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Post by tingramretro on Aug 3, 2015 14:00:41 GMT -5
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Post by tingramretro on Aug 3, 2015 14:52:10 GMT -5
One of the longest running Marvel UK titles-and the one which eventually outlasted the company itself and is still running today as a Panini publication-was Doctor Who Weekly, which later became Doctor Who Monthly and then, eventually, Doctor Who Magazine. The Doctor was so inextricably linked with Marvel UK back then that he even guest starred in an issue of Death's Head! This particular two page spread is by Dave Gibbons.  |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Aug 3, 2015 15:49:52 GMT -5
I have a lot of Deaths Head II that I just recently read again. It's very much a 90's book but I enjoyed it when I read it first, mostly for Liam Sharpe's art, who I first discovered in Hulk. Reading it again, I still enjoyed though I would say that could be some nostalgia. It wasn't the deepest book I've ever read but it surpassed a lot of top tier Marvel titles everyone else was eating up.
I at some point would mind getting the Deaths Head issues. I only have one, #6 I believe, with The Thing in it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2015 16:07:57 GMT -5
*raises hand*
Grew up with boxes full of Beano and Whizzer & Chips too.
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Post by fanboystranger on Aug 3, 2015 18:53:57 GMT -5
Big Marvel UK fan here. My favorites are the Parkhouse/Stokes Black Knight strip, the Moore and Delano runs on Captain Britain with the incomparable Alan Davis, the first Knights of Pendragon series (perhaps Marvel's finest early '90s series), Warheads, and anything Night Raven, especially if it's illustrated by David Lloyd. I was also thrilled last week when I saw Marvel was going to release a tpb of the short-lived Frontier Comics line, which had mature comics from Nick Abadzis, Mark Buckingham, Charlie Adlard, Paul Johnson, and David Hine, amongst others who were just as great but less known. Now if they'll only release a second Knights of Pendragon tpb to complete the first series.
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Post by fanboystranger on Aug 3, 2015 19:00:39 GMT -5
I have a lot of Deaths Head II that I just recently read again. It's very much a 90's book but I enjoyed it when I read it first, mostly for Liam Sharpe's art, who I first discovered in Hulk. Reading it again, I still enjoyed though I would say that could be some nostalgia. It wasn't the deepest book I've ever read but it surpassed a lot of top tier Marvel titles everyone else was eating up. I at some point would mind getting the Deaths Head issues. I only have one, #6 I believe, with The Thing in it. The funny thing is that Liam Sharpe really hates his art from that period. Editors were encouraging him to draw more like Jim Lee, and he couldn't turn down the money, so he did what they asked. I think it kinda hurt his career in the long run as he was written off as an Image clone, but his heart was more in experimenting with storytelling. He didn't really get his mojo back until Man-Thing with JM DeMatteis. Of course, some of that money he made went allowed him to self-publish his Mam-Tor label, which is where he could do whatever he wanted. |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Aug 3, 2015 19:16:13 GMT -5
Thanks for the information on his self published work. I read his Wikipedia page and he's doing art for a Gears of War comic. He's a good fit for it. I'll check out some of his other self published work.
I can't see the image clone comparison myself. I think that's why I do like his art so well. Though for some reason his art is heavily influenced by his inker. I remember his Hulk run being all over the place from so good to atrocious. Whereas his Deaths Head II was very consistent and stellar with Andy Lanning. I also remember not caring for his Man-Thing, though I only have 3-4 issues. Again that may have been the inking.
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Post by tingramretro on Aug 4, 2015 0:52:47 GMT -5
I have a lot of Deaths Head II that I just recently read again. It's very much a 90's book but I enjoyed it when I read it first, mostly for Liam Sharpe's art, who I first discovered in Hulk. Reading it again, I still enjoyed though I would say that could be some nostalgia. It wasn't the deepest book I've ever read but it surpassed a lot of top tier Marvel titles everyone else was eating up. I at some point would mind getting the Deaths Head issues. I only have one, #6 I believe, with The Thing in it. I must admit, I preferred the original Death's Head, but it's a bit of a shame DHII has been all but forgotten since the 90s. |
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Post by tingramretro on Aug 4, 2015 0:53:54 GMT -5
*raises hand* Grew up with boxes full of Beano and Whizzer & Chips too. I still have boxes of Beano and Whizzer & Chips (but were you a Whiz-kid or a Chip-Ite, that's the question?) |
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Post by tingramretro on Aug 4, 2015 0:57:28 GMT -5
Big Marvel UK fan here. My favorites are the Parkhouse/Stokes Black Knight strip, the Moore and Delano runs on Captain Britain with the incomparable Alan Davis, the first Knights of Pendragon series (perhaps Marvel's finest early '90s series), Warheads, and anything Night Raven, especially if it's illustrated by David Lloyd. I was also thrilled last week when I saw Marvel was going to release a tpb of the short-lived Frontier Comics line, which had mature comics from Nick Abadzis, Mark Buckingham, Charlie Adlard, Paul Johnson, and David Hine, amongst others who were just as great but less known. Now if they'll only release a second Knights of Pendragon tpb to complete the first series. Night Raven is another one who seems to have been forgotten, which is a real shame as he was one of the most compelling characters Marvel UK came up with. I don't think he's appeared anywhere since a one panel cameo in The Twelve #1. And since you mentioned that Black Knight strip...  |
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Post by tingramretro on Aug 4, 2015 1:04:32 GMT -5
I have a lot of Deaths Head II that I just recently read again. It's very much a 90's book but I enjoyed it when I read it first, mostly for Liam Sharpe's art, who I first discovered in Hulk. Reading it again, I still enjoyed though I would say that could be some nostalgia. It wasn't the deepest book I've ever read but it surpassed a lot of top tier Marvel titles everyone else was eating up. I at some point would mind getting the Deaths Head issues. I only have one, #6 I believe, with The Thing in it. The funny thing is that Liam Sharpe really hates his art from that period. Editors were encouraging him to draw more like Jim Lee, and he couldn't turn down the money, so he did what they asked. I think it kinda hurt his career in the long run as he was written off as an Image clone, but his heart was more in experimenting with storytelling. He didn't really get his mojo back until Man-Thing with JM DeMatteis. Of course, some of that money he made went allowed him to self-publish his Mam-Tor label, which is where he could do whatever he wanted. I read that Man-Thing run, and initially didn't realize it was the same Liam Sharp. It was a totally different style to anything of his that I'd previously seen. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Aug 4, 2015 6:03:58 GMT -5
I have a lot of Deaths Head II that I just recently read again. It's very much a 90's book but I enjoyed it when I read it first, mostly for Liam Sharpe's art, who I first discovered in Hulk. Reading it again, I still enjoyed though I would say that could be some nostalgia. It wasn't the deepest book I've ever read but it surpassed a lot of top tier Marvel titles everyone else was eating up. I at some point would mind getting the Deaths Head issues. I only have one, #6 I believe, with The Thing in it. I must admit, I preferred the original Death's Head, but it's a bit of a shame DHII has been all but forgotten since the 90s. He was a guest star in several IRon Man issues during the 'Secret Origin of Tony Stark' by Gillien. It's not a great story, but he does feature prominently. I liked what I've read of Marvel UK, and I'd be happy to read more if I come across it. The Captain Britain stuff is really good. |
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Post by Confessor on Aug 4, 2015 7:21:28 GMT -5
I read a lot of Marvel UK superhero stuff in the late '70s and early '80s, along with the odd DC reprint and the likes of 2000AD, Commando and Scream! The Marvel UK reprints were my first introduction to Marvel's heroes like Spider-Man, the Hulk, Iron Man etc. Actually, I still have a box full Super Spider-Man comics (the ones that were in landscape format, reprinting two pages of U.S. comics side by side, per page). Of course, my favourite Marvel UK title was, unsurprisingly, Star Wars Weekly (and it's many variations, like The Empire Strikes Back Monthly, Return of the Jedi Weekly etc). Those comics were my first introduction to Marvel's Star Wars run, which to this day is -- along with the first 200 issues or so of Amazing Spider-Man -- my favourite comics run of all-time. As you mentioned in your original post, there were plenty of UK exclusive stories published by Marvel Uk and that was also the case in the British Star Wars comic, with a number of stories by the likes of Alan Moore that U.S. readers didn't get to read at the time (see my Star Wars review thread for details)  . Of course, the downside to Marvel UK's stuff was that it was all in black & white. I've spoken in the forum on a few occasions about how, once I found a local newsagents selling proper, colour U.S. comics in 1983, there was no going back. There weren't any UK comics being printed in full colour at the time, so to find the likes of Spider-Man, Captain America, Superman, and Batman comics in colour, seemed like an incredible thing to me at the time. As an aside, one of the things that I like about Marvel's Essentials reprint TPBs are that, being black & white, they remind me of how I first encountered these characters as a kid, in the UK reprints. |
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Post by tingramretro on Aug 4, 2015 7:42:13 GMT -5
I read a lot of Marvel UK superhero stuff in the late '70s and early '80s, along with the odd DC reprint and the likes of 2000AD, Commando and Scream! The Marvel UK reprints were my first introduction to Marvel's heroes like Spider-Man, the Hulk, Iron Man etc. Actually, I still have a box full Super Spider-Man comics (the ones that were in landscape format, reprinting two pages of U.S. comics side by side, per page). Of course, my favourite Marvel UK title was, unsurprisingly, Star Wars Weekly (and it's many variations, like The Empire Strikes Back Monthly, Return of the Jedi Weekly etc). Those comics were my first introduction to Marvel's Star Wars run, which to this day is -- along with the first 200 issues or so of Amazing Spider-Man -- my favourite comics run of all-time. As you mentioned in your original post, there were plenty of UK exclusive stories published by Marvel Uk and that was also the case in the British Star Wars comic, with a number of stories by the likes of Alan Moore that U.S. readers didn't get to read at the time (see my Star Wars review thread for details) . Of course, the downside to Marvel UK's stuff was that it was all in black & white. I've spoken in the forum on a few occasions about how, once I found a local newsagents selling proper, colour U.S. comics in 1983, there was no going back. There weren't any UK comics being printed in full colour at the time, so to find the likes of Spider-Man, Captain America, Superman, and Batman comics in colour, seemed like an incredible thing to me at the time. As an aside, one of the things that I like about Marvel's Essentials reprint TPBs are that, being black & white, they remind me of how I first encountered these characters as a kid, in the UK reprints. I think that's why a lot of British readers like the Essentials, though I still maintain that some of that stuff-notably Colan's Tomb of Dracula-just looks better in black & white anyway. My introduction to Marvel basically mirrors yours to an extent, I pretty much learned to read on stuff like Spider-Man Comics Weekly, then discovered the US imports a few years later, but I still kept buying the British stuff anyway. I well remember those UK originated Star Wars strips, too. Aside from Alan Moore's five stories, I thought the late, great Steve Moore's couple of efforts were pretty great, too. The Steve Parkhouse one wasn't bad, but I think Death Masque, Tilotny throws a Shape and The Pandora Effect are still my favourites. I think Alan in particular was basically just writing his own sci-fi stories though; the Star Wars setting was largely immaterial. |
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Post by Dizzy D on Aug 4, 2015 9:06:00 GMT -5
My experiences have mostly been with Captain Britain (but in reprints). A few issues of Dark Angel, Cyberspace 3000 and Transformers UK, but no real run on any of the other Marvel UK titles.
Does Clan Destine count? I believe it was originally planned to be Marvel UK, but was published after Marvel UK went down.
It was nice to see something like Revolutionary War a year or so ago and Kieron Gillan used Death's Head 1 in S.W.O.R.D.. Captain Britain and MI13 did have a DH2 cameo (and most of the Marvel UK people).
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