{"id":1659,"date":"2007-12-30T14:04:01","date_gmt":"2007-12-30T14:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=1659"},"modified":"2007-12-30T14:04:07","modified_gmt":"2007-12-30T14:04:07","slug":"night-and-the-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/12\/30\/night-and-the-enemy\/","title":{"rendered":"Night and the Enemy"},"content":{"rendered":"

limited edition hardcover<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Night<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

By Harlan Ellison<\/strong> & Ken Steacy<\/strong> (Comico)
\nISBN: 0-936211-07-5<\/p>\n

Harlan Ellison’s dark and chilling space war tales are always eminently readable.\u00c2\u00a0This volume sees five of the best –\u00c2\u00a0all taken from the long-running sequence of novellas and short-stories detailing Mankind’s last-ditch struggle against star-spanning conquerors –\u00c2\u00a0adapted in a variety of visual formats by air-brush wizard Ken Steacy, together with a new prose framing-sequence from the author.<\/p>\n

The battle against the Kyben lasted ten generations and involved all manner of technologies including time travel. Probably the most famous of these is the award-winning Demon with a Glass Hand<\/em>, adapted as both an episode of\u00c2\u00a0The Outer Limits<\/strong> (1964) and as a DC Graphic Novel (ISBN13: 978-0-9302-8909-6), but that’s a book for another time.<\/p>\n

Here we have some of the earliest tales in that epic conflict, beginning with the apocalyptic ‘Run for the Stars’<\/em>, a traditional panels and balloons strip, followed by ‘Life Hutch’<\/em>, a grim survival tale combining blocks of text with large images in both lavish colour and stark monochrome.<\/p>\n

‘The Untouchable Adolescents’<\/em> is a bright and breezy art job disguising a tragic and powerful parable of good intentions gone awry, whilst the sardonic two-pager ‘Trojan Hearse’<\/em> rates just one powerful, lonely illustration. ‘Sleeping Dogs’<\/em> is a moody epic that fitting concludes the adaptations but fans will be delighted to find this volume carries an original entry in the annals of the Earth-Kyba conflict with the prose and picture ‘The Few\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 The Proud’<\/em>: Ellison’s first new story for the series in fifteen years.<\/p>\n

This spectacular book is an innovative and compelling treat for both old-time fans of the writer and comic readers in general.<\/p>\n

Run for the Stars, Life Hutch, The Untouchable Adolescents, Trojan Hearse, Sleeping Dogs and all additional text \u00c2\u00a9 1987 The Kilimanjaro Corporation.
\nArt and cover \u00c2\u00a9 1987 Ken Steacy. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

limited edition hardcover By Harlan Ellison & Ken Steacy (Comico) ISBN: 0-936211-07-5 Harlan Ellison’s dark and chilling space war tales are always eminently readable.\u00c2\u00a0This volume sees five of the best –\u00c2\u00a0all taken from the long-running sequence of novellas and short-stories detailing Mankind’s last-ditch struggle against star-spanning conquerors –\u00c2\u00a0adapted in a variety of visual formats by … <\/p>\n

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