Robin of Sherwood - The Complete LOOK IN Comics (https://spitefulpuppet.com/product/robin-of-sherwood-look-in-annual-collectors-edition/) - Hardback, 288 pages, 31st May 2022
Published by Spiteful Puppet in conjunction with Rebellion (Treasury of British Comics)
Lots of love has gone into scanning and tidying up the strips for this collector's edition.
Reduced pre-order pricing.
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I've no idea if the strip is any good but that's a mighty good line-up of creators and I used to love the telly show so this amy well get checked out.
Hopefully this will be available digitally as well.
This looks lovely, although it's expensive. I appreciate why it's priced as it, I hope it's not a barrier to people picking it up.
Before & After cleanup example
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I could be persuaded to purchase a copy of this...
The pic below reminded me how much I loved to hate Robert Addie's portrayal of Gisburne - fantastic screen villain.
Looked him up there a few minutes ago, poor fecker died in 2003 at the age of 43.
I didn't know that, that really sucks. He is 100% my favourite screen Gisburne - absolutely embodies a cruel, stupid, entitled toff, completely detestable.
Also fantastically despicable in Boorman's Excalibur.
Ordered - expensive, but an instabuy for me. Spiteful Puppet did really good work on their Robin of Sherwood audio dramas, and I'm happy to support them.
Hope this paves the way for more Look-In remasters.
Quote from: Barrington Boots on 01 March, 2022, 10:15:21 AM
I didn't know that, that really sucks. He is 100% my favourite screen Gisburne - absolutely embodies a cruel, stupid, entitled toff, completely detestable.
Interestingly, he gets smarter and more resourceful and even (slightly) (very slightly) sympathetic as the series goes on.
Quote from: The Corinthian on 01 March, 2022, 07:22:40 PM
Quote from: Barrington Boots on 01 March, 2022, 10:15:21 AM
I didn't know that, that really sucks. He is 100% my favourite screen Gisburne - absolutely embodies a cruel, stupid, entitled toff, completely detestable.
Interestingly, he gets smarter and more resourceful and even (slightly) (very slightly) sympathetic as the series goes on.
The most memorable aspect of his portrayal was the fact his face would convincingly go red with rage or embarrassment anytime The Sheriff or outlaws annoyed or embarrassed him.
Detestable as Gisburne was, he was always the Darth Bowl-Cut to Nickolas Grace's Sheriff Palpatine, and yeah, I did find him ever so slightly sympathetic as the series progressed.
He works beautifully with the Sheriff because the Sheriff holds him in such contempt:
Sheriff: "Ninety-nine... one hundred gold marks exactly."
Gisburne: "I did count it, my Lord."
Sheriff: "I know, Gisburne, but one can never be too sure."
Gisburne: "My Lord, are you questioning my --"
Sheriff: "Your honour? No, no, no, no. Just your ability to count."
I wasn't keen on the later stuff when he is revealed to be 2nd Robin's half brother tbh.
All this reminiscing - I'm getting the book.
Quote from: leethomson on 01 March, 2022, 03:12:15 PM
Hope this paves the way for more Look-In remasters.
It sounds like this is very much a one-off, as negotiating the rights to other series would be a long and thankless task. But there's some amazing stuff in 'Look-In' that ought to be back in print in a more permanent form, most obviously Arthur Ranson's 'Sapphire & Steel'.
To help promote this ITV4 have just started putting Robin of Sherwood on at 7am & 1:30 Monday -Friday
Mine has just landed today, lovely book.
Quote from: rpwillis on 27 May, 2022, 12:53:35 PM
Mine has just landed today, lovely book.
Missed mine :( Will have to wait until Monday to pick it up from the sorting office.
Quote from: The Corinthian on 02 March, 2022, 11:20:33 PM
Quote from: leethomson on 01 March, 2022, 03:12:15 PM
Hope this paves the way for more Look-In remasters.
It sounds like this is very much a one-off, as negotiating the rights to other series would be a long and thankless task. But there's some amazing stuff in 'Look-In' that ought to be back in print in a more permanent form, most obviously Arthur Ranson's 'Sapphire & Steel'.
That crossed my mind too - Robin of Sherwood was a creator-owned piece by somebody who wanted to keep the IP alive. The same cannot be said of the majority of other work that would have been produced for Look-In (not that I have a list to refer to or anything, I've just read about Robin of Sherwood in the past).
Mine arrived Friday - very nice piece of work. I was rarely a reader of Look-in, but suffer badly from nostalgia, so this stuff is just fantastic as far as I'm concerned.
I'd like to see the Catweazle series given this treatment, although I don't know how much of it there actually was. I never watched it on TV, but I read Richard Carpenter's novelisations of the two series a couple of years ago and thought they were really good fun. (It would be really, really easy to do a proper, modern, sequel following on directly from the end of the original, probably staring Mackenzie Crook.)
Regards,
Robin
Quote from: Robin Low on 29 May, 2022, 12:00:20 PM
I'd like to see the Catweazle series given this treatment, although I don't know how much of it there actually was. I never watched it on TV, but I read Richard Carpenter's novelisations of the two series a couple of years ago and thought they were really good fun. (It would be really, really easy to do a proper, modern, sequel following on directly from the end of the original, probably staring Mackenzie Crook.)
There was apparently a cinematic German remake last year...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fA9nEsm0kE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fA9nEsm0kE)
Quote from: M.I.K. on 30 May, 2022, 05:30:34 PM
Quote from: Robin Low on 29 May, 2022, 12:00:20 PM
I'd like to see the Catweazle series given this treatment, although I don't know how much of it there actually was. I never watched it on TV, but I read Richard Carpenter's novelisations of the two series a couple of years ago and thought they were really good fun. (It would be really, really easy to do a proper, modern, sequel following on directly from the end of the original, probably staring Mackenzie Crook.)
There was apparently a cinematic German remake last year...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fA9nEsm0kE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fA9nEsm0kE)
Thanks - I think I might have seen the teaser, but I'd not seen that one. Looks like a pretty good kids' movie.
I've just had a look at the German reviews - a lot of positivity not only for this movie, but also for the original series. Some very negative ones, too, but even these seem to love the original. Obviously has a little bit of a German following.
Regards,
Robin
Quote from: M.I.K. on 30 May, 2022, 05:30:34 PM
Quote from: Robin Low on 29 May, 2022, 12:00:20 PM
I'd like to see the Catweazle series given this treatment, although I don't know how much of it there actually was. I never watched it on TV, but I read Richard Carpenter's novelisations of the two series a couple of years ago and thought they were really good fun. (It would be really, really easy to do a proper, modern, sequel following on directly from the end of the original, probably staring Mackenzie Crook.)
There was apparently a cinematic German remake last year...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fA9nEsm0kE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fA9nEsm0kE)
That looks enjoyable
Does everyone's copy have the page 34/36 printing error or is it just mine?
Quote from: The Corinthian on 07 June, 2022, 08:41:26 AM
Does everyone's copy have the page 34/36 printing error or is it just mine?
I don't see anything wrong. What's the error?
The pages are the wrong way round in my copy. Page 34 is the first half of part three of this particular story, while Page 36 is the first page of part two.
Pages 35 and 37 are correctly placed, so I actually have to read Page 36, then Page 35, then Page 34 - then jump back to Page 37 - to get these two episodes in the right order.
Ah, I thought it was something egregiously obvious, like pages being upside down. I've checked again and the problem is in my copy too, after all.
Ah, I thought it might make my copy extra rare and valuable. Curses.
So, I've finished this and it's great. The stories stand up surprisingly well and the art is beautiful and beautifully reproduced.
My one very minor complaint is that they reprint a lot of Look-In feature articles as an appendix but not the text story from the 1984 Winter Special, but I can't say that I'm losing sleep over that!
Bit of a necropost, but for reasons I ended up missing this, then getting the softback and have finally finished it.
Beautiful book, the art is wonderful and brilliantly reproduced. The stories are good, although they do read a bit like they were written for a generic Robin Hood strip and then drawn to fit RoS: I expected the lack of violence (and the notes explains why nobody ever fires a bow at anyone else) but Robin's band has about thirty guys in it, Nasir may as well not exist and and Marion barely features, Herne isn't in it much (no paganism or mysticism at all) and Robin is always riding horses about. It's got plenty of derring-do but lacks a lot of the elements that made Robin of Sherwood something special.
That said, terrific book and an obvious labour of love. With this and the John M Burns drawn Tomorrow People collection, I'm hopeful we can eventually see more Look In content resurface in this way.