The cover of Computer & Video Games September 1986 for a feature / review of Piranha Software’s “Rogue Trooper” game for the Sinclair Spectrum, Amstrad and Commodore 64
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Retro
Not to be confused with the kids title, Luke reminisces about one of the great “could’ve beens” of British comics. Sidestepping the politics behind its creation and demise (well most of them anyway, fascinating though they are) he takes a look at the content, and found that whilst there is some dross, there is a lot to love.
Stretching the definition of 2000AD related to breaking point, Luke wants to spread the word on this unfairly (in Luke’s fevered imagination anyway) overlooked 25 year old mini, one of former(?) script droid John Smith’s only sojourns across the Atlantic.
Okay, not 2000AD, but 2000AD related. Luke checks out the reprint of “Psycho Killer” a refugee from the now long deceased “Toxic” a short lived 1990s rival to 2000AD. Written by Pat Mills and Tony Skinner and painted by “Fall Of Deadworld” artist Dave Kendall, Luke finds a lot to love.
The Fleetway Files
Published by Hibernia
Review by Luke Williams
With the “Treasury of British Comics” an obvious success, Hibernia, who led the way in celebrating out of print IPC properties, are still cranking out retrospectives and strips. Having already published quite a few collections of articles on Fleetway work, Luke peruses their latest (and when he means “latest” – he means it was released ages ago and he’s taken ages to read it, so this is old news.)
Luke’s finding the Prog’ a tad dull at the moment. So, he figured he’d write about one of his favourite comics, ever, which, by coincidence, has strong connections to the Galaxy’s Greatest
Why All British Comic Fans Of A Certain Age Should Read DC’s “Hitman”
By Luke Williams
Occasionally in writing for this blog’ I’ll veer away from 2000AD. Sometimes there is a comic that has very close ties to the the Galaxy’s Greatest or its stablemates. This maybe because of the creative team or it shares a sensibility with the publications of the House Of Tharg. “Hitman” meets both criteria.
