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Rogue finds out he's the clone of Tommy Cooper & heads out to save Nu Earth with the use of bad magic tricks

What, just like that?

"Bryan's current focus is The Casebook of Stamford Hawksmoor, a prequel to his Grandville series which features anthropomorphised steampunk characters."

Excellent news!

Further, stolen from Hibernia's Facebook page (and slightly edited by me):

Lost Treasures collects two complete stories from "Treasure" by masters of comic art, John M Burns and Jesús Blasco.

The first story 'Children of the Stars' tells the tale of the adventures of the Zexton family, as they set out for a new life on the planet Alpha Nine. The story is wonderfully drawn in its entirety by the late John M Burns, as Colin Brown of the John M Burns Facebook art group says "Children of the Stars is one of the best examples, (of his B&W work), being an artistic bridge between his first SF strip Space Family Robinson in 1966 and one of his most fondly remembered, Countdown in 1971."

The second strip featured is 'The Long Way Home', drawn in its entirety by Spanish comic master Jesús Blasco. It is one of his finest works. It charts the long odyssey of two children searching to find their parents across the crumbling Roman empire in fourth century Britain. Blasco's art on this story is simply amazing, some of the finest B&W artwork to be published in British comics. David Roach, in his preface says of the art, "Each page, each panel, is a masterclass in black and white composition, something that was always there is his work of course, but reached its peak here. But of course, I don't have to wax lyrical about how wonderful the strip is because, at last, you can read the whole thing here, collected at last. You're in for a treat."

This is a little different to our usual collections, but fitting well within our goal of shining a light on lesser known or forgotten masterpieces in British comics.  It has been an ambition of mine to reprint these two stories since stumbling across them in old copies of Treasure.

Lost Treasures is 92 pages, perfect bound, B&W, with an intro by me, David McDonald, and including a preface to The Long Way Home by comic artist and historian David Roach, detailing Blasco's work in British comics in the sixties and seventies.

This book is limited to 200 copies. Get the best-looking comic collection of 2024 while you can!

[Lost Treasures]

Hibernia's new title, Lost Treasures includes "Children of the Stars" by John M. Burns.  It also reprints "The Long Way Home" by Jesús Blasco.  92 pages.

[Lost Treasures]

Has Hibernia's new title, Lost Treasures been mentioned anywhere yet?

It reprints "The Long Way Home" by Jesús Blasco and "Children of the Stars" by John M. Burns.  92 pages.

'Armageddon' derives from the Hebrew, 'Har Megiddo'.  Given that Megiddo is a place, we may be able to shoehorn a 'Meg" reference into all this as well.

But don't worry if you don't know what 'Armageddon' means.  It's not like it spells the end of the world or anything.

Who did the rogue trooper print? Pretty sure that's not Steve.

Never mind who did it, what's Rogue doing in that picture?  I assume he's meant to be sitting on a pile of rocks, but it looks more like he's lowering himself onto it, or squatting over it.  It looks like the picture was originally his head and torso within the Souther emblem, and then a decision was made to extend it, adding the (very far-apart) legs.

[Who?'s the Boss]

Who?'s the Boss
An obscure Calhab artist unexpectedly becomes President of a major MC1 corporation.

Who?'s on First
Hijinks ensue as the Who? family move into a plush residence on MC1's famous First Avenue, along with Ma Who?'s sister, Beverly Hilbillie.

I think I've gone from puns to bad TV Guide entries.

[Alien Sex Fiend]

Alien Sex Fiend

The Olympic Games most-watched event has a new contestant.

[Death by Chocolate]

Death by Chocolate

When Brit-Cit's Chief Judge Cadbury and his aide Yorkie visit MC1 to attend Hershey's commemoration service, crime boss Mal Teser has other ideas.  Ideas that involve a certain alien superfiend and a giant fondue display.

[Magnam Force]

Magnam Force

Lost behind enemy lines, straggling Souther trooper Harry Callahan's life is saved by the accidental discovery of a GI pistol.  But what do you do when your commanding officer is a talking gun, with ideas other than getting you back to safety?

[Bring Me the Dredd of Carlos Ezquerra]

Bring Me the Dredd of Carlos Ezquerra

A homage prog in which Tharg challenges his art droids to draw a story in the style of King Carlos.

Hmm, interesting.  I just buy the trades these days.  I'll occasionally grab a prog, but not often.

PPS Do you all really, really like Judge Maitland stories or not?  Asking for a friend with a big mouth (currently stuffed with feet).

Frankie says, When Two Diatribes Go to War.

Dash, what have you done this time??

I'm not going to disagree, for example, that some frames of Dredd-on-a-Lawmaster can be a bit uncanny valley, but that's not limited to Tom Foster.

Absolutely, I totally agree.  I do think it happens less these days now we have toy Lawmasters, which are clearly being used as models by some artists to get their angles and views right; not to mention those who model them in apps etc as well, but it clearly is very challenging.

My fault for not being clearer - it was part of my point about the following panel, (which has a headshot of a Judge that turns out not to be Dredd, but says "I'll go now" immediately after we see Dredd on his Lawmaster), though to be fair I did go off point to gripe about the art.

I do think it is worth critiquing the stories in the hopes it is helpful.  It is not intended to have a dig at anyone.  I like that Niemand includes casual in-world references e.g. to Otto Sump, pre-Apoc fashions, etc.  On the flipside, I still think there were a number of confusing parts in the presentation of the story, e.g. when Purcell & Dredd's trip wading through the swill tanks is mentioned again.  Likewise, I do see several Dredd images throughout the story which look very much like Bolland covers, but there's no denying the art is really good overall, and things like the crashed truck at the start of "An Honest Man" and the crashing gunship look fantastic.  Besides, all artists learn from each other and if you're going to choose your influences, then Bolland is a great choice.

Any road - my point is that the best artists ever to grace the prog have fucked up the odd panel - we notice it, we move on. We forgive them because generally the quality of art on offer in the prog is fucking amazing.

This is an excellent point too.  Tom Foster's art is very good overall, and I will keep looking out for Kenneth Niemand stories in the hopes they will click with me.  And of course, they're both in the prog and I'm not, so that speaks volumes too.

I hope I am still allowed in the clubhouse.

PS, Funt, you always do a great job pulling out panels to illustrate your points.  Do you have a digital sub?  I had thought of including shots of some of the things I was talking about, but I don't fancy cracking the spine of the book putting it on the scanner, and taking a photo seems less than ideal.