Knight Watchman: The Golden Age (The Big Bang Comics Collection)

I am almost ashamed to say that I missed the whole “Big Bang” comic’s universe in the 1990’s.My excuse is that I had enough trouble navigating and avoiding all the terrible comics, multiple first issues and variant covers with “gimmicks” that it passed me by.Thanks to Bill Cunningham and Pulp 2.0. Press I am catching up – and what a ride it is.“Knight Watchman” – The Golden age might at first glance appear to be a copy, a pastiche, a parody perhaps?None of the above, this is a superb homage, a love letter, a paen to the work of some of Comics’ greatest auteurs – guys such as Bill Finger, Jerry Robinson, Dick Sprang, Will Eisner , Shelly Moldoff, Jack Burnley et al.Such is the exuberance of the work presented here by (mainly) Chris Ecker and Gary Carlson that the Knight Watchman stories can be enjoyed in themselves but Chris and Gary never forget to leave the reader unappreciative of the works of some of Comics’ founding fathers and the work that came before.A real pleasure.Of course this is a Pulp 2.0 Book so the fun doesn’t stop at the stories there are some superb articles by the creators and a delightful “faux” comics history section that would be worth the price of admission alone complete with photos and Knight Watchman “covers” down the years.Fantastic.Finally a word about Pulp 2.0 Press: Their books are beautifully designed and produced – this one has a superb textured cover for example – they always have extra content over and above the stories and are set at a price where the big publishers should be ashamed of themselves frankly.Head honcho Bill Cunningham is so spot on with his choices of under-appreciated material to re-present (they are WAY more than reprints) that I can almost order them sight unseen and I would recommend any of their titles.Just keep going Bill.And thanks Chris and Gary for such great work. I may be 20 years late in catching on but as they say;“Class is permanent”.