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A happy birthday to tammy212 and belated birthday wishes to windswept whose birthday I missed yesterday...

Sunday Trade: The Spirit

Will Eisner's The Spirit vol. 1, story and art by Darwyn Cook, inks and finishes by J.Bone, colors by Dave Stewart and letters by Jared K. Fletcher

Will Eisner's Spirit comic strips are one of the oldest and longest running of costumed vigilantes. So DC's decision to relaunch the character by the legendary creator had some controversy to it. But Cooke manages to capture Eisner's mix of goofy fun and pulp noir quite well. Along with the Spirit's signature dames like journalist Ginger Coffee, police commisioner's daughter Ellen Dollan, international black widow P'gell and more...

The first volume concludes with a Batman/Spirit one-shot that was co-written by Cooke and Jeph Loeb. Which is, shocking given Loeb's recent work, really very good. They're Batman feels like a mix of the Dini animated Batman and the classic Silver Age version. So the two and their respective rogues mesh well together...

White Lightning

Reminds me a bit of "The Dukes of Hazzard". If the show had been about how one of the Duke boys got out of prison and was out for revenge on Sheriff Roscoe for murdering his brother. Probably the best of Reynolds' movies that involve driving fast in the South athwart the local law. Which he's done often enough its probably a valid sub-genre...