This is a long post so be warned and the wierd stuff is unavoidable because of its context.
Ok. I have been digging around a bit now. Its difficult to know where to start.
First of all the computer i am using has only been used by me since sometime in 2004.I have had it a good while before that but the broadband account i have was opened in 2004. so tecnically i have only been surfing the web since 2004 as before that i wasnt that interested in it. I became aware of this site not that long after that when i sort of got into 2000ad again ,that was when i got all the old comics i have been trying to shift.less the ones i kept for myself of course. I had a look around ,noticed the message board,but didnt pay much attention to it and moved on to the Artwork gallery. there i discovered Robert Cox who has got all the art. When i saw the Meltdown Man i just thought where the hell did he get all that from? i just couldnt believe it. I wished i had just a few pages of it as i just love everything about it as well as all Belardinellis work. I thought about offering stupid amounts of money for it. I did enquire just once if any was for sale but no money was involved. Robert said no way and that was it.It would have been impolite to ask twice and i thought well it is being looked after well. So that was that. I was totally unaware of this message board previous to that time.
This leads to the next point: Going back as far as records began as far as scojo is concerned takes me back to 2002. There you all are the same faces. The same thing when i looked at a thread in 2004. I never realised that this messageboard was so well established. I just thought nothing of what i was walking into.I just went head first with no thought about who i was posting to. you must have thought who the hell is this boarder. I have no experience posting anywhere except here ever. I did sense that it may be a bit of a clique as that is what naturally happens and that i was an outsider. I noticed a few boarders where reluctant to open up.they may be a bit reticent or looking back they were wary because of trolls or scojo.
But none of this explains how i knew the name johnny eyebrows. I will do a search on that name after this post just to make sure. this is very wierd as i said before the name just appeared in my mind out of nowhere when i was racking my brain to work out what Wils was talking about when talking about being targetted by Mentalists. I thought he was talking about me specifically, saying i had been targetting them.believe it or not i hadnt heard the term Mentalist before that ever. I didnt consider what had gone on before my entrance here. I just got on with it in my own style and just sat here and posted as i am not shy to express myself at all as you have all noticed by now. Now i realise why i got peoples backs up knowing the problems with trolls etc. A few got my back up as well. When i posted Scojo must be another boarder, nothing else adds up, It hadnt occured to me to search the messageboard for that name until now.
Its all a bit wierd and i still dont know how i knew that name but i these things happen to me a lot. I could go on and on about it but i wont. It would take too long but i am being serious when i say that i have unusual abilities. I find this a lot on ebay as when i have been after things there i get a certain feeling about when to look for something and then i would bid and always win. A bit like pulling rabbits out of hats. Its easy for me. I have a knack of finding things so if any of you need anything found maybe i can help.
I have something planned that i am going to try out as soon as things settle down a bit workwise and i can concentrate better. sorry to be cryptic but i cant tell you what it is as i would just get the piss taken. If and when it works i will let you know. I have already tried it with partial success so that was encouraging. Put another way my life goes in cycles of feast and famine. It always has done. The cycle of famine is just coming to an end quite soon I feel. Please dont take the piss out of this as i am being serious. If it works then everyone is going to sit up and take notice.
I am posting this because i am trying to solve the mystery of knowing that name as i dont like the idea of others having suspicions that i am not who i say i am or that i am another boarder or Scojo in disguise.
With all the wierdness that just keeps getting wierder i thought it may be of interest and i wanted to clear my name so i have given you all my history related to this messageboard just to prove that i am not bullshitting anyone.
And by the way , there was something distinctly creepy and unpleasent about Sojos Judge dredd pic. wierd
I dont like the word "mentalist" It sounds like a media type word to me. I thought you were saying i was mental. You might well have been !!
So to conclude. Looking back now to the history of this messageboard and bearing in mind that you have all been here so long, and the fact it was probably very peaceful until i got here, i dont know about the whole world but i would say that i was made to feel very welcome here hence my manic posting here.
Hi Peterwolf.
Can I ask you just one question................
Do you have a job, as you seem to never be off any of these threads and I am amazed at your commitment to this site.
Keep it up.
this has proved it. [ i think] I just searched the entire messageboard for Johnny Eyebrows and all i got was i very small reference within 1 post. I am going back to double check . Its getting a bit disconcerting.
Johnny Eyebrows is just this guy, you know? He's still on the message board; it's just that there are some people who change their name from time to time, and it affects the identifier on all their previous posts, but doesn't alter references to names they have used when they are used in the text of a message board post.
I'm curious to know how you do the name change thing. Not that I want to change my name; I'm just curious.
>I'm curious to know how you do the name change thing. Not that I want to change my name; I'm just curious.
look at the top right of the site, click on My Details
Change user name, enter password, click change details
It certainly does look like that and i am aware of it. At the moment i have been at home quite a bit as i am in between jobs as it were and i have been doing a lot of organising with that from home. I have been working part time as well . I have been doing a bit of working from home as well as doing a bit of drawing. It all happens here. I am often upstairs here as there are often visitors here and i like a bit of solitude. It has just been very easy just to keep posting as i am right next to the computer not because i am some sort of obsessive. I will be working full time from now on so i will be around a lot less and anyway its often the way with something new. I would rather do the odd post from now on anyway as i am worn out with posting.
All my work is local to here .I have a lot of work in Sussex Square[just along the road] and a project going on there. Usher knows where that is. I actually did my first ever historical building survey there in between posting here.
Like i said before it has been a bit of an odd time lately.
I will be posting a lot less as it has been getting a bit much. I hope this explains it.
It could be you know it cause I sometimes (and occasional others) still refer to Matt as JEB or JohnnyEyebrows.
look i dont want to sound like everyone who has taken a disliking to you, but is it possible you are taking this a bit to far...?
You are a bit late in the day to say that as it ended after i finished posting the threads you have read. I was a little freaked by the whole thing and felt i owed an explanation simply because such a fuss was made of it by people here for reasons that should be obvious. Its over and water under the bridge now.
hurrah!
Its my job to go too far anyway or its my job to stop myself going too far !
Please let me buy you a one way ticket
Logan, please stop picking on Peter.
I can understand your irritation, but we're not in school any more.
Peter, please stop to consider whether what you're posting is relevant. We don't have a moderator on this board, so it's up to the people that use it to ensure it doesn't get bogged down in random, self-indulgent musings. That's why certain individuals have been so hostile towards you.
A little restraint all round, yes?
And that's all I'm going to say on this subject.
>Logan, please stop picking on Peter.
ok, as you asked so nicely
Thanks, man - I love you.
Albatross! Or Albert Ross I am not sureâ?¦
â??there i discovered Robert Cox who has got all the art. When i saw the Meltdown Man i just thought where the hell did he get all that from? I thought about offering stupid amounts of money for it.â? Robert said no way and that was it.It would have been impolite to ask twice and i thought well it is being looked after well. So that was that.â?
Blimey! Seeing as I got a name check in Peters opening post on this thread I guess Iâ??d better add my tuppence worth to it as well. Here goesâ?¦â?¦
Firstly, Hello to Peter, and secondly, Iâ??ve just checked back through my emails and Peter did contact me (way) back in august 2005* about the artwork and wotnot. And although Iâ??m no expert his email writing is exactly the same as how he posts on the threads here so in my mind Peter is Peter and definitely not Scojo. I also emailed Peter in October last year** about the Massimo Fan site that Terry Hooper set up.
Although whilst on that subject of Scojo can I ask some of the more senior boarders a related question (if they're reading this). Did Scojo also post under a synonym of variations of the initials RC as well or was that someone else entirely? I only ask because at the exact same time I joined the board I also had a bit of a hard time of it until he was banned and I could carry on posting.
Cheers,
Rob.
* Yeah, I know, Iâ??ve really gotta clean the inbox out some time!
Did Scojo also post under a synonym of variations of the initials RC as well or was that someone else entirely?
Different nutter, I seem to reacll. Richard Cairns, I seem to recall.
Had some worries about this one myself, as his board name was a bit too close to mine.
Ahhh... RC. He made Scojo seem like a carefree soul. Massive wanker, that one- and I don't think it took any board clique to see it either.
A legend in his own mind...
Cheers for clearing that up guys,
Rob.
Hi robert. Thanks for the reply. Using my "mentalist" powers i have been trying to trace the missing Meltdown Man artwork with absolutly no success whatsoever. I have been trying and trying and trying but nothing.
Zilch. I fear the worst now . either someone has it somewhere or it has been trashed. One or the other.
You never can tell when something can appear so i never give up. I am not after aquiring it all for myself either. I would let you have it to complete the collection but i would have no choice but to keep back a couple of pages for myself of course !
There was a rash of Belardinelli artwork some time back on ebay but i never had the cash to buy any of it. I remember the double page spread of Flesh with the giant scorpions the most.
Peter.
I will keep trying.
"i have been trying to trace the missing Meltdown Man artwork with absolutly no success whatsoever.I have been trying and trying and trying but nothing."
Welcome to my world!! I'm always on the look-out for any MB artwork but especially Meltdown Man, although i acknowledged, years ago, that it is an impossible dream to fully collect it all. I'm sure, like many others on this board, we've all heard the stories of how a certain Mr.R.Maxwell got rid of tonnes of artwork by simply chucking it in skips, although Iâ??m fairly certain this DOESN'T apply to the MM artwork as I've got at least 1 page from every episode (apart from Prog 225 - episode 48). The search continues.
â??You never can tell when something can appear so i never give up. I am not after acquiring it all for myself either. I would let you have it to complete the collectionâ?
(Puts pimping hat on) Well, thereâ??s good money and lots of it for any pages you do happen to turn up and would care to sell to me (and that goes to all on the board), Iâ??ve also got quite a few pages in my collection Iâ??d be willing to swap for any MB artwork as well if cash doesnâ??t do it for you.
Cheers,
Rob.
I once bought a page of ACE Trucking artwork that was advertised as Massimo's, but it turned out to be Ian Gibson's. Nice, though...
Who is R.maxwell ? apart from being an ignorant fuckwit that is . All you can do is keep trying. Thats all i do. Theres good money here and lots of it for a couple of my favourite pages but that is an impossible dream as you have them ! We will see if anything shows up.
As a matter of interest about how i find things, I was at a boot fair a while ago and i came accross some old 2000ads. I had a look through them but left them as they werent what i was after. I thought i would like to find some that were older. The next second on the opposite stall there was a pile of them that were around the 200s somewhere going very cheap, plus a few earlier issues as well. I already had them but took the lot as they said they were going to be chucked. This is how it can happen and it happens all the time so nothing can be ruled out.
Its a shame that i didnt know where that skip was as i love going in skips and rooting through rubbish as you find good stuff in them.
I draw the line at domestic rubbish in black bags obviously ! things arent that bad ! but i did survive at glastonbury festival for 4 days by eating scraps of food left lying around as all my cash was stolen. You have got to eat !
Bye for now. Peter.
"Who is R.maxwell ? apart from being an ignorant fuckwit that is ."
Yep, that's him! Robert Maxwell,Pension stealing scum (takes off political hat) I'm reasonable certain he ordered all artwork returned to the artists (a good thing) but told the artists they'd have to pay for it. At the time a lot of the artists either didn't reply or didn't want their artwork back seeing as it would have cost a bomb to get it returned to them, bearing in mind that the after sales of comic artwork then wasn't what it is today. Hence the chucking away.
That, i think, is the simplified version of what happened and i stand to be corrected if any of it's wrong.
Cheers,
Rob.
I didnt make the connection there at all with newspapers and that Robert Maxwell. Hes better off dead in my opinion. Did he fall off that boat or did someone help ? Apparently he was mixed up in all sorts at the time of his death and i may be wrong but i have heard things regarding this matter. I cant quote anything now as i need to refresh my memory a bit. I will find out if you want to know but it seems there may have been a couple of agents [KGB or Mossad] waiting for him in the water to make sure he drowned. Who can say ?
Fancy making the artist pay for their work that they already owned and had been paid to draw? Thats unbelievable.
Where did you find all yours anyway? I would love to know. Cheers. Peter.
I'll email you off thread about how i got all mine, but i will say (on-thread) that it wasn't by rummaging about in skips!! I'd have save thousands if that were the case.
:)
Rob.
Are you implying that the Meltdown man cost thousands ? I suppose it could have considering how much of it there is.
Someone i know of in london
found an original Robert Adam fireplace in a skip in london outside a house . These are the creme de la creme of fireplaces. As for value i would guess a value at the very least to be around 100,000 quid. This is partly my line of work so i know about it.
bear with me Peter i'm trying to type you an email!! off thread!!
Done.
I have to go out now. Stuff to do.
Peter.