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series Robin Wood in Italy - (from Forges Mute 55) HELENA

In the good old days when we still thought that Robin Wood to write all his comics (but already leaked through some indiscretion nippurweb.com.ar) I wrote a long piece about Wood that ended with the 'list of its series arrived in Italy. "And we hope not too many stupid things you have written" I said to introduce it on Mute Fucine 51. Here, indeed, I take this opportunity to update the blog and correct some things ...

And of course to expand the list with the new series of the weekly Wood appeared after 2002.

Helena ( Lanciostory 2 / 82)

Another milestone in the history of the euro and comics. Helena is a girl of middle-class Buenos Aires that the death of the Beloved father is forced to mature early. E 'journalist, writer, war correspondent and work the door to meet various human figures and occasionally find themselves involved in situations of extreme danger. A bit 'sentimental, a little' detective, a little 'dramatic, a little' adventure and a bit 'hyper-realistic, this memorable series exceeds all kinds to become something completely new and original, in fact, was never repeated. As with Savarese, also Helena the wonderful designs became almost secondary to the splendor of the texts in front of Wood. Which was able to create memorable stories from a subject that many others would have led to the usual platitudes. Another masterpiece of historic Wood.

Helena appeared fleetingly on Euracomix (n ° 10: it was an amalgam of episodes different, not a chronological re-proposed) and was housed in the first insert (up Skorpio 2/93-44/93, pending conclusion) and then the adventure Giants (No. 6, 9, 13 and 17).

In Italy reached only episodes designed by Garcia Seijas (and maybe it's better that way) [But no: as in the case of the Eura The Cobra has published 3 of the 4 final episode of Helena designed by Alberto Saichann as failing if they were free to say that were part of the series, these are the stories Life and death of the king of the park on Lanciostory 23/1989, The tale of the worm and the serpent in 33/89 That love and faceless in 1 / 92 - the last episode is titled novel Massimo ] and in our country's popularity was such that the heroin was even dedicated a Channel 5 television drama starring Paola Onofri.

Wood said that the character of Helena is inspired by a woman who actually exists. [the "woman" who would be inspired Helena Helena is Goni who met Wood on the occasion of an interview hosted on the People magazine in 1974]