Tex - The Sentinel

A small review on Tex - La Sentinella which released in November 2007 and Tex 566 - Un soldato ritorna  which released in December 2007 which were colorised later.

Between Arizona and New Mexico, Tex and Carson are pursued by a band of Apaches, getting refuge in Mesa Lumber, a location full of rocky caves and mazes.

A Valley of rocky mountains which host them as a maze trap with apaches on their trail.

Surprisingly, it is there they discover an southern officer who lives as a hermit ignoring that the Civil War has ended.

After gaining his trust, Tex and Carson leads him to Fort Bayard with the goal of helping him return to civilization and his family. Tex and Carson eventually learn that the officer's family was decimated during the conflict and someone got hold of their properties, they  travel with him to Atlanta to solve the issue and take everything clean. 

Text: Claudio Nizzi

Art: Miguel Angel Repetto

Covers: Claudio Villa 

This artistic adventure can be read from two angles. The first focuses on the development and  leaves no room for doubt, and further proof of the lack of dynamism and motivation that comes raging Nizzi. In contrast to what is customary, the adventure not promising after the beginning disillusioned, however, goes on increasing interest as the action gets to develop despite a simple and predictable end. But above all else is clear proof of the weakness of the author, by revealing naïve (an officer from Southern hidden for twenty years in a cave) or introduce artifacts without coherence (a merchant comes fully to account for the family history of officer).

This treat comes your way: sequels, the changes, developments that the Civil War left the United States. This historical event is not a new theme in the author, but it is the first time dealing with post-war.

It's a whole new reality facing the Rickfield John (the official southern), the reality of a country that rebuilt and developed, the reality of a country that walked towards modernity that the times imposed. His arrival in Atlanta, his hometown, is demonstrative and bottom the faithful mirror of a new time and a return to civilization. But it is also time to discover dramas of the past and crimes the injustices committed, in a time when war served as justification for everything. It is also the time of a new social reality, the liberation of black that despite the end of slavery, which was not socially recognized.

Tex 566 - "Un soldato ritorna"All this presents Nizzi, not objectively, but through the return of Rickfield Atlanta. In the midst of it all, he composed one Nizzi Tex far more classic and able to please the most conservative readers. Tex is a very actuating either the physical level (the first part is nearly exhausted in the fight against the band of Apaches) or strategically, is a perfect example of that whole scene where Jean knows first Russard.

Repetto signs here possibly his best work in the series, much because of different scenarios where the adventure unfolds. During the first part in the struggle against persecution by the Apaches, where the Argentine author composes pages excellent action unfolding in night scenes under a rain deluge. Then, in the second part, the City entertainment scenes, but also the description of a South where the desperate landscapes of dense vegetation and that also deserve the same attention from Repetto, the same detail, demonstrate a maturity worthy of highlighting.

Its one among a good read with lots of feast to our eyes -- hope this comes in tamil soon. adios amigos...

Texfan

Giuliano "Tex" Gemma - (02-09-1938/01-10-2013)

The prestigious actor Giuliano Gemma, who played our hero Tex Willer in the movie Tex, died on Oct 1, after a tragic car accident with another car which had a head-on collision near Cerveteri, in the province of Rome. The father and son travelling in the other vehicle suffered only minor injuries. 

The accident occurred around 20 hours: Gemma has been hospitalized with a poor prognosis and eventually died in hospital. he Was 75 years old.

From the Funeral

If Gregory Peck, Randolph Scott, Robert Mitchum, George Montgomery, stars were inspiring in several decades, Tex Willer, Giuliano Gemma in turn, gave him body and face in the cinema by the film Tex e il signore degli abissi - Tex, and the lord of the deep in English in 1985 to interpret the cowboy comic book publisher Bonelli.

One of the most indelible actors, popular and fascinating panorama of the Italian cinema, but rather one of the interpreters, more and better than anyone else, knew how to incarnate in the collective imagination of the 60s and beyond, the hero who always encourage our fantasy. A physicist who seems to have been carved in gilded bronze, a look like fire always alive and safe but with a mocking smile, made him one of the most desirable men by female and every male most envied that.

A lot of old women cried their heart out at his funeral, a few sad moments from it.

   A few moments from the funeral: May He Rest In Peace.

Robin Sharma has written a book named Who will cry when you die? that question well answers what a life you had, for sure Giuliano "Tex" Gemma - (02-09-1938/01-10-2013) had a great life and many people of Italy and all Texians around the globe would shed tears for his demise...

Would meet you all soon with latest updates on Tex...

See you amigos, signing off

Texfan

Destination Tucson!!! Part 2

Tex struggles to get out of his death situation when he losses his horse, Friends for life together even if we die comes Carson as savior.

Tackling the indians Tex and Carson escapes them temporarily, to meet them again in their way.... 

They have to first cross SAN SIMON VALLEY to move forward towards Tucson... with only one horse which limbs which cant hold the pressure of two over it.. Tex and Carson are a bit stranded....

At the same time a stage coach heading towards Tucson starts its journey from WELLS FARGO office..

Our Friends meetup with the stage coach and enter the fatefully thrilling journey...

There are quite a humerous scenes where our friends who are not accustomed so sit tight inside a stagecoach have to travel in it -- especially Carson...

There were a lot of communication happening -- the sky is full of smoke messages....

 Did the stagecoach withstand the attack of Indian tribe... What happened to our friends....

to be continued...

Destination Tucson!!! Part 1

Tex -- the name rings bell in all bandits and outlaws minds to fly away...

What happens when Tex and Carson takes up a mission to save passengers of a stagecoach heading to Tucson is a pure action thriller with lots of fireworks...

The Mission is Destination Tucson!!!

The story line is as simple as anyother story line of Tex but the ways its naratted makes it unique...

Tex and Carson happen to meet a half dead man who was attacked by the Indian tribe who brutally attack people who pass through.

making a good burial for the one, they continue their journey to meet up with the indians and a lot of firework too.

When they have blood thirsty tribe behind their heels our friends flee to make an attack back and the land shatters in the lightening fast bullets...

Tex losses his horse when Carson comes to his rescue...

And All these with-in the 16 pages of the book...

So whats in store for the full story is the screenplay which makes this one a special among my favourites...

to be continued...

Tex great! – Special Issue Number 1

The story begins between the loggers who work for Mr. Thompson, concerned that some of their comrades were involved in terrible and fatal accidents that do not seem random.

The tension mounts to the point that many decide to leave to seek their fortunes elsewhere. Pat Mac Ryan, the great friend of Tex, attempts to stay.

His aim is to defend the honest master and his daughter Jane from the oppression of the rival company of the brothers Patterson. But he cannot do it alone. This is the cute giant has no other choice but to ask for help from pards.

Needless to say, Tex and Carson got his message, and immediately action starts.

And when they arrive at the scene of the crime, they immediately take care of the lawyer Kafman, throwing down the stairs of the Thompson and a group of thugs, wiped out overnight after an ambush.

 But the Rangers will begin to really go wild when the ruffians kidnap the young Jane.

It is a wonderfull story fully actionpacked with a slight different look of tex. The story is the first and foremost in the special series which are all done by different artists and authors and are a very rare collectibles..

About the Artist of this special edition:

Guido Buzzelli, excellent designer and son of an artist, designer Guido Buzzelli (Rome, 27 July 1927-24 January 1992) comes at eighteen in the preparation of "Argentovivo".

Very active after the war (his are such series as "Bill Marine" and "Alex space" for Editions Diana), Buzzelli also works in the UK, Spain and France. He returned to Italy in 1965, he devoted himself to painting, but leaves again in favor of speech bubbles. In 1967 he produced "The revolt of the Racchi" which earned him worldwide recognition as a master of the comic.

Worked for "Charlie" and "Metal Hurlant", and, in 1973, received the Yellow Kid. For Bonelli (then Cepim) draws "Man of Bengal" (1979) and, in 1988, "the great Tex", originally designed as a gift for the (first) four decades of Night Eagle and became, instead, the first issue of the series of special registers in which the greatest masters of comics pay tribute to the Rangers via Buonarroti.


Buzzelli was born in Rome into a family in which his grandfather had been a decorator, his father a painter and his mother a model. He frequented the Academy of St. Luke and initially decided to follow his father's steps. Later, however, he entered the workshop of Rino Albertarelli, one of the main Italian comic book artists of the time, debuting in the 1950s with the magazine Zorro; he also provided covers for magazines of the publisher Fratelli Spada. Other Buzzelli comics of the time include Susan Bill, Alex l'eroe dello spazio, Bill dei Marines, Bambola and Dray Tigre.

Later he moved to Spain and then to England, where he produced the strip Angélique for the Daily Mirror. After his return to Italy and his marriage to Grazia de Stefani (1960), he initially devoted himself to painting. He returned to comics with a personal project, La rivolta dei racchi ("The Revolt of the Ugly", 1966), a fantasy history containing a sarcastic metaphor of the class struggle; the work was to be published only in 1970 in France, on the magazine Charlie. He soon established himself as one of the most praised comics artists in France and, later, also in Italy, with other stories such as I Labirinti (1970),Zil Zelub (1972), Annalisa e il diavolo (1973), L'intervista (1975), L'Agnone (1977), La guerra videologica (1978), all mixing social themes with fantastic and dream-like atmospheres.

In 1973 he received the Yellow Kid Prize as best illustrator and author in the Lucca Comics convention, followed in 1979 by the French equivalent, the Crayon d'Or. He then started to collaborate with magazines and newspapers such as Linus, Alter Linus, Paese Sera, Il Messaggero, L'Espresso, L'Eternauta, Psyco, Corriere dei Ragazzi, Comic Art, Playmen, Menelik, L'Unità, and, in France, Pilote, Métal Hurlant, À Suivre, Circus, Le Monde, Fluide Glacial and others. Under the pseudonym of Blotz he created several erotic illustration published in France in Charlie Mensuel as well as the collections Démonsand Buzzelliades.
In 1976 Buzzelli illustrated L'uomo del Bengala for Sergio Bonelli Editore; for the same publication in 1985 he drew the first giant-size volume of Tex Special, written by Claudio Nizzi (1985). In the 1980s he collaborated with Italian television and taught in the European Institute of Design.
Buzzelli died in Rome in 1992.

-- Texfan