sigue el aniversario (9 y cierre)...






"Mutant World"
El mundo después de la bomba es uno de los escenarios recurrentes en la obra de Corben. O quizá no tanto, porque, curiosamente, si repasamos su producción comprobaremos que no son tantas las obras en que nos traslada a ese tiempo: En el foso, Herederos de la tierra, Gatitos para Christian, El mercenario del diablo, Mundo mutante, El pequeño mundo de Lewis Stillman, Vic y Blood, Hijos del mundo mutante, La ocurrencia y Punisher: el fin (apenas diez; por favor, corríjanme si me equivoco o me olvido de alguna). Sin duda un error de apreciación inducido por la pregnancia de algunas obras clave, por la fuerza emocional de las historias y por la huella imborrable que sus personajes dejan en el lector.
Corrección (sábado 7 de junio): El pequeño mundo de Lewis Stillman no tiene ambientación post desastre nuclear. Revisando la historia he comprobado que uno de los personajes se refiere a una invasión extraterrestre. A pesar de ello, queda en la lista, pues a todos los efectos las características de la escenografía son idénticas. Lo mismo sucedería con Bloodstar, como bien me hace ver Dionisio, que no está incluída entre las reseñadas.
I love the way Corben draws the ruins of atomic holocaust with such an exasperating easyness and technical skill mixture (he's got this scarce instinct to dose his drawing, with lot of detail here and nothing there, with shocking realism on some things and mere sketching on the rest) on describing landscape desolation, devastated traces of civilization, city frameworks, ashes of human belongings...

"Kittens for Christian"
Corben's got the talent to show a scene we've never seen (and he hasn't either) and say: "so it is the world after the bomb". And you got to admit it does so because of the convincing power of his images. No one like him to put us there, in a nightmare scenario, to discover life's still breathing under the rubble, doing its best to succed. In such trance, he portrays a pathetic mankid, naked, prideless and out of dignity. And we discover the ridiculous creature we're, just in our real place under extreme circumstances: just like those little beasts prowling around the rubble and the sewers, competing against them for radioactive carrion and eating the remains that mutant fierces threw away.

"The Punisher: The End"
World after the bomb is one of those repeating settings in Corben works over the years. Or maybe not so much: if we check his story count soon realize there's only a few post-bomb stories: Inna Pit, Heirs of Earth, Kittens for Christian, Angel Shy of Hell, Mutant World, The Small World of Lewis Stillman, Vic and Blood, Sons of Mutant World, The inducement and Punisher: the End (just ten; please, amend me if I'm not right). No doubt this mistake is due to the emotional power of the stories and the indelible mark left by his characters.

quien tuvo, retuvo... 




