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Post by tingramretro on Aug 11, 2018 9:41:53 GMT -5
Yeah, Rogue Trooper was never in colour in old 2000ADs, unless the character was featured on the front cover, of course. Only the comic's flagship strip, Judge Dredd, utilised two pages of colour...and even that limited amount of 4-colour was unusual for a British Weekly comic of the time. Sorry to contradict, but Dredd didn't always get the colour centrespread. In early issues, other strips were occasionally awarded that honour, most notably Dan Dare, and on at least one occasion the ABC Warriors. |
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Post by tingramretro on Jul 19, 2018 7:06:14 GMT -5
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Post by tingramretro on Oct 14, 2017 9:39:53 GMT -5
I've been reading the Modern Masters book on Alan Davis and in discussing his redesign of Cap's costume, he makes an interesting comment on the original costume design. "The lion rampant (chest emblem) was a real joke in the UK because, although it is a heraldic symbol, it was best known as a sign to denote the quality and freshness of eggs. There were all sorts of jokes about Captain Britain being a 'good egg' [laughter]
"Paul (Neary) wanted a total redesign so that, visually, Captain Britain would still be an American-style super-hero, but with a British sensibility."
I find that highly interesting (and somewhat amusing). Was this perception something you were aware of or had heard about?
Yes, I have heard it mentioned. The lion never made a lot of sense to me, to be honest. The Alan Davis redesign seems to me more evocative of Britain, since it incorporates all the various constituent parts of the Union Jack (predominantly the St. Andrew and St. Patrick saltires on the chest, with the full Union Flag on the mask) while the lower half of the costume is basically part of a 19th century British army uniform. |
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Post by tingramretro on Oct 14, 2017 4:47:29 GMT -5
Ah yes, the English X-Men. British, not "English". The group was based in England for a lot of its existence, but then moved to Scotland, and only Captain Britain, Kylun and possibly Meggan were English (in fact, Meggan may have been Welsh). |
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Post by tingramretro on Oct 14, 2017 4:42:36 GMT -5
The art is certainly not "below par". Alan Davis was one of the best artists to come out of the eighties. Excalibur was, to me, a continuation of the Captain Britain series, and while Claremont is nowhere near as good a writer as any of the people who worked on that series, I still enjoyed the book for what it was, until they stupidly wrote CB out for awhile and it became just another boring X-Men book. I've did a little thinking here and the art is just about slightly above average; and having said that respectfully, I did not know who did the art and you said it was Alan Davis at the time that I read that book it was a very boring book with average art to boot. Remember, I was a much younger man back then and I did not care for this book at all and I lost all interest after reading the first 10-12 books and it's wasn't my cup of tea. At the time i did not know that this was a continuation of the Captain Britain series and that comment that you made totally caught me off guard and that's why I didn't know that. Back to Alan Davis, at the time that I saw this book - it was my first exposure of his work and now you've mention him in your post - I'm take back being "below par" and promote to better than average. This is best that I can do and I'm still don't care about this book anymore. Most people don't share your opinion of Davis's art. |
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Post by tingramretro on Oct 13, 2017 17:41:09 GMT -5
It's October 13th again, which means it's 41 years since the cover date of Captain Britain #1.
Just keeping the flame burning...
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Post by tingramretro on Oct 13, 2017 17:29:12 GMT -5
I was never, ever a fan of this Comic Book done by Marvel. I find it not my liking and I had a hard time relating to it. It was done substandard and the art is below par and the writing is pretty much average. The art is certainly not "below par". Alan Davis was one of the best artists to come out of the eighties. Excalibur was, to me, a continuation of the Captain Britain series, and while Claremont is nowhere near as good a writer as any of the people who worked on that series, I still enjoyed the book for what it was, until they stupidly wrote CB out for awhile and it became just another boring X-Men book. |
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Post by tingramretro on Oct 13, 2017 17:24:54 GMT -5
I never thought any of the characters were interesting. I always found Cap. Britain to be boring. You're dead to me. |
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Post by tingramretro on Oct 12, 2017 11:15:02 GMT -5
Side-Note: It does bug me when, say, Spider-Man or Cap are replaced with out-and-out villains. Just no interest in that at all. I thought Superior Spider-Man was one of the best things Marvel put out in years. |
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Post by tingramretro on Oct 11, 2017 8:39:28 GMT -5
Incidentally, today marks the 30th anniversary of the publication of the first issue of Doctor Who Weekly, which eventually became Doctor Who Magazine. The cover date was actually October 18th, but that was the "off sale" date, on which it had to be removed from the newsagents' shelves.
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Post by tingramretro on Oct 11, 2017 8:37:18 GMT -5
According to this article at the Radio Times, theupcoming new season of Who is going to feature longer episodes (but fewer episodes overall), more historical settings, a new sonic screwdriver, and a new Tardis interior set (and possibly minir exterior changes as well). -M It may be fewer episodes overall, but at one hour per episode, it'll actually run to an hour more in terms of screen time than the last three seasons. |
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Post by tingramretro on Oct 9, 2017 12:18:06 GMT -5
On another post about villainesses, I noticed that many posters mentioned villainesses who switched sides and played the "good guy". Some jumped the line multiple times. What about make characters? Since women seem to do it so well, who is your favorite male character who switched from bad to good...or good to bad? Why did the switch work in your opinion? Well, the most popular example is Hawkeye, but he was pretty much conned into helping commit crimes. I quite liked the pied Piper, in the Flash, who reforms and ends up helping Wally West, while also coming out of the closet, without PR releases (looking at you, Marvel). Mark Waid took a minor Flash villain and made him interesting. Deathstroke and Batroc did a bit of back and forth, depending on their code of honor, and Paladin, as a mercenary, worked both sides (though mostly the hero side). Never liked Magneto's change and neither did editorial, as they switched him back. Mark Waid's Irredeemable and Incorruptible cover the topic pretty well. Magneto is currently an anti-hero again, though, running one of the X-Men teams, isn't he? |
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Post by tingramretro on Oct 8, 2017 15:08:28 GMT -5
I loved Gaard the Star Skater! I want him to come back, teamed up with the Reed Richards Thing and Gorr the Golden Gorilla! I like Gorr. I wasn’t aware of a Reed Richards thing... Although I remember the Reed Richards Brute, from Counter-Earth! Reed became the Thing on Earth A, the same world Johnny Storm AKA Gaard came from. Ben Grimm got stretching and invisibility powers which Reed cured him of, and married the non-powered Sue Storm. Decades later, She-Hulk discovered that the reason minor super villains who were supposed to be dead kept on randomly turning up alive without expanation was not in fact, because lazy writers were screwing up Marvel continuity; they were all actually tourists from Earth A. |
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Post by tingramretro on Oct 8, 2017 4:35:13 GMT -5
An alternate Johnny Storm as a spacefaring ice hockey goalkeeper named Gaard was also pretty... well, hokey. I loved Gaard the Star Skater! I want him to come back, teamed up with the Reed Richards Thing and Gorr the Golden Gorilla! |
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Post by tingramretro on Oct 8, 2017 4:29:21 GMT -5
1) Nomad with the baby(named Bucky, of course). What the hell were the people at Marvel smoking in the early 90's?? What an absolutely stupid idea. Oh yeah, a guy fights bad guys with a baby strapped to his back. It worked in Lone Wolf and Cub manga and film series. I haven't read the Marvel story but it may be a nod to those. It was. |
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