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- 31 Aug 2010, 19:31
- Forum: General comics discussion
- Topic: Dan Dare - The Film??
- Replies: 32
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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 (...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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!
Calvin and Hobbes "poor"?!?!?! I might have to go and lie down for a bit. Ten years of sheer comic-strip perfection IMHO.stevezodiac wrote: What strips the British press do publish are pretty poor. Calvin & Hobbs? Faith & Sue? (might have misspelt those)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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_...