A few days ago I was kindly sent some PDF scanned copies of early issues of Iconic British War comic Battle Picture Weekly. Publishers IPC hired the innovative writing team of Pat Mills and John Wagner to launch a new comic filled with war stories. This was in direct competition to a publication created by […]
Read more "A look back at the early Issues of Iconic British Comic Battle Picture Weekly"Toxic was a British comic book series which comprised of 31 issues and was published by Apocalypse Limited. It was the brainchild of legendary creative talents – Pat Mills, Kevin O’Neill, Mike McMahon, John Wagner and Alan Grant. It was primarily created to allow writers and artists to have their work published with them retaining […]
Read more "Toxic – A Revolutionary British Comic"In 1992, The Punisher 2099 hit the comic book shelves. This was the final series in the much vaunted 2099 Marvel series to be released. This range was a futuristic take on a few of their most popular series. Spiderman, Hulk, The X-Men and even Doctor Doom received the 2099 treatment. The Punisher in this […]
Read more "The Punisher 2099 – A British Take on an American Vigilante"War comics weren’t a genre that I gravitated towards. They seemed to be a one sided, inaccurate portrayal of historical events. That was until I encountered Charley’s War, written by Pat Mills and illustrated by Joe Colquhoun. Charley’s war was originally published in the British magazine Battle from 1979 – 1985. It was a completely […]
Read more "Charley’s War : The Definitive Collection Vol #1 – Boy Solider"I really enjoyed The ABC Warriors Mek Files 01 – I reviewed it for The Geek Syndicate and it read like a homage to The Magnificent Seven and was full of rip-roaring action. Mek Files 02 is even better, there’s a serious amount of character building and the introduction of a new protagonist into this […]
Read more "ABC Warriors : Mek Files 02"One of my favourite 2000AD strips was Flesh, a story which presented a possible future where mankind devised a time travelling device to solve their meat crisis – namely that there was none! They would travel back in time and farm the dinosaurs, this was a fascinating story which had strong characterisation – especially in […]
Read more "Flesh – The Legend of Shamana"Some of the best comic book narratives are created by using ideas already established in current pop culture and expanding upon them. M.A.C.H 1 was one of the original comic strips in 2000AD, a heady mixture of the Six Million Dollar Man, James Bond, Science Fiction and real-world espionage all wrapped up in hard hitting […]
Read more "M.A.C.H 1 – The John Probe Mission Files"I’ve briefly covered Action, the infamous and well loved comic which was created with a unique vision for it’s young UK readers in the 1970’s – namely to address the issues and to represent the popular culture emerging in Britain at the time. Action had a unique voice and although I wasn’t born when it […]
Read more "Blackjack: An Action Comic Spotlight"Since I have started reviewing comic books, one name keeps coming up – Action. It was devised by Pat Mills and published by IPC between the years of 1976-1977 and now thanks to a dedicated comic book collector friend – I have, on loan, a copy of issue #1. It’s reputation precedes it, banned, due […]
Read more "Action Comics #1 – A Comic of the Streets"It’s the eve of Remembrance Sunday and it’s a day when most nations stop for a moment, pause and reflect on the horrors of war and remember the dead. There were many comic strips with narratives fashioned around the two World Wars, most of them portraying gung ho heroes, the context always patriotic and the […]
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