Just back from the Fest.
Solar Wind won the best small press award. It's very good this month but not half as good as Sunny For Girls - I'd like to see that again!
Course you can by from Paul or combine your order with other comics at...
Link: the Superhero Store (.co.uk)
Hooray for Solar Wind!
Well done, Cosmic Ray!
(Still no intention of buying it, mind. I mean, come on..)
err...what's solar wind???
jen, the ignorant.
Ask Cosmic Ray (aka PVS) Jen & all will be reveiled. Or maybe you'll just get a Cosmic blast
DC
well done to all ivolved in that project.
PVS especially for being teh driving force.
bloody brillant to hear such news,
err...what's solar wind???There's a number of people on this board who publish their own independent comics (there was a concensus never to use the term 'small press' again as it sounds as though we should be giving scones away as a free gift!) - in fact, this needs a new post, so they can be entered. Suffice to say, Solar Wind is the 1978 comic from IPDC Fleetson chrono-imported to the 21st Century.
Basically it's a gentle parody of the British comics of yesteryear, such as Valiant, Battle, Jinty, Misty, Starlord etc and each issue comes with a free gift (the false moustache being the best so far).
Paul 'von' Scott is the human form of editor, Cosmic Ray but there's many contributors - mostly from this board. He's also just put out his Battle/ Warlord parody Big War Comic (or he will when he gets toner) and the excellent Sunny For Girls (a cross between Misty and Tammy).
It's great fun...ok, then a post for boarders comics then...
Link: Website of Solar Wind
well deserved as well, that reminds me, i must check if their is a new issue i havent got !
congrats to all involved,keep at it
david
ell deserved as well, that reminds me, i must check if their is a new issue i havent got !
There's three issues you haven't got - the final issue of Big War comic with Major Bloodshed, the merger with Solar Wind and Sunny For Girls!
they are all way cool. PVS is a great guy.
Big War comic - so successful Paul wouldn't even let me near a contributors copy.
aye there was many contributer sulking that they hadnt got a copy yet, the cosmic power has to be doled out carefully you see.
ooo actually, nyur nyur i got mine !!!
Sulking? not me, guv.
mutter grumble big war mutter.
Actually, if Garen Ewing lurks on here, can I just say a big wide eyed stupid grinned THANKS for the utterly perfect job you did on "Kick Like A Girl" for Sunny. It looks far far better than it deserves :)
All three are very good...but Big War was so good that I'd like to petition the editor to do another one...though why I'm doing it here I don't know, seeing as he's left us forever, grumble mumble...
And CONGRATS ON THE AWARD!
Has he really left for good? I thought he was just on jury duty...
No, it was a mixture of jury duty, extreme editing and board hassles.
I have heard he's due back sometime soon though, having proved with two months cold turkey, it is possible.
Thanks to everyone who contributed, voted or just bought a copy, and Kev Sutherland, Diamond and Knockabout for sposoring the award.
Most of the copies but for a few review copies were sold at Bristol, and I even had offers to buy the proof copies. Oh, and there are less than 10 issue 2's left, so it went well.
Unfortunately due to various hassles there were less comics than intended for Sunny and Big War, which dissapointed a lot of people, me included.
But I will be printing more of the current issues this week or next, as soon as I can get some of the myhtical black spice (toner), I'll try and get contributors copies out ASAP.
I need help from someone who can pick up some toner supplies from near Old Trafford 9-5 week days if there are any volunteers (I'll pay expenses, postage and free comics for the effort).
Cheers for all the thanks, if I sound less than jubilent, it's just that I've been up all night being ill, not sure if it's a delayed reaction to Bristol or Jay Eales put me under a voodoo curse.
Thanks again
Paul
Glad to hear it, PVS - and congrats on the success of the comic (though it's going to make it fecking impossible to get a copy :-))
Solar Wind and Big War are great (even though I thought more should have happened in Death Sphere). I wasn't tempted by Sunny, For Girls because I thought I'd got the joke already. But 'Kick Like a Girl' sounds magic!
I look forward to reading it some day.
"I wasn't tempted by Sunny, For Girls because I thought I'd got the joke already."
Well, I don't see it as any more of a single joke idea than Solar Wind really. But the reveiew in the latest issue of Redeye (Issue 2 for all you Brit Comic lovers is now available) basically agreed with you, and I was aware that for many people that was the case. Some people loved it, some weren't bothered.
It was a first attempt, and some lessons with the comic were learned in issue 2. I agree about DeathSphere as well, I gave it a break so I could have a proper think about it.
Sunny is now a seperate title, so if it's not your cup of tea, then you don't have to feel pressured into picking it up. It looks like there will be an Issue 2 of Sunny as contributor interest was very high at Bristol.
Feel free to add any comments in the SW forum, I always like to listen to what people have to say, good or bad.
Link: Solar Wind Forum