[crashryan]

After a string of exciting SDL's this one was a disappointment, mostly because of the art. It three-quarters of the panels Horowicz draws the absolute minimum called for by the captions. In many cases, even less; it's hard to know what's going on and where without reading the text. A prime example is the climactic fight scene beginning on our page 56.

Link to the book: Super Detective Library 100 - Temple Fortune and The Monte Cristo Riddle

[Robb_K]

Yes!  Figures being cut-off to half and only blank space left there, only a bough and branch of a tree and two men fighting on it, and the cliff from which it protrudes not even shown, all floating in mid air with no background shown, is just ridiculous.  Figures cut in half on many pages with blank space there, with no objects in front, obscuring them, and many pages with no backgrounds is not what a reader wants to see.  It is the whole point of the marriage of text and illustration in storytelling with sequential art - showing what the characters are doing, and viewing where they are doing that.  I wonder if the publishers were disappointed and unsatisfied, and printed it anyway, but then decided never to use this artist again?