I’ve talked about DoubleFeature before, but I wanted to talk about the new issue that just showed up. Today I picked up the Fantasy DoubleFeature #1 (a .pdf copy is available here), and again I’m surprised at how much quality you can jam into two 8-page stories. There are two great stories this month:
Edrik the Lazy
The story of a lazy viking boy who is given a quest and then…doesn’t go through with it because he can’t be bothered. It’s rather hilarious. Special note should go to the commentary by co-writer Lee Bretschedier and co-writer/artist Justin Peterson who have given us the funniest one yet (and given how good Horror #1 Monsterology’s commentary was that’s some big props from me).
The Cursed Blade
This story…Man, this one is for the ages. It’s not Judgment Day, but damn is the quality/page quotient high. In this story, which appears to be a one shot, we have two boys play fighting in a field. They stumble upon the eponymous cursed blade and a stream of genuinely tragic things happen to the boys. I have to say the stellar knock out performance here is not only the great story, but Matt Cossin’s art. It’s amazing how the story starts with these vibrant warm colors and then ends so coldly. I have to say this story is worthy of the old House of Mystery anthology.
I think one of the best parts about the DoubleFeature project is that all the issues are diverse in content, execution, and tone. You can have these properties together in a single issue and it works. You can have that great experimental art from KayRoss from the Sci-Fi anthology last month.
