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Ooops! Sorry for any confusion. I forgot I'd posted in this thread.

I'm not Tom Frame, as I've previously said (I should have been more thoughtful when I picked this username). Not Richard Elson either. I'm nobody. I have dialogue with Richard and Nigel (of whom I am fan), and then, occasionally, completely inappropriately, and without any permission, repost some of it on here.

Never mind, I won't post here again.

Two part FS? Interesting, considering that Krypt was pitched as a two part story...

As I understand it, all but one of them are small(ish) projects, and one big project. Only a few of them are comic projects (eg Atavar 3 which was announced at Bristol) unfortunately.

Hopefully next year he'll get back into comics full-time again, maybe on a big long-term project. But I know that he's really happy with the non-comic project he's working on right now.

Wow, that is bloody beautiful. When did he do that for you?

That was one of his last ones... and possibly the worst script the comic ever printed. (Lew Stringer is a more than capable writer, as he'd proven both before and after that issue, but it was not only pointless but also utterly incomprehensible.)

Except when she gave Nigel the sack, of course. ;-)

They did that in STC too. Mark Millar wrote the first two. "I can't believe I did a whole arc around SKATE!!"

And of course Nigel did the third (and final) one, with the entire city taking bets on how far the gang could get in one night before being taken down.

Roberto Corona has been selling some on eBay, and Richard Elson has been thinking about selling some (although I really can't see him ever selling any of the good stuff!).

It looks like a continuation by fans of the comic - and quite a successful one at that (it received a fairly high ranking on the Eagle awards this year). The comic got thoroughly mauled by Egmont until they cancelled it back in 2001 (deep into 100% reprint territory) like 2000AD probably would have if Rebellion hadn't been there to buy it off them.

The bulk of the stories were indeed by Nigel Kitching and Richard Elson, who of course just produced A.H.A.B.. Their Sonic work was nearly (if not) as good (although it's weird to compare when they're such totally different beasts). And of course Decap Attack (by just Kitching) was indeed a great laugh. Brain-mangling was just one of many high points for that strip.

One of their best was "Smokey and the Badnik"... Nigel (who posts around here) uploaded his layouts for it onto his web site, so here it is from his point of view, as never seen in the comic...

Link: http://www.nkitching.freeserve.co.uk/Smokey%201.htm" target="_blank">Smokey and the Badnik

And the paper stock, price point, publisher etc :)

Oddboy, that's because you got the UK edition of volume one, and the US edition of volume two.

The UK edition puts the 11/9/01 story in with the first arc. the US edition splits the second arc into two books and sticks the terror story in with the first bit.

The UK edition sticks the second and third arcs together in the same book, no terror story. personally I think it reads better that way. although I don't think they should have stuck the terror story in there; it interrupts the flow and it's just going to date the volume as the years wear on.

Have a look at the "Astonishing" issue on sale now, it's a pretty good sampler for his run (and it's got a Ditko story in the back, too)

Astonishing Spider-Man (the UK reprint comic) is just starting the J Michael Straczynski run, this very month. His first ten or so issues were stunning (kind of wavered since then). Try that.

and yeah the first two volumes of essential are a must-have

We should petition 2000AD for more Kitching strips ;)

I think there's a spanner in the printing works. I don't think Elson is all that happy about the way AHAB has been turning out the past month either.