Death Planet

[Hoagy]

What's all this all about then?

[Colin YNWA]

Wow if only 'Death Planet' was half as good as that implied!

[Hoagy]

It's coming to Meg 330. I take it you mean a film of some sort?

[Colin YNWA]

Oh sorry wasn't trying to be oblique. No its a strip from way back when and not one of the comics best by a long chalk.

http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=thrill&page=profiles&choice=LORNAV

I was assuming (in correctly, some I should do better at given some of the stuff I've said elsewhere on this board!) you knew what it was, but were commenting on how unrepresentative that image is!

[Mangamax]

Great stuff - and FAR better than that image suggests

[Hoagy]

Ohh. So a bagged floppy then. This is way beyond my experience of 2000ad. So it'll be something new to read. The image must be a new graphic then.

Lopez looks very much like an O' Neill clone.

[Mangamax]

Pfftt, Lopez was producing sterling work years before O'Neil was a twinkle in Tharg's proverbial, culminating in the genuis and nastiness of Death Planet.

[Hawkmumbler]

Anythings better than half a year of Rogueverse storys!

[Steve Green]

I can't honestly remember anything about it - they must be running pretty low on potential material though - what's left of interest - Mean Arena possibly? Or Mean Team for the Belardinelli art?

Maybe Mind Wars or that other Redondo strip with Amtrak in it...

[JOE SOAP]

Pfftt, Lopez was producing sterling work years before O'Neil was a twinkle in Tharg's proverbial, culminating in the genuis and nastiness of Death Planet.

Well Kev was the art editor at the time.

[Hoagy]

I'm going to agree with Mangamax on this one (about the quality of the story anyway, for his O'Neill point is moot!).

I used to love going to Death Planets in my school holidays. I really need a bit of that old fashioned therapy at the moment.
And the art was especially chosen for my tastes too.

[O Lucky Stevie!]

Hot ding-a-ling-a-ling-long! Stevie's gonna get himself some of those non-prescription magnifying spectacles from the chemist so reading this floppy feels just like the prog.

Somewhere out there amongst the glittering probabilities of the multiverse Lopez would have taken over from Jose Ortiz on Helltrekkers.

[Spikes]

Regarding Death Planet, i always remember the cover to Prog 62 by Brian Lewis, and thinking Wow, this looks good. Shame it didnt live up to the cover.
Mangamax, looking at the photos you posted, do you own an original page of art from the story?
Theres been a couple of pages on E-Bay of late.

[metcalfecarr]

Wasn't it something that got dragged over from Starlord?  I used to love this kind of schlock.  I know that my near 40 year old intellect is going to pull holes  into the story, but this looks like the kind of retro adventure my inner child is going to love, and the art is gorgeous, even if it's style is 30 years old

[Spikes]

The story in Starlord was Planet of the Damned, which ran in the first ten issues only.