I wonder whether this was originally a colour comic? It looks like it was made for a magazine sized anthology, based on the aspect ratio, but, as usual, there’s nothing that says where these pieces are from. The framing story seems to hint at some unity in terms of theme, but I couldn’t really detect any. (The mid-80s reprints were all in colour and on nice paper.)Īs is the norm with these things, we get a bunch of unconnected stories, done in a variety of styles (since these probably were made over a long period of time). But as you can see, as opposed to those old fantasy reprints Eclipse did, this one is in black and white, and on non-white, cheap paper. This one has a framing story (well, not really a story, but still), so there’s some new work. They also published a large number of “micro-series” reprinting old fantasy and horror comics, and what do we have here? A two issue reprinting some old Norm Breyfogle comics. They also had successes with a number of action/adventure series (and now there’s Mad Dogs). In 1986, after a flood wiped out their back issue stock, they went all in on the black & white boom, pumping out a large number of titles, including parodies (which we’ve just seen with X-Farce). Perhaps the right way to think about Eclipse’s 1992 is a return to what had worked for Eclipse last time they’d had serious money problems. Metaphysique (1992) #1-2 by Norm Breyfogle.
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