Cinnamon – El Ciclo by Jen Van Meter, Francisco Paronzini and Robert Campanella
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Overview: Cinnamon is the name of two Western characters in DC Comics, one inhabiting the wild west, the other living in the modern era. The character first appeared in Weird Western Tales #48 (September-October 1978). The script was written by Roger McKenzie, with artwork by Dick Ayers (pencils) and Danny Bulanadi (inks).
First appearance in Weird Western Tales #48 (September-October 1978)
Cinnamon – El Ciclo
- Writer(s): Jen Van Meter
Penciller(s): Francisco Paronzini and Robert Campanella
Cover Artist(s): Francisco Paronzini and Robert Campanella
Publisher: DC Comics, 2003-2004
- Cinnamon – El Ciclo Issue #1 Inicio Oct. 1, 2003
Cinnamon – El Ciclo Issue #2 Demanda Nov. 1, 2003
Cinnamon – El Ciclo Issue #3 Desfio Dec. 1, 2003
Cinnamon – El Ciclo Issue #4 Fuego Jan. 1, 2004
Cinnamon – El Ciclo Issue #5 Los Angeles Feb. 1, 2004
Kate Manser was the reincarnation of the Egyptian Princess Chay-Ara. When her widowed father, the sheriff of a small Wyoming town, was gunned down by a gang of fleeing bank robbers, the child Cinnamon could only watch in helpless horror. Now orphaned, Cinnamon grew to maturity in a county orphanage, her hatred growing within her. Determined to avenge her father, Cinnamon spent every available moment learning to use a six-gun and training herself to physical perfection. On her 18th birthday Cinnamon left the orphanage behind to set out on a trail of revenge. Her death remains a mystery.
A modern-day version of the character is introduced in the miniseries Cinnamon: El Ciclo (2003), named by her parents after the historical gunslinger Cinnamon. Like the original, her father is a sheriff who is shot by bank robbers, leading her to seek revenge on the killers and become a bounty hunter.
She is seen in the Infinite Crisis special Villains United being contacted by J’onn J’onzz the Martian Manhunter. She is one of many recruited to fight various supervillain prison escapes. One page later, she is seen lying on the ground, unconscious, with a cut on her forehead.
Cinnamon does not appear again until Checkmate #24, where she is revealed as one of the organization’s "Rooks."
Reviewer By Koppy McFad, Sep 1, 2003. 14:53 PM
- The first part of a five-issue mini-series, it revives the name of a heroine of the old West but is set in the grungy new West, somewhere on the Mexican-American border.
The protagonist (who is never referred to as Cinnamon in the story) works as a bounty hunter/bouncer/enforcer/private investigator who skirts the edges of legality. We learn that her policeman-father was killed in a bank robbery when she was a child and years later, she killed the murderer. We later discover that the murderer’s daughter is now coming after her.
Early in the story, a character compares Cinnamon to Clint Eastwood. It is a description that fits. Although she is prettier than Clint, she can be just as lethal with a gun and just as stone-faced– even when she’s taking a bullet in the arm saving some spoiled brat from a pair of muggers. Though haunted by the memories of her dad’s death, Cinnamon seems to just drift along casually from one potentially-dangerous encounter to another. When she learns that someone is out gunning for her, she decides to look that person up, simply because she has nothing better to do.
Perhaps Van Meter is trying to build up suspense slowly or give a sense of the emptiness of Cinnamon’s life but the writer risks losing the readers’ interest early on by not picking up the pace. The lead character may be intriguing but she doesn’t exactly win our hearts.
Paronzini and Campanella come up with some very good work here. The faces, backgrounds and layouts are outstanding, combining both the look of the Old West and a hard-boiled crime drama. They also give their small border towns a lot of local color, so they don’t look like some dusty Mexican town from "the Wild Bunch." Where the art team falls short however is in the staging of their action sequences. The gunbattle with a group of hijackers is strangely lacking in suspense. Maybe it is because they are forced to use so many small panels in such a detailed story.They could take some tips from Walt Simonson on how to pack a lot of action into small panels.
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Cinnamon – El Ciclo Issue #1 Inicio — http://novafile.com/ic29g05imh9d
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Cinnamon – El Ciclo Issue #3 Desfio — http://novafile.com/qqp55gb7uoao
Cinnamon – El Ciclo Issue #4 Fuego — http://novafile.com/l1jl1fghvuua
Cinnamon – El Ciclo Issue #5 Los Angeles — http://novafile.com/8okvfrha3pgb
