Plan A/Plan B by John Tucker Another title I picked up from Dunfermline Comic Con 2019 was Plan A/Plan B by John Tucker. I always have a lot of time for creators who use the format to push the boundaries. After all you can’t get a Netflix show that tells two interweaving stories, can be read in reverse and meets in the middle, well maybe … Continue reading The Upside Down
Cover of the Week – Captain America issue 53 from Marvel UK, February 1982. Featuring Iron Man by Jerry Paris. Continue reading Iron Man by Jerry Paris
Boy Abducted By Aliens Returns by Dave West and Gustavo Vargas Teenage years are difficult. You are growing and changing. Maybe you rebel against your parents, maybe you are desperate to fit in at school, to be just like the cool gang. Peter Thomson certainly did. He wanted to be one of the lads rather than one of their victims. And it turned out that … Continue reading Change Management
Cover of the Week – Spider-Man 545 from Marvel UK A great find at Edinburgh Comic Con. This Marvel UK issue of Spider-Man with a fantastic cover from Cam Kennedy depicting Spider-Man and Frog-Man. Continue reading Spider-Man 545 by Cam Kennedy
If you remove the English army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain. England would still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and … Continue reading We Want Only the Earth
Cover of the Week Starblazer from Dundee’s own comics publishing giant D.C Thomson was a pocket book sized comic that features some amazing sci-fi cover art. I couldn’t find who created this cover but the story inside is from Rob Carter and Jaimie Ortiz. Other comics greats to work on this title included Ian Kennedy and Grant Morrison. The back cover features some space faring … Continue reading Starblazer 5
The Forest, The Chair, and Those Forsaken There by James McCulloch, Dan Charnley, Robin Jones In the dark our mistakes come to visit us. Their torments keep us awake and when we finally sleep they haunt our dreams and twist our nights with nightmares. You find yourself in the woods, you see a cabin. In the cabin there is a man tied to the chair, … Continue reading Don’t Fall Asleep
Another great Marvel UK artist was Bob Wakelin. He was maybe best known for classsic video game art but he produced a number of amazing covers and posters for Marvel UK. The above examples show Spider-Man 541-543, the issues also had posters of the covers. Bob sadly passed away in January 2018. Continue reading Bob Wakelin
It’s forgotten Marvel UK hero Jet Lagg and not forgetting Spunky the Punk Sidekick. From Tim Quinn and Dicky Howett. This one from Super Spider-Man TV Comic 452. Bit of a typo but we’ve all made that mistake. Continue reading Jet Lagg
Captain America 37, November 1981 Marvel UK started taking advantage of improved print production technology as the 80’s began. Captain America 37 had glossy full colour covers and centre pages where they would often include a poster. They sometimes called on UK artists to provide cover art and posters and there were some brilliant examples from the likes of Jerry Paris, Mick Austin,Cam Kennedy and … Continue reading Captain America by Alan Davis
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