Lost_Johnny

Ok a little bizarre this one, my trusty ten year old wristwatch has just gone to meet the watchmaker, and so I decided to be a big kid and get some sort of funky comic based watch.

I went to my local forbidden planet - nothing, so I went to two shops in Brum today while I was down there, nope, nada, zilcho, do they not make gimmicky junk like this??

So in mild desperation, can anyone suggest where I could indulge my puerile fantasy and get hold of a comic related watch? I found a pretty naff batman one on ebay but they wanted £13 shipping which made it a bit steep....

...my real dream would be a Watchmen watch the blood splatter could be the big hand... but then it would only be in the right position at five minutes to the hour

Well it's happy hour down at Stoke again - manager Tony Pulis has been sacked for failing to exploit the foreign market.

Now don't get me wrong I ain't that unhappy that Tiny Penis has been shown the door, I've had to endure some of the most boring negative football that I've ever had the misfortune to watch while he was there. But the Board couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery, there was total acrimony between the Icelandic members of the board (the majority holding) and Pulis all last year as he wouldn't play any Icelandic lads, so what did they do...

gave him another 12 month contract about two months ago, meaning we'll have to pay him compensation now!

Their timing is shit, we've apparently got a dutch guy, Johan Boskamp, taking the reins tomorrow but he'd better bring some players with him 'cos we're fast turning into every players worst nightmare - low wages (very low wages), completely unstable, rifts in the boardroom and disgruntled staff, we probably couldn't even attract Gazza at the moment, we're that unpopular! Anyone want to give me a tenner for my season ticket?

Hi Im a newbie

Does anybody out there know a band called

"The Eightes Matchbox B-Line Disaster"?

Yeh they featured in one of my earlier posts...

I recently saw Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster and after two songs became so carried away that I entered into my first 'modern day' mosh 

Luckily I was bigger than most of the kids, so did ok... for a while, but these kids don't stop do they    was seriously wondering if my mates knew how to perform CPR by the end. Great gig though.

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Haven't got their second album yet but they've definitely got something about them, especially live.

also Im gonna be a Dad in December!! :D

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Congrats Nagrom - one piece of advice: for the next few months party like an animal cos' your spare time tends to get eaten up with sprogs - in all the lovely cute ways you could imagine of course - but here's the biggie always remember to bring flowers/chocolates/zombie related DVDs (depending what she's into) back home to the missus to make up for her not being as... erm... flexible as before

Tim Seelig good choice, really really love to see him doing them, wouldn't mind seeing Ben Templesmith either but sounds as if he is going to be busy on Fell.

 

Of course we could always try a bit of subterfuge... I'll invent myself as a new up and coming artist, we'll get Tim Bradstreet to carry on doing the covers and we'll present them as mine, of course I'll have to give up lots of time to attend all the conventions and launch parties etc. but at least that'll give Tim more time for all those tricky deadlines, and I only need a 50% cut to cover my expenses, what do you reckon??

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Doh - sorry that was me, you've lost faith in my plan now haven't you.

Two great ones from Get Carter:

"You're a big man, but you're in bad shape. With me it's a full time job, now behave youself."

and my favourite:

"You know, I'd almost forgotten what your eyes looked like. Still the same. Pissholes in the snow."

a famous Nazi preserved alive in a jar

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Sounds like an impressive mix of the arcane and the horror of much of the world's current affairs - If it's out in time I'll take a bulk order and hand them round to friends and family for Christmas!

Lost Johnny: Not Ray Winstone! I give up.

Or do I...

Well I'm greased up and ready to go...

But I can't compete with Don Logan... Psychopath with a capital Pee... all over the bathroom floor, mind you if you come round and piss on our carpet, this'll be the result after the missus gets through with you...

Great film Charlie, you Sexy Beast, the funny thing is for all that Kingsley's character is one of the scariest psychopaths on screen, for me it was McShane's character that was actually the most menacing due to his control and power, obviously getting warmed up for his fantstic role as Al Swearengen in Deadwood, nasty.

Anyway had we better call this a draw, or do you reckon the gals want to see us mud wrestle next??

The editors at DC/Vertigo are running a business.  They are trying to keep a proven money maker like Hellblazer alive.  From what I can tell Tim has a good relationship with them and will work on many other books.  I would loved to have seen a full Bradstreet interior for Mina's first issue. 

 

I suspect DC will try to push Mina's Hellblazer to the non-comic reading mystery novel fan and perhaps a more novelesque approach to the covers is part of their plan.

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That's fair comment but like so many businesses these days a bit more of a 2 way consultation process about major decisions between the management and those who actually do the work/have the talent and have been there so long, would avoid some of the pitfalls such as a loss of loyalty, feeling of goodwill etc. but accepted that the decision would have been based around a "new era" thinking. Just glad that Tim sounds like he's got his head screwed on for the future and if the Hellblazer novels work out then there is still a small continuation

More specifically, your work on issues #196 (Peter Gill's last stand) and #206 (the "Chas issue") are two of my top favorite covers.  Your work on #213 is just gorgeous - spooky, English and very John Constantine.

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Josh you've summed up my thoughts exactly about #213, I didn't want to sound too sycophantic with the shite news about Tim's... extended leave... but this is near perfection, despair down a back alley in England - I bet half the people who live in the Uk have had a moment like that at some point during their lives.

Probably not - but it isn't based on the back streets near the Pilgrim in Liverpool is it?

But no, I won't be defending that particular prediction...

But think of the possibilities of a spin off series....

just a thought.... a very very bad thought... sorry.

If nothing else, Vertigo owe him a chance to work on some Hellblazer interiors - and he should be given time to bring his best to the table - hell, if you want to boost sales then 22 pages of Bradstreet art is the way to go.

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Second that totally! Will it do any good to send DC a few emails 'politely' suggesting this as a way of listening to the grass roots?

Good luck Tim, I've only returned to the title in the last few months after more than a decade away and feel a real disappointment at this news, those who've been with you since the start must be feel right pissed off. When I started picking it up again the first thing your covers did was to remind me that though the whole premise of John's talent/curse is based within the fantastical, the real hook for me is the gritty realism that surrounds Hellblazer.

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Battle of the daddies! Only way to sort this out. 

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On a more related note, Googling me returns a million and one Paul Johnsons, the first being an artist who creates sculptures from console machines etc, quite cool a bit Cronebergian I guess.

On the shocking side is that it also brings back photos of the guy who got beheaded in Saudi Arabia, read about it in the paper but never felt the urge to look at the time. I have now and was surprised how shocked I was, suppose it's good that I'm not completely anaesthetised to fucked up stuff like that yet.

Googling my handle turns up a metal band and the lyrics of the Hawkwind song it is taken from - not Motorhead as some have it but written and preformed by Lemmy while he was in Hawkwind.

Run and get the morphine

For God's sake make it brief

Lost Johnny's out there

Looking for relief

If you had a walk on part in HellBlazer, what is it you would do?

A librarian (cos I am) with access to ancient arcane texts (which I don't) but not in the shite Buffy mould, a corrupt specimen (no comment), who will lend these priceless artifacts down at the local pub for a dead cert at the horses.

What do you think John would think of you?

he'd get sick of me nagging him to bring them back on time!

Who would you want to draw you?

Bradstreet, Manco or Kevin O'Neill if we can choose non Hellblazer artists.

All right, I admit it. But please don't tell anyone. I have something of a reputation around here for being a hard ol' bastard. :wink:

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Bollocks to that Charlie, you even called me nice in another thread...... nice ???? Ya reputation is in tatters ma son, I'm the Daddy now, understand!

.....right this is the bit where you tell me to fook off otherwise I'll be taking my horse's head down with me to sleep with the fishes whilst wearing my concrete overcoat, and I'll beg for mercy thus restoring your fading reputation, just like we planned.

I thought the story of how the Daleks survived was a little iffy, out of all the Daleks' fleet of ships the Doctor didn't destroy the first time round in the Time War, he forgot to destroy the ship the Emperor Dalek was on...

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I actually took it as meaning that the Time Lords/ The Doctor had triggered somekind of time altering weapon, time bomb/s? and that might suggest that at the moment of destruction a few dodgy things went on, such as time holes/vortexes (what's the plural of vortex? ) leading to weird incidents like the dalek that fell to earth, which was on fire, perhaps due to the atmosphere or perhaps because it came from a ship that had just exploded. So therefore the Doctor may have genuinely thought the Emperor was actually destroyed...

...but actually this would then open up the possibility that quite a few daleks might have made it, plus the odd Time Lord and what a lovely coincidence that it was the main dalek baddie that fell through time, aw bollocks I'm doing it again beating myself in an argument.

he'd be some kind of treacherous bastard to support anyone else..

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John a treacherous bastard, er well yeh he is isn't he, so I've just rung Alan Moore to check and apparently there was this one time where John had to help a mate out who had sold his soul to allow him to play top flight football until he was 50...

anyway to cut a long story short he sorted it, Stanley Matthews was saved from an eternity in hell and John became a lifelong Stoke City supporter in the process...

hmmm I wonder if the crisis we're in now is some new scheme by the First to get back at John???

I've just got home from seeing this and I'm still grinning from ear to ear (in fact I might just see about auditioning as the Joker for the next one if I can't get rid of it). I haven't enjoyed a film as much as this since, well erm... Sin City

For me this even out did Sin City, it was gritty and did not insult the viewers intelligence, decent attempts at plausible explanations for the implausible, and the whole moral question of vengeance, punishment and justice queried throughout - great acting in the main and have to agree with Keeyah - what a car.

Cheers for posting that, as I would probably have given this a miss, being a bit jaded by the 'pick em off one by one' genre in recent years. But given that I'm not that good in small spaces myself and yet perversely enjoy being scared by stuff like that, it sounds like a good bet.

Talking of caves, I've just got back this minute from Batman and need to go and talk about it on the proper thread, cos I'm still buzzing from it...... maybe it's the 'Year of the Cave' on celluloid or something?

CHAS?

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If you're right then perhaps we are about to witness your creation Demon Chas

Nah they wouldn't dare..... would they?

AAAARRRRGGGHHHH!

I'm taking a real stab in the dark here but I'm guessing this isn't good news Charlie?

Which Doctor Are You?

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You are the third Doctor! Well, you certainly know how to dress. Even people saving time and space have to look good, I suppose. You're not overly fond of the military. Strange how you ended up working for them. You can be a bit egotisitical, but this is tempered by your genuine dedication to putting right the wrongs caused by evil men and monsters and your sincere affection for those around you.

Know how to dress and bouffanted hair - they jest surely. Still Pertwee was the Doctor I started watching, so fair enough - I still have reservations about maggots thanks to him!

Agree with a lot of what has been said about the series - overall, really enjoyed it, nearly gave up after "The End of the World" and then the Slytherins , they didn't work for me but glad I stuck with it cos "The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances" were just superb - If anyone had tried to sell me Cap'n Jack on paper I'd have shown them the door but he really did it for me (not in that way like!). I also loved the hard man rant from the Doctor against the daleks before making them flinch, in the last episode.

I had real reservations about David Tennant as I realised part of what I am looking for out of a Doctor, is the ability to get nasty and mean if the chips are really down - and I just kept thinking too weedy, even though I liked him in Casanova and the Quatermass remake (failed effort as it was) but the regeneration scene, helped me to realise what I am actually looking for is "slightly psychotic and dangerous" and he sold me in 5 seconds!

- The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances

- The Unquiet Dead

- Bad Wolf

- Father's Day

- The Parting Of The Ways

- Dalek

- Rose

- Boom Town!

- The Long Game

- The End Of The World

- Aliens Of London

- World War III

I've lost the link for that and Google is pointing me at an old site, could you point me in the right direction ?

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not come across it before but looks like more of my time will be taken on catching up with the latest news now!

Being a bit of a returning newbie can anyone tell me if approx. 15,500 is a decent return for Hellblazer, I've looked back and it seems fairly consistent for the last 12 months, don't know why but I thought it would be more. At first glance the flm seems to have perhaps put on possibly about just under 1000 per month? Sorry if this has been covered in the past.

Nuns being ravished and more pics of Honor Blackman

thanks everyone, two fantasies for the price of one, I'm going to have to lie down again now.

Sorry Charlie forgot about my blood pressure, where are my tablets..... those nice little blue diamond shaped pills.