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Comic Book Shelf: The Spirit Vol. 1

The Spirit Vol. 1ComicBookShelf.com has listed the recently released hardcover collection of Darwyn Cooke's version of The Spirit. You can rate, review and purchase the book simply by registering (for free).

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Also, the AVClub's Comics Panel takes a quick look at The Spirit Vol. 1 as a 'Comic of Note':

Will Eisner's weekly series The Spirit revolutionized comics storytelling in the '40s and '50s, pretty much ensuring that revivals by anyone but Eisner, who died in 2005, would look like a pale imitation. Well, almost anyone. Writer-artist Darwyn Cooke (The New Frontier) offers his own reverent-but-distinctive take on the masked crime-fighter in a new Spirit series; the first six issues and a one-shot Batman team-up are collected in The Spirit, Volume 1 (DC). Cooke's take is equally inspired by animation and film noir, and like Eisner, he uses each issue to deliver a story in a different tone than the one before. Sadly, this represents half of what will be Cooke's total output, as he's leaving the series with issue 12. But it still gets an... A-

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