Search found 198 matches

by Robbie Moubert
31 Aug 2010, 19:31
Forum: General comics discussion
Topic: Dan Dare - The Film??
Replies: 32
Views: 7263

Re: Dan Dare - The Film??

Characters have to change or, like the old Dare, fade into near oblivion. No kid reading Action or Battle would have wanted the Vicar In Space version of Dare for 2000AD. Likewise, no politically-minded teen/twenty-something that was reading Crisis/Revolver would have wanted the fairly simplistic (...
by Robbie Moubert
31 Aug 2010, 15:46
Forum: General comics discussion
Topic: Dan Dare - The Film??
Replies: 32
Views: 7263

Re: Dan Dare - The Film??

You really think the Dan Dare that Morrison presented in that series was the same heroic character that appeared in the Eagle? It wasn't just Dare's world that was distorted but Dare himself.
by Robbie Moubert
31 Aug 2010, 03:08
Forum: General comics discussion
Topic: Dan Dare - The Film??
Replies: 32
Views: 7263

Re: Dan Dare - The Film??

It's such a lazy approach to writing. "I'm going to change these characters to fit the story I want to tell." If you can't stay true to the characters then don't bother. Sadly, far too many writers are doing it these days.
by Robbie Moubert
30 Aug 2010, 16:00
Forum: General comics discussion
Topic: Dan Dare - The Film??
Replies: 32
Views: 7263

Re: Dan Dare - The Film??

That Morrison series, Dare, was dreadful. Bleak and depressing and steeped in sixth-form politics, it was everything a Dan Dare story shouldn't be. The first thing anyone who wants to write a character like Dan Dare should realise is that he's a hero . Sadly this seems an elusive concept to so many ...
by Robbie Moubert
06 Aug 2010, 18:36
Forum: General comics discussion
Topic: What was your favourite?
Replies: 20
Views: 3426

Re: What was your favourite?

I used to get quite a few comics at different times in the late 60s/70s - TV21, Look-in, Countdown, Whizzer and Chips, Mighty World of Marvel and the other British Marvels, Warlord, 2000AD - but have no hesitation in naming Valiant as my favourite. I started getting it in October '69 aged six and ha...
by Robbie Moubert
17 Jun 2010, 16:26
Forum: General comics discussion
Topic: Years of "Maxwell Hawke" in `Buster` comic!
Replies: 24
Views: 5499

Re: Years of "Maxwell Hawke" in `Buster` comic!

I think the same artist also drew the later (circa 1970) "Sexton Blake" strip! This had been a sucessful Childrens ITV series of 1970 featuring Lawrence Payne in tital role and Roger Foss as `Tinker` The artist on Sexton Blake was another Eric but Dadswell not Bradbury! Those Sexton Blake strips we...
by Robbie Moubert
16 May 2010, 22:08
Forum: General comics discussion
Topic: Striker finally has a proper replacement!
Replies: 30
Views: 4269

Re: Striker finally has a proper replacement!

stevezodiac wrote: What strips the British press do publish are pretty poor. Calvin & Hobbs? Faith & Sue? (might have misspelt those)
Calvin and Hobbes "poor"?!?!?! :o I might have to go and lie down for a bit. Ten years of sheer comic-strip perfection IMHO.
by Robbie Moubert
24 Jan 2010, 19:43
Forum: General comics discussion
Topic: What comics did you buy today?
Replies: 7750
Views: 1435784

Re: What comics did you buy today?

The story Noble drew ran for six issues.
by Robbie Moubert
24 Jan 2010, 18:08
Forum: General comics discussion
Topic: What comics did you buy today?
Replies: 7750
Views: 1435784

Re: What comics did you buy today?

Mike Noble drew one Kung Fu story in early '75.
1975_No11_kungfu_pg01.jpg
by Robbie Moubert
24 Dec 2009, 17:24
Forum: Retired IPC/Odhams/Fleetway titles
Topic: Buster Special 2009
Replies: 179
Views: 40885

Re: Buster Special 2009

Having arrived in sunny Llandudno for Christmas, I found a single copy in Smiths. I've only skimmed it so far but can't believe they couldn't find a better example for the Leopard from Lime St. In the one they've chosen he only appears in costume in the last panel.
by Robbie Moubert
18 Dec 2009, 16:25
Forum: General comics discussion
Topic: The best artists we never had
Replies: 35
Views: 6555

Re: The best artists we never had

I was wondering recently what might have happened if John Byrne's parents hadn't decided to emigrate to Canada in 1958. If he'd still become a comic artist it's quite possible he would have been one of the original 2000ad artists. Mind you, no doubt he would have joined the exodus to Marvel and DC i...
by Robbie Moubert
07 Dec 2009, 03:43
Forum: Artwork, artists and writers
Topic: Convention Programmes
Replies: 47
Views: 17018

Re: Convention Programmes

but does anyone have any idea where the seemingly pregnant Carrie appeared? Carrie appeared in a two page colour strip in Mayfair magazine. There was no dialogue and each month would see her losing all her clothes in "hilarious" circumstances. Lawrence was the original artist from 1972 - 75, replac...
by Robbie Moubert
02 Dec 2009, 01:42
Forum: Retired DCT titles
Topic: I SPY--------- THE SECOND EPIC SERIES
Replies: 305
Views: 52052

Re: I SPY--------- THE SECOND EPIC SERIES

They were still wiping stuff in the mid 70s? That's a shame. :( I guess DW got lucky that they stopped wiping them once they went colour. Oh, hindsight's wonderful, isn't it? Sadly they didn't stop. Quite a few Pertwee episodes no longer exist in their original form. The archive contains a hotch po...
by Robbie Moubert
01 Dec 2009, 03:51
Forum: General comics discussion
Topic: forgotten character from childhood
Replies: 9
Views: 2971

Re: forgotten character from childhood

I don't know about the period you mention but the character appeared in the 1971 and 1972 Topper Books.
45.jpg
by Robbie Moubert
25 Nov 2009, 07:49
Forum: General comics discussion
Topic: One or two offs of a character on the cover
Replies: 19
Views: 2348

Maxwell Hawke vs Sexton Blake

On the subject of the recycled scripts, the last part of the first Maxwell Hawke story can be seen on Peter Gray's blog: http://petergraycartoonsandcomics.blogspot.com/2009/01/eric-bradburys-maxwell-hawke-buster.html while the Sexton Blake version is here: http://www.sextonblake.co.uk/PDFs/val_24_2_...