#pander bros

[ginge1962]

Grendel #1 - October 1986, cover by The Pander Bros.

[cantsayidont]

October 1987. After completing the story of Hunter Rose, the first Grendel, in DEVIL BY THE DEED, Matt Wagner launched a new Comico series, beginning with a 12-part storyline called "Devil's Legacy," about Christine Spar, Hunter Rose's granddaughter and the putative author of Devil by the Deed. After her son Anson is kidnapped by Tujiro, a fey and rather sinister kabuki star, Christine adopts Hunter Rose's Grendel guise and weaponry and sets out to rescue or avenge Anson, in the process discovering her own appetite for violence and revenge — and learning that neither the police nor her grandfather's old enemy Argent have forgotten about Grendel. Illustrated in a flashy, obviously manga-influenced style by the Pander Bros., Arnold & Jacob Pander, "Devil's Legacy" is, in my estimation, the only really emotionally compelling one of Wagner's many Grendel sagas. The pulpy, rather lurid, ultimately tragic story meshes better than you'd expect with the Panders' stylized, cartoony artwork, and the focus on Christine's complex inner life gives "Devil's Legacy" a punch that neither the intriguing but cold DEVIL BY THE DEED nor Wagner's elaborate but strangely uninvolving far-future Grendel sagas can match.

[the-spinner-rack]

Eventually I Killed Him (by The Pander Bros.& Jay Geldhof from Grendel #9, 1987)

[bigmonkeyrideslittlebike]

Tremendous work by the Pander Bros from Matt Wagner’s Grendel published by Comico in the mid80s.

[doronjosama]

Up now on my eBay! Various indie and small press comics from 1987-2002! Glyph, Grendel by Matt Wagner and the Pander Bros, How Loathsome by Tristan Craine and Ted Naifeh and Monkey D*ck by Spike Trotman! Also up for grabs: my superheroine comic collection (70’s-80’s stuff), random Radio Comix books and various indie comics! My house is super small, and I am still selling off thirty years’ worth of collectibles to raise money for ongoing back taxes & various upcoming large expenses, so every little bit helps. Thanks for looking & sharing!

[doronjosama]

Up now on my eBay! Various indie and small press comics from 1986-1987! Grendel by Matt Wagner and the Pander Bros! Also up for grabs: my superheroine comic collection (70’s-80’s stuff), random Radio Comix books and various indie comics! My house is super small, and I am still selling off thirty years’ worth of collectibles to raise money for ongoing back taxes & various upcoming large expenses, so every little bit helps. Thanks for looking & sharing!

[s-------i-------g]

This song feels like it should be the theme song for The Pander Bros. XXX