I love the nostalgia of looking through my old comics. And I'm currently reading old 2000AD progs every night at bedtime. I'm hoping to share pics of these things as I look through them. I would be very interested to see snapshots of other people's readings here as well!
Here's some stuff I found tonight while trying to clear space for progs I ordered from a good person here.
First off, this guy. I watched a mini youtube doc on Liefeld recently. Amazing how he had a whole team of fellows trained to churn out his style of ridiculous art, putting out a staggering number of titles at their height. Look at some of these thrilling titles: Bloodstrike, Bloodpool, Youngblood, Bloodwulf..
I didn't realize at the time the animosity of a lot of comic regulars toward this movement that nakedly pandered to kids looking for Extreme™ visual stimulation rather than a good read. This particular character enthralled my friends and I in his little teaser comic when Image was still ramping up. By the time his actual book came out, the art was downgraded to their mass-produced style. The trend was already dying and those same friends weren't getting comics anymore and were thinking about girls instead.
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Here's another from that studio. Just silly. I didn't realize it was from a weird moneygrab issue. It worked on me.
Bloodstrike #1 was cover dated April 1993 and the series ran for 22 issues. There was a special issue 25 printed (after issue 10) as part of the "Images of Tomorrow" event that ran through several titles being published by Image at the time. During issue 25, the Bloodstrike title changed dramatically as Bloodstrike became the name of a solo agent. Extreme Studios boasted that the issue depicted precisely where the series would be at the end of issue 24,[5] but issues 23 and 24 were not produced.
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Another one from the sea of fail image comics. This one ran for 3 issues. I for some reason have 2 copies of #2 and am donating both tomorrow. This cover foil is shiny, though, so I'm keeping it.
(https://i.imgur.com/vHCpLZn.jpeg)
I must have seen this ad a hundred times. Was the game any good? I always had to stop myself buying these game rulebooks from bookstores while my mom was shopping in the mall. My friends and I bought some battletech rulebooks because it was just pages of technical mech drawings? (awesome)
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Finally this. I'm having trouble believing you could by a 6 ft poster for a dollar and change. Whats the catch?
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RIFTS was an interesting RPG universe, unfortunately it was saddled with the Palladium RPG system, one of the worst game systems at that time.
As to Liefeld...did you ever see his Battlestar Galactica?
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61JqzbKNboL._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg)
The guy with the severe dental problem is meant to be original series Baltar, and don't get me started on the proportions of the two smaller figures.
His art had a little golden age before he left for image and right at it's beginning. Good detail, and passable proportions. But damn he really let himself go after :lol:
I've not seen that one (headinhands)
The life-sized Commie is a gag ad from 1963, Alan Moore's winking homage to silver age comics. That six issue series is excellent, although technically never finished.
Well dang, I didn't realize I had something worth reading there.
I only have #3. There's a guy inside that seems to be made of brains. I won't donate this one!
(https://i.imgur.com/QubYBpC.jpeg)
I need these clothes
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Sorry I couldn't rotate this in time.
This is exciting. I'm gonna check out some of these bands.
Did you guys do the whole techno thing? That did not happen in the USA anywhere near the degree Britain got.
That Rifts advert takes me back!
Those Prog pages though.... uuurgh. That period when the Prog was trying to be all cool was bogus, especially the music pages. As a teenager heavily into music of a very different type, and resculpting my identity (as it was then) through the culture of that style of music, this really underlined that the comic was no longer for me.
Quote from: Barrington Boots on 22 February, 2024, 01:15:51 PMthis really underlined that the comic was no longer for me.
On the other hand, it did allow Alan McKenzie to pay himself for yet another page he was writing under a pseudonym which, I'm pretty sure, was really the point of it.
(And, no, I never had the impression that the dance/techno/electro crowd were a huge part of the 2000AD audience demographic, so the music pages' fairly strong focus on that seemed both baffling and off-putting to me, too.)
That Aphex Twin EP is awesome. Classics-era Aphex is my favourite :)
Quote from: lordmockingbird on 22 February, 2024, 01:04:40 PM(https://i.imgur.com/VMBzkzW.jpeg)
Sorry I couldn't rotate this in time.
This is exciting. I'm gonna check out some of these bands.
Did you guys do the whole techno thing? That did not happen in the USA anywhere near the degree Britain got.
I was a teenage goth-lite indie rocker when these were coming out, and am now a middle-aged goth-lite indie rocker*.
However, I loved techno and still do when the mood takes me, and spent some of the best nights of my younger days dancing to repetitive beats on dancefloors even if the chemicals involved did finally take a mental toll. And still a lot of Roxilla's output went way over my head, though to be fair 'she' also wrote about hip hop, synth pop and even metal.
*With the obvious caveat that I may as well be a rugby jock when compared to Campbell's goth credentials.
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 22 February, 2024, 01:42:44 PMI never had the impression that the dance/techno/electro crowd were a huge part of the 2000AD audience
Oh, really?
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Quote from: Rogue Trooper on 22 February, 2024, 03:23:28 PMQuote from: Jim_Campbell on 22 February, 2024, 01:42:44 PMI never had the impression that the dance/techno/electro crowd were a huge part of the 2000AD audience
Oh, really?
Can't speak for anyone else, but the thirteen-year-old me absolutely
cringed at the sight of that cover...
That is way too titillating intriguing
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 22 February, 2024, 03:35:33 PMCan't speak for anyone else, but the thirteen-year-old me absolutely cringed at the sight of that cover...
I
know - the health and safety implications of live grenades on the dance floor!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if she stood up straight she'd be about seven feet tall (unless Rogue is very, very short).
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Very excited about this zombie Dredd story. I'm in prog 786. I thought the artist style looked like Alex Ross, but it's this Peter Doherty. He kind of looks like the guy from Peep Show.
This is silly, but I hope this one leads to one of those underworld Dredd character I see so often. I haven't looked up what progs they are in.
Is this from Judgement Day? You'll do well to get much enjoyment from that, sadly.
Here's an image from Buster that seems relevant to current world events.
(https://i.imgur.com/OFH7jEa.jpeg)
Quote from: Barrington Boots on 29 February, 2024, 01:38:44 PMIs this from Judgement Day? You'll do well to get much enjoyment from that, sadly.
:lol: OK I hope my pure excitement for this adventure makes me like it.
The previous one was "Secret Garden..."
I was going to sell all my Wizard and Hero mags today and I aborted because I started looking through and thought there were quite a few things I'd like to preserve from the pages.
1st off how many damn times did I see this utterly perfect surfboard rendering on this ad that I still have no idea what it truly means. Googling isn't helping much. Was it a random shop of some renown?
Funny enough, one google result brought me to a site (https://theuncollecting.com/)who is doing what I'm doing, but so much better.
(https://i.imgur.com/lX1XOiA.jpeg)
Then I was like who is this hottie? Googling revealed some insane body building pics of her. She was a muscle chick and then became an amazing painter who also married Boris Vallejo?
(https://i.imgur.com/c9ClQgq.jpeg)
Finally, just remembering the crow. I watched this the other night with the wife. I fell asleep when my friend showed it to me in the 90s. He was very excited about it then, but it was late.. Well, this watching I fell asleep again. It was also very late and the wife made popcorn which didn't help. But that is just one cheesy movie.
(https://i.imgur.com/8YUHTAO.jpeg)
Quote from: Barrington Boots on 29 February, 2024, 01:38:44 PMIs this from Judgement Day? You'll do well to get much enjoyment from that, sadly.
Here's an image from Buster that seems relevant to current world events.
(https://i.imgur.com/OFH7jEa.jpeg)
Is that Ivor Lott and Tony Broke? I recently found out that Pat Mills used to write that strip, and was not as surprised as I probably should have been.
It absolutely is! Wit Milly O'Naire and Penny Less, by the great Reg Parlett.
I didn't know that, but am not surprised Pat Mills wrote any of this either.
Quote from: Barrington Boots on 04 March, 2024, 11:11:47 AMIt absolutely is! Wit Milly O'Naire and Penny Less, by the great Reg Parlett.
I didn't know that, but am not surprised Pat Mills wrote any of this either.
I don't know if he wrote the particular strip that this panel is taken from, but it does seem very Millsian.