The Relaunched Eagle (Worthy, allegedly, of it's Entire Own Thread)

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Doomlord was best, due to ridiculous rubber mask and 'Howard Harvey', who seemed to have been forcibly terrified more and more by the heartless editors as the weeks went by. By the final episodes he had ridiculous bags under his staring eyes and his hair was all over the place, and the only expression he ever pulled was sheer horror.

Second place - "the Collector". Man crosses road against light. GRIM JUSTICE IS SERVED as he is run down by a brewer's dray and the Collector tediously shows off one of the tyres or something...

― Al Ewing (Al Ewing), Monday, 3 February 2003 20:03 (twenty-three years ago)

wasn't some of the Dan Dare stuff actually good? I remember the early Mills/Embleton stuff being wonderfully space opera-ish. The Ian Kennedy drawn stuff was likeable too.

But the best story was The Tower King... in the future there is no electricity, and the only man capable of saving London from Chaos is a bemulleted bloke who rules from the Tower of London. And with art by Jose Ortiz.

I think my implication is that all the photo stories were K-rub.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 3 February 2003 23:14 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought the thread was going to be about the Eagle on Farringdon Rd coming under new management. Is the Eagle a pub or a bar?

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 3 February 2003 23:15 (twenty-three years ago)

pub, but no carpet

― Ed (dali), Monday, 3 February 2003 23:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Bah, I thought it might be a Space: 1999 thread.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 3 February 2003 23:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Tower King ended with rub "Suddenly! A meteor put everything right!" finale, which knocks off many points. Also, sumptuous and beautiful Ortiz art had unfair advantage in the photo-comic surroundings. (I admit that's crap reasoning but I still prefer Doomlord.) Dare was pretty good, but Mills and Wagner both had a lot of better days... and what was that one where Dan Dare had been flung through time Captain America-style from the fifties to the space era?

― Al Ewing (Al Ewing), Monday, 3 February 2003 23:59 (twenty-three years ago)

that was BRILLIANT. Flying to the future in a bright yellow Lightning, raw power.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 10:20 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

Ah Doomlord....

"Energiser to disintegrate"

Good days.......

― Murray Adam, Friday, 18 June 2004 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

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