Darwyn Cooke and The Spirit: Tribute or Exploitation?

There used to be a site called Comics Bulletin, which was in operation until about 5 years ago. Now, it appears other sources in the UK have since bought the domain and put it to use for what’s basically a new specialty site with a blog format. And here’s one of their entries from over a year ago, which most unfortunately is leftist apologia for the post-911 era, and tells something rather eyebrow raising about the late artist Darwyn Cooke’s run on the new Spirit volume from the late 2000s, adapted from Will Eisner’s famous comics from 1940-52 by DC Comics, which apparently had acquired a license for it 2 decades ago, after Eisner’s passing: While not as well known as Batman’s or as colorful as Dick Tracy’s, like other masked heroes the Spirit has a long, well-established list of rogues. The differentiating factor, however, is that The Spirit’s rogues gallery is primarily made up of femme fatales. This is one of the few things the terrible Frank Miller movie got right, but even then it overlooked the most prominent of them all, P’Gell. From her first appearance in The Spirit Section #332 (October 6, 1946), she made an immediate impression thanks to her striking beauty, which Cooke ...