Showing posts with label Alien Worlds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alien Worlds. Show all posts

Friday, August 26, 2022

Friday Fun ALIEN WORLDS "Small Change"

Summer's starting to wind down...
...so let's say "goodbye" with a never-reprinted, "fun" tale from Pacific's Alien Worlds #7 (1984)!
BTW, writer Bruce Jones and artist Brent Anderson also teamed up for an amazing run on Marvel's Ka-Zar the Savage in the '80s.
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(collecting 1-5 of Ka-Zar the Savage)

Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Reading Room ALIEN WORLDS "The Reading"

Oddly, one of the major innovators of the 1970s-80s is all but forgotten today...
...but this never-reprinted tale from Eclipse's Alien Worlds #9 (1985) should remind you of his amazing talent!

Kool, eh?
Brunner's work in comics spanned a little over a decade, but it was a memorable decade, indeed!

Like other underpaid and underappreciated creatives such as Jack Kirby, Alex Toth, and Mike Sekowsky, Brunner left comics and went to Hollywood, where his vision and talents were much better recompensed working on both live-action and animated projects.
Today he's retired, doing the occasional commission piece and hitting the convention circuit.
You can visit his personal website HERE.

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Thursday, August 26, 2021

Reading Room LAND OF THE FHRE aka SAVAGE WORLD 2.0

...you'll find this version, using the same art...but a different script...a most fascinating read!
Noted Bronze Age writer/artist Bruce Jones was heavily-influenced by the Fleagle Gang and the EC Comics line in general.
Since the previously-published version of this tale in Witzend #1 (1966) was a rewrite of an unknown writer's script by Wally Wood, Bruce was given the opportunity to do a similar re-write, also without altering the art, for this publication in Pacific Comics' Alien Worlds #4 (1983).
Jones' version places the tale further into the future and makes the second half a dream sequence
The story also appeared in color for the first time, using the blueline/greyline method of hand-colored artwork with a black-line overlay, trying to simulate the traditional flat-color separations.
That's why the black linework isn't as crisp and sharp as in the b/w version.
The coloring was done by fantasy painter Joe Chiodo, another illustrator inspired by the work of 1950s comic artists.
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Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Reading Room ALIEN WORLDS "Few and the Far"

In space, things aren't always as they seem to appear...
...as this never-reprinted tale from Pacific's Alien Worlds #1 (1982) demonstrates not once, but twice...
Admit it.
Writer Bruce Jones and artist Al Williamson fooled you!

Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Reading Room ALIEN WORLDS "...and Miles to Go Before I Sleep"

Sometimes it takes a couple of old pros to give you a new perspective...

...on a matter that will affect us all...eventually!

Some say it's an ironic story.
I prefer to think of it as a tale of love between parents and their child taken to the nth degree...even beyond death itself!
Adapted from his own short story by noted sci-fi author Willlam F Nolan, and illustrated by Al Williamson, this never-reprinted piece from Eclipse's Alien Worlds #8 (1984) is a gentle tale that would have made a helluva episode of the classic Twilight Zone!
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which reprints the original prose short story "...and Miles to Go Before I Sleep"

Thursday, January 14, 2021

Trump Reading Room ALIEN WORLDS "Ride the Blue Bus"

Was this the future Don the Con had in mind for us?
Thanks to him, we were edging ever closer and closer to it.
But next week, we reverse course...
This never-reprinted post-apocalyptic tale by writer Bruce Jones and artist George Perez from Pacific's Alien Worlds #7 (1984) has an odd quirk.
Both Toby's friend, Juke, and the unnamed bus driver are illustrated as black/ethnic.
Yet neither is colored differently than the blond/blue-eyed Toby!
Was this deliberate?
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Thursday, August 6, 2020

Reading Room ALIEN WORLDS "Collector's Item"

With eBayAmazon, and other sites on the 'Net, it's hard for fans today to perceive when it was a real achievement to track down a...
...like the final card in a set it took months to complete!
Written by Bruce Jones and illustrated with some kool pseudo-Mars Attacks! card graphics by Ken Steacy, this tale of trading cards and terror from Eclipse's anthology Alien Worlds #8 (1984) perfectly captures the obsessive-collector mindset all of us suffer from at one point or another during our FIAWOL (Fandom is a Way of Life) period.
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Sunday, May 20, 2018

Reading Room ALIEN WORLDS "G•A•M•E•W•A•R•S"

It's said you can tell a comic story is well-crafted...
...if it makes sense without captions and dialogue!
I'd say this never-reprinted tale from Pacific's Alien Worlds #5 (1983) fulfills that criteria, eh?
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