Now, I should have read that sucker, but the very ill informed decision to have the story ALL IN CAPS made it a little difficult. More prose follows by David Yetter, Fire as Cold as Ice. But, as I always stress, these are fanzines, usually done by very young people who are relatively new to art, so I try to cut ’em some slack. James’ art is passable, but again, he is in the same zine as Sonoda, so there you go. What follows is a page of pretty bad humor (with pretty bad art), appropriately called You Call This Humor? Maybe James Pack was just being very clever, so the fairly bad quality of the preceding strip would contrast with his following strip Captain Cannibas (to be honest, I don’t know if the misspelling is intentional or not). You will also see his work in the issue of Epitaph linked above.įollowing Sonoda’s story (oh, by the way, keen eyes will note that Mitch’s name is misspelled on the cover) is a short poem (with a nice graphic treatment) by David Yetter, who it appears, is the other half of “Lance Studios” along with James Pack.Īfter a page of ads is a nice pin up by Larrys Blake and Nibert, seen below. The title is really well done and I have a feeling Mitch wanted to be a typographer, or very least, was a huge Roger Dean fan (as well as probably a Neal Adams follower, judging by the style of his illustrations). His work shines so brightly compared to everyone else in the zine, it is almost a disservice to the other artists involved! Granted, there are spots here and there that don’t work, but it is really polished for fanzine work. Let’s get on with it!Ībove you see what was probably the primary reason I bought these zines, that being the art of Mitch Sonoda.
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Cover artists are Larry Nibert on the left (who published his own zine, Epitaph, one issue covered here), and James Pack on the covers of the other two. At any rate, you see three covers above clearly stating which year they came out.
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I realized while looking through one of the house ads that there are several more! Maybe someday I will have them in my hands and review ’em. For some reason, as I pulled these out to do as a group, I thought I was covering the entire output of this zine.
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It appears I have been laboring under a terrible misconception all these years in regard to James Pack’s group of fanzines (or my memory is just terrible…well, that much I know already). Editor: James Pack, publisher: Lance Studio