100 Great Lost Comics

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Mainstream, indie, small press, Euro, manga, whatever...the main criteria for being 'lost' isn't well-known-ness but that the kind of people who talk about that sort of comic never seem to talk about it. So without further ado...

1. TOXIC! The name has now been revived for a pre-pubescent boys' mag about celebrity bogeys which is strangely apt. Toxic! was an independent rival to 2000AD set up in about 1990 by various defecting old hands (Pat Mills / Alan Grant / John Wagner - the bigger names in fact) whose stories were generally more much more violent and crude. The 'pull' character was Marshal Law but you also got Accident Man (a hit man), Makaber (shite Goth nonsense), MUTO MANIAC (gibberish, drawn by McMahon, called Muto Maniac), and finest of all The Driver which was about a monstrous redneck driving a cargo of toxic waste around in his colossal truck and was written and drawn by savage apes. The comic got bad quite quickly with stories like Sex Warrior but I still have a certain fondness for it.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Sunday, 29 February 2004 10:56 (twenty-two years ago)

wasn't Toxic Marvel-UK? "Marshall Law" was just a reprint of the (brilliant) Marvel published US comic.

my impression with Toxic was that it was all reprints.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Sunday, 29 February 2004 11:02 (twenty-two years ago)

No it was all original, the Marshal Law was too - it was new ML stories that then got picked up and reprinted by Dark Horse. The Marvel ML stuff was earlier.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Sunday, 29 February 2004 18:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't hear anyone talk about Skrull Kill Krew when the British Invasion comes up, which is a shame, because I really wanted to know what was going on with it, depraved though everybody was. You definitely got the impression that the '5-issue miniseries' was a continuing series that got squelched and the characters swept under the thickest rug ever.

― Vic Fluro, Sunday, 29 February 2004 23:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Wasn't that one of the Millar/Morrison series that happened before Millar's career took off by itself?

The best post-Doom Patrol weirdoes fighting weirdoes comic was Xombi, published by Milestone, as what also published Static and mumblemumble. It was brilliant, but no-one bought it, and its writer John Rozum, only got back into his stride last year (about five years on) with Midnight Mass. the sequel to which is on! your! shelves! and is great.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 1 March 2004 10:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I remember Toxix now... the title I was thinking of was a separate Marvel UK title.

Does anyone remember STARBLAZER?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Or "The Crunch"?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Alan Moore's team the Clandestine was a lot of fun and solid storytelling.

Ditto the Milestone suggestion, they had a sweet (and apparently coherent) super hero universe happening there with some nice artists.

― adam lloyd, Sunday, 7 March 2004 03:54 (twenty-two years ago)

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