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Post by Admin on Aug 1, 2012 16:58:28 GMT -5
Please let us know what you think!
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Post by VintageViktor on Aug 1, 2012 18:13:43 GMT -5
This was a very fun read! It felt like I was reading a British spy thriller, and I assume that's the tone you were going for, so well done. It almost felt like a Le Carre story with superheroes, and that's a very good thing!
The characters were well defined and felt unique, and I got a real kick out of the "act postal" line. One thing I would say, and it's a small nitpick, but you tend to use commas frequently where they aren't needed. It doesn't detract from the story, but it does give some sentences a slower pace than they should have.
A quick note on the cover - it was simple (perhaps a bit too simple), but it captured my eye and I find it quite an effective cover. Overall, you left me entertained and wanting for more with this story, so, you've got yourself a dedicated reader!
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Post by Fantômas on Aug 1, 2012 18:23:17 GMT -5
A quick note on the cover - it was simple (perhaps a bit too simple), but it captured my eye and I find it quite an effective cover. The cover is something I came up with out of public domain images and my own poor eye for composition as a place-holder and variant cover. We can - hopefully - expect the legitimate cover coming from JoeyJarin any time soon. It felt like I was reading a British spy thriller, and I assume that's the tone you were going for, so well done. It almost felt like a Le Carre story with superheroes, and that's a very good thing! Ha, that's totally what I was going for. Though I'm more a Deighton man than a Carré. Spy-fi if it was done by Gerry Anderson is my aim with Knight & Squire. And yes, the comma deal is something that'll fade away soon enough. It's been a few months since I wrote anything like this, and it takes awhile before the style pares down naturally. But it'll get there. |
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Post by Fantômas on Aug 2, 2012 6:19:31 GMT -5
And there we have it, JoeyJarin's fantastic cover. As a bonus, the place-holder variant cover:  And another composition I put together in the vein of 60s British spy-fi, using Joe's incredible line work:  |
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Post by VintageViktor on Aug 2, 2012 7:37:24 GMT -5
That's a beautiful cover!
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Post by UltimateDC on Aug 2, 2012 17:27:41 GMT -5
I dug this. I've always thought Knight and Squire were a fun couple, campy and fun in their own English way, and I'm glad that transitions here. The Hood as an espionage agent is also pretty cool and makes a nice counterpoint to our heroes. If there's any complaint, it's that the mystery was solved a bit quick, but that's a minor issue on an otherwise great story. Good work, Fant. Looking forward to the next one.
-UDC
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Post by arcalian on Aug 3, 2012 22:31:44 GMT -5
Well, all these characters are new to me, but I am delighted, amused, and intrigued!
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Post by Alex on Oct 26, 2012 1:51:12 GMT -5
Catching up on my DC2 reading, which technically, I'm years behind on  I figured I'd start with Knight and Squire, since I really enjoyed their appearances during Morrison's Batman saga and Cornell's mini-series and I like how a lot of those elements have been brought over, like the heroes playing cards and drinking at the pub, Cyril and Beryl in disguise... I keep chuckling thinking about Cyril's disguise over his armor. The Hood's scenes were nicely done, I definitely got the spy-thriller feel to them. But cripes, reverse-pregnancy procedure, that just sounds painful. 4 stars - five if we could've had some Jarvis Poker (hoping he comes soon). |
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Post by Fantômas on Oct 26, 2012 6:51:37 GMT -5
Thank-you for your kind words, though I will have to pick you up on... like the heroes playing cards and drinking at the pub A London Club is far from a pub. I can promise that there will be pubs (which I am far more familiar with) but the Gentlemen's Club - aside from now being a euphemism for strip club - is far more about higher society, and upper class tradition as well as being marks of success for wealthy businessmen or men of professions. Cyril is flexing his aristocratic side, in other words. And it does tie in to the whole James Bond world as well (Le Carre, Deighton, Fleming, Greene...all have some sense of class awareness when it comes to spy fiction and you can see a marked shift down the class ladder as the decades pass, going from gentleman spy to more working class functionary with a chip on their shoulder). |
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Post by Alex on Oct 26, 2012 14:30:37 GMT -5
i stand corrected.
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