Comments | worldofagwu: " i'm just living in a world w/out meaning - i walk & talk

worldofagwu

" i'm just living in a world w/out meaning - i walk & talk - say nothing "

Jun 10, 2008 09:27

ITEM! i keep meaning to mention this: we had a visit from the jehovah's witnesses a week last sunday - not very unusual in itself but they said they were responding to a web enquiry, ie some prankster had sent 'em my name & address & asked 'em to call round - they were v.apologetic & said they were a bit suspicious themselves that it might not have ( Read more... )

big brother, mighty world of marvel, jack kirby

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katstevens June 10 2008, 09:20:07 UTC

Caught a bit of BBLB after Hollyoaks+1 last night MY GOD it's rub. The girl has a scary frown and the bloke is a charm-free zone. Waah, I miss Dermot :'(

worldofagwu June 10 2008, 12:39:58 UTC

- i think dermot might take over the main job when davina retires ( please let it be soon ) - assuming big brother survives her departure, of course

katstevens June 10 2008, 12:44:10 UTC

Latest rumour I heard was that Endemol are pulling the UK Big Brother after the 2010 series (I think the contract runs out then and they're not going to bother renewing it or something).

worldofagwu June 10 2008, 15:59:33 UTC

- blimey - we'd better make the most of it then...!

( we'll miss it when it's gone )

crazycrone June 10 2008, 10:01:36 UTC

I haven't looked at BBLB at all, either, the main event is boring me enough so far. I think they need a good brawl to get things going.
Re: Kirby angels, I don't think I've ever seen any...but every time I see Epstein's 'Jacob and the Angel' in the Tate, I think of jack Kirby.

worldofagwu June 10 2008, 12:47:22 UTC

- i might've changed my mind by this time next week ( or even tomorrow ) but this year's big brother gontestants seem to be a much more interesting bunch than last year's

talking of the tate & jack kirby, did you see this piece on gomics in the tate magazine last year?
http://www.tate.org.uk/tateetc/issue9/realcomicbookheroes.htm

( apologies if i've linked to it before )

Mighty World of Marvel mittelstadt June 11 2008, 03:24:30 UTC

I have a nostaglic spot (actually, two: my mother's attic in Bedford and a garage at home here ) for MWOM. I had letters published in it when I was a teen. (I have a couple of issues, with my letters in them, here. The rest of the collection, assuming it hasn't crumbled to confetti by now, is still in England.)

Re: Mighty World of Marvel worldofagwu June 11 2008, 09:27:04 UTC

i think i remember you from the MWOM letters pages - tho that cld be the power of "suggestion" - the only letter i had published was in a later british marvel comic called "the complete fantastic four" - where i shamefully praised a gerry conway/rich buckler FF story & slagged off a lee/kirby one ( o, the folly of youth ) - i may have also used the words, "man, i really dig thundra!"

( still, it's goob to have "the right" to put the letters QNS after my name )

- did you see the letter steve had published in the champions...? - he was always v.embarrassed abt that 'un

Re: Mighty World of Marvel mittelstadt June 11 2008, 16:29:18 UTC

I don't remember how many letters I had published by Marvel UK in the early '70s but apparently at least one made it in after I had moved back to the States and Steve wrote in to explain my absence after someone had mentioned it in print. (Not to get swell-headed or anything.) But I was nowhere near as frequent a "lettercol" contributor as some of the US fans of the 1960s and '70s who later became comics writers and editors ( ... )

Re: Mighty World of Marvel worldofagwu June 12 2008, 05:46:29 UTC

i don't have a copy of steve's loc to the champions ( - it was in issue 15 or 16, i think - not long before it got cancelled ) but if i ever find one, i'll scan it in to jellytown

they way he told it, circa 1976, steve wrote & sent off a very long detailed critical analysis of a bill mantlo/john byrne story - which got edited down for publication to something like "i thought champions no.10 couldn't be beat but issue eleven was a masterpiece of comic book art" - he was mortified - but made it into a very funny anecdote of course

apart from the title, i don't think there's much nostalgia value to be had out of the new MWOM - it's very slickly put together & just looks like a thicker version of an american comic - there's little editorial "personality" - goob vfm tho ( £2.50 for 96 pgs ) if you just wanna read the stories

all the british marvels are monthly ( published by panini ) & the other titles are: avengers united, wolverine & deadpool, fantastic four adventures & essential x-men

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