I have short reviews of Dylan Horrocks' must-read Hicksville and Simon probably-should-read 100 Days of Simon in the last two issues of Las Vegas Weekly. You can go read them if you like.By the way, did you know the Dylan Horrocks who wrote and drew Hicksville is the same Dylan Horrocks who had a short run on DC's previous volume of Batgirl, which kicked off with the cover above? It's true! I suddenly want to break out that longbox and re-read that run now, knowing the guy who wrote Hicksville wrote it.
I really rather liked pencil artist Adrian Sibar's weird art work, but I would have loved to see what a Batgirl run written and drawn by Horrocks would have looked like...
I went to a presentation Dylan once did about comics where he touched on his experience writing Batgirl and it would have been the most depressing thing I'd ever heard if Dylan wasn't such a charming and funny speaker. The poor guy had no idea what he was getting himself in for....
ReplyDeleteAlso, if anybody reading this is in New Zealand, Dylan is showing off some of his original Hicksville art in Auckland for just two days, starting from tonight, to celebrate the new printing.
ReplyDeleteDetails here:
http://fromearthsend.blogspot.com/2010/03/event-hickville-new-zealand-edition.html
Horrocks' run on Batgirl is greatly disliked if I recall. Mostly because it consisted of a long string of bad attempts to make Batgirl someone else's love interest.
ReplyDeleteDon't know if it was editorially mandated or not, but a dozen issues of "Superboy's Girlfriend Cassandra Cain" really killed the readership.