found this today for those nostaligic about 80s comics http://www.backfromthedepths.co.uk/home.htm well worth a look
Yum!
and i quote
'you see! this is why i never had any luck with the ladies as a student ! A young fellow can only take so many rebuffs before he gives up and starts trafficking with the fiends of the hell instead! at least they're not so picky'
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now now mr ian eddington keep your personal demons to yourself, next thing you know 2000ad will start filling up with women in leather... sin dex ... durham..
Anyone else noticed personal rants in 2000ad ?
Ah... part fish, part man, part lobster, ALL monster...
That takes me back...
Link: The Sea Beast
When I was nine, some of the short stories scared the shit out of me, so much that my mum threw the few coipies of scream I had away. :(
But I remember the man-eating apples, and I remember the one with the kid who touches a meteorie which changes him, so everything he touches gets clogged up with vegetation. He's so scared, he runs to his mum to hug her... and the last panel - which I remembered just as it was reproduced on the site - shows him sitting in the corner, next to his mum's upright plant-covered corpse. I didn't sleep after seeing that one the first time.
One thing I didn't remember was how good so much of the artwork was: Cam Kennedy, Ortiz, Brendan McCarthy etc. And Steve Dillon doing a werewolf story! Some of this stuff really needs a reprint, I think.
great site- it reminds me that Eric Bradbury , criticsed in another thread a while ago, was great when given the right subject matter
My one criticism would be the appallingly slow download times of the images. These guys really want to look at optimising their jpgs.
Oddly enough Scream never scared me whilst the original Eagle Doomlord photostory really scare 6 year old JimBob. I remember getting my Dad to bin the first 9 or 10 Eagles after I could take no more and him arguing I might change my mind later stemming form a traumatic experience he had when at about 12 his Mum threw out his childhood Marvels. I would not be disuaded however.
In hindsight it just goes to show, always listen to your Dad
That's a cool site. Thanks for the link.
my favourite scream story was the one where the kid go's to stay with his aunt in some southern england hicksville and notices everybody in the town has plaster casts on thier arms and legs,one night he notices the entire town gathering at a stone circle and a completely bandaged figure emerges,said figure removes his bandages to reveal the form of an ant-like alien,then the townspeople, including the kids aunt, remove thier plastercasts to reveal alien limbs underneath, appently the "seeds of sirius,have taken root" and the invasion of earth is due to begin, the kid is discovered, captured and knocked out, he comes round in a hospital with...you guesed it a plaster cast on his leg....the final panel is of the kid screaming as two alien nurses remove the cast to reveal....an ant-like leg underneath. Ok,so its not exactly the twilight zone but it scared the living shite out of me as a 10 year old. I wish scream had continued, imagine if it was still published today, i think it would be sort of like a sister horror title to 2000ad, same creators, same level of maturity to the stories, if scream had continued i can quite easilly imagine stories like necronauts and red seas finding thier way into its pages. wouldnt it be cool if rebellion could aquire the rights to scream and start printing scream volume 2.
I've just recently got hold of the fifteen issues of scream.
They are really enjoyable and quite fun in a dodgy way. I loved the first episode of Monster by Alan Moore. It seems to have turned into Rick Clark's work after that, I don't know if it's a pseudonym, but it feels like it. Still, I've enjoyed the scream issues and hope it continues to be as good in Eagle.
May try the Dracula Files by GFD or there's a strip by Tom Tully, next.
If anyone want to trade me the summer specials, or the Eagle issues I'm missing with MONSTER in!?, let me know :) Apparently Monster ran for over a year in eagle, so too much to reprint, but that first Alan Moore one is worth a read.
don't know if it's a pseudonym, but it feels like it
Yup, Rick Clark was Grant & Wagner.
I must confess that I've never heard of Scream. Is sounds too scary for someone of my delicate disposition. I shudder to think how warped I might have turned out if I'd had access to this sort of nightmare-inducing material.
By way of example, when I was a kid I'd go into Boots and mess about on the electric typewriters they had on sale. But instead of typing "Master X was here", I'd put "If you read this, I will kill you and your family tonight" and similar messages. Then I'd go look at the ZX spectrum games and watch the old dears and shop staff read what was there, do a double take, and then wander off with feigned nonchalance. Arf! It still makes me smile, but no one else finds this amusing in the slightest. Anyone?
Yug yug yug.
'Ah... part fish, part man, part lobster, ALL monster...
That takes me back'
Jeez, I remember buying this! What a cool cover. Brilliant! Everybody go and look now!
Teeerrrreeeeey!
I made the terrible mistake of starting Monster in Scream, thinking I could read it through my Eagles, but there are issues missing! Damn!
I need Eagles 131, 137-148, 150-151, 153, 156, 158.
I really want to finish this story as I'm thoroughly enjoying it, if anyone has any issues they could trade to me, I'd be grateful, or if there was some other way, let me know.
Cheers
Paul
"Terhhhee Kill!"
'the final panel is of the kid screaming as two alien nurses remove the cast to reveal....an ant-like leg underneath.'
I remember that, it scared the living bejayzus out of me too when I was a kid.
nb scream website is back online - hurrah !
hi there,
scream was brilliant and i think one of my first ever comics - i liked it much more than 2000ad at the time and learned to read by making my mum repeat the stories over and over again,
the CATs story was quite good and i also used to like the dracula files and i was gutted when they finished it - the nightcomers was looking quite good and a lot of the stories that started never really got a chance - apparently it was stopped because newsagents got complaints from parents so IPC management over reacted and pulled it (thats the story anyway)
i have seen the the fiends and neighbours strip in 'shiver and shake' and many other IPC humour publications - does anyone think they were just reprints
in retrospect i loved the alan moore MONSTER stories (hes very good at doing first person narrative scenes almost like a movie) but i cant help u out with the EAGLE issues ive already sold my doubles - im doing a clearout to make way for more at the moment
apart from the first special they are all mostly reprint from the issues of scream mixed with one off stories from other places (i think they did it to make their money back on the whole affair)
i have several full sets of this series and issue two with the free gift is the hardest to find (just like with 200AD), issue 4 always seems to have a big drop off and issue 14 is hard to find in good condition
SCREAM is without doubt one of my favourite comics and its been great going down memory lane with u all
stront692
the story that used to scare me half to death was THE COLLECTOR in EAGLE, that was very weird and i have never liked stories like this as a result - even now i skip thargs future shocks
stront692
My grandad bought me every issue of scream when i was a kid, and i loved it! Then, a few years later, my gran decided to take them to a bring and buy sale.... and the lot went for about 50p!!
Recently bought them all again and a couple of the specials. Still kept me glued to the pages, just like a good issue of Tooth does!!
But their is a story that me and a mate both remember that i havent seen yet, it was called 'Mother's day' or something like that, and was just a one off strip about a guy talking to someone on the bus about his mum and what he'd got for her. When he got home you discovered his mum was a corpse, and had been for some time.
If anyone knows which special it was in, or indeed how many specials there were, please let me know!
But yeah, Scream utterly ruled!
Hey, I remember that story! very creepy stuff.
Was it in Scream? I had a feeling it was in Revolver or something.
Wasn't that in Crisis and by Mark Miller?
Or was it a Halloween Special?
I seem to remember there was a Romance Special too with a Brian Bolland cover of a Princess kissing a frog or something.
the Romance special was Revolver, I'm pretty sure.
the revolver romance had some horror stories in it and there is also the 2000AD action special if u want to check out some ols strips of yesteryear (and VULCAN for reprints of those actual strips)
scream has four specials as far as im aware (85 to 89) and there was scream spinechillers special in 1990 or 91 but that was all reprint
after the second they are all reprint but they do contain material from other sources beside scream
stront692
Which Horror Special was it then, Crisis or Revolver, with the John Bolton painting of a witch on the front?
Without the issues in front of me I honestly can't remember.
I was utterly astonished the other day to see the Revolver Romance Special listed somewhere as retailing for a tenner.
Anyone know why this may be so?
- Trout
dr x - the special u r looking for is the revolver horror special with a gruesome picky on the cover - there are two on ebay at the mo
trout - there are not many copies of revolver so it is by definition RARE, but that is because it was not really very good (apart from DARE) and the problem i find is that a lot of the stories finished in the later issues of crisis which are notoriously hard to find so if u do like something u will find it very hard to complete the set
this means that it if u want to get a RARE (or dealer price) for the set u have to list the issues that u r likely to sell (which have good content) at a high price as u will be sitting on them for a while and they are all u will sell - the romance special is one of those issues
stront692
I'll be flogging my REVOLVER and CRISIS and WARRIOR shortly - I was going to do it on ebay but I could probably just as easily do it here and "keep 'em in the family" so to speak.
Tip, I may well be interested in that.
anyone konw if fiends an neighbours was an early i0pc humour reprint then, its also to be found in cor, frankenstein, shiver and shake and a couple otthers
stront692
Fiends and neighbours... I remember that. Was it in Buster or something?
comic called COR! and SHIVER AND SHAKE!
oh yeah, remember shiver and shake... the snake one, yeah?
i know the elephant called shake in it, i think shiver was a ghost
u r thinking of whizzer & chips
there are loads of them all sadly forgotten about now
some only lasted 20 or so issues
stront692
actually COR! may have had hte original whizzeer snake in it, they all folded into the same titles its so confusing
stront692
yeah, it does get confusing, doesn't it?