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Rick’s work appeared in Heavy Metal, which lead to his collaboration with Steve Bissette and Allen Asherman on the graphic novel adaptation of Steven Spielberg’s 1941. Together they formed Flying Dutchmasters Studios and began getting published in New York. He also met and began lifelong collaborations with fellow artists Steve Bissette, John Totleben, Tom Yeates and Tim Truman. While still at school he began his professional career in mainstream comics, contributing over a dozen short stories to DC’s Our Army At War. In 1976 Rick enrolled in the Joe Kubert School and was part of the school’s first graduating class in 1978. Crashing at Greg Iron’s barn on the California Coast, he began drawing a sample sequence about two axe murderers in a rainstorm, which grew, with a script by his brother Tom Veitch, into a complete comic book, published as Two-Fisted Zombies by Last Gasp in 1973. At the age of nineteen, Rick Veitch drove a Pontiac Tempest from Vermont to San Francisco with only $45 and a burning desire to break into underground comics. Mina's brother won't speak to her, her parents fear she'll relapse, old friends have become enemies, and Sophie has to learn how to live without her other half. After a forced stint in rehab, Sophie returns home to a chilly new reality. When the cops deem Mina's murder a drug deal gone wrong, casting partial blame on Sophie, no one will believe the truth: Sophie has been clean for months, and it was Mina who led her into the woods that night for a meeting shrouded in mystery. Sophie survives, but Mina is not so lucky. Sophie and her best friend Mina are confronted by a masked man in the woods. The second time, she's seventeen, and it's no accident. The first time, she's fourteen, and escapes a near-fatal car accident with scars, a bum leg, and an addiction to Oxy that'll take years to kick. Don’t miss Tess Sharpe’s new novel, 6 Times We Almost Kissed (and One Time We Did). However, this tale has the modus operandi and ambiance of A Princess Bride meets Another Fine Myth. If this were a literary work on par with Charles Dickens or William Wordsworth, indubitably. Unless they're a word-hoard, the superabundance of ostentatious words which most juveniles, nevertheless numerous adults would grow weary looking up the definitions. At times, the story seems inclined towards an adult audience with several tongue-in-cheek innuendos, yet, this could be for youngsters, with one caveat. However, it becomes problematic when character names repeat excessively upon the same page, on nearly every page, it's quite annoying. It's entertaining, humorous and outrageous, brimming with action, heroes and brave hearts. I genuinely wanted to love the book, there's an enjoyable story base, gentlemanly duels between a wizard and a dragon. I'm rating the story with 3 stars a bit hesitantly. |