The lettering is a custom font created directly from scans of Pratt’s own lettering in the original Italian edition.Quite frankly, the rugged beauty of Pratt’s line has been made ugly, rough and amateurish by this awful low-res version.ĭesigner Chris McDonnell explains what happened on the Meathaus blog: The Beat’s heart was thrilled when we heard of this but when we eagerly flipped open the pages of the edition when it arrived, we were.underwhelmed. Pratt has said through one of his characters that 'nothing is written that cannot be rewritten.' I believe that no one else other than Frank Miller could interpret the creative impulse inherent in this phrase.Although the new edition uses the color of the original Casterman edition…it also uses the redesigned page format of the Casterman editions, and the files are at a very low res, resulting in ugly scratchy-looking art. Said Patrizia Zanotti, a collaborator of the late Pratt: 'Who better to reinterpret Hugo Pratt's world than Frank Miller after all the characters and worlds the legendary creator has brought to us? Pratt would be thrilled to see his character Corto Maltese revived through an author who has the extraordinary ability to carry on timeless myths introducing iconic characters to new generations. To quote Raymond Chandler, 'He is the hero, he is everything.' While the camera and the action will move all over the place, the story will always stare Corto straight in the face. We will start the series with the first image staring Corto square in the face. While we will learn a lot about his character, we will learn it on the run. It is a world full of magic and horrors.įor the pilot, I wish to establish a grand hero in a grand and terrible world but above all, it is an adventure story starring an adventure hero. But just like Odysseus, he has no idea what a wild world he is to discover. He is the young adventurer out to discover the world and making a lot of money doing it. Corto is not the weathered pirate he is to become when we meet him. This is a rascal who could talk to the gods. I wish to play up the romance, the heroism and the underlying mysticism of Pratt's creation. Miller also revealed his vision for the Corto Maltese series:

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