messner-loebs-homeless/

― Duane Barry, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 10:41 (six years ago) link

aw what the fuck :(

loved his long stint on the flash when i was a kid, really great superhero comics

seems like there's been a lot of activity on the severe weather network's gofundme in the last few hours, which is encouraging i guess

― sir chesley bonestell, qc (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 10:48 (six years ago) link

This is one of the great single-issue comics from DC in that period:

https://arousinggrammar.com/2014/06/22/flashs-airplane-free-fall/

― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 15:12 (six years ago) link

Journey is also a must-read.

Man he has had it tough for a long time now.

― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 17:51 (six years ago) link

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