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【故事簡介】：
Jean-Marc Lofficier's introduction:
"GONE WITH THE WIND, REVISITED
In 1979, Moebius and Jean-Michel Charlier found themselves embroiled
in a business argument over their popular western series Lt. Blueberry
with their French publisher Dargaud. As a result, the two creators
decided to temporarily halt their work on Blueberry and create a new
series. This is how and why Mississippi River was originally serialized in
Metal Hurlant (the comics magazine co-founded by Moebius) in 1979.
Once again, Charlier and Moebius prowed prophetic in their experiment
with the then traditional format of the classic high adventure story.
Unlike almost any other comparable book of the period, Mississippi River
is a totally anti-heroic story. None of the characters exhibits any noble
emotions for any length of time and everyone ultimately proves ready
and willing to betray anyone else, prowided that it is in his or
her own interest.
Cutlass himseif, though resourceful, cuts a far less heroic figure than Blueberry.
He has neither the moral sense of the battered cavalry lieutenant, nor his
genius in desperate situations. Cutlass’s plans backfire more often than
not, and only blind luck or momentum seem to help him to stay alive. He is,
and ultimately remains, a loser. Today we would call such a story "grim", and
only Moebius’s artful representation of a Louisiana sun-drenched by day,
shadow-draped by night, saves the book from being dark in look as well as style.
For ten years, Mississippi River remained a one-shot book in Charlier and
Moebius’s biography. However, before his untimely death in ‘89,
Charlier wrote one more Jim Cutlass story entitled “The Nights of
New Orleans’. That story is now being dravvn by young French artist
Christian Rossi, whose previous graphic novel, Lea, The Confessions of
Julius Antione (in collaboration with Serge Letendre) was recently published
in English.So maybe there’s still a chance that Cutlass will win after all!
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