Grimjack is the main character of a comic book published by First Comics. John Ostrander and Timothy Truman are credited as co-creators of the character, although Ostrander had been developing Grimjack with artist Lenin Delsol before Truman's arrival on the project. According to Ostrander's own text piece in Grimjack #75; in that same essay, the writer also revealed having initially conceived the character to be the star of a series of prose stories, set in a post-apocalyptic Chicago.
Grimjack is the street name of John Gaunt, a sword-for-hire, ex-paramilitary, war veteran and ex-child gladiator. He operates from Munden's Bar in the Pit, a slum area of Cynosure, a pan-dimensional city to which all dimensions connect. John Gaunt, alias Grimjack, was born in The Pit, a slum area of the pan-dimensional city of Cynosure, where both magic and technology, humans and aliens intermingle.
Issue #1 of Grimjack was published by First Comics in August 1984, and ran until issue #81, in April 1991. Artists who worked on the series included Timothy Truman, Sam Grainger, Tom Mandrake, Jim McDermott, Steve Pugh, Tom Sutton and Flint Henry. Throughout its run, with the exception of a few full-length issues (as well as #60 with its expanded letter column), Grimjack featured a back-up story in the manner of other First Comics series. From issue 2 to 69, the backstory was titled Munden's Bar, a comical, episodic retelling of the events at the eponymous bar,owned by Grimjack. The story brought a small amount of fame to the series for its occasional guest stars, such as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
So take the photographs and still frames in your mind.
Hang it on a shelf In good health and good time.
Tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial.
For what it's worth, it was worth all the while.
It's something unpredictable but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.
One opens Warlock 5 to immediately see a stunning one-paneled page of a wizard calling forth to open a gateway. The wizard is a servant of the armored Lord Doomidor and the Lord and his minions go through the gateway into modern-day 1986 where they storm a subway towards a battle that could bring the entire grid right into Doomidor’s hands. The grid is a place that brings together several different realities and time periods into one place so the one who rules the grid could almost rule the entire universe.
Warlock 5 is still stunning, twenty years later, thanks to the artwork of Denis Beauvais. The stunning pencils and inks of Beauvais greatly bring this fantasy/sci-fi book to eerie life and the artwork in the book is a high point of independent books put out in the eighties.
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