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It was a such a fetching cape.

Fair enough. My earliest memory of Metallica is of a t shirt someone had in my primary school that read 'Metallica : Metal Up your Ass'. I believe that was the original title of the Black Album. It even showed a sword coming up out of a toilet if memory serves, which it may not

'twas the original title of their first album, Kill 'em All, but the Producer convinced them distributors might not stock the associated cover.

Slahn-yeh/Slorn-yeh are roughly the traditional Irish form, the first syllable being longer than the second. Some would stick an h in front of the l.

More like Slawn-yeh.

Mills has alluded to the idea that the publishing rights for Marshal Law are now owned by DC.

A quick check of my copy of the Collected Marshal Law, published by DC in 2013, and the copyright is to Mills & O'Neill. So if DC now own the rights to the character, it is because Mills & O'Neill sold it to them.

I mentioned Publishing rights being owned by DC rather than Copyright. We don't know the specific terms of those publishing rights or how long they last but Mills & O'Neill may have made have made a particular deal with DC so they could finally get the backing for the ML collection after Top Shelf dropped it. According to Mills it's up to DC whether there would be more ML stories or not, but all other rights are owned by the creators.

You're probably thinking of Metalzoic, which was first published in colour by DC Comics in a short-lived range of high quality printed graphic novels (compared to the print quality of the era) and then reprinted in black and white in 2000AD, as every squaxx know.


Marshall Law was first published by Epic Comics (imprint of Marvel) but judging from its subsequent print history is owned wholly by Mills and O'Neill*.

Mills has alluded to the idea that the publishing rights for Marshal Law are now owned by DC.

The best Kolchak episodes are the ones that just go all the way into eldritichian, mythic abominations.

The show never quiet reached the heights of the first pilot movie

I prefer the sequel film The Night Strangler – which is more or less the same story as the first, only better, and more imaginative. The hidden history of Seattle's very own Undercity, complete with full streets and buildings from the previous century (the Bradbury building gets a big cameo), only adds to the sleazy brilliance of Kolchak's American underworld.

He was the best of us.

We are fucked.

I've been browsing survivor groups for the past month and there are thousands like Hannah. Lot of people are going to end up with post viral fatigue that is chronic.

I don't feel Day of Chaos or Tour of Duty suffered too much from having multiple artists and only one artist ever achieved such a feat (twice) within Tharg's schedule.

imagine what Wagner could have done with such an interesting premise.

We don't need to imagine; he (and Alan Grant) did it 33 years ago.

My three takeaways were (1). Landsdape very evocative of holidays in Clare as a kid, I wonder doea Hodgson share the specific (alleged) inspiration of Poll na gColm with Tolkien

Possibly. He spent some time in the West as a kid.

WHH (known as "Hope" to his family and friends) was born in 1877, the second son of Essex clergyman Samuel Hodgson and his wife, Lizzie.  The family would eventually grow to include twelve children but three of WHH's brothers would die in infancy before their second years.

By all reports, Samuel Hodgson was a difficult man to live with.  This is perhaps supported by the fact that he was constantly transferred throughout most of his career.  Samuel was moved at least twelve times during the years 1871-1890 and, in 1887, the family was sent to do missionary work in Ireland at Ardrahan, County Galway.  This would provide the setting for one of Hodgson's most famous novels, The House on the Borderland.

https://williamhopehodgson.wordpress.com/a-short-biography-of-william-hope-hodgson/

I know Bank Raid has been reprinted many times but it hasnt exactly been given the prominence it deserves hidden away in annual censored or in the extras section of the Case Files.

It was first printed properly (no borders or censorship) by Titan in The Chronicles of Judge Dredd: 4. It's still the best version.

There was a recent reprinting of The House on the Borderland with a new intro by Alan Moore (his second after the Corben comic adaptation) and an old essay by Iain Sinclair; but yeah, The Night Land is something else, similar to THOTB, if a tougher, longer read.

http://www.swanriverpress.ie/title_borderland.html

We've never seen inside the Comportment, though. It might just be a bunch of doodles.

Apart from one page while Kraken reads it in Necropolis.

At the end of September, Sanders was invited to appear on the BBC's early evening magazine programme Nationwide. Sanders believes that the presenter that night was Frank Bough, later revealed to have extremely high moral standards of his own, although this is debatable, as another presenter's name is also mentioned. Unfortunately, according to sources at the BBC, the corporation have destroyed the archive footage, so any claims cannot be verified.

Bough went through a list of questions with Sanders prior to the live broadcast. However, as soon as the item went on air, Bough strayed from the pre-planned format and launched an attack on both Sanders and the comic. Sanders defended his position and the position of IPC as publisher, once again arguing the case with reference to other forms of violent media that were freely available to children, but as he stood up for his creation, forces within IPC acted to bring him down. Members of the editorial staff had gathered to watch the programme at King's Reach Tower, IPC's London office. Among them was Jack Le Grand, the man who had always wanted Action to fail.

https://downthetubes.net/?page_id=29301