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Talking about Fleetway/IPC, I've got an IPC favourite, too. Sort of.
Somewhere around 1970, Odhams - which I think is now part of IPC - launched a pair of adventure comics called WHAM and POW! Initially they featured superheroes, but they reverted very quickly to more traditional British subject matter. The superheroes' origin stories, which were as far as I know their only stories, appeared in POW! Annual 1971. These were fun stories beautifully and quite Britishly illustrated by - I'm guessing - Ron and Gerry Embleton and others: Dynamo, Electro, the Psi-Commandos, some kid on a time-travelling robot horse, and more. One day, I'm going to use these characters, even if I have to do a Watchmen and disguise them.
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Well, I'm so damn pleased with Moon Knight that I'm going to dig out my Doug Moench / Kelley Jones Batmans and see how readable they are. I still think Moench has written some horrible prose - and the first Moon Knight story is an example - but these later stories are excellent.
Missing issues is one of the big problems with the comics industry. Ephemeral doesn't cover it. Sometimes your LCS will actually stop ordering a title while you're still collecting it, because you're the only bugger buying it. But then, if you've bought it, it's gone before the next person sees it, so they can't buy it, can they?
This is one of the reasons I want to try to develop selling online, where everything can always be in stock. The big problem then is just bringing people to your shop.
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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 2:58 pm Post subject: Re: Current Reading.
Just a quick OT post... hopefully my last, since this is to highlight a new platform for me to discuss my passion for horror from.
I recently succumbed, and gained myself a page/blogspot over at myspace. I wasn't sure exactly what to do with it at first, but after posting on this thread about horror, and getting some thoughts out of my head that I hadn't even realised were so fully-formed, I decided to devote my blog (primarily, though probably not exclusively) to horror - what makes it tick, tricks of the trade, differing tacitcs in different media, the whoel shebang. I've posted up a brief introduction and plan of attack for the blog tonight, and will be updating regularly with whatever guff happens to be on my mind at the time.
So, with that avenue open to me, I no longer need to derail poor Palmer's threads here every couple of days! Although you are all most welcome to come over and do the same to mine any time you wish!!
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 3:03 pm Post subject: Re: Current Reading.
MySapce is jsut something I really really don't get. That being said. Best of luck with it
Missing issues are a big problem. I used to preorder with a friend but then I ended up doubling up since he wasn't always the most reliable etc. It was a mess. I hopefully, won't have missed anything though.
Well, that's voluminous. And funny. And Crohn's... Stephen King reckons his writing Dreamcatcher, probably his nastiest book, during his period of recovery after being run down by a car was affected by the way he felt (it sounds stupidly obvious as I write it), and you've called your company Dreamcatcher. Does ill-health enhance the appeal of the dark side, or is that a really crass and stupid question?
Missing issues sometimes stay missing for so long they become a kind of festering wound. Jack Kirby's Fourth World 10 (I think it is) and Plastic Man 17 are my big sores at the moment, with Silver Surfer Special Edition (I think it's called: the Lee-Byrne one) a kind of Holy Grail.
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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 7:02 pm Post subject: Re: Current Reading.
Damn it, and I said I wasn't going to post here any more... lol
For what it's worth, I decided to use Dreamcatcher as a name for any future theatre projects back six or so years ago. The thought then was to do work based around dark fantasy rather than outright horror, and the name fitted well. When I decided to focus more purely on My Favourite Genre (tm), I wanted to keep the name. With a little lateral thinking, I came up with the rationale that the theatre's work represented the nightmares that had been caught in the web - they had to have somewhere to go...
As to ill health leading to an interest in the dark side - I'm not sure that's my primary source of inspiration, although it has led to a fascination with how the body works and anatomy, which obviously features heavily in horror (well, the squishy bits, anyway!). My fascination in the 'dark side' of humanity (ass opposed to supernatural/monster horror) came about more when I realised at 17 what a sheltered life I'd had, and I vowed I'd never shut my eyes to it again.
I went to the LCS today, having been paid, and there was a note on the door saying GONE TO LUNCH BACK AT 2PM. At 2.15, I had to give up waiting and go back to work. What kind of chance has the industry got?
Finally caught up with True Brit, which cost too much in hardback but is now in paperback. Love Byrne drawing Superman - I've said many times that Man Of Steel is a perfect mainstream superhero comic - and it's nice to see his looser, cartoonier style; but why is it that even the English can't write England properly in comics? I choked on the Byrne Captain America with the British bobby wearing a cape and carrying an oil lantern, and on the Claremont Marvel Team-Up in which Captain Britain uses "chap" as a mode of address ("Thanks, chap"), AND on the Scott Lobdell Majestic story in which a British copper addresses the superhero as "wanker" because, like the writers of Miami Vice when Phil Collins guest-starred, he thinks it means "mate" or something... But John Cleese is supposed to have been involved in this, and the England in this is Monty Python Engand, which hasn't existed even in satire since 1970. Double-barreled names are rare. And it's a minor thing, but where did the costume come from?
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Top 10: The Forty-Niners is finally in paperback. Interestingly, it's structured in four chapters, so perhaps it was planned as a miniseries. Beautifully written, very beautifully illustrated, some nice cameos and analogues - anagram of Valor, anyone? - and it makes me want to re-read Top 10 to see whether the revelations here change my impressions of the older Steve Traynor.
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Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 11:23 am Post subject: Re: Current Reading.
I got the hardback last year and it was a good read. I have always liked the artist as well, ever since the XMan future Cyclops and Pheonix stuff he did about 15 years ago (ish) ..
Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 8:34 am Post subject: Re: Current Reading.
I haven't looked at it in years but I really thought it had a nice detail and individual feel that wasn't in the Jim Lee clones of the day, etc. I have only seen the graphic novel and then a Tom Strong cover of the Top 10 stuff.
Top 10 is like much of Alan Moore's work: even when you don't remember the storylines, you've read good dialogue and you've read characters and interractions which are a bit more grown-up than the average. And the art is nice, although the painted colour in the graphic novel lifts it further.
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:25 pm Post subject: Re: Current Reading.
Yep, for some reason there wasn't much that grabbed me. I have some Top 10 tales in with Tom Strong stuff but I haven't really seen much of the stand alone books. I never really latched onto the Promethea stuff either ...
Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:31 pm Post subject: Re: Current Reading.
I just found out, I think I missed it since I was sort of in a Comic lull when the original series came out. I read my firend's Tom Strong and then pcked it up after a bit and got the trade but I wasn't really getting comics around then and didn't see collected stuff.
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