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Wednesday, June 8, 2005 - 4:12pm

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I've read a lot of Ditko's Mr. A and Static, and I saw this available on Robin Snyder's website (when it was still up). I was kind of wondering where to start with his other self compiled work, if at all possible could you give a little more background on the particular story.

---Landon

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Thursday, June 9, 2005 - 4:46pm

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Landon,

It's been a very long time since I read this graphic novel to give you many details about the story. The first ten-page chapter was done in 1981 and published in 1983. Ditko completed the last nine ten-page chapters in 1989 and the complete 100-page story was first published as a graphic novel in 1989.

I didn't care for the first chapter. The rest of the comic is some of the best work Ditko has ever done. The hero is a former D.A. who has served prison time for supposedly betraying his office. When he's released from prison he sets out to clear his name and finds himself at odds not only with the bad guys who set him up but also with the goods guys, including his former lover, who now think he's corrupt. I think that's right if my memory is accurate.

I believe this is some of Ditko's best since his Blue Beetle/Question work in the sixties.

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Monday, June 13, 2005 - 12:28pm

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Thanks for the response, I'm going to have to keep this one in mind. I did love the Blue Beetle/Question stuff he did but I've been becoming more and more interested in his Mr. A work since being able to find some on E-bay. The whole semi-impressionist method of how some of the stories seemed to take place between the concrete world and the very abstract principles which guide the action.

But if what you're saying is true it should be very interesting as well, his non-super-hero work is highly underrated.

That and I think Count Rogue is probably his best non-spider-man villain.

ok that's probably enough.

---Landon