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Yeah, I know there is a thread about it on ILE, but I've been reading lots about Honduras lately so the auld Crisis has been on my mind. "The Third World War" was set in Honduras wasn't it, at least initially? I recall some dude wearing a "Where the fuck is Honduras?" badge in the first issue.

I've just had a weird thought... TWW features a monster guerrilla war convulsing all of Latin America, while "Marshal Law" (also written by Pat Mills) features same in its prehistory. SO - is it possible to go all continuity nerd and join the two stories together?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 18 May 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

I got the collected New Statesman when it came out cos I used to have a now inexplicable thing for John Smith, and it's the most unreadable comic ever.

I remember Marshall Law being a lot of fun... Though come to think of it, that was in Toxic.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Thursday, 18 May 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

I think the first ML series (the only good one) was originally published in the USA, and then reprinted in some Marvel UK mag (this Toxic?), where I first read it.

The New Statesmen was a bit baffling, which weirdly made me think it must be great, on the principle "If I can't follow the story it must be really deep". John Smith... where is he now? He seemed like a good idea at the time?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 18 May 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

I thought that too about NS when I was fourteen or whatever, but I tried it again a few years ago and it's a big bag of crap.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Thursday, 18 May 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

Doing similar stuff for the 2000AD crowd. But staying near the bang-bang-kill-kill that is 2000AD's remit.

― Vic F (Vic Fluro), Thursday, 18 May 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

I'd like to stick out my neck out for J. Smith here, mainly because early Devlin Waugh = the business(although having Sean Phillips on the art helps). He's still a regular contributor in 2000AD/The Megazine, and last year's "Leatherjack" is, in my humble opinion, one of the best things he's ever done. He also makes more sense since he stopped taking the drugs.

I've actually only just realised that the Megazine Sean Phillips is the same Sean Phillips that does Batman sometimes, it's just hard to tell since DC manage to squash all the uniqueness out of his art in that way they do.

― eyeless in gazza (Phil A), Thursday, 18 May 2006 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

I loved loved loved that Indigo Prime Jack the Ripper STory when it was being serialised, but on reflection that was probably because of a)lots of weird freaky shit teenagers think is cool b)Chris Weston.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Thursday, 18 May 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

Did John Smith ever get his hands on a US title?

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Thursday, 18 May 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

Red Tide = genius mega-epic of madness.

John Smith did 'Scarab' for Vertigo, but I have a feeling that was during his drug period. The colouring absolutely murders it - everythings brown or blue. There's all manner of semen and freakish fluids drenching it, which isn't necessarily a bad thing until things get completely undecipherable towards the end and he brings in Indigo Prime to help sort the narrative out a bit, which is slightly dirty pool as they're owned by 2000AD. Geoff Johns (or possible Robinson) brought Scarab and at least one of his villains back, though whether that was out of the Smith Love or out of a Roy Thomas-like devotion to superheroes from the forties I'm not sure.

― Vic F (Vic Fluro), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:30 (nineteen years ago)

He did write a great Hellblazer story set in a laundromat, art by Sean Phillips.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 19 May 2006 07:44 (nineteen years ago)

That's my favourite Hellblazer comic ever! (mostly for the art and cover especially)

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 19 May 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

I had a similar experience with the New Statesman - read lots about it at the time, thought it sounded great, bought a copy of the collection a few years ago and it was awful.

But I loved Indigo Prime while it ran in 2000AD. Even though it felt like Morrison-lite, to an extent. Didn't he and Morrison have a big falling-out?

― David N (David N.), Saturday, 20 May 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

Did John Smith write this really weird story for "Crisis" or "Revolver" about some bloke who was coming to terms with his gayness while hallucinating scary clowns everywhere? I remember liking that.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Saturday, 20 May 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

five years pass...

I have acquired a copy of the reprinted and collected "New Statesmen" from Oxfam, so that I can be disappointed by it too.

― The New Dirty Vicar, Monday, 3 October 2011 14:21 (fourteen years ago)

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