winter of crows - page 9 (the traffic light at 47th and troost) 



the route nips is taking leads him through the 47th and troost intersection. in my day--that is, when i went through it a lot, generally on the 47th street and troost avenue busses,) it would frequently be out, blinking away, while traffic crawled through like an ungainly slug. considering that it's a major intersection, it would be a pain. the place looks different now . . . most of the business were torn out and there's a bus plaza at the corner. except for rent-a-center (evil incarnate) they were all of them pretty run down and getting worse. there's been some reconstruction, and the survivors have been spruced up, but it seems mostly to have been an effort to move urban blight away from the kauffman foundation's new headquarters.

i liked the rather cinematic effect of flying low over the crow's feathers, but it's pretty crude, i suppose.

and there, once again, is the place that must not be named on troost. not well done, that panel. it was a fortress of doom for me in those days, just like it looks . . . but compare to how things got in the end, i suppose it was heaven.

as i mentioned earlier, nips is in fact driving a tucker, but it doesn't look anything like one here, or anywhere, until the SPX piece.

 

Posted: Wed - June 2, 2004 at 08:00 AM             |

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