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Thank you!!

Argh! Did the pic go up? Can't tell on the phone. Here's a link anyway http://simonscrawls.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/samuel-slade.html?m=0

Hi guys, that pesky work biz kept me away most of the year but found the time to do this! Presenting for the delectation of our esteemed audience, The Irrepressible Samuel Slade: Automaton Acquirer

Fantastic stuff

1: Alistairmac
2. Stu 101
3. Ghastly mcnasty

HM: Archie

Now what shall I do about this A3 canvas clogging up the place   

Told you I'd find the final copy of The Birth of Dirty Frank in Botticelli Block 

I uncovered this colour prelim of The Birth of Dirty Frank in Botticelli Block and expect to find the full canvas sometime next week.

Those early prog covers are really interesting. They don't bear any relation to the stories inside, do they?

I was thinking that might have been due to this being the early days of the comic, when Mills & Co hadn't built up a reserve of material and had to print whatever was ready, but they were still at it by the time my own collection of back issues begins (127). I suppose if you've got someone like Bolland sending you covers like that you don't mind if it has nothing to do with Mach 1.

According to Brian Bolland in The Art of Brian Bolland the editors weren't sure which interior characters would sell the comic best by being on the cover so they got the likes of Brian to come up with cover ideas, draw them then the editors would write a one-page text story based on it to go inside. 

HM  Simontm (the one with the depressed Zombie dude)

This makes literally no sense to me - Rogue or Dredd?

Ha think he means Marvin the paranoid trooper. Trust me the story will happen! 

Hmm, who to vote for 1) me 2) me 

Seriously good stuff on here, made it very very difficult but...

1) Chris Askham - Zombie Dredd
2) Jon - 2000 AD All-Stars Tackle The Zombie Horde
3) Bern campbell - Judgement in Progress

Honourables: Stevontron - Hammerstein vs. Zombies

But seriously the HM's go to everyone although I can only pick 4 

A few more:

Union Jack by Mike Perkins



Green Lantern by Ivan Reis



And a Spider Jerusalem Commission from Darrick Robertson

Ooh, need money 

which story is that sandman one from? I don't recognise it.

Looks like a commission, the fantastic Jeff Hawke.

Hi both. I picked it up at the Bristol Comicon charity auction but don't know whether it was done specifically for that.

It was scandalous really. I picked it up for £25 as it seemed that no-one else knew who Syd Jordan was. Picked up a Roy of the Rovers pencil sketch by Barry Mitchell for £5 for similar reasons.

Ha, the guy in the top right corner looks really depressed, Simon :-D, did he suddenly realise he's dead?

Ha, Marvin the Paranoid Trooper: "Life, don't talk to me about life..."

Oo, didn't realise there were restrictions - how long? This will be my 50th post 

Arsom stuff. How about Rogue being attacked by fellow dead GI's someone?
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Well you had to ask didn't you  Couldn't resist your suggestion so here's a quick sketch: