With books like Sticky and Manly dale Lazarov stunned us in the past. In Good Sports again we see well built and equipped men who don't hesitate to start some sexy action whenever the opportunity arises. Th e drawings are more colorful and cheerful than in Lazarov's other books. It looks a little as if the adorable cartoons by Mioki served as an inspiration. As usual Lazarov doesn't need any words to tell a good story - and still there's a lot going on.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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The Authors have created a beautiful work of art, where the beauty of love and affection manages to be exalted even by the mostly explicit erotic representation. i've loved it!
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This is the fourth folio of filth from Dale Lazarov, a writer who has carved out his niche in what can most accurately be described, for want of a less clunky term, "romantic gay comics erotica"
In his previous three books - Sticky, Manly, and Nightlife, each with a different artistic collaborator - Lazarov has adhered to a winning formula; short `silent' comics novellas, in which his protagonists (trainer & pugilist, club bouncer & punk, and - a personal favourite - acoustic and electric guitarists!) `meet cute', acknowledge their burgeoning attraction, and, well, hump like bunnies.
A large part of the appeal of Lazarov's work, to me, is the warmth, tenderness and humour he portrays alongside the sweating and spurting. Whether it's a `relationship' or a one-night stand, the characters show affection and respect for each other. In this, he evokes one of the greater attractions of Tom of Finland's work. No, not the groiny endowments, which frankly over time became grotesque and scary, a trend followed by too many otherwise talented people working in this sub-genre (Yes, I am looking at you, Patrick Fillion...). No, what I'm talking about are the facial expressions and body language that made Tom's work more than just simple-minded sexfests.
Lazarov's previous work captured this, and it is doubly to his credit that he managed it with various artists and without benefit of dialogue or captions; `silent' scripts may look deceptively simple on the page, but having essayed a few myself, I can attest to how much harder you have to work to get your points made without the verbal component.
With this volume, Good Sports, Lazarov has essayed a book-length narrative, about two sportsmen. They're hockey players - not that that's relevant to the narrative, but it is an interesting step away from the usual highly-fetishised sports such as football, American football, rugby and the like. It switchbacks between their present and an unspecified past, which may or may not be their first meeting, which may or may not have taken place the previous evening, or some time ago. There is an unfortunate lack of clarity, and the attempt to ue the added length of the story to deepen the relationship actually only muddles it, in this reader's eyes. Not irreparably, by any means, but certainly distractingly.
Lazarov's collaborator here, Alessio Slonimsky, has technically the prettiest and most attractive style of his artists so far. Thick-lined, bold, cartoony, it put me heavily in mind - readers of a riper vintage will understand the reference - of those highly-polished graphics that were everywhere in the 1980's after Duran Duran first hit big with Rio.
Trouble being, while it's lovely to look at, Slonimsky's work doesn't convey the emotional range I've come to expect from Lazarov's works; his faces are vaguely happy, vaguely moody, not-at-all-vaguely orgasmic - and that's it. The faces and bodies are striking, but you don't engage with the personalities, because they're not evident. It's android sex.
If Good Sports isn't quite up to Lazarov's previous standard, that's still a high standard from which to take a small step down.. We're talking about a book whose primary raison d'etre is to be read one-handed, and if that's all you're after, this is a superior example of the type. But if my expectations are a little higher than that, because of Lazarov's previous works, well, he only has himself to blame for leading me on...
In his previous three books - Sticky, Manly, and Nightlife, each with a different artistic collaborator - Lazarov has adhered to a winning formula; short `silent' comics novellas, in which his protagonists (trainer & pugilist, club bouncer & punk, and - a personal favourite - acoustic and electric guitarists!) `meet cute', acknowledge their burgeoning attraction, and, well, hump like bunnies.
A large part of the appeal of Lazarov's work, to me, is the warmth, tenderness and humour he portrays alongside the sweating and spurting. Whether it's a `relationship' or a one-night stand, the characters show affection and respect for each other. In this, he evokes one of the greater attractions of Tom of Finland's work. No, not the groiny endowments, which frankly over time became grotesque and scary, a trend followed by too many otherwise talented people working in this sub-genre (Yes, I am looking at you, Patrick Fillion...). No, what I'm talking about are the facial expressions and body language that made Tom's work more than just simple-minded sexfests.
Lazarov's previous work captured this, and it is doubly to his credit that he managed it with various artists and without benefit of dialogue or captions; `silent' scripts may look deceptively simple on the page, but having essayed a few myself, I can attest to how much harder you have to work to get your points made without the verbal component.
With this volume, Good Sports, Lazarov has essayed a book-length narrative, about two sportsmen. They're hockey players - not that that's relevant to the narrative, but it is an interesting step away from the usual highly-fetishised sports such as football, American football, rugby and the like. It switchbacks between their present and an unspecified past, which may or may not be their first meeting, which may or may not have taken place the previous evening, or some time ago. There is an unfortunate lack of clarity, and the attempt to ue the added length of the story to deepen the relationship actually only muddles it, in this reader's eyes. Not irreparably, by any means, but certainly distractingly.
Lazarov's collaborator here, Alessio Slonimsky, has technically the prettiest and most attractive style of his artists so far. Thick-lined, bold, cartoony, it put me heavily in mind - readers of a riper vintage will understand the reference - of those highly-polished graphics that were everywhere in the 1980's after Duran Duran first hit big with Rio.
Trouble being, while it's lovely to look at, Slonimsky's work doesn't convey the emotional range I've come to expect from Lazarov's works; his faces are vaguely happy, vaguely moody, not-at-all-vaguely orgasmic - and that's it. The faces and bodies are striking, but you don't engage with the personalities, because they're not evident. It's android sex.
If Good Sports isn't quite up to Lazarov's previous standard, that's still a high standard from which to take a small step down.. We're talking about a book whose primary raison d'etre is to be read one-handed, and if that's all you're after, this is a superior example of the type. But if my expectations are a little higher than that, because of Lazarov's previous works, well, he only has himself to blame for leading me on...
By shane
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A nice hardcore hardcover of smartly written erotica to engage both your heads, complimented by very sexy art. Outside cover is easy to wipe clean, but inside pages are likely to get stuck together.
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