May 27, 2023
Um... I wanted to read it since 2016 maybe, when I've read Devil Dino and thought that all of these old comic series you would never think could exist are great and hidden gems all around. Not this time! This is a "classic" old 70's comic book in a bad way!
Yeah, I kinda see, that these authors both writer and artist were pretty inexperienced back then, this is one of their first works (for Marvel at least). Their names never got big and loud, though. Just so you'd know - it's these guys who created The Wall in that old weird Spider-Man Stories series... Yeah, that even might be their greatest work the world will remember them for.
Oh, wow, I just googled that Jean Thomas was a wife of Roy Thomas himself! Well... Interesting to know.
Okay, the artist wasn't really bad. Yeah, he has a pretty generic and not super accurate style even for that time period, definitely not a level of Kirby. But he's not terrible.
But the writing here... It's something funny. First of all, I'll just say what this comic is about. No, there's no superheroes or something like that. It shows the origin of Linda (her education) and there are two conflicts that were supposed to be interesting.
The one is a random, quick and dumb romantic thing of Linda and some moneybags guy, resulting in him trying to make her dump her education and become a tradwife... And she says no. But... this whole story line is idiotic! Everything happens too fast, you can't really feel anything reading this, you can't believe in this. The last page is awful in a special way - it's like their whole last conversation was made by a neural network! No, even a real one could do a better work! Jean really doesn't have empathy - she doesn't have any feelings and seems to not know how people interact. She don't understand how to make a reader believe and empathize the character - it's certainly not enough to just show a crying girl.
What makes it even funnier - that romantic line randomly disappears from the comic, gets interrupted by Georgia's story and concludes on a last page just to be concluded. And this was on the cover, LOL! Like a core idea of the comic and something to make you buy it...
Yeah, about that Georgia's story line. First of all, the comic is called "Night Nurse". Not "Three Nurse Friends", not "Night Nurses". Linda is the main character, but the comic simply forgets about her in the very first issue! And if only this second story line was better...
Just listen: there always happen a brown-outs in the neighbourhood of their hospital. But the hospital has its own power generator, so the lights in this hospital are always on. And some... people from the neighbourhood were jealous of that, so they decided to infiltrate the hospital AND BLOW UP THE FREAKING GENERATOR! Yeah, all people were angry about it, but only two of them came with this plan, I think it's important to notice. So, one of these guys is a brother of that Georgia nurse, but he wasn't really a bad guy, he thought they will only blackmail the people in power to make their whole district resistant to the brown-outs and black-outs. But the second guy is a total creep, he shoot some other guy, shoot the brother of Georgia as well and blah-blah-blah. But it was Linda, who tripped the guy and took away the detonator. However, if not for the police, she would be dead for sure.
Well... It's not the type of story I wanted of this. I don't really know what were my expectations, but surely not something like this. I guess it might be better in the next issues, but after this one I already start to doubt it. Maybe this comic is the reason why no one remembered Night Nurse since 1970's until the 2004.
Oh, by the way, I also forgot about the third nurse - Christine Palmer. But it's not a surprise - even the comic itself forgets about her. There was a story line for her as well, though, but too short and lame. First she flees her father to become a nurse and after a few pages and three years of comic time she already fine to see him and even thinks about finally accepting his money. It's like nothing in this comic was well-thought. more
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