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| Frew #1555 - The Murderer | |
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| Topic Started: Nov 7 2009, 03:09 PM (177 Views) | |
| JD | Nov 7 2009, 03:09 PM Post #1 |
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Out on the 13th. Unlucky, perhaps? |
 
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| Xander | Nov 9 2009, 01:25 PM Post #2 |
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 maybe but its good to see frew publishing more stories from the seventies.
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| Hallgeir | Nov 9 2009, 11:25 PM Post #3 |
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Then you must stretch the seventies a bit. This story was first printed in Fantomen issue #12-1982 in Sweden and in Fantomet issue #21-1982 in Norway. Hallgeir |
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| Xander | Nov 10 2009, 08:34 AM Post #4 |
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Yeah I only checked the exact date after i posted that  but my point still stands even though i got the wrong decade  Its good to see frew publishing older Egmont stories as i usually enjoy them a lot more than the newer ones. |
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| Xander | Nov 13 2009, 11:37 AM Post #5 |
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Got this today and i really enjoyed the story probably the best Egmont story i have read out of the last ten or fifteen and the first one in a long time that kept me hooked to the end. the interior art was very retro and the only bad part was the lame frew cover. |
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| Trimmer | Nov 13 2009, 04:24 PM Post #6 |
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Although I did not think this story was terrible, it was rather ordinary. I am not sure if the original European dialogue had the line about "sand in the hourglass", when the prince was describing his daughters death, either way it was a dreary cliche  I would suggest that the sententious behaviour by some of the British in this one was spot on. I would not necesarily see this as a racist attitude, but more based on a belief in superiority in general. This was also present between British Army leaders and Australian troops during the Boer War (see the movie Breaker Morant ), and WWI. Good to see Frew kept their record of errors in the script up!  Any chance of a poll for this one JD? |
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| benno | Nov 15 2009, 09:45 AM Post #7 |
pɐǝɥ ʎɯ oʇ ƃuıɥsnɹ sı pooןq
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A great story. The British did lots of terrible things in their empire/collonisation days. Trimmer mentioned Breaker Morant who shot a group of Boer commandos, with out trial, under "Rule 303". 303 being the the Lee Enfield .303 rifle issued at the time. The British also sacked and occupied Hong Kong in the 1800's. Imperial Chinese leaders wanted to ban opium form China. This hurt the British as they imported huge amounts of opium to China. There are many other tales like these. On the flip side collonisation brought wealth and prosperity to many third world countries. Many of these countries deteriorated into civil war, poverty or disease when the British left. Edited by benno, Nov 15 2009, 10:03 AM.
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| Paul Andreas | Nov 15 2009, 11:47 PM Post #8 |
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Is this the one where the Phantom almost kills the military man who murdered that-woman-whose-name-I-can't-be-bothered-to-remember? If so, great story. |
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| Xander | Nov 16 2009, 09:05 AM Post #9 |
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Yep thats the one and agreed great story Ulf Granberg should be writing more stories like this. |
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| Paul Andreas | Nov 17 2009, 03:41 AM Post #10 |
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Ulf Granberg should write more stories himself in general, I think he's a fine writer. It was cool to see the Phantom "lose it" for once in The Murderer. |
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| Xander | Nov 17 2009, 10:54 AM Post #11 |
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Agreed Unfortunately a lot of his stories still haven't been published in English although the next release is also written by him so i am looking forward to it. |
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| JD | Nov 20 2009, 09:39 PM Post #12 |
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Picked this issue up today. I've not read it yet but when I got it home I had my first proper look at the cover. What the hell is up with that? We've talked about the terrible art on Frew's covers, but this one is in extremely poor taste. It looked to my eye, and my mother and sister's, as if the Phantom was shooting the woman depicted on the cover! Is that really what should be on the cover of a Phantom comics? It could be argued that the Phantom is "viewing" the woman being shot by another person, however the placement of the hand and the Phatom's head makes it look as if he is pulling the trigger. It's horrid. The Phantom is no supposed to kill, so showing him doing so is one thing, but to show him apparently shooting a woman? Villainess or no, I've a bloody good mind to write to Jim and tell him exactly what I think of this cover! 
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| benno | Nov 20 2009, 10:01 PM Post #13 |
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I thought the same JD. From the cover it looks like the phantom is gunning down the poor lady. Frew's covers are poorer than usual with their colours lately. Wait until you see the next one #1556. It has some really ghastly colours. Frankly they would have been better off leaving it in black and white. |
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| JD | Nov 21 2009, 06:15 AM Post #14 |
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It's actually reached the point now where I'm in all honesty embarrassed to pick up Frew's comics. Obviously it's not because of the character. The publication is of such low quality and things such as the cover for this issue make the book look like such a second rate, bargain bin, poor-man's version of a comic book that it insults my comic reader sensibility. I've said before that it seems like Jim doesn't give a toss, now I am certain of it. I should note that this is no comment on the stories found inside the comic, but rather the quality of the publication itself. It is atrocious and, to my mind, not a high enough quality to pay even $2.50 for. I don't believe in spending my money on sub-par publications, even if they are cheap. if Frew continues this rout into 2010 I'll no longer be buying their below standard publication. |
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| Xander | Nov 21 2009, 09:48 AM Post #15 |
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While i agree that frew covers are probably some of the worst comic covers around with the exception of Antonio's covers I see nothing else all that wrong with frew's publication. if you can name one other publisher which has the same level of output per year for a single series i would be surprised (let alone for the phantom). and for $2.50 Australian seems nearly impossible considering the usual $6 to $10 dollars we need to spend per comic from other publishers so of course somethings have to be sacrificed such as cover quality and the lack of colour. But to things you cannot deny if this they publish phantom stories from America and Sweden that would otherwise not be available to us in Australia sure it's not on the expensive glossy paper, sure it has amateurish covers for the majority of the time and yes every single issue is in b/w (though personally i don't have a problem with that). But the Way i see it, and this is the same with all comics and literature in general. I buy the comic for the story in it. The Cover its wrapped in is just a bonus. Anyway thats just my opinion and your welcome to have yours. I just think that instead of Frew Bashing for what it doesn't have we should appreciate what it does have, the most frequent source of the phantom available anywhere in the world and i am sure many fans from around the world who currently don't have the phantom published in their country would kill to have even a low quality comic as you say that publishes the phantom. Like they say you cannot judge a book by its cover 
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