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Crikey, either I'm the victim of an elabarote hoax (always a possibility in these troubled times) or my 'Battle' fansite just received a long email from top comic scribe Garth Ennis.

Read it on the link below.

Blimey.

Link: Battle Stations!

I dunno, if it is a hoax, not sure I see the point.  Probably him.

well, isnt garth ennis currently writing 'WAR STORY' one offs and minis for DC

You're wrong about the 'Invasion: 1984' answer, though - it was definately a different story to the 'Invasion' that ran in 2000AD.

I think it appeared just before Battle became Battle Action Force.  Had Eric Bradbury artwork - with the skull faced aliens in the Samurai-like armour.

Yeah, it's probably him alright. He's a big fan of the old war stories as redaers of the just a pilgrim letter page will tell you.

Invasion, Invasion 1984, George Orwell's 1984, my own recollections of 1984 and those documentaries about the Miners Strike are all just going to merge into one for me to produce one hellish year of fascism, oppression, and bad fashion.

And then I was born. >:)

Marbles, the letter from Dave Mac, would that be the artist Daid Mac (not the Daredevil David Mac a different David Mac who recently did a stint at my mates workplace 'Belfast Print Workshop').

He uses bits of war comics cut out and reorganised to make new images (sounds crap but it looks really good).

Just wonderin'.

I see no reason why it shouldn't be him. He's a huge Battle fan and in an old copy of Battle I have there is a later from a young Garth Ennis from Ireland.

>I see no reason why it shouldn't be him. He's a huge Battle fan and in an old copy of Battle I have there is a later from a young Garth Ennis from Ireland.



Garth Ennis

La Placa Rifa,
W. R. Logan.

Yup, that's Garth, I've chatted to him a number of times about Battle. We're both huge fans. I hope Rebellion can reprint more.
Rufus

Hurrah for Tiger Tank pedantry!

Yeah, arthur, but Garth was probably only about ten when he still thought these kind of details were important...

You have no inner child...

He does ... it's just locked in the basement ...

Is that what you tell your missus, as you drag her round another eastern european tank musuem?

T-34. Now there's a tank.

Quite right, Mr Marbles.  But don't forget the Matilda or Chaffee.

Art, does this mean you're going to grow up to be Garth Ennis?

Heh, heh, heh.

I'm off home to watch Enterprise now.
"It's been a long road, getting from there to here..."

- Trout

 This is why I always preffered Ennis to Millar even though I didn;t particulalrly like eithers tooth work. Ennis comes accross as a fan, not some one who thinks he's slumming it.
 And it's nice that Arts found a soul mate.

Of course bloody bastard Ennis got his published when he was 14 or something... the git.

your right about ennis.
he is a fan and comes across as such. his non 2000ad stuff has been outstanding. he seems to be excellent with his own creations. but lends to much reverance to others characters.

i think he is an excellent writer but fails for me at least on his work for tharg.

I just want Garth to acknowledge Hamish Henderson as the writer of 'D-Day Dodgers' and my work here is done!!

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