anyone read the comic Grimjack?

My second favorite comic ever, independent comic about an ex-gladiator, hard boiled detective at the city where the different realities come together. Guns work someplace, magic other places, but swords work everywhere.

I never see it mentioned anywhere and wonder if anyone has heard of it.

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I picked it up about the time Gaunt died and voluntarily left Heaven. I liked it but I thought it took a downward turn in the Twilley era. The ending frankly sucked; the blatant Les Miserables overtones were pretentious to the extreme.

I understand that after First Comics finally ceased its death throes the book came back in some form but I never saw any of those issues. I did get to read some of the earlier material and think I really missed the book's prime.

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From wiki: "Following their recovering the rights to Grimjack, John Ostrander and Timothy Truman teamed up again to publish Grimjack: Killer Instinct, a 6-issue miniseries published by IDW Publishing. The miniseries, since reprinted in graphic novel form, serves as a prequel to the First Comics Grimjack series and shows John Gaunt's life leading up to his first appearance in Starslayer #10. The series met with critical acclaim for its art, storyline and original setting. With a script by John Ostrander and art by Timothy Truman, the series was lettered by John Workman and edited by Mike Gold. All of them had worked on the original Grimjack comic. IDW Publishing also re-issued the First Comics Grimjack run in a series of trade paperbacks under the title The Legend of Grimjack. As of October 2007, 8 collections have been released."

I don't know if The Legend of Grimjack is still in print but it may be easier to track down than some of the early First comics issues. I may have to look for Killer Instinct myself, it would be nice to revisit an old favourite.

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Grimjack was teh awesome. GJ was the Dark Knight before there was a Dark Knight.

I am a huge fan, and would love to see more.

I don't know how well the web-serialized version did a couple years ago, but unless it did reallllly well, I rather doubt we will see more. Hard-boiled detectives, fantastic/sci-fi/gladitorial or vanilla, don't seem to be flying well these days.

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The Manx Cat mini was fun as well. I just picked up the IDW omnibus' of ole Grinner's exploits.

Here's hoping Starslayer sees the same treatment.

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I think I may have bought a few issues back in the '80s. Was there a series called Munden's Bar, or was that just a back-up feature in Grimjack?

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loved the Ostrander/Truman Grimjack.

That series was the inspiration for my first nom de forum, pre-internet when all we had were individual BBS's we dialed into on our hot **** 1200 baud modems....

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I'm familiar with the character haven't read any of his stuff might try and track down the IDW mini series.

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I think I may still have mine (not sure when I last dove into all those long whites I keep like a millstone). I read it from issue 1 up until... Hm, not sure, but I bought a lot of 'em.

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I started reading this when it started, but I soon got hooked into Jim Starlin's Dreadstar. I've gone back and read some back issues of Grimjack, it was indeed a good series.

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I have most of the first run and most of his appearances in starslayer. I would like to find the few I am missing.

I'll have to look for the newer ones as well.

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