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1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 23:34:57 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   > Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film one out of four stars and said, "There is not a trace of human emotion in it. To call the characters cardboard is to insult a useful packing material".

   
   Ok, now I'm intrigued.

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   1. Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2023 23:44:36 EDT Bob Jonkman

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      Oh yes, the movie was terrible. My father-in-law was an avid comic book collector, and had many original Spirit comics. $SPOUSE got me interested too, and we bought hard-cover collections, and when I went to a comic book convention and told an author I thought I saw some Will Eisner influences in his work he thought it was a great compliment! We bought a layout print (pencil sketch, some shading, no colour) from an author who was making new Spirit comics.
      
      Will Eisner and The Spirit was the inspiration for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, and there is not a trace of that prestige in the movie. For once, I was happy Will Eisner wasn't around anymore so he didn't have to see it.