Scatha by Mills & Fabry... what the...?

[Grant Goggans]

Prog 524 (May '87) featured a back-cover pinup by Fabry of the characters Megrim and Robyn, who appeared briefly in Slaine the King.  I seem to recall the plan was that the next Slaine series would be appearing in color, and that Fabry would be on art chores.  In the end, Slaine only made a couple of brief appearances between then and the Bisley-painted Horned God series in 1989.

But look what the guys at Bear Alley have turned up... a comic strip called Scatha which appeared in The Mail on Sunday in the spring of 1987.  Apparently only seven episodes of Scatha ever appeared, but don't those characters look awfully familiar?

Link: http://bearalley.blogspot.com/2008/03/scatha.html" target="_blank">Culgorm and Odor?

[johnnystress]

wow - that's interesting

and a nice reminder of how great glen fabry is

[TordelBack]

That's quite the curio, isn't it?  Just let the Millsy emanations flow over you, you pathetic males...  

Can you say "creator owned'?

[Byron Virgo]

Actually, it was brought up recently on the Sha thread (as that was the unfinished Scatha series reworked for the Euro market), though the strip actually saw print in the short-lived socialist paper News on Sunday, not the Mail, which is why it was left uncompleted.

Link: http://www.2000adonline.com/?zone=fan&page=messagethread&choice=22046" target="_blank">Mentioned before...

[Grant Goggans]

Apologies, Byron!  I was surprised enough to see Peroxide Slaine and the Megrim/Robyn duo that I compeletly failed to draw a connection to the reply you made in the earlier thread.

[JOE SOAP]

No, wait. No Sláine/Mills/Celt thread is complete until Thryllseeker ejaculates (verbally) all over it.

[ThryllSeekyr]

Any strip that features the work of Mill/Fabry that reminds me of their previous work on Slaine should be welcome.

I really like Glane Fabry version of anything Celtic.

I guess.

Though I will need to read this in full before I am I fully satified.

Incidently I am looking for a picture of Slaine drawn by Power on another thread here and I found this hidden.

Reading your post in full and folowing the link.( Hipster Dad.) I see that isn't a new strip.

There I hope that didn't seem like I lost my cookies.

Don't make feel like the sole reason that Pat Mills many never be doing another Slaine.

[ThryllSeekyr]

BTW, SCATHA......

Wasn't she was the one that schooled Slaine in the Celtic Martial arts.

Something that that the author of those two  Slaine, black flame novels should have read.