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Thought i'd have a go this month and went for what gave me the most Thrill Power back at the start - the Biogs.
Trouble is, Massimo came up with such a fantastic design, its a right bastige to recreate in the "real" world:



Feel a bit better now i've put some paint on:





Decided to go with zombie-like flesh tones on the fella, but going with gloss black eyes as i figure if i try and put in the swirly star thing its going to look pretty naff.

Omniscience.
"The user's mind is unblocked to the entire universe. They know every answer to every question, past, present, and future."
So what's tonights sodding Lottery numbers then?

Getting through "Seeing Things", Oliver Postgate's autobiography. It's good stuff and the kind, eccentric, witty, imaginitive person he was really comes across.
Just got to where he's told Ivor The Engine was a sucess and could they have more? and he hasn't a clue what to do as he'd figured the story was told as far as he was concerned.

Saw "Battle Los Angeles" yesterday. It was okay in a turn-your-brain-off way and the effects were good.
But could've done without all the gungho BS, the constant jerky camera motion and, yet again, Michelle Rodriguez alternating between blankface and scowlface.

Ahhh, but Dark Star wasn't really a boys comic was it?
Nice try though  
And a shame - any excuse to bring the strip into the light is a good excuse, what with brilliant Steve Dillon interiors:



And some stunning Gary Leach covers for the American reprints:

Yeah, went there last week after episode 1. Lovely stuff and a nice looking site. Well done that man

That's lovely - and far better than mine, in that you've got him showing off his talents.
Always like how he endures things with an "Uughh" or somesuch understated utterance.
I stub my toe and its the end of the world. And don't the neighbours know it.

"Could it be an AV poll where your second or third choice counts as well?"
Afraid not - there's a potential ultimate goal to this and, if it comes off, there can be only one...

Jock's great at a gunfight - but he ain't in there 

Know there's going to be an awful bias asking Boarders here, but would you care to swing by my Blog and vote for your favourite in this Poll?

http://mangamax-aieeee.blogspot.com/

Thanks chaps.
On a related note, just put a Poll up on my Blog asking for folks' favourite ever British Boys Comic Character of the late 60's to late 70's if anyone fancies a go?

http://mangamax-aieeee.blogspot.com/

That's a nice bit of framing. Take it you had it done in Maidstone? See that place up Union Street has gone that i used to use - so where'd you get it done then?

This is a good start and still readily available:



It's a collection of the first tales of the folk on the cover and just about the best introduction you could ask for.
Titan did this excellent compilation of The Spider:



which again is still out there, ditto The Steel Claw one.

Another good bet is to buy up some annuals of the likes of Thunder, Valiant, Lion from eBay. A lot are still pretty cheap and most don't have much in the way of padding, instead giving you a whole bunch of self-contained stories of the classic characters.

Well, colour me chuffed 8)
After a Font Black Max page, my next Holy Grail piece of art would be a piece of Janus Stark by F Solano Lopez and now i finally have one. Not only that but a title page too.
Still stunned that i've got it and it's a thrill to examine a piece of my childhood up close like this.
That brilliantly evocative title bar that i used to pour over when a nipper is on card and stuck on.
The page is A3 and it looks like Lopez used different types of marker pens for filling in the blacks and some of the thicker lines - the horses are much lighter than anything else.
There's been quite a bit of whiting out, especially the young lad, who seems to have totally redrawn for some reason.
All the speech bubbles are pasted on and the brilliant sound effects ("cloppty thud" Hah!) are drawn straight on to the page.
The condition is very, very good (those speech bubbles that look like they're missing aren't - it's just the flash of the camera) and, like i say, am stunned and chuffed to bits to own it.
Made my year.

"a really good old-school  jazz mag reader's letter."
Haven't come across one of them for years.