What comics are you reading?

[dandy mad]

TV21 annual 1969 followed by the Dandy monster comic 1946 nothing like a bit of diversity...

[rivertonunited]

I, too, have the complete Champ, Spike and half the run of Buddy. Some of the Champ and Victor's and a few FSPM's.

Found We are United much grittier and enjoyable than Rovers, that I still loved too!. Really enjoyed the team profile of opponents before the game most issues too.

Really need to bag and board my collection.

[starscape]

Currently reading Marvel Action. John Byrne's Fantastic Four reads so well as US comics but the stop/start nature of a weekly anthology just doesn't work. The Dr Strange was pretty poor too. Excellent Thor mind you (Wein/Simonsen) but it does show how dumbed down today's kids are. Shakespearean inspired stuff.

[ISPYSHHHGUY]

This week, I have been looking through the collected BULLET, [1976-78, 147? issues] and although there is next to no colour other than some token red overlays, and some advertising, it's a good summation of the 'glossier' adventure fare put out at the time, the SMASHER, about a demented scientist threatening civilization with his advanced giant robot is still the highlight of this comic for me.

[starscape]

Yeah, Bullet was a good comic. Deserves to be better remembered. Smasher was collectedin Re Dagger of course. Another terrific series.

[ISPYSHHHGUY]

that transparant globe-bubble that Dr Dooms' robot emerges from in SMASHER [usually at sea] easily equals anything similar in VALIANT!

[Phoenix]

Smasher was collected in Red Dagger of course. Another terrific series.

The story in Red Dagger consisted of both serials from Bullet (1977). If greater clarification is required please see my post in The Phantom thread (Feb. 25 2014) in World Comics.

[ISPYSHHHGUY]

Cheers for the clarification, Phoenix-----the original SMASHER artist especially had a great style.

Must check up upon........

[colcool007]

As far as I recall, the two main artists for The Smasher in Bullet were Terry Patrick and Ian Kennedy. There may have been others but it's been a couple of years since I read them.

As to my current reading fare, I am working through The Invisibles. I have read the first two runs and now only have the last run to go through. Needles to say, I now know why Grant Morrison is regarding in the way that he is. His ideas are absolutely barking, but I just can't resist those beautiful Brian Bolland covers.

[Kashgar]

As far as I recall, the two main artists for The Smasher in Bullet were Terry Patrick and Ian Kennedy. There may have been others but it's been a couple of years since I read them.

As to my current reading fare, I am working through The Invisibles. I have read the first two runs and now only have the last run to go through. Needles to say, I now know why Grant Morrison is regarding in the way that he is. His ideas are absolutely barking, but I just can't resist those beautiful Brian Bolland covers.

Spot on Col. In a slightly less imposing incarnation, based on the prose story Smasher tales had that featured in the Wizard and Dandy in the 1930's there were also several Smasher strips in the Victor in the 1960's drawn by Alan Philpott and Tony Coleman. He was like Frankenstein's monster, engulfed by swamp, buried or blown up only to return again in strips with titles like 'The Smasher Awakes' and 'The Smasher Strikes'.

[colcool007]

As far as I recall, the two main artists for The Smasher in Bullet were Terry Patrick and Ian Kennedy. There may have been others but it's been a couple of years since I read them.....

Spot on Col. In a slightly less imposing incarnation, based on the prose story Smasher tales had that featured in the Wizard and Dandy in the 1930's there were also several Smasher strips in the Victor in the 1960's drawn by Alan Philpott and Tony Coleman. He was like Frankenstein's monster, engulfed by swamp, buried or blown up only to return again in strips with titles like 'The Smasher Awakes' and 'The Smasher Strikes'.

I just wish Denis McLoughlin had done at least one issue as he is one of the few artists where I would have loved to have seen what he would have come up with for this story. And I think his dark cross-hatching style would have suited the story to a T.

[ISPYSHHHGUY]

To me, the SMASHER was as good as anything from the later-published 2000 AD, and I had no idea it's genesis went so far back---I learn something new every week on here.

I am also sure that the SMASHER would have looked equally at home in Thargs' comic, if rendered by, say, Bolland/ O'Neill/ McMahon.

[colcool007]

To me, the SMASHER was as good as anything from the later-published 2000 AD, and I had no idea it's genesis went so far back---I learn something new every week on here.

I am also sure that the SMASHER would have looked equally at home in Thargs' comic, if rendered by, say, Bolland/ O'Neill/ McMahon.

*cough* Gibbons *cough* Ezquerra *cough*

[ISPYSHHHGUY]

I just can't resist those beautiful Brian Bolland covers.

Funny enough, I was reading an in-depth interview with BB in the Megazine this week, and he was notoriously slow in turning out work, his second JUDGE DEATH LIVES five-parter from 1981 taking him almost a year to complete--that's about a page every two weeks!

This tale was magnificently rendered, though: and apparantly the first Judge Death story from 1980 only yielded him 55 pounds per page, which even in 1980 was hardly a Kings' Ransom------I am sure he is earning a good living doing covers this past decade or three, however.......

[suebutcher]

A page every two weeks? That's about my speed!