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FIRESTORM #21 REVIEW
January 21st 2006, 08:23 PM
Review by: Matt DeWoskin
Quick Rating: Good
Title: Building a Better Firestorm, Book One: The Chalk Circle
FIRESTORM #21 (Jan 2006)
Writer: Stuart Moore
Pencils: Jamal Igle & Eddy Barrows
Inks: Rob Stull
Colors: Paul Mounts
Letters: Travis Lanham
Cover: Jamal Igle & Keith Champagne (with special thanks to George Perez)
Editors: Stephen Wacker & Michael Siglain
Publisher: DC Comics(excerpt)
The artwork was actually fairly slick on this issue, despite the guest penciller brought in to draw the meat of this issue. Igle only drew the opening sequence, supposedly to keep the next few issues of this title on schedule. Igle was able to give the opening sequence and old school feel. It looked like an sequence from the previous volumes of Firestorm, just with slicker inks. Eddy Barrows did a nice job filling in. He used Igle's character designs, so there is nothing really groundbreaking there. A big highlight of this issue was the way Jason's dad handled the news of Jason's death. From a visual standpoint, it's handled in a tasteful manner that still manages to deliver without being over the top. The cover to this looks like something that was a lot of fun to draw and the George Perez influence is very evident, even without the special thanks at the end.
