An Unused Wizard Magazine cover featuring Motormouth and Killpower, by Andrew Currie and Andy Lanning.
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Saturday, 19 December 2015
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Sunday, 3 February 2013
ICFD Cover of the Week - 3rd February 2013
The Incredible Hulk #409 - September 1993.
What more do I need to say? Pair Gary Frank's art with Peter David writing, and frankly how can you go wrong? An issue which brings you a Hulk vs Killpower face-off, a smattering of bad language, a ridiculous villain, and his threatening to drop a kidnapped Prince Charles off the top of Big Ben.
No. Really.
It makes me miss Motormouth & Killpower just picking it up.
These two are one of the few Marvel UK properties to actually get used in a US book of this period. And while I'm sure Gary Frank played a fair part in this happening (Being the Motormouth & Killpower artist) it's still great to see.
Saturday, 27 August 2011
Panel Beatings: Killpower meets The Hulk...
From: The Incredible Hulk (vol 1) #409 (September 1993)
Words: Peter David
Art: Gary Frank
Monday, 22 June 2009
Nova, Uncanny X-Men, Killpower and the shape of things to come.
Greetings once more loyal It Came From Darkmoor reader,
Yes, it's been a while. During the month of may I mostly gave over the computer to my other half, for a project of her own she was working on. Maybe at some later date I will be able to tell you more at that. But for now just understand that May was a month away from the site, which as it happened also tied in with a heck of a lot of other things on my plate. I continued to post in Twitter and elsewhere online, especially around the unfortunate cancellation of Captain Britain & MI13, all the same.
A great thank you to those of you who sent Birthday wishes to me at the start of June. In the past few weeks I have experienced turning 30, finding a new house and arranging a mortgage, on top of starting at a new gym and a build-up of work from my employers too. I've meant to jump in with an update sooner, but time has not been on my side. Further on in this bulletin (So please keep reading to the end)I'll be detailing just where I'm going to be going from here, in order to get back on track. I think you'll like it.
But in the meantime Marvel UK properties have continued to pop up in modern continuity. And as always I've been watching out for them...
Starting out with Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning's Nova, which became part of the DnA devised Cosmic Crossover Event "War of Kings". But meanwhile, in May's #23 a plot which has been building in the background for a while finally came to a very significant point, as far as Marvel UK fans are concerned.
You may remember back in October I first mentioned how Death's Head II's programmer, Dr Evelyn Necker, had shown up in the pages of Nova (Who the Necker You?). We know from Abnett and Sharp's Death's Head II that some ten years into the future an Evelyn Necker was working for AIM, having created Project Minion - a cyborg designed to assimilate the greatest scientific and warrior minds from galactic history. And here we had a slightly younger Evelyn Necker working for Project PEGASUS, who just happens to also be running a personal project called 'Project Minion,' along with some 'Death's Head' cyborgs which happened to look suspiciously like the Minion Cyborg who would later become Death's Head II.
But at that point we still had never seen a finite link between Necker working for PEGASUS and her future self. Until May's #23.
To catch you up to speed, at this point Richard Rider has had the Nova force removed from him (After a falling out with a corrupted Worldmind) and discovered that as a result he is actually now dying from the damage the Nova force did to his body. He has been consulting Dr Necker about ways of keeping him alive. However, that comes to an end when Norman Osborn turns up and shuts down Project PEGASUS, seizing its resources now that he runs the replacement organization for SHIELD.
Necker though is not willing to let Richard Rider die. So she grabs what records she has, throws him into her car, and drives them to a secret laboratory, hidden below an abandoned Drive-In movie theatre. To which Richard queries if Dr Necker 'Works for SHIELD'. She replies (Click to enlarge):
And there you have it. The circle is complete. Necker HAS been working for AIM. Now whether this means that Abnett and Lanning may yet choose to try bringing back a new version of Death's Head (Always a good idea, yes?) remains to be seen. But the doorway is open, and the option is there.
Plus, this unexpected little moment:
Certainly leaves further appearances in the pages of Nova as a possibility. She's not Gamora, but I can think of worse couplings out there..
May also threw me a very unexpected curve-ball in the pages of Matt Fraction and Greg Land's Uncanny X-Men, which momentarily cheered me up during the news of Captain Britain's cancellation. This one came quite out of the blue. In Uncanny they'd been building up a storyline involving Madelyn Pryor, Cyclops's ex-wife and clone of Jean Grey, creating a 'Sisterhood' of Evil Mutants... To be honest, I wasn't really that interested. But then, in Uncanny X-Men #508, Fraction had this Sisterhood going to Japan to retrieve a body. The original British body, it seemed of one Elisabeth Braddock. A body they healed back to health, somehow, before this happened:
'Hold on a second...,' I thought,'Did that just happen?'
Yes. It did. They put Psylocke back into her real body, again.
And the cover of Uncanny #509 continued with that:
Now, I've probably mentioned before that I have certain problems with the way {Psylocke has been written over the past 15 years. Back in the early 90s Chris Claremont had British telepath (And non-mutant twin sister of Captain Britain) modified by Spiral and Mojo, and brought under the service of Marvel's Japanese ninja cult The Hand. At the end of the previous storyline, in order to escape death, the X-Men travelled through mystical gateway The Siege Perilous. Each character found themselves somewhat altered and split apart from the group as a result.
Longshot and Dazzler ended up in another dimension. Rogue ended up with Magneto in the Savage Land. Colossus ended up in England, where he believed he was a British painter. And Psylocke ended up brainwashed and physically modified into an assassin.
The actual story which detailed Psylocke's journey, by Chris Claremont and Jim Lee (In Uncany X-Men #256-258), remains one of my favourite stories of all time. The references to Captain Britain's solo series, and Betsy's past relationships with BOTH of her brothers is really well written.
But when Claremont left Uncanny things began to get a little silly.
The change was never meant to be permanent. None of the other X-Men stayed the way they'd been left. But Marvel editors and marketing men liked a ninja who fought in a swimsuit like costume. Great for 1990s Marvel Swimsuit Specials! And so it stuck...
Fabian Nicieza retconned Psylocke's body modification into a Body Swap, with a
Japanese ninja named Kwannon. The two fought, then reconciled. Kwannon even briefly joined the X-Men, as Revanche, before being killed off by a virus. Thus removing any possibility of ever putting Betsy back into her real body.
I personally hate it. Most Psylocke fans I know out there also hate it. In fact many new readers do not even realise that Betsy Braddock is English. Because she doesn't look English, and over the years writers have struggled to write her dialogue, mannerisms and personality AS English. In fact she's almost been overwritten as being Japanese on a couple of occasions.
I personally detest the Japanese body, because it's an odd contradiction. None of her personality is trained towards that culture. And the longer she stays in that form the longer all ties to her former life, as a supermodel and agent of British espionage organisation STRIKE, go unexplored. Furthermore Marvel changed her Marvel UK power-set of telepathic blasts and precognitive flashes to badly explained telekinetic powers a while back. So seeing her finally back in her real British body, as fans have been pleading for over 15 years, and using those psi powers to manifest a psychic knife, I was cock-a-hoop!
Unfortunately, Marvel have a habit of disappointing me at the moment...
Yeah. You saw that right. Betsy Psi-bladed her brains out.
(Although there was a nice little interchange between Betsy and Dazzler there, which did at least acknowledge the characters' comradeship in the X-Men 'Outback Years'. A small bonus. Very small...)
She's now found her way back into her Swimsuit Ninja body, and the British one is firmly dead again. To call it disappointing doesn't really cover it. I understand that she'll be getting part of her Psi Powers back, but what a waste. It makes the characters back history even more complicated. That's never a good thing.
Now a couple of months back I mentioned how Motormouth had turned up as an agent of MI13, in Captain Britain & MI13. Here she was:
At the time she stated that her partner, Killpower, was captured when Dracula broke into the Hussain household (Faiza 'Excalibur' Hussain's parents) while they were assigned to protect them. Well, in this month's penultimate issue #14 Killpower does indeed make an appearance. I won't show too much, as it will give away a bit of plot which shouldn't be spoiled. You should go and buy yourself a copy instead. But just to reassure those who wanted to know for sure that he was in there, here you go:
The rest I leave up to you.
Whilst we're still on the subject of CB&MI13, I'm still trying to track down the second Marvel trade of the book. The Panini one has been out for a while, but the final copy of Marvel's own version of trade in Forbidden Planet, Coventry, was swiped from my grasp by another. So I went home and placed an order with Amazon instead. Two weeks later it still hadn't shipped, and so I sent them an email to find out why. I received the following:
well, it's a bugger for me. I'll have to keep on waiting, but in a certain light is good to at least know that perhaps, in some small way, Marvel might have made enough off trade sales to wonder if they've been a bit hasty about the book. Vocal fan pressure certainly hasn't eased up any. In fact that many people posted Captain Britain & MI13 questions on for Joe Quesada on CBR's Cup of Joe that they farmed it out into a separate article: Joe Quesada Talks Captain Britain, Event Fatigue
Oh, and the big news I meant to post separately - Panini's Captain Britain vol. 3 (The Lion and the Spider) finally came out! And for those Black Knight fans this one starts reprinting those Black Knight & Captain Britain stories from Hulk Comic. And about time too. Here's an Amazon link (But remember, there ARE other retailers): ISBN-10: 1846534011 and ISBN-13: 978-1846534010
And finally, onto what comes next for It Came From Darkmoor. A few of the older features have become a bit absent recently. I'll be trying to get a Cover of the Week up each week as a bare minimum, and the 'Who the Hell is...?' profiles will return in coming months, but I'm going to try and shake things up with a couple of new odds and ends, too.
Firstly, it's now been a good ten years since I read some of the Marvel UK material I talk up on this site and elsewhere. Partly to makes sure this Blog covers all angles, and partly to keep it all fresh in my mind ( ;D ) I'll be starting to re-read a few series and posting my thoughts, issue by issue, on here where and when I get the chance. I'll probably be beginning with the imprint years, but if anybody has a request for something earlier then by all means drop me a line at theswordisdrawn@googlemail.com . It may have a bearing on my final decision if enough of you want a deeper look at one specific series.
And secondly is an idea I considered early last year, but never quite got around to. The idea was to do an A to Z of some of the more obscure Marvel UK properties - some of which hadn't been covered in any detail before on the Blog or were just obscure characters which I loved, but others probably don't remember. The intention was to broaden the showcase of characters currently visible online.
Recently I did talk with Judge Dredd Megazine's Matthew Badham, about helping him out with a Marvel UK A to Z. That project sadly did not come off, but it got me thinking about the original idea and motivated me enough to start work on it proper. Matt's a bloody nice bloke, and he says he's okay with it, so look out for this new feature in the next couple of weeks.
If there is anything else you'd like to request, then by all means do. You have my email address and I'm always interested to hear what you guys think of the site.
You can also find me on Twitter at @theswordisdrawn where I frequently whitter on about more general Comic Book topics and anything which I happen to have found quite amusing that day. Feel free to drop by.
Right, well that's it for now. It's gone midnight and my eyes are dry from fatigue and continuing hayfever irritation(Thought - Why do I always get hayfever worse, directly after it's rained? There's something not right about that.)
Hope you all enjoy your week.
Speak soon
Mark
Sword)
Yes, it's been a while. During the month of may I mostly gave over the computer to my other half, for a project of her own she was working on. Maybe at some later date I will be able to tell you more at that. But for now just understand that May was a month away from the site, which as it happened also tied in with a heck of a lot of other things on my plate. I continued to post in Twitter and elsewhere online, especially around the unfortunate cancellation of Captain Britain & MI13, all the same.
A great thank you to those of you who sent Birthday wishes to me at the start of June. In the past few weeks I have experienced turning 30, finding a new house and arranging a mortgage, on top of starting at a new gym and a build-up of work from my employers too. I've meant to jump in with an update sooner, but time has not been on my side. Further on in this bulletin (So please keep reading to the end)I'll be detailing just where I'm going to be going from here, in order to get back on track. I think you'll like it.
But in the meantime Marvel UK properties have continued to pop up in modern continuity. And as always I've been watching out for them...
Starting out with Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning's Nova, which became part of the DnA devised Cosmic Crossover Event "War of Kings". But meanwhile, in May's #23 a plot which has been building in the background for a while finally came to a very significant point, as far as Marvel UK fans are concerned.
You may remember back in October I first mentioned how Death's Head II's programmer, Dr Evelyn Necker, had shown up in the pages of Nova (Who the Necker You?). We know from Abnett and Sharp's Death's Head II that some ten years into the future an Evelyn Necker was working for AIM, having created Project Minion - a cyborg designed to assimilate the greatest scientific and warrior minds from galactic history. And here we had a slightly younger Evelyn Necker working for Project PEGASUS, who just happens to also be running a personal project called 'Project Minion,' along with some 'Death's Head' cyborgs which happened to look suspiciously like the Minion Cyborg who would later become Death's Head II.
But at that point we still had never seen a finite link between Necker working for PEGASUS and her future self. Until May's #23.
To catch you up to speed, at this point Richard Rider has had the Nova force removed from him (After a falling out with a corrupted Worldmind) and discovered that as a result he is actually now dying from the damage the Nova force did to his body. He has been consulting Dr Necker about ways of keeping him alive. However, that comes to an end when Norman Osborn turns up and shuts down Project PEGASUS, seizing its resources now that he runs the replacement organization for SHIELD.
Necker though is not willing to let Richard Rider die. So she grabs what records she has, throws him into her car, and drives them to a secret laboratory, hidden below an abandoned Drive-In movie theatre. To which Richard queries if Dr Necker 'Works for SHIELD'. She replies (Click to enlarge):
And there you have it. The circle is complete. Necker HAS been working for AIM. Now whether this means that Abnett and Lanning may yet choose to try bringing back a new version of Death's Head (Always a good idea, yes?) remains to be seen. But the doorway is open, and the option is there.
Plus, this unexpected little moment:
Certainly leaves further appearances in the pages of Nova as a possibility. She's not Gamora, but I can think of worse couplings out there..
May also threw me a very unexpected curve-ball in the pages of Matt Fraction and Greg Land's Uncanny X-Men, which momentarily cheered me up during the news of Captain Britain's cancellation. This one came quite out of the blue. In Uncanny they'd been building up a storyline involving Madelyn Pryor, Cyclops's ex-wife and clone of Jean Grey, creating a 'Sisterhood' of Evil Mutants... To be honest, I wasn't really that interested. But then, in Uncanny X-Men #508, Fraction had this Sisterhood going to Japan to retrieve a body. The original British body, it seemed of one Elisabeth Braddock. A body they healed back to health, somehow, before this happened:
'Hold on a second...,' I thought,'Did that just happen?'
Yes. It did. They put Psylocke back into her real body, again.
And the cover of Uncanny #509 continued with that:
Now, I've probably mentioned before that I have certain problems with the way {Psylocke has been written over the past 15 years. Back in the early 90s Chris Claremont had British telepath (And non-mutant twin sister of Captain Britain) modified by Spiral and Mojo, and brought under the service of Marvel's Japanese ninja cult The Hand. At the end of the previous storyline, in order to escape death, the X-Men travelled through mystical gateway The Siege Perilous. Each character found themselves somewhat altered and split apart from the group as a result.
Longshot and Dazzler ended up in another dimension. Rogue ended up with Magneto in the Savage Land. Colossus ended up in England, where he believed he was a British painter. And Psylocke ended up brainwashed and physically modified into an assassin.
The actual story which detailed Psylocke's journey, by Chris Claremont and Jim Lee (In Uncany X-Men #256-258), remains one of my favourite stories of all time. The references to Captain Britain's solo series, and Betsy's past relationships with BOTH of her brothers is really well written.
But when Claremont left Uncanny things began to get a little silly.
The change was never meant to be permanent. None of the other X-Men stayed the way they'd been left. But Marvel editors and marketing men liked a ninja who fought in a swimsuit like costume. Great for 1990s Marvel Swimsuit Specials! And so it stuck...
Fabian Nicieza retconned Psylocke's body modification into a Body Swap, with a
Japanese ninja named Kwannon. The two fought, then reconciled. Kwannon even briefly joined the X-Men, as Revanche, before being killed off by a virus. Thus removing any possibility of ever putting Betsy back into her real body.
I personally hate it. Most Psylocke fans I know out there also hate it. In fact many new readers do not even realise that Betsy Braddock is English. Because she doesn't look English, and over the years writers have struggled to write her dialogue, mannerisms and personality AS English. In fact she's almost been overwritten as being Japanese on a couple of occasions.
I personally detest the Japanese body, because it's an odd contradiction. None of her personality is trained towards that culture. And the longer she stays in that form the longer all ties to her former life, as a supermodel and agent of British espionage organisation STRIKE, go unexplored. Furthermore Marvel changed her Marvel UK power-set of telepathic blasts and precognitive flashes to badly explained telekinetic powers a while back. So seeing her finally back in her real British body, as fans have been pleading for over 15 years, and using those psi powers to manifest a psychic knife, I was cock-a-hoop!
Unfortunately, Marvel have a habit of disappointing me at the moment...
Yeah. You saw that right. Betsy Psi-bladed her brains out.
(Although there was a nice little interchange between Betsy and Dazzler there, which did at least acknowledge the characters' comradeship in the X-Men 'Outback Years'. A small bonus. Very small...)
She's now found her way back into her Swimsuit Ninja body, and the British one is firmly dead again. To call it disappointing doesn't really cover it. I understand that she'll be getting part of her Psi Powers back, but what a waste. It makes the characters back history even more complicated. That's never a good thing.
Now a couple of months back I mentioned how Motormouth had turned up as an agent of MI13, in Captain Britain & MI13. Here she was:
At the time she stated that her partner, Killpower, was captured when Dracula broke into the Hussain household (Faiza 'Excalibur' Hussain's parents) while they were assigned to protect them. Well, in this month's penultimate issue #14 Killpower does indeed make an appearance. I won't show too much, as it will give away a bit of plot which shouldn't be spoiled. You should go and buy yourself a copy instead. But just to reassure those who wanted to know for sure that he was in there, here you go:
The rest I leave up to you.
Whilst we're still on the subject of CB&MI13, I'm still trying to track down the second Marvel trade of the book. The Panini one has been out for a while, but the final copy of Marvel's own version of trade in Forbidden Planet, Coventry, was swiped from my grasp by another. So I went home and placed an order with Amazon instead. Two weeks later it still hadn't shipped, and so I sent them an email to find out why. I received the following:
"Dear Mr M A Roberts,
Thank you for contacting us at Amazon.co.uk.
Please accept our apologies for this inconvenience, but "Captain Britain And MI13 Volume 2: Hell Comes To Birmingham TPB" appears to have been a surprise sellout.
When you placed your order [ORDER # BLANKED OUT], we believed we had access to more copies - we then discovered that every one of our distributors had rapidly sold out.
Major distributors have thousands of copies on order from the publisher, all
apparently awaiting the next print run. As soon as more copies become available,we'll be able to dispatch them to our customers.
We will update you once we have received an estimated arrival date from the vendor."
well, it's a bugger for me. I'll have to keep on waiting, but in a certain light is good to at least know that perhaps, in some small way, Marvel might have made enough off trade sales to wonder if they've been a bit hasty about the book. Vocal fan pressure certainly hasn't eased up any. In fact that many people posted Captain Britain & MI13 questions on for Joe Quesada on CBR's Cup of Joe that they farmed it out into a separate article: Joe Quesada Talks Captain Britain, Event Fatigue
Oh, and the big news I meant to post separately - Panini's Captain Britain vol. 3 (The Lion and the Spider) finally came out! And for those Black Knight fans this one starts reprinting those Black Knight & Captain Britain stories from Hulk Comic. And about time too. Here's an Amazon link (But remember, there ARE other retailers): ISBN-10: 1846534011 and ISBN-13: 978-1846534010
And finally, onto what comes next for It Came From Darkmoor. A few of the older features have become a bit absent recently. I'll be trying to get a Cover of the Week up each week as a bare minimum, and the 'Who the Hell is...?' profiles will return in coming months, but I'm going to try and shake things up with a couple of new odds and ends, too.
Firstly, it's now been a good ten years since I read some of the Marvel UK material I talk up on this site and elsewhere. Partly to makes sure this Blog covers all angles, and partly to keep it all fresh in my mind ( ;D ) I'll be starting to re-read a few series and posting my thoughts, issue by issue, on here where and when I get the chance. I'll probably be beginning with the imprint years, but if anybody has a request for something earlier then by all means drop me a line at theswordisdrawn@googlemail.com . It may have a bearing on my final decision if enough of you want a deeper look at one specific series.
And secondly is an idea I considered early last year, but never quite got around to. The idea was to do an A to Z of some of the more obscure Marvel UK properties - some of which hadn't been covered in any detail before on the Blog or were just obscure characters which I loved, but others probably don't remember. The intention was to broaden the showcase of characters currently visible online.
Recently I did talk with Judge Dredd Megazine's Matthew Badham, about helping him out with a Marvel UK A to Z. That project sadly did not come off, but it got me thinking about the original idea and motivated me enough to start work on it proper. Matt's a bloody nice bloke, and he says he's okay with it, so look out for this new feature in the next couple of weeks.
If there is anything else you'd like to request, then by all means do. You have my email address and I'm always interested to hear what you guys think of the site.
You can also find me on Twitter at @theswordisdrawn where I frequently whitter on about more general Comic Book topics and anything which I happen to have found quite amusing that day. Feel free to drop by.
Right, well that's it for now. It's gone midnight and my eyes are dry from fatigue and continuing hayfever irritation(Thought - Why do I always get hayfever worse, directly after it's rained? There's something not right about that.)
Hope you all enjoy your week.
Speak soon
Mark
Sword)
Sunday, 22 March 2009
Now THAT'S a cover!
Hullo folks,
Thought this might be of interest to some of you. The cover to Captain Britain & Mi13 #14 has been doing the rounds on forums over the weekend. It was on Marvel.com, but no longer appears to be, so I cannot credit the cover artist. Great shame. This one's quite striking, I'm sure you'll agree.
Click on the image for a closer look, because that's quite a body count! Obviously that's Captain Britain in Dracula's grasp, but there's all manner of British characters piled up there - Pete Wisdom, Blade, Union Jack, Motormouth, Killpower, Micromax...
How many can you spot?
Feel free to speculate. As always, I have my theories.
Thought this might be of interest to some of you. The cover to Captain Britain & Mi13 #14 has been doing the rounds on forums over the weekend. It was on Marvel.com, but no longer appears to be, so I cannot credit the cover artist. Great shame. This one's quite striking, I'm sure you'll agree.
Click on the image for a closer look, because that's quite a body count! Obviously that's Captain Britain in Dracula's grasp, but there's all manner of British characters piled up there - Pete Wisdom, Blade, Union Jack, Motormouth, Killpower, Micromax...
How many can you spot?
Feel free to speculate. As always, I have my theories.
Sunday, 8 March 2009
It Came From Darkmoor UPDATE - Cameos, Blogs and possible a lot of NEW STUFF!
And I'm back.
And yes, this one is long overdue.
So welcome to a bumper 'All the the stuff I've been meaning to post' edition of It Came From Darkmoor. I'd like to begin by showing you a few of the places that you can (or at least in some cases will) be able to find some appearances of Marvel UK's finest - at present and within the coming months.
I'll kick that off with an X-Men title, of sorts - Chris Claremont's final issue of New eXiles. I have to admit my loyalty has floundered a little on this book. at least one regular cast member I am very much invested in, but the series just hasn't managed to capture the magic of Judd Winnick's original series. The book is actually getting rebooted with a new #1, a new cast and Jeff Parker taking over writing duties very shortly. But I picked up the final issue to see what had been going on, and the implication of what this strange status quo might have on Marvel's multiverse. And as luck would have it I was greeted by a surprising little cameo from one of Marvel UK's best known faces:
And no, it's not Psylocke. She's been there since late on into the last run of eXiles. For those unaware of the set-up, all of those TVs in there show glimpses from other dimensions in Marvel's multiverse. Take a closer look at that top screen:
That's right, folks. A sound little cameo by none other than Death's Head! Who'd have thought. Sure it's an alternate Earth (So it probably isn't OUR Death's Head) but us fans of the horned and metal-plated one must take what little we can get...
Major Kudos to Mr Claremont and New eXiles artist Tim Seeley for that little cameo.
I'm on a real Death's Head kick right now. I'm currently working on some issue summaries of the original DH series for Comixfan (I'll post up some links when they're all done an on site) and have been having a lot of fun re-reading those issues in, which I recently picked up again in the form of the two Panini trades.
It was about the time I had begun reading the second volume time that Simon Hall emailed me a scan of this advert he'd found, while reading through a copy of Knights of Pendragon, for a much earlier attempt at a Death's Head trade collection:
Thanks greatly for that, Simon. I love this advert. It captures the tone of the series and the character so well. The trade itself was kind of a 'Best of' Death's Head. It didn't include the whole lot, but it did have some interviews and early art examples in it. Simon Furman, however, was never quite happy with the volume. In the introduction to the second Panini trade he says:
And he's right. It is. I am so incredibly glad that Panini have now collected it all. It's long overdue.
I would say though, to all Death's Head completists out there, that if you can get your hands on the 12 issues of The Incomplete Death's Head I'd certainly recommend it. It genuinely does, through adding the new linking bits of material, make the original run (and some of those guest appearances) into a whole new separate story. It's kind of weird, but also kind of cool as well.
In same introduction to that second volume Furman also mentions the following:
Now I recall Mr Furman mentioning mentioning this upcoming series (I believe it was a limited series at that point) in a mocked up interview with himself and Death's Head, for Death's Head: The Body in Question. I'm a huge Death's Head II fan, as I'm sure you're no doubt aware by now, but there's still a big part of me which would have loved to have known more about what Simon and Geoff had planned. After The Body in Question, in many ways Death's Head felt to have completed his current cycle, but I'm sure they must have had some other kind of specific direction to take him down. we can only speculate as to what that might have been...
The next cameo on the list is one which has been mentioned before...
A little while ago I blogged that Captain Britain and MI13 were to get their first appearance outside of their own title, in the pages of Dan Slott's Mighty Avengers #22. Well, for those of you who might have missed said appearance, it kind of looked something like this:
So yes, it really is a cameo. A quickie appearance from Cap, Spitfire and the Black Knight, along with several other Marvel heroes (She-Hulk, some of JMS's The Twelve and some of Parker's Agents of Atlas?) from around the world, used here to convey the scale of bad stuff happening. And that's a good thing. Any appearance by the team in a top tier title is a good advert for the book.
Back over in the book itself though we've been having a reappearance of another ghost from the past. While not technically a Marvel UK property, they certainly are British. And as can be seen in in this page from Captain Britain & MI13 #10, they've come to pay Spitfire a visit.
For the uninitiated, that fella goes by the name of Kenneth Crichton. And yes, he is indeed Spitfire's son. But you may know him better by the name he assumed the last time he was in comics. Kenneth Crichton is a vampire. He was the second Baron Blood.
Those who read the Ben Raab/John Cassaday Union Jack series a few years back will know what befell him. An extreme case of death by sunlight. But this book has Blade on the team, and in his last ongoing series the Vampire Hunter made a bit of a mistake. A mistake which brought an awful lot of Vampires back from the dead.
Kenneth along with them.
Just when things started to look rosy for Spitfire, too. Talk about complications...
We'll have to wait and see where Paul Cornell goes with Kenneth's resurrection when the next issue of Captain Britain & MI13 hits shelves on Wednesday (Thursday in the UK). But one thing is for sure he won't be the only British character making an appearance. Union Jack will be turning up again but Paul also let out some very interesting news in an interview he did for Newsarama whilst at New York Comicon (
http://www.newsarama.com/comics/020911-Nine-Cornella.html):
So... firstly, the possibility of Tangerine will certainly please old Excalibur fans. I've certainly championed her cause in the past (Who the Hell is Tangerine?) so that's certainly something I approve of.
But the bigger deal for the Marvel UK faithful is hearing those two names for the first time in so long... "Motormouth and Killpower"!
Now, for those who missed the imprint years you may know these two better from an appearance they made in Peter David’s Hulk run from the 90s. There again they were being drawn by the brilliant Gary Frank. But Motormouth and Killpower were one of Marvel UK’s original ongoing series. Created by Paul Neary, Graham Marks and Gary Frank the book began as ‘The Indescribable Motormouth’ but soon added Killpower’s name to the title when it was clear that he was going to be playing just as big a role in the series.
Harley “Motormouth” Davis and Julius “Killpower” Mullarkey were big players in the 90s imprint. Harley’s powers are sonic. She picked them up via a bit of quirky technology she picked up in another dimension, and a bit of tinkering from her partner. She had these shoes she kind of stole from Mys-Tech, which allowed her to slide between dimensions. She also had a talent for the kind of colourful language which would make a sailor blush. Couple that with her sonic abilities and… well, I’m sure you can imagine.
So yeah, Harley is a little bit like what the X-Men’s Banshee or DC’s Black Canary would be like - if they had a ‘potty mouth’. But that low vibration humming sure comes in handy.
Julius on the other hand was a test subject, grown by Mys-Tech’s Oonah Mullarkey in a lab. He’s a mish-mash of human and animal DNA, conditioned and programmed and artificially age. The result is that he’s super-strong, takes a lot of damage, has a natural flair for using pretty much and technology or firearm he can get his hands on... but he’s still kind of got the mentality of a child. For example, it was Julius who configured the technology in Harley’s throat to produce that sonic scream, but often thrown into a combat situation he often sees it as a bit of a game – prompting his trademark war cry of “It’s a Turkey Shoot!!!”.
They remain two of my favourite Marvel UK characters. Always fun to read, and an interesting dynamic. After all, there’s not many female heroes out there who have a male sidekick. I’m looking forward to this. $%^& me. It could be %^&£^%£ fantastic.
Some of you may recall a post I made a few months ago, during the Secret Invasion issues of Nova (Link). Well, since then Dr Evelyn Necker appears to have become very much a permanent fixture at Project PEGASUS. So much so that she actually made appearances in TWO books this month. Firstly in CB Cebulski’s War of Kings: Darkhawk #1:
Darkhawk, you see, is also on the payroll at PEGASUS - in Security. Necker’s appearance is quite brief, granted, but it’s great to see her presence noted outside of Nova, by another writer. All good exposure.
Even if it doesn’t end so well…
Evelyn gets a far better run out in Abnett and Lanning’s Nova #22, where she is slightly more central to the plot. For those who are unaware, at the end of #21 the Worldmind decided that Richard Rider was mentally unfit to be Nova Prime after he disagreed with some of its quirkier decisions, of late, and took away his powers. This issue finds Richard consulting the powers that be at Project PEGASUS to give him the once over, and verify whether or not the Worldmind has a point.
Robbie Rider, Richie’s younger brother, was recently made a Nova Centurion himself, during one of the Worldmind’s more dubious decisions, and Richie wants to talk to him. But without the Worldmind intervening. How do you convince Robbie to come out of range of the Worldmind? How about one of the oldest tricks in the book?
I think it great that Necker seems to be becoming a regular character in the MU. There are so many Marvel UK characters who have been lying around unused for just too long. And of course the ceaseless fan in me will always hope that her continued presence will some day lead to a Death’s Head II revival.
Hey, I can dream… ;D
Abnett and Lanning continue to do a great job with this book. I actually picked up the hardcover of the first year of Nova, a couple of weeks ago, to fill in the gaps of issues I missed.
On the subject of Dan Abnett, the man himself made a very interesting comment on his Blog last week.
And with good reason. That first volume was a particularly strong run. The interweaving of myth and legend with a modern (Well, late 80s/early 90s) setting was great. The image of Adam Crown, this waster guy from East London, propelled towards becoming a new Arthur by magical intervention, that scrap metal sword rising from a canal, travelling across reservoirs rather than lakes – it was all a really strong urban spin on an old legend. I’m amazed that it hasn’t been revived in some form or other, by now.
A collection is very long overdue. Me Abnett does not say who is collecting it, but following on fro Dragon’s Claws I think there’s a fair chance it’s likely to be Panini. I’ll let you know more as soon as I do.
Thanks to Mark Jarvis for Twittering me that link to Dan’s Blog last week. I had not been there before. Some interesting information there about Abnett’s Marvel work, and his other projects (such as his Warhammer 40K work). Certainly worth a look in.
You can find it here: http://theprimaryclone.blogspot.com/
And while we’re on the subject of other Blogs you might like to visit, I recently discovered Lew Stringer’s blog ‘Blimey! It’s another Blog about Comics!’. Many of you will remember Lew as the guy behind the best of Marvel’s back up comic strips, up until the turn of the 90s. He was responsible for Robo-Capers and the frankly legendary Combat Colin. I miss those strips a heck of a lot. Forget Marvel US’s Mini Marvels, Lew was drawing strips full of in-jokes, satire and fun, set within Marvel’s context, decades before those strips were showing up in US titles. I still have a large number of Combat Colin strips filed away in a folder, at home, saved when my parents insisted I chucked out most of my Transformers comics, when I was in my teens (Heresy, I know!).
Lew’s blog deals with pretty much everything to do with British published comics, old and new. It’s got some really good articles on books from the past, and some really nice insights from a guy who’s worked on so many different titles, and comics’ brands. It’s updated fairly regularly, and I’d strongly recommend a visit to anybody who’s big on nostalgia or just wants to see some examples of how different British comics are to those of our American cousins.
Have a look: http://lewstringer.blogspot.com/
Right. Well that’s almost it for this update, However, as many of will already be aware tomorrow (or Thursday here in the UK) a certain British set title comes out from Marvel Comics.
That’s right, it’s CAP WEDNESDAY, again!
And to celebrate the publishing of Captain Britain & MI13 #11 I’ve done another banner to tie in with its release. Once again, there’s a standard sized and a smaller variant (For sites which restrict size a little more). This one’s intended a little bit as a ‘Previously On…’ and as I can’t post animated Gifs on hear easily, here’s a breakdown of what it looks like.
And here’s where you can find them (Feel free to spread the word in your forum signatures):
Standard Size:Here
And
Smaller Size: Here
This issue is the first part proper of the Vampire State arc, in which Dracula has decided to claim Britain as a homeland for ‘his people’.
You know. His people with sharp teeth and pale skin, who don’t get out a lot in the hours of daylight? Yeah. Bad news for the general populace of Great Britain. Last issue Vlad Tepes (To use his real name) launched his assault by trying to eliminate the members of MI13, with a couple of co-ordinated missile attacks. Not just any missiles though. VAMPIRE missiles.
I kid you not. :D
#11 picks up right where #10 left off. If you’re interested in seeing some preview pages you can find them here:
Captain Britain & Mi13 #11 preview at CBR
Now, GO BUY IT!
That’s all, for now. As always, if you have any questions, thoughts or comments, feel free to add them to this post or send me an email at theswordisdrawn@googlemail.com . I’m always glad to hear from a fellow fan.
You can also follow me on Twitter, as this seems to be the done thing now.
There’s a link on the right hand side of the page.
Until the next time…
Mark
(Sword)
And yes, this one is long overdue.
So welcome to a bumper 'All the the stuff I've been meaning to post' edition of It Came From Darkmoor. I'd like to begin by showing you a few of the places that you can (or at least in some cases will) be able to find some appearances of Marvel UK's finest - at present and within the coming months.
I'll kick that off with an X-Men title, of sorts - Chris Claremont's final issue of New eXiles. I have to admit my loyalty has floundered a little on this book. at least one regular cast member I am very much invested in, but the series just hasn't managed to capture the magic of Judd Winnick's original series. The book is actually getting rebooted with a new #1, a new cast and Jeff Parker taking over writing duties very shortly. But I picked up the final issue to see what had been going on, and the implication of what this strange status quo might have on Marvel's multiverse. And as luck would have it I was greeted by a surprising little cameo from one of Marvel UK's best known faces:
And no, it's not Psylocke. She's been there since late on into the last run of eXiles. For those unaware of the set-up, all of those TVs in there show glimpses from other dimensions in Marvel's multiverse. Take a closer look at that top screen:
That's right, folks. A sound little cameo by none other than Death's Head! Who'd have thought. Sure it's an alternate Earth (So it probably isn't OUR Death's Head) but us fans of the horned and metal-plated one must take what little we can get...
Major Kudos to Mr Claremont and New eXiles artist Tim Seeley for that little cameo.
I'm on a real Death's Head kick right now. I'm currently working on some issue summaries of the original DH series for Comixfan (I'll post up some links when they're all done an on site) and have been having a lot of fun re-reading those issues in, which I recently picked up again in the form of the two Panini trades.
It was about the time I had begun reading the second volume time that Simon Hall emailed me a scan of this advert he'd found, while reading through a copy of Knights of Pendragon, for a much earlier attempt at a Death's Head trade collection:
Thanks greatly for that, Simon. I love this advert. It captures the tone of the series and the character so well. The trade itself was kind of a 'Best of' Death's Head. It didn't include the whole lot, but it did have some interviews and early art examples in it. Simon Furman, however, was never quite happy with the volume. In the introduction to the second Panini trade he says:
.
"It's taken 20 years to get Death's Head collected. Complete. Properly. It's not for want of trying though. Back in 1990, Marvel (UK) gathered together selected chunks of the original 10-issue series under the title The Life and Times of Death's Head. However, much (indeed, whole issues) was omitted for the sake of the 146 pages allotted to that slender volume, and the result was rather unsatisfying (to me at least). A better stab at reprinting/repackaging the Death's Head series came with The Incomplete Death's Head. This 12-issue maxi-series, published throughout 1993, was essentially a reprint title, but with new originated/linking segments featuring DH's successor Death's Head II. All in all, it did a pretty good job of gathering DH's various appearances and stringing the together into a new narrative, but it wasn't a collected edition, and it was, indeed, incomplete"
And he's right. It is. I am so incredibly glad that Panini have now collected it all. It's long overdue.
I would say though, to all Death's Head completists out there, that if you can get your hands on the 12 issues of The Incomplete Death's Head I'd certainly recommend it. It genuinely does, through adding the new linking bits of material, make the original run (and some of those guest appearances) into a whole new separate story. It's kind of weird, but also kind of cool as well.
In same introduction to that second volume Furman also mentions the following:
"In 1992, a new Death's Head series, written by myself and with art by Geoff Senior, was begun (in terms of the creative processes of script and art ) and then abruptly canned in favour of a complete reinvention of the character as Death's Head II. New Marvel UK editor-in-chief Paul Neary arrived with a new broom and the intended series went out with the trash. Oh, how I wish I still had some of the amazing art Geoff (Senior) had delivered up to that point!"
Now I recall Mr Furman mentioning mentioning this upcoming series (I believe it was a limited series at that point) in a mocked up interview with himself and Death's Head, for Death's Head: The Body in Question. I'm a huge Death's Head II fan, as I'm sure you're no doubt aware by now, but there's still a big part of me which would have loved to have known more about what Simon and Geoff had planned. After The Body in Question, in many ways Death's Head felt to have completed his current cycle, but I'm sure they must have had some other kind of specific direction to take him down. we can only speculate as to what that might have been...
The next cameo on the list is one which has been mentioned before...
A little while ago I blogged that Captain Britain and MI13 were to get their first appearance outside of their own title, in the pages of Dan Slott's Mighty Avengers #22. Well, for those of you who might have missed said appearance, it kind of looked something like this:
So yes, it really is a cameo. A quickie appearance from Cap, Spitfire and the Black Knight, along with several other Marvel heroes (She-Hulk, some of JMS's The Twelve and some of Parker's Agents of Atlas?) from around the world, used here to convey the scale of bad stuff happening. And that's a good thing. Any appearance by the team in a top tier title is a good advert for the book.
Back over in the book itself though we've been having a reappearance of another ghost from the past. While not technically a Marvel UK property, they certainly are British. And as can be seen in in this page from Captain Britain & MI13 #10, they've come to pay Spitfire a visit.
For the uninitiated, that fella goes by the name of Kenneth Crichton. And yes, he is indeed Spitfire's son. But you may know him better by the name he assumed the last time he was in comics. Kenneth Crichton is a vampire. He was the second Baron Blood.
Those who read the Ben Raab/John Cassaday Union Jack series a few years back will know what befell him. An extreme case of death by sunlight. But this book has Blade on the team, and in his last ongoing series the Vampire Hunter made a bit of a mistake. A mistake which brought an awful lot of Vampires back from the dead.
Kenneth along with them.
Just when things started to look rosy for Spitfire, too. Talk about complications...
We'll have to wait and see where Paul Cornell goes with Kenneth's resurrection when the next issue of Captain Britain & MI13 hits shelves on Wednesday (Thursday in the UK). But one thing is for sure he won't be the only British character making an appearance. Union Jack will be turning up again but Paul also let out some very interesting news in an interview he did for Newsarama whilst at New York Comicon (
http://www.newsarama.com/comics/020911-Nine-Cornella.html):
NRAMA: With Marvel's history with UK comics, including a Marvel UK imprint at one point, do you see yourself tapping more into those older comics for future issues?
PC: Just wait two issues, my friend.
NRAMA: Maybe my favorite Marvel UK title, Knights of the Pendragon?
PC: Of course. The Green Knight already popped up, and we're also thinking about using Tangerine. And there's also an upcoming appearance by Motormouth and Killpower; do you remember them?
NRAMA: Yes, of course. Some early great artwork by Gary Frank on those books.
PC: Yes, well they're going to be coming up soon. The way I see it, all of the British superheroes work for MI:13 in a defacto way so there's a way we can have them all pop up. In this upcoming story, Motormouth and Killpower are on duty when something terrible happens and the team is brought it.
I love being free to do this kind of stuff.
So... firstly, the possibility of Tangerine will certainly please old Excalibur fans. I've certainly championed her cause in the past (Who the Hell is Tangerine?) so that's certainly something I approve of.
But the bigger deal for the Marvel UK faithful is hearing those two names for the first time in so long... "Motormouth and Killpower"!
Now, for those who missed the imprint years you may know these two better from an appearance they made in Peter David’s Hulk run from the 90s. There again they were being drawn by the brilliant Gary Frank. But Motormouth and Killpower were one of Marvel UK’s original ongoing series. Created by Paul Neary, Graham Marks and Gary Frank the book began as ‘The Indescribable Motormouth’ but soon added Killpower’s name to the title when it was clear that he was going to be playing just as big a role in the series.
Harley “Motormouth” Davis and Julius “Killpower” Mullarkey were big players in the 90s imprint. Harley’s powers are sonic. She picked them up via a bit of quirky technology she picked up in another dimension, and a bit of tinkering from her partner. She had these shoes she kind of stole from Mys-Tech, which allowed her to slide between dimensions. She also had a talent for the kind of colourful language which would make a sailor blush. Couple that with her sonic abilities and… well, I’m sure you can imagine.
So yeah, Harley is a little bit like what the X-Men’s Banshee or DC’s Black Canary would be like - if they had a ‘potty mouth’. But that low vibration humming sure comes in handy.
Julius on the other hand was a test subject, grown by Mys-Tech’s Oonah Mullarkey in a lab. He’s a mish-mash of human and animal DNA, conditioned and programmed and artificially age. The result is that he’s super-strong, takes a lot of damage, has a natural flair for using pretty much and technology or firearm he can get his hands on... but he’s still kind of got the mentality of a child. For example, it was Julius who configured the technology in Harley’s throat to produce that sonic scream, but often thrown into a combat situation he often sees it as a bit of a game – prompting his trademark war cry of “It’s a Turkey Shoot!!!”.
They remain two of my favourite Marvel UK characters. Always fun to read, and an interesting dynamic. After all, there’s not many female heroes out there who have a male sidekick. I’m looking forward to this. $%^& me. It could be %^&£^%£ fantastic.
Some of you may recall a post I made a few months ago, during the Secret Invasion issues of Nova (Link). Well, since then Dr Evelyn Necker appears to have become very much a permanent fixture at Project PEGASUS. So much so that she actually made appearances in TWO books this month. Firstly in CB Cebulski’s War of Kings: Darkhawk #1:
Darkhawk, you see, is also on the payroll at PEGASUS - in Security. Necker’s appearance is quite brief, granted, but it’s great to see her presence noted outside of Nova, by another writer. All good exposure.
Even if it doesn’t end so well…
Evelyn gets a far better run out in Abnett and Lanning’s Nova #22, where she is slightly more central to the plot. For those who are unaware, at the end of #21 the Worldmind decided that Richard Rider was mentally unfit to be Nova Prime after he disagreed with some of its quirkier decisions, of late, and took away his powers. This issue finds Richard consulting the powers that be at Project PEGASUS to give him the once over, and verify whether or not the Worldmind has a point.
Robbie Rider, Richie’s younger brother, was recently made a Nova Centurion himself, during one of the Worldmind’s more dubious decisions, and Richie wants to talk to him. But without the Worldmind intervening. How do you convince Robbie to come out of range of the Worldmind? How about one of the oldest tricks in the book?
I think it great that Necker seems to be becoming a regular character in the MU. There are so many Marvel UK characters who have been lying around unused for just too long. And of course the ceaseless fan in me will always hope that her continued presence will some day lead to a Death’s Head II revival.
Hey, I can dream… ;D
Abnett and Lanning continue to do a great job with this book. I actually picked up the hardcover of the first year of Nova, a couple of weeks ago, to fill in the gaps of issues I missed.
On the subject of Dan Abnett, the man himself made a very interesting comment on his Blog last week.
“Speaking of trades, I hear the first nine or so issues of the Knights of Pendragon, an eco-superhero-Arthurian comic from the early nineties, is also about to be collected. Co-created with John Tomlinson, Steve White and Gary Erskine, and co-written by me and John, it remains a high water mark in my output, and is one of the first major things I did. People still ask me about the series.”
And with good reason. That first volume was a particularly strong run. The interweaving of myth and legend with a modern (Well, late 80s/early 90s) setting was great. The image of Adam Crown, this waster guy from East London, propelled towards becoming a new Arthur by magical intervention, that scrap metal sword rising from a canal, travelling across reservoirs rather than lakes – it was all a really strong urban spin on an old legend. I’m amazed that it hasn’t been revived in some form or other, by now.
A collection is very long overdue. Me Abnett does not say who is collecting it, but following on fro Dragon’s Claws I think there’s a fair chance it’s likely to be Panini. I’ll let you know more as soon as I do.
Thanks to Mark Jarvis for Twittering me that link to Dan’s Blog last week. I had not been there before. Some interesting information there about Abnett’s Marvel work, and his other projects (such as his Warhammer 40K work). Certainly worth a look in.
You can find it here: http://theprimaryclone.blogspot.com/
And while we’re on the subject of other Blogs you might like to visit, I recently discovered Lew Stringer’s blog ‘Blimey! It’s another Blog about Comics!’. Many of you will remember Lew as the guy behind the best of Marvel’s back up comic strips, up until the turn of the 90s. He was responsible for Robo-Capers and the frankly legendary Combat Colin. I miss those strips a heck of a lot. Forget Marvel US’s Mini Marvels, Lew was drawing strips full of in-jokes, satire and fun, set within Marvel’s context, decades before those strips were showing up in US titles. I still have a large number of Combat Colin strips filed away in a folder, at home, saved when my parents insisted I chucked out most of my Transformers comics, when I was in my teens (Heresy, I know!).
Lew’s blog deals with pretty much everything to do with British published comics, old and new. It’s got some really good articles on books from the past, and some really nice insights from a guy who’s worked on so many different titles, and comics’ brands. It’s updated fairly regularly, and I’d strongly recommend a visit to anybody who’s big on nostalgia or just wants to see some examples of how different British comics are to those of our American cousins.
Have a look: http://lewstringer.blogspot.com/
Right. Well that’s almost it for this update, However, as many of will already be aware tomorrow (or Thursday here in the UK) a certain British set title comes out from Marvel Comics.
That’s right, it’s CAP WEDNESDAY, again!
And to celebrate the publishing of Captain Britain & MI13 #11 I’ve done another banner to tie in with its release. Once again, there’s a standard sized and a smaller variant (For sites which restrict size a little more). This one’s intended a little bit as a ‘Previously On…’ and as I can’t post animated Gifs on hear easily, here’s a breakdown of what it looks like.
And here’s where you can find them (Feel free to spread the word in your forum signatures):
Standard Size:Here
And
Smaller Size: Here
This issue is the first part proper of the Vampire State arc, in which Dracula has decided to claim Britain as a homeland for ‘his people’.
You know. His people with sharp teeth and pale skin, who don’t get out a lot in the hours of daylight? Yeah. Bad news for the general populace of Great Britain. Last issue Vlad Tepes (To use his real name) launched his assault by trying to eliminate the members of MI13, with a couple of co-ordinated missile attacks. Not just any missiles though. VAMPIRE missiles.
I kid you not. :D
#11 picks up right where #10 left off. If you’re interested in seeing some preview pages you can find them here:
Captain Britain & Mi13 #11 preview at CBR
Now, GO BUY IT!
That’s all, for now. As always, if you have any questions, thoughts or comments, feel free to add them to this post or send me an email at theswordisdrawn@googlemail.com . I’m always glad to hear from a fellow fan.
You can also follow me on Twitter, as this seems to be the done thing now.
There’s a link on the right hand side of the page.
Until the next time…
Mark
(Sword)
Tuesday, 25 March 2008
ICFD Cover of the Week - 24th March 2008
Yeah, delayed, I know. Here in the UK we have two Bank Holidays around Easter, effectively giving us four days away from work. I used them to the full... just not here. Hope everybody had a great Easter weekend.
This week's cover is from Overkill number 23, from February 1993. It's a Carl Critchlow cover, featuring Motormouth and Killpower.
Again, a really nice cover done in oils (If only Marvel US had gotten their heads around that concept sooner...). I really love seeing Marvel UK characters given a three dimensional feel, and this is a great example of this. Of all the characters in that early 90s era that were pumped up to the point of near explosion Killpower was one of the few who actually had a reason. They built him that way.
I miss those two.
A note to Paul Cornell and Alan Davis (As the two writers currently writing Marvel's British characters) these guys are available... ;-)
This week's cover is from Overkill number 23, from February 1993. It's a Carl Critchlow cover, featuring Motormouth and Killpower.
Again, a really nice cover done in oils (If only Marvel US had gotten their heads around that concept sooner...). I really love seeing Marvel UK characters given a three dimensional feel, and this is a great example of this. Of all the characters in that early 90s era that were pumped up to the point of near explosion Killpower was one of the few who actually had a reason. They built him that way.
I miss those two.
A note to Paul Cornell and Alan Davis (As the two writers currently writing Marvel's British characters) these guys are available... ;-)
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