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Solid 'Proof'
Proof of Concept
Creators: Larry Young, writer; Damian Couceiro, Steven Sanders, Paul Tucker, Jeff Johns, John Flynn, John Heebink, Kieron Dwyer
AiT-PlanetLar, 136 pages, black and white, $12.95
So? This is an experiment, initiated by Larry Young, publisher of AiT-PlanetLar and one of comics greatest champions. A former retailer, Young launched his indie comics company with the motto of “Making Comics Better.” The result has been an eclectic and successful line of graphic novels and comics ranging from Young’s own “Astronauts in Trouble” and “Planet of the Capes” and giving new life to the likes of Brian Wood’s “Channel Zero” and Steven Grant’s “Badlands,” to impressive original work such as Warren Ellis’ “Switchblade Honey,” “White Death,” “Giant Robot Warriors,” “Hench,” “Last of the Independents” and the just-concluded “Demo.” His desire to spread the love of comics led him to write columns on how to publish comics, which of course he later put out as a handy pocket book called “True Facts.”
All this does lead back to “Proof of Concept” (click on images for a closer look), which Young inaugurated in an online column at Comic World News wherein he posted original, 12 page sample scripts for new artists to draw and promised to publish the best work submitted to him. “Proof of Concept” is the end result. It’s a book of five such scripts (plus the previously serialized “The Bod”) connected by a framing sequence starring Young pitching the ideas to his agent, well-known comicbook biz attorney Ken F. Levin. These are tastes of the kind of high-concept ideas Young likes and, even though the end result is naturally episodic, each has elements that make you wish the story would go on. Highlights were Zombie Dinosaur,” drawn by Steven Sanders with Jeff Johns, which features a team of hunters lead by a Bruce Willis lookalike hunting down fossilized dinosaurs that are mysteriously coming back to life; and “Emancipating Lincoln,” in which a man in a world where everyone’s a clone of Abraham Lincoln finds a $5 bill with his likeness on it and goes looking for answers.
It’s good that the book ends with “The Bod,” a multipart story that ran in the “Double Image” anthology a few years ago about a wannabe actress who becomes invisible and finds her star rising and falling in all-too-typical fashion, because it has enough resolution to keep it from being excessively episodic. The result is a book that, while not terribly deep, is still a pleasant enough diversion and a reminder that the potential of comics is barely tapped. Grade: B+
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