Commando was (and indeed is) full of BIG WAR ACTION, while Starblazer was a series of science fiction one-offs.
Commando does well for the fact that it is still being published, but Starblazer surely wins because SF is more exciting than War (because SF often features WAR in SPACE, the most exciting type of War).
what do you think?
― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)
― David Simpson (David Simpson), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 12:38 (twenty-one years ago)
my favourite artist was the guy who could only draw things in two dimensions, which is fine if you are drawing long spindley spaceships from the side. his interiors always had an almost HR Giger-y feel to them. I wish I knew his name. He also did that "Mercenary" story for The Crunch. Any help, David A.?
― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)
according to the Internet, Grant Morrison wrote AND drew Algol The Terrible for Starlord.
I recently bought an issue of Commando. It was set during the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune, and was VERY EXCITING. It had a revolutionary leftist bias. Deadly.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Friday, 31 August 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)
Jesus. I remember reading Commando as a kid. So depressing iirc :(
― kv_nol, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 10:46 (eighteen years ago)
I missed the immediate sequel to the Franco-Prussian war one, but I did manage to pick up the latest episode, which featured yer man in THE BOXER REBELLION. I have not read it yet.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Thursday, 1 November 2007 13:17 (eighteen years ago)
That Starblazer artist I mentioned seems to have been some guy called something like Alcatena. Like all south american artists, he seems to have had a sideline drawing smut, which is amusing given his Bellardinelli-like inability to draw people.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Thursday, 1 November 2007 13:19 (eighteen years ago)
in other Starblazer related news, there is now a roleplaying game based on this comic, billing itself as a "space rock opera" game.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Friday, 14 August 2009 13:40 (sixteen years ago)