I have heard from many who ventured into comic publishing that, despite all the talk of comic
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Please, if you are an Indie publisher let me know the problems you have had at events as well as trying to get stores to take your books.
We all need to help each other out and highlight problems small publishers face.
Thank You
A4
B&W
52pp
£6.00
https://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-hooper-scharf/journey-of-the-idthe-dr-morg-trilogy/paperback/product-22705545.html
Metapsychophysics meets comics. Its the next natural evolutionary step in comic books! For the first time all three parts of the highly acclaimed Dr. Morg Trilogy are combined into one volume:
WORDS WITHIN WORLDS,
AFTER ORWELL and the final explosive
THE DEATH OF DR. MORG!
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Continues the adaptation of Trials of the Cosmic Oddity and Derna Assumed starts in this issue.
As I have written before The Cosmic Oddity should really be picked up by one of those book publishers who like to show off that "we also do graphic novels". The U.S. had Harvey Pekar and American Splendor and for me The Cosmic Oddity stands out in a class of its own and should be considered a British classic -I am willing to die on that hill (in 40 years or so and I will by then be avoiding hill!). In fact I took out book one last night -they are on a shelf nearby- and read through it and I still get the same emotions out of it.
Believe me, even if I know someone if I think they have produced something under par or a stinker then I say so. Politely but I still say so.
Derna, now Derna is one of those characters that once seen you want to see more of. Hey, she even got her bottom pinched by The Thinker once (but he was probably tripping because no one in their right mind would try that). This is in fact an illustrated text story and it's nice to see others doing this -comic strips and text pieces.
Not mentioned on the actual online store is the other strip -Baumgarten and Weiss: Temporal Detectives and this time they deal with a certain "Doc" who killed his youthful companion to try to stop screwing up the timeline but...probably screwed up the timeline and then another "Doc". It's all lovely fun.
Would I recommend this title? Hmmm....let me see....OF COURSE!
Now support talent and buy the first and second issue of (C)RAP -number 3 is on its way!
£5.00
Underground comic legend Richard Pester brings us a new magazine featuring his groundbreaking graphic novel Trials of the Cosmic Oddity, also featuring material from over three decades of art.
Just to explain (though it should be obvious) the title is a humorous play on the creator's initials -RAP- and (c) so "CRAP". Some of our non-English readers might have wondered about that!
That does not tell you much but when I received this along with issue 2 the first thing that hit me were the covers -the image here does not do it justice at all. Then I did what I always do and that is look at the production quality from paper to printing and binding (old habits die hard). It is very nicely put together and the colour reproduction is as good as you'll get with, say, Cinebook Ltd.
Having seen the original Cosmic Oddity (all three parts) I was hoping that it might get combined into one book -it would be the British equivalent to Harvey Pekar's American Splendor. What I want and what I get are two different things, however -so my mother always said. In this abbreviated form it still works and this time in colour and that I was not expecting.
There is a text piece about The Cosmic Oddity and two pages of Pester's other character Derna and tracing her history. Plus there is a homage to Saphire and Steel -possibly one of the best ever supernatural/sci fi ITV serials of the 1970-1980s.
For me this was a breath of fresh air and at £5 well worth it. I have seen the second issue and it's just as good and will review it once the ordering details are to hand.
Give yourself a treat and maybe some inspiration and try a copy because £5 these days is not a lot to spend on a comic especially one as unique as this.
"I read the original quote from that German blogger and thought it was a lot of hot air. When Return of the Gods: Twilight of the Super Heroes arrived I thought "thick book" and knew you'd taken it from 96 pages to 360+...it looked impressive. I read through it in two days and -robots, aliens, "gods", super heroes, sorcerers, alien invasions and more and world-wide. And you tell me this was done without a script?! It's the only one I can think of so, yeah, the greatest British super hero graphic novel fits as a description." Pete Clark
"You say this is your final big story? The Green Skies was fantastic and everything laid out into chapters was a great touch!"
David Stephens, Comic Reviews
" 'Holy ******* ****!' was all I could say. I even tried counting the number of characters and how the **** you produced all of this without a script beats me. Return of the Gods: Twilight of the Super Heroes and The Green Skies could only have been better if George Perez had drawn it!"
Dan's Comics
"I have no idea why you are not pushing this even harder. The books Return of the Gods: Twilight of the Super Heroes and The Green Skies I would love to see in German or at least get German fans to read since it has a good number of German heroes in it. Next big comic event over here send me copies and I'll sell them on my table!"
Gerd Hammer, German comics historian and trader
Selected comic readers were also chosen to review copies and, obviously, two of these were people from Hong Kong who I corresponded with on Manhua over the years.
"I just wish someone like Tong Li would publish this in Chinese -I mean there are Chinese heroes in this so why not?"
Wang Xiuying
"There HAS to have been a script and more than one person working on this! Brilliant!"
Mike Wayne, Australian comic dealer
Generally, these comments were all similar and I only quote these as any more would be very egotistical. The books should speak for themselves.
A4
B&W
124pp
£15.00
It all began in 1987 and the Black Tower Universe has seen alien attacks, heroes kidnapped to be put into the middle of a war of the gods.
Despite the deaths and losses the heroes -crime fighters, super powered and members of the magical union have come back but now unaware that alien races are escaping through the Sol system and that a mysterious space fleet is heading towards the inner planets, they find themselves trapped or distracted.
The Many Eyed One is finally coming.
The Multiversal Council has quarantined Earth and forbidden any to help.
The evil has spread and there is treachery striking at the very core of Earth's defenders
A4
B&W
126pp
£15.00
Following on from events in Green Skies V. 3 Part I the Clone Zone Boyz are increasing in number while those who created them, the Vampirons, continue to plot and await the arrival of their 'God' -The Many Eyed One.
The Druid finds that his physical and mental state are deteriorating and even the Rev. Merriwether cannot help him.
Shockingly, the Clone Zone Boyz claims someone close to Merriwether and this leads him to team up with two 'unsavoury' characters.
In space Krii and Tyn hrrn face a seemingly unstoppable enemy.
On The Moon the Selenites and representatives of other worlds meet and decide that Johnny Apollo, the Z-Man, is the only one who can lead the counter invasion fleet.
With the enemy striking Mars and then the Moon things look grim
A4
B&W
208pp
£16.00
The gathered Sol Defence fleet is prepared to make its final stand led by Johnny Apollo the Z Man. If it fails to halt the invaders then the doomsday weapon will be detonated and destroy the entire Sol System.
Meanwhile, unaware of the threat in space, Jack Flash, the Avenger and others prepare for a final show down with the Many Eyed One; a final confrontation they know they do not have the power to win.
Is this Humanity...the Earths...final day?
woven into The Green Skies is the story of the harbinger of destruction: the story of Varik Dann -The Man Who
Walked Through a Door and Into Another World
