Michael T. Gilbert's A Dream Of Milk & Honey

An absolute cast-iron masterpiece now from Michael T. Gilbert.
Regular follower Manuel Ruiz has been talking in the comments section about the greatness of Gilbert's work in general, and of this strip in particular, and he's completely right.
I could've sworn I'd already posted it, but bizarrely can't locate it in the history, so definitely need to do so now.
Michael was all over Mike Friedrich's Star*Reach line, of course, especially with The Wraith, his funny animal tribute to The Spirit. But as great as that was, A Dream Of Milk & Honey in Star*Reach's sister book Imagine was a quantum leap forward and in my opinion, one of the great sci-fi classics of comics. Certainly one of the ones everybody should be more aware of.
How great is A Dream Of Milk & Honey? Well, it's so great that Will Eisner wrote Michael a fan letter about it:

And as Michael is on facebook, I asked him if it would be ok to post his story for those poor souls still unaware of it, and being a true gent, he's happy for me to do so. It is, of course, copyright Michael T. Gilbert 1978 & 2019.
From Imagine #4, here's the first part of the story. If you want to know what happens next ( and you will ), you know what to do...

The Wraith

Quack! was Mike Friedrich's short-lived adult funny animal book, ostensibly begun in order to put Frank Brunner's mallard based strip Duckaneer into print. Frank had just left Marvel, one of his issues at the time being what he saw as a lack of credit in the success of Howard The Duck, and Duckaneer being his riposte to the nay-sayers. Quack! pretty obviously rode in on Howard's coattails, and was never gonna last long, but did produce some great strips in it's 6 issues, including regular character The Wraith. This was Michael T. Gilbert's loving homage to The Spirit, and like it's template, flitted between laugh out loud humour and serious drama in it's short run. Here's one of the funny ones, a scattershot satire of big business and the publishing industry, with some instantly recognizable ( and pulse-pounding ) guest stars.














And finally...