Title: crisis
Post by: slightlyiffy on 06 January, 2005, 01:37:50 AM
Post by: slightlyiffy on 06 January, 2005, 01:37:50 AM
the Other Half [bless her] has acquired for me issues 1-83 of 'Crisis' BUT was 83 the final issue ???
Thanx in advance
Thanx in advance
Title: Re: crisis
Post by: Richmond Clements on 06 January, 2005, 01:47:50 AM
Post by: Richmond Clements on 06 January, 2005, 01:47:50 AM
According to the guide here, there are 63 (I should really know this, I've got every issue, though haven't read them since they where published).
Link: Crisis here!
Title: Re: crisis
Post by: Bico on 06 January, 2005, 01:56:42 AM
Post by: Bico on 06 January, 2005, 01:56:42 AM
Hey, how come they've never reprinted any Crisis material in the Meg?
Oh, wait - because it was shit.
Oh, wait - because it was shit.
Title: Re: crisis
Post by: slightlyiffy on 06 January, 2005, 01:59:00 AM
Post by: slightlyiffy on 06 January, 2005, 01:59:00 AM
You're absolutely right - eyes ain't what they once were - I've just squinted & it's a 6 not an 8 - cheers
Title: Re: crisis
Post by: colcool007 on 06 January, 2005, 04:58:22 AM
Post by: colcool007 on 06 January, 2005, 04:58:22 AM
I don't know. I thought the World War 3 series was pretty good. And it did lead to Finn being introduced as a 2000AD character. The cynical view (taken by the editors) about corporate capitalism did strike a chord and helped to give me a more realistic view of the world about me.
Title: Re: crisis
Post by: IndigoPrime on 06 January, 2005, 05:47:15 AM
Post by: IndigoPrime on 06 January, 2005, 05:47:15 AM
WW3 was pretty good?at least the first series, and New Adventures of Hitler was interesting. However, it had way more misses than hits throughout its history.
Title: Re: crisis
Post by: starscape on 07 January, 2005, 01:28:19 AM
Post by: starscape on 07 January, 2005, 01:28:19 AM
Thought Crisis was amazing (well, maybe not New Statesmen or at the very death) but much under-rated.
Nothing to do with 2000AD though.
Nothing to do with 2000AD though.
Title: Re: crisis
Post by: LARF on 07 January, 2005, 01:33:16 AM
Post by: LARF on 07 January, 2005, 01:33:16 AM
Come on lets throw Revolver and Toxic in to this conversation eh?, Now that was shite!
Crisis was..... OK.
I always prefered Deadline, I loved that comic!
Crisis was..... OK.
I always prefered Deadline, I loved that comic!
Title: Re: crisis
Post by: The Amstor Computer on 07 January, 2005, 01:51:06 AM
Post by: The Amstor Computer on 07 January, 2005, 01:51:06 AM
Revolver had the good - though controversial - Dare and the fantastic Rogan Gosh. Not bad for a seven issue run. Toxic started well but pissed it all away around twelve issues in - a monthly format would maybe have given it more breathing space, but I think the schedule was the least of the problems on that title.
Crisis had some great strips, but they were few and far between. Read now - with no gaps between issues and with the reader able to skip the shite - it's quite satisfying, but at the time...
Oh, and it also gave us Finn. Yay. :-(
Deadline ended up being more magazine than comic - think the Meg with the proportions of text and strip reversed - but the early years were fun.
Crisis had some great strips, but they were few and far between. Read now - with no gaps between issues and with the reader able to skip the shite - it's quite satisfying, but at the time...
Oh, and it also gave us Finn. Yay. :-(
Deadline ended up being more magazine than comic - think the Meg with the proportions of text and strip reversed - but the early years were fun.
Title: Re: crisis
Post by: starscape on 07 January, 2005, 04:39:28 AM
Post by: starscape on 07 January, 2005, 04:39:28 AM
Sheez, Deadline was AWFUL! Revolver though was one of the best comics ever produced - especially Dire Streets. The Romance Special really was special though - same with the Horror Special. Very recommended.
Title: Re: crisis
Post by: Art on 07 January, 2005, 04:44:41 AM
Post by: Art on 07 January, 2005, 04:44:41 AM
Deadline, awful? Dunno about that - Deadline ended as a horrible mess, and was pretty pathcy along the way, but it had some great stuff! Tank Girl and Johnny Nemo and Teh Sadist all rocked, and the reprints introduced me to Evan Dorkin and Bugs'n'drugs.
Title: Re: crisis
Post by: LARF on 07 January, 2005, 05:44:11 AM
Post by: LARF on 07 January, 2005, 05:44:11 AM
Not to mention Lazarus Churchyard, that Philip Bond strip with the two girls and the strange guy with the head lie a smiley. Fk pissed bollaks, shaky kane, and early issues of tanky my god I'm travelling back in tyme, fk me I'm seeing the 2 lesbiens I used to live with and kiki my old cat, mommy i want to go home, siteh off to bed I think gdnight
fk 7 pnts an im anyboddies
fk 7 pnts an im anyboddies
Title: Re: crisis
Post by: Quirkafleeg on 07 January, 2005, 05:44:42 AM
Post by: Quirkafleeg on 07 January, 2005, 05:44:42 AM
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Title: Re: crisis
Post by: Bolt-01 on 07 January, 2005, 06:24:49 PM
Post by: Bolt-01 on 07 January, 2005, 06:24:49 PM
Deadline: Loved it. Fave strip was 'Cheeky wee budgie boy', which looking back, may have been more influential than I realised. eek.
Bolt-01
Bolt-01
Title: Re: crisis
Post by: Capt.Zeep on 07 January, 2005, 06:34:21 PM
Post by: Capt.Zeep on 07 January, 2005, 06:34:21 PM
I thought Crisis was great, but then I only read the first couple of dozen. Mrs Zeep still has the "Basta!" sticker on the side of her stereo. New Statesmen I didn't quite get at the time, but read later as a GN it was fantastic. And I loved 3WW but then I was a young hippy at the time.
I thought Deadline and Revolver were noble attempts to take the British comic genre somewhere, thing is I don't think they knew where either. Rogan Gosh was reat but finished enormously depressingly...there were great little one-off things in both publications IIRC.
Electric Soup, anyone?
I thought Deadline and Revolver were noble attempts to take the British comic genre somewhere, thing is I don't think they knew where either. Rogan Gosh was reat but finished enormously depressingly...there were great little one-off things in both publications IIRC.
Electric Soup, anyone?
Title: Re: crisis
Post by: johnnystress on 07 January, 2005, 06:40:38 PM
Post by: johnnystress on 07 January, 2005, 06:40:38 PM
haha Bolt! Thats exatlyy what I thought when I first saw Whistler! That was indeed a great strip-the art was just so good.
Deadline was great in the early days but went up it's own arse trying to be a 'cool' fashion/indie/style magazine after a while.
My brother is the proud owner of the original painted cover art by Brett Ewins of Tank Girl shaving her head
lovely stuff
(by the way heres a completley unrelated link to a great band called Deadline)
Deadline was great in the early days but went up it's own arse trying to be a 'cool' fashion/indie/style magazine after a while.
My brother is the proud owner of the original painted cover art by Brett Ewins of Tank Girl shaving her head
lovely stuff
(by the way heres a completley unrelated link to a great band called Deadline)
Link: Deadline_Oi
Title: Re: crisis
Post by: Wake on 07 January, 2005, 08:38:26 PM
Post by: Wake on 07 January, 2005, 08:38:26 PM
Title: Re: crisis
Post by: johnnystress on 07 January, 2005, 09:05:37 PM
Post by: johnnystress on 07 January, 2005, 09:05:37 PM
That's the one!Looks great framed