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(W) Bill Willingham
(A) Leonardo Manco
(CA) Bill Sienkiewicz

A FANTASY CLASSIC RETURNS TO LIFE WITH AN ALL-NEW PREQUEL SERIES! More than four decades ago, two iconic creators came together to bring to the silver screen an amazing new world of magic and adventure. In their classic animated film Fire and Ice, legendary artist FRANK FRAZETTA and famed director RALPH BAKSHI crafted a unique vision of beauty and danger, of good versus evil, all cast against a hypnotic backdrop of savage prehistoric splendor. Now, at long last, this timeless vision is expanding into comics with the first new story to revisit Frazetta and Bakshi's remarkable realm since 1982! Before the fire waned and the ice spread across the world…before Teegra met Larn…before everything you know about the unforgettable animated movie came to be, there were the before times - times when evil might still be blunted, times when innocence was not yet lost. In Fire and Ice #1, acclaimed comics writer BILL WILLINGHAM (Fables, Legenderry) joins forces with artist LEONARDO MANCO (Hellstorm: Prince of Lies, Blaze of Glory) - making his triumphant return to comics - and a new legend is about to be born!
Date Available: 08/02/2023

Reviews

I love the seriously underrated animated film Fire And Ice. Like it's in my top 10 films of all time, love. It is an epic Frank Frazetta painting come to life.

Which leads us to May 2023 when I learn of a brand new Fire And Ice Comic book.
From Dynamite Entertainment! A prequel series with artwork by Leonardo Manco and written by Bill Willingham.

Uuhhhhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Oh boy. Really? Prequel? A prequel to that movie? I am not sure about a prequel. Uhm… prequels tend to lead to continuity errors and such.

I do love the mercurial Leonardo Manco artwork. To me, Manco is an underappreciated disciple of the John Buscema style with added chiaroscuro.

But I dislike 99% of Dynamite Entertainment's output. They put out 35 trading card covers, I read comics. I am not their target demographic and that is fine. We understand each other just fine.

BUT... I love Fire And Ice. “NEKRON!!!!!!!!!!!!”

To put it gently, I highly dislike Bill Willingham as a writer. To me, he is 90’s X-Men Chris Claremont to the Fabletastic extreme. So grossly verbose that I can’t a) enjoy the usually mega talented artists he works with and b) enjoy the story he is trying to tell. A deadly combination for a monthly comic book or series of trades everyone kept forcing down my throat.

BUT... I love Fire And Ice. So, I was willing to give it a chance.

And the fire burns! It burns us so good! But the ice can chill even the brightest fire.

I got exactly what the description told me. A beautifully illustrated, overly wordy, they can’t meet, they can’t die, they can’t do that… mess.

I will be back for issue number 2… sigh. That movie is amazing.