Skip to main content  Will Eisner's John Law by Gary Chaloner,
Reviewed by Xaviar Xerexes  NOTE: This is a parallel review in
which we have two reviewers looking at the same comic. The other
review is by Andrew Leal.  John Law is a character, originally
created by Will Eisner in the 1940s, whom he ultimately did not
actually publish. Instead he repurposed the work he did for this
character into stories for his more well-known comic, The
Spirit. Despite some claims to the contrary, the full-fledged
character of John Law only appeared in print when Eclipse Comics
published a one-shot book in 1983 titled John Law, Detective #1.
So in almost every respect, this John Law is largely the
creation of Gary Chaloner. Chaloner has kept Law fixed in a
post-WWII time and a film noir-like environment and he largely
nails the details right. The backgrounds, the cars, the clothes,
all evoke our mental image of that era as derived from movies
and television. In creating this version of the character,
Chaloner acknowledged a