Title: Ace Trucking Collection
Post by: Ignatzmonster on 18 March, 2007, 08:44:38 PM
Post by: Ignatzmonster on 18 March, 2007, 08:44:38 PM
Belardinelli's work in The Dead stunned me. I haven't been that suprised and impressed by a comic artist's design work in ages. Like watching sculpture move. I have heard of Ace Trucking but never read any, so I don't know if its renown is well founded. But Goddamn it I WANT it yesterday!!!!!!!! A collection or series of EEs, whichever, but get cracking.
Title: Re: Ace Trucking Collection...
Post by: Adrian Bamforth on 18 March, 2007, 11:19:33 PM
Post by: Adrian Bamforth on 18 March, 2007, 11:19:33 PM
Yeah, The Dead looked great, I'd never seen it before. Definitely better with unreal stuff like that than things with human heroes. Unfortunately I started reading 2000AD when he was just used to knock out the odd Future Shock very quickly and, well, to my shame I hated the formulaic way he drew people always from the same angles. I had no idea he had such an imagination with the right script.
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Title: Re: Ace Trucking Collection......
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 19 March, 2007, 01:32:53 AM
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 19 March, 2007, 01:32:53 AM
He always drew a bloke in crowd pictures with a beard.
Was that him in the artwork?
Was that him in the artwork?
Title: Re: Ace Trucking Collection.........
Post by: robbycox on 19 March, 2007, 03:19:02 AM
Post by: robbycox on 19 March, 2007, 03:19:02 AM
Yep! Massimo's pretty well known to draw himself into his work. Look closely at the back cover of the newspaper.
Cheers,
Rob
Cheers,
Rob
Title: Re: Ace Trucking Collection..........
Post by: robbycox on 19 March, 2007, 03:27:37 AM
Post by: robbycox on 19 March, 2007, 03:27:37 AM
At the Station.
Title: Re: Ace Trucking Collection..........
Post by: robbycox on 19 March, 2007, 03:31:26 AM
Post by: robbycox on 19 March, 2007, 03:31:26 AM
Stitching up a super-predator
Title: Re: Ace Trucking Collection..........
Post by: robbycox on 19 March, 2007, 04:12:29 AM
Post by: robbycox on 19 March, 2007, 04:12:29 AM
And more recently.........
Title: Re: Ace Trucking Collection..........
Post by: Pete Wells on 19 March, 2007, 07:22:06 AM
Post by: Pete Wells on 19 March, 2007, 07:22:06 AM
Oh that last piece is amazing!
I was too young to appreciate ACE Trucking Co. All of the mental CB inspired language confused my young brain and so I used to skip it. I'd love the chance to read it as an (alleged) grown up.
Come on Jonathan or Thargy, please reprint ACE in some form!
I was too young to appreciate ACE Trucking Co. All of the mental CB inspired language confused my young brain and so I used to skip it. I'd love the chance to read it as an (alleged) grown up.
Come on Jonathan or Thargy, please reprint ACE in some form!
Title: Re: Ace Trucking Collection..........
Post by: robbycox on 19 March, 2007, 07:33:09 AM
Post by: robbycox on 19 March, 2007, 07:33:09 AM
And also as "Chuck" in The Curse of Mytax from the 1978 2000ad annual. 
Title: Re: Ace Trucking Collection..........
Post by: robbycox on 19 March, 2007, 07:45:20 AM
Post by: robbycox on 19 March, 2007, 07:45:20 AM
Not a nice way to go......
and that'll do from me. There are loads more instances of Massimo drawing himself in, especially in the Ace storyline Too Many Bams.
Cheers,
Rob.
and that'll do from me. There are loads more instances of Massimo drawing himself in, especially in the Ace storyline Too Many Bams.
Cheers,
Rob.
Title: Re: Ace Trucking Collection..........
Post by: Ignatzmonster on 19 March, 2007, 11:51:07 PM
Post by: Ignatzmonster on 19 March, 2007, 11:51:07 PM
Think I love the talented little dago-art-droid even more than before. To iterate: AAAAACCCCEEE TTTRRRRRUUUCCCKKKIIINNNGGGGGGG!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Ace Trucking Collection..........
Post by: Dog Deever on 20 March, 2007, 01:10:44 AM
Post by: Dog Deever on 20 March, 2007, 01:10:44 AM
A rare talking part...
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Post by: GeorgeBernardShaw on 20 March, 2007, 03:53:36 AM
Post by: GeorgeBernardShaw on 20 March, 2007, 03:53:36 AM
I concur, Ignatzmonster. Ace Trucking went a bit flat towards the end, but overall it is well worth collection. Besides, my old 'Ace Trucking' containing progs and 'Best Of's are beginning to fall apart
Title: Re: Ace Trucking Collection......
Post by: Grant Goggans on 20 March, 2007, 07:24:01 AM
Post by: Grant Goggans on 20 March, 2007, 07:24:01 AM
He also cameos as one of the prisoners in the wicker man in Slaine: Bride of Crom. Not, I suspect, one of the nitpicky period details Mills put in the script!
Title: Re: Ace Trucking Collection.........
Post by: Ignatzmonster on 21 March, 2007, 03:52:34 AM
Post by: Ignatzmonster on 21 March, 2007, 03:52:34 AM
How wrong you are: the Celts always kept spare Italians about for kindling. Little know fact. Stacked them like cordwood they did.