Reuben Willmott
@MrBitterwitter
All photos of comics etc are from my own collection/Nemesis drawn by Martin Hand + header by Jon McNaught
'Political Correctness' a bullshit term used by right wing babies who can't cope with the fact that the world doesn't revolve around them.
According to this poster, today 46 years ago Buck Rogers started to appear in UK cinemas. Think I saw it at the cinema
There was an American version released in the same year. I was under the impression that the UK stretchy Hulk was licensed from the US company
Rare Hulk stretch toy sells for £3,000 at auction bbc.in/3TVyoO5
I had thought Shadow and Automator fell out years ago, so it’s nice to see this photo of them together on Facebook today
Now just over two years later x.com/Barthsnotes/st…
One year later: Dan Wootton never sued Byline Times for publishing this story, despite promising to do so (note the focus on denying criminality, rather than denying the central claim of using pseudonyms to solicit sexual images from men) x.com/BylineTimes/st…
An Apex edition of Carlos Ezquerra’s colour Judge Dredd stories shop.2000ad.com/catalogue/XB91…
No other strip makes me feel like I've been spiked quite like THE WHITE MOUSE (1979) from British girls' comic Emma. A Belgian nurse in WW2 dons a giant mouse mask to aid the resistance, and nobody bats an eyelid! 'Next week: Louise burgles Gestapo HQ!' 🤪
30 years ago the Dredd movie appeared in cinemas. It features in this issue of Vox with a feature on Pulp and some mentions of Oasis. It’s 2025, Pulp and Oasis have made massive returns, but no sign of another Dredd film
21 years ago music magazine VOX features the Judge Dredd movie with a Loaded style JD/Oasis illo by Chris Weston
I small piece in Comics World about Chris Halls’s (Chris Cunningham) work on the 1990s Judge Dredd movie. His art was very Bisley. Does anyone know what Chris Cunningham has been up to for the past decade? Last I heard he was working with bands like Warpaint and Horrors.
Advert for the UK edition of the adaptation of Alien 3 featuring artwork here by Chris Halls (Chris Cunningham) who also worked on the movie. Halls was set to produce painted illustrations for Grant Morrison’s Aliens:Matrix prose story, but this never was published
I used to find this picture - and the whole concept - of a flooded valley quite haunting. Actually, I still do Artist: Ronald Lampitt (Our Land in the Making, 1966)
The Hour that Never Was, probably the most loved of Dad's 15 Avengers episodes, was completed on this day 60 years ago. A short thread...