Your Opinion on the coming of "TREASURE CHEST" GN by BLUEWATER

[happyhuman]

Another GA collection or something else?


TREASURE CHEST - GRAPHIC NOVEL 

Written and art by various, cover by Adam Ellis.

Bluewater brings back the classic comic book series that started in 1946. Its inspirational stories of sports and folk heroes, saints, school kids, history, science and similar topics were drawn by artists that included such prominent figures as EC's Reed Crandall, Graham Ingels and Joe Orlando, Marvel Comics' Joe Sinnott, and DC Comics' Murphy Anderson and Jim Mooney. Other features included literary adaptations and such typical comics fare as funny animal humor strips.

$15.99

http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/1102/17/treasurechest.htm

http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/1102/17/bluewatermay.htm

[Yoc]

Sounds like a reprint but it's hard to tell from the modern cover shown.

[narfstar]

Since several of those artists have passed away I sure would have to re-evaluate my lack of belief in ghosts
if it was not reprints. If it would collect story arcs it would be pretty cool. I have a hard time getting into the GA books that have short one or two page features that continue on and on.

[vaillant]

The characters on that cover look all the same person with different disguises. Pretty bad. 

[Geo (RIP)]

It sounds to me to be a reprint since they are in PD. Here's the sales pitch on it they posted:

TREASURE CHEST - GRAPHIC NOVEL

Written and art by various, cover by Adam Ellis.

Bluewater brings back the classic comic book series that started in 1946. Its inspirational stories of sports and folk heroes, saints, school kids, history, science and similar topics were drawn by artists that included such prominent figures as EC's Reed Crandall, Graham Ingels and Joe Orlando, Marvel Comics' Joe Sinnott, and DC Comics' Murphy Anderson and Jim Mooney. Other features included literary adaptations and such typical comics fare as funny animal humor strips.

Geo

[misappear]

aren't most of those comics posted up a various places around the webulon?

[paw broon]

As soon as I saw the cover I was sure this would be new stuff.  If not, why not use an original cover logo or montage showcasing some of the named artists who worked on the original.  Then I thought, the publisher could just be a bit bad at marketing. Because, if it is full of reprints, anyone buying a book with that, not very good, cover, would be in for a surprise/shock when they opened it.  The cover style is so far away from the style(s) of the original content as to be almost alien.  Either way, it's not for me.

[Yoc]

My guess is they think a modern 'name' artist will be a selling point.

[vaillant]

I would hardly call an "artist" a person which is only able to draw characters with the same fisionomy all over, and over again… Yuck.