Re: Dispatch War Rocket Ajax.........

[Art]

I watched this with Heather recently. She thoiught it was "silly" and didn't get why it was one of the best movies ever. A very depressing moment...

[Leigh S]

I've been pleasantly surpirsed by the Flash Gordon comic strips - Checker have released 7 books of the Alex Raymond era (34 to 43), and while the story telling is from another age, it has a real charm about it - they are real postcards from a different age. Dan Dare surprised nme by being more modern than i imagined, while FLash Gordon has impressed me by being so far removed from modernity! The art, needless to say, starts good, gets great quickly, and by the end of Raymonds stint is just about the greatest comic art ever!

[I, Cosh]

Have I gone mad, or have some of the replies appeared before the original posts?

Anyway, Flash is a work of genius and your woman needs a good hard talking to.

Watcher, I saw some of those collections in FP recently and was thinking of trying one. Is this the same stuff that was printed in The Observer or Sunday Times (I forget which one) in the 80s?

[Funt Solo]

...to bring back his body!

That's all very well - but can I find an image of the damned thing?

Anyone know of an image of war rocket Ajax from Flash Gordon that's floating around on the web?

I can't find one.

[Tweak72]

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mouseburger/moviedeathsimages/grabs/flash_gordon-ming-1.jpg">

[Wils]

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mouseburger/moviedeathsimages/grabs/flash_gordon-ming-1.jpg">

[I, Cosh]

Interestingly (or not) I'd always thought they said "dispatch warlock in Ajax" until I saw it again at Christmas. I've spent long minutes of my life trying to figure out what that meant and who "warlock" was. Oh well.

Link: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Dreamworld/8663/flash/mov_wide7.htm" target="_blank">Try Here

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Dreamworld/8663/flash/flash170.jpg">

[Tweak72]

Link: http://www.martinbowersmodelworld.com/html/dan_dare.html" target="_blank">Not Flash Gordon but cool anyway in a Dan Dare way

[Tweak72]

Link: http://www.martinbowersmodelworld.com/html/ajax.html" target="_blank">in fact there is a Ajax on that site yay me

[ThryllSeekyr]

It's amazing what can be achieved with a huge water tank and food colouring.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQMTNWeoRug" target="_blank">I though AJAX was a washing powder.

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Dreamworld/8663/flash/flash168.jpg">

[Funt Solo]

Ah, perfect, Tweak - it even has the creator pictured unable to quite contain his glee at his own creation:

http://www.martinbowersmodelworld.com/ajax-18.jpg" />

(It's for a lecture - and I reckon the student's will get a kick out of seeing a smugly-gleeful-uber-rocket-modeling-geek in action.)

[ThryllSeekyr]

Here was my original interpretation of what I thought AJAX was.

(There is something wrong with the forum here. My last post appeared before the last one.)

http://img.epinions.com/images/opti/10/48/Ajax_Cleanser_with_Bleach_Easy_Rinse_Formula-resized200.jpg">

[Leigh S]

Not too sure about that - I'd find it hard to recommend them as stories, even though, I personally love them.  They are comic strips more in the sense of Rupert than anything - narrated scenes - no speech bubbles (except for a jarring interlude later in the run!), just descriptive caption boxes that include any dialogue.  More a storyboard than a strip.  Flash is a bit of a warmonger really, and its interesting to compare him to the 'softer' filmed versions.

Basically, it's Flash running from one monster or deadly threat to another, organising people to help out and being betrayed by some woman who's fallen in love with him!  That said, theres a real charm about it all thats hard to explain.  

What is a shame is the fact the books run out with Vol 7.  Raymond went off to war and his understudy took over, so the book ends on a fairly inconsequential story - we never to see a "grand conclusion" and I'm not sure there ever was one! Dark Horse have reprinted some strips from about 1948 onwards, but that leaves almost a 3 year gap, which is frustrating.  Not sure about the quality of the 1948 stuff - some fellow called Mac Raboy, who I presume is some kind of early comics legend. Havent seen them myself, but I am tempted - sadly the wallet won't let me take any action on that temptation!

[Funt Solo]

Ee-ouk - time warp - people are posting before the thread starter.  Next thing you know we'll all be on Thread Zero.

[Noisybast]

Sssshhh! It'll hear you...