Joe Kubert's Tor: A Prehistoric Odyssey!
53Tor was the Joe Kubert book that made his art finally click for me.
Sure, I'd seen Sergeant Rock growing up, knew about his Hawkman run, and grew up seeing a certain long- haired caveman in all the Joe Kubert art school ads in the backs of comics.
It was the version of Tor in the mid 90s from Epic that finally drew me in. Monsters, action, brooding heroes... it was just what I wanted!
Fast forward about 20 years later and I stumbled across the individual issues at a local shop with my son. We both ended up grabbing all the issues we could find at the time- him because he's a dino fan, me because I didn't know this existed and my tastes in comics haven't deviated a whole lot since those early days.
What's crazy is Kubert was well into his 80s when he drew this!
This reads a bit like and expanded version of the Epic story. It's not the same, but similar. Water monsters, traveling companions, brooding hero too smart for his own good, and plenty of dinosaurs to please everyone's inner child. Honestly, it's probably better than the older stories. For one thing it's far more refined, both in art and in terms of how it tells the story. There's no traditional word balloons, just a summation of what's happening or what is going through Tor's mind.
Thankfully you can still track down reasonably priced copies of this hardcover. If you need one caveman comic drawn by an industry legend in his twilight years, get this!
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