Random Pics from Comics

[lordmockingbird]

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.


Here's another from that studio. Just silly. I didn't realize it was from a weird moneygrab issue. It worked on me.

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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.



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.



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)



Finally this. I'm having trouble believing you could by a 6 ft poster for a dollar and change. Whats the catch?

[Jade Falcon]

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?



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.

[lordmockingbird]

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 

I've not seen that one (headinhands)

[hellscrape]

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.

[lordmockingbird]

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!

[lordmockingbird]

I need these clothes

[lordmockingbird]

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.

[Barrington Boots]

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.

[Jim_Campbell]

this 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.)

[Fortnight]

That Aphex Twin EP is awesome. Classics-era Aphex is my favourite :)

[JayzusB.Christ]

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.

[Funt Solo]

I never had the impression that the dance/techno/electro crowd were a huge part of the 2000AD audience

Oh, really?

[Jim_Campbell]

I 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...

[lordmockingbird]

That is way too titillating intriguing

[Funt Solo]

Can'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!