JasonT

The real question here is, did you sell all your monthly issues?

I'd love one of those Daisy BBs that were advertised on the backs of comics when I was a kid.

Was the plate of bangers and mash his reward for saving the day?

On 6/24/2021 at 5:12 AM, Oystero said:

here are the parents.

Thanks for the info, and welcome aboard! 

On 6/23/2021 at 10:10 AM, Christian said:

I was finally able to acquire M. John Harrison’s new novel, The Sunken Lands Begin to Rise Again.

Hey, that looks great. The preview on Google Books reads well.

Batman: Earth One volume 3 was okay, but like most Batman stories for the last few years, it's just retelling the same stories, reintroducing the same characters. The differences are cosmetic. 

On 6/13/2021 at 11:04 AM, Avaunt said:

Did anyone see tenet ?

 

Yeah, I saw it. Had no trouble following it. I liked it a lot.

I object to being taken through the Suez, but the rest sounds like something I could get behind.

On 5/14/2021 at 1:17 AM, Vagabond said:

The Highest House by Mike Carey, art by Peter Gross. Obviously anything the two of them do is going to be a winner but the whole thing is only about 150ish pages and I'm really left wanting more. I heard sales weren't so great though, shame. Well worth a read, classic Vertigo feel but a bit more high fantasy.

Looks great! https://aux.avclub.com/the-highest-house-delivers-fantasy-comic-excellence-in-1826114695

Thanks Christian, I'll keep an eye out for that. 

19 hours ago, Avaunt said:

The following is merely me boasting. Fig Jam.

 

The entire crew of one of the Super yachts that made it to New Zealand before the lockdown, went on holiday, and inconveniently, quests arrived  in town the very same day. The crew all being gone at once was a masterly attempt at the World Title of Bad Captaining.

The Captain being my bosses old mate from his years in Antibes, we were begged to go detail clean some of the staterooms as well as we could in the "insufficient time" available to us . . . then my boss found he had to stay home and look after his sick son.

So, knowing the Captain had claimed it was a full days work for two people, I got to the berth at 6.30 am, no one aboard and the key in the bog-standard obvious place, and I got stuck in, head down and HUMP.

Five hours later I had detail cleaned four cabins each with en-suite ( heads, in the jargon nautique ), and two saloons. Never mind other peoples expectation, I MYSELF did not think I could have done it. At one point I was so hot from pushing myself I had to leave the ( 8 foot square ) mirror for later because my body heat was steaming it up faster than I could polish off.

The Captain had turned up at lunchtime as they do, and came looking for us, was distressed to find me by myself and went trying to find some agency that would send people ( because, you know, he COULD have pitched in and helped but then who would have known he was Important ? ) but I was finished before he could.

He wandered around checking what I had done, and being a captain WAS able to find things in the staterooms that were not exquisite . . . but we had NOT been told to white glove, the direct opposite in fact, because we were asked to "do what you can, just get the obvious". He did say he wouldn't have believed it possible if he was told it had been done by one person.

Did my employer say thank you?

Or did he say to the captain "he probably would have talked your ears off if you had been there" instead ?.

 

The head in the main berth was ALMOST as big as my bedroom. It had a couch in it, and a bidet. Vessel cost US$ 34 million. Some people got too much money.

 

I had to read that twice before I could be reasonably sure you were talking about cleaning.

New Luther Arkwright teaser art pops up on Bryan's Twitter every so often.

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/comic-book-legend-john-paul-leon-has-passed-away-at-the-age-of-49/

Whoa:

It's an amazing job.

Hello Kitty is defunct?

It's a clever fake.

Sorry, I couldn't think of a better place to put this: 

This forum was old before I crashed it, and that was nearly 20 years ago. 

I miss (etc)

Welcome back, Matt!

His early stuff is staggering like that. He painted a Strontium Dog story called "Monsters" that became one of my most memorable comic reads; I was effing thrilled when he got the gig on Hellblazer.

His recent work like Billionaire Island is great, but it lacks that amazing grotesque flavour.