Rip in Time Collected

by Richard Corben and Bruce Jones

Trade paperback. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0962384119
• ISBN13: 9780962384110
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Fantagor Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Great Corbin story

It has everything you look for in Corbin stories, especially in his collaborations with Bruce Jones. There's great adventure; this time, with dinosaurs. There are the larger-than-life characters, each driven by a different agenda, and there's the psycho killer hunting for Our Hero. There's a dirty side to just about every character. There are the male characters with mighty muscles and females with mighty busts. It's not an "adult" comic, but the reader shouldn't be shy about seeing a little skin, and shouldn't have strong preconceptions about how the good guys come out in the end. Too bad this collection is black and white. Corbin's color would have been worth paying a little more for. //wiredweird

I thought it was pretty decent

A was, at one time, a big Corben fan. I collected everything of his that I could get my hands on. As time went by, however, I realized that the stories he supplies artwork for really aren't that great: they seem to be first structured around his exaggerated art (you know what I mean), with good storytelling second, or third, even. I ended up eventually getting rid of my whole collection, but I kept this one. The art is more "normalized", not much exaggeration. He's actually using restraint, and it looks great. Also, the story is very well structured, smooth flow, even though it "cheats" you on the ending (of course, that's the risk you run with reading a time travel story). It's interesting to see how Jones and Corben weave their talents together to present this story in an almost cinematic fashion - the scene/time changes were particularly impressive. I agree with the other reviewer about the black and white art - to do such beautiful work for this book and not have it in color is a real disservice, especially when the covers WERE in color. What a tease.