Richard Corben is unique. I'm not aware of anyone who creates art that looks like his, and to honest I cannot fathom what his inspirations were. The earliest artwork from the pages of Creepy and Eerie in this tome are classic in style, but feature Corben's distinctive flair for anatomy which compressed the world in oddball ways. The later examples though showcase some of the most mind-blowing artwork produced in the Bronze Age, art with a lush three-dimensional quality which was unseen in any other venue at that time.
Corben also drew some of the most voluptuous people ever committed to the page. His women are wet dreams, big and full with ample bosoms and ample asses and often quite willing to run about in such a way as to maximize the reader's ability to see that ampleness. But Corben was rarely sexist in that his men were likewise extreme examples of virility, often portrayed with manhood which beggared belief. This unaffected celebration of the human body, and the bizarre exaggeration of it makes Corben's work singular. This is the largest of these single-talent collections to come from Dark Horse and it offers some fascinating stories, all with art that dazzles.
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