Saint Germaine
Fan Mail
Erik Simenis
The Grand Inquisitor
scene/dream/flashback was way cool!
Good to see the addition of a female archetype to the Christ and
Anti-Christ Interplay, which lends a rather Kantian synthesis of ideals and a rather
Gurdjieffian third force of creation to the back story of Saint Germaine.
Nicely smoothes over my earlier comment about here being too
much orientalism in Germaine's philosophizing...unless I'm just reading too much into all
this!
Kurt Meer
Possessed by some thing and pushed
forward into unknown territory. To exist here, fueled by only one's sensibilities -
ordering some slim chance of creation.
The thin thread of honesty in work is frayed. When only cliches
are left, new thought burns brightly. I walk through life looking for these flashes in the
peripheral. Something to reassure. Faith.
When things change at a rapid pace, foresight is irrelevant.
Culture has no meaning, its symbols congeal into a formless abstract thing. A veritable
crystal ball swirling with images in the clouded glass.
Modernism proved that the commonplace has the great potential of
abstraction. We must prove that the abstract has the great potential of the commonplace -
for the next century.
The difficulty with abandoning convention: wide open space a
vista filled with nothing. Your back is to history. The question arises---what is the
question?
I feel like you are tapping into some interesting ideas in Saint
Germaine.
Edward Douglas
Maybe it's because I enjoy
historically accurate fiction or maybe it's just the way he depicts these characters, but
this is definitely one class act. From the fall of Moscow to Napoleon to the death of
Franz Kafka to the Salem witch trials, Germaine and his life-long foil, Lilith are there,
and they continue to use investigator, Manny Chancu as their medium.
I'm not sure why this issue wasn't included within the regular
numbering of the series as it seems to follow the current story line---it even seems like
a plausible conclusion for the story---but Reed continues to develop the relationships
between this odd threesome.
All-in-all, the writing is better than the concept and Reed's
narrative is very powerful, really getting into the minds of the characters and putting
the reader fully into the historical settings along with Manny.
Reed's fantastic writing is accompanied by a great mix of artists
while regular artist Vincent Locke's inks maintain the consistency through out the
different scenes. Something makes me think that this is going to make a damn great graphic
novel when it's collected.
Marcella D. Boyer
Okay, I thought I was reading a fictional comic book for enjoyment. Now
I know I shall have to read all Caliber titles the minute they are published to find the
news before it happens.
If you haven’t figured it out by now, I’m referring to the
next to last page of the story in Saint Germaine #5. Exactly how did you manage for
that bastard Pol Pot’s body to be found just after the release of this issue? Oh, and
Kilroy, sweetie, could you please do something about Saddam Hussein?
Paul Dale Roberts
That is one of the things I admire about Caliber Comics. Caliber Comics
is like the Star Trek of comic books, you’re ready to adventure into areas where no
man has gone before. I’m talking about Saint Germaine #1. Yes, I am familiar
with the stories of Count St. Germaine, supposedly an immortal and as strange and as weird
as other paranormal legendary icons, such as Edgar Cayce, Zigmund Jan Adamski, Aleister
Crowley, Nostradamus, Kasper Hauser (can their comic books be far behind?). One of the
things I love about myths, legends, historical anecdotes is trying to decipher what is
real and what is myth. St. Germaine is legendary and his story has been passed on through
word of mouth for generations. To determine what is truth and what is false is a challenge
for the greatest detective.
Now, you are ready to add on to his mytho, his legend and somewhere in
the future, a historian will probably add-on Gary Reed’s marvelous tale and
incorporate it into the legend of what is Saint Germaine.
I was totally taken in by this
powerful story as I saw Jonathan Stidwell taking that big leap, to end his life and he,
being the first of a series of suicides. I have been introduced to Level X, in
which dreams can become reality, a different level of consciousness, something that I wish
to know more about as this brilliant series continues. I am mystified as I learn that an
immortal like Saint Germaine is dying, he seeks out a writer for his memoirs and the
writer is a most fortunate chap, for an immortal’s tale will definitely land him a
best seller.
The artwork in this comic was done
with exceptional clarity. Vincent Locke has a strong eye for detail, I was very impressed.
I recently saw "Shindler’s List" and seeing the extermination of the Jews
as the story was unfolding brought back memories of this monumental movie. Saint Germaine
lays on his philosophy of the order of things as he relates the concept of order versus
chaos and light versus darkness, and what he says makes sense. There is so much to reveal
and explore with this story. I have become enchanted and swept away into this story and
will be anticipating more of the "aura of mystery" that surrounds this comic.
Caliber Comics has taken alternate comics into the next level of
storytelling.
I am in awe.
