The ending to Grant Morrison's Dan Dare.

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[cissie_king.insanejournal.com]

... and Jay Leno as Dan Dare.

The Ennis mini for Virgin was also pretty good.

[(Anonymous)]

Is the penultimate scan not loading or did you actually scan a blank page?

[cissie_king.insanejournal.com]

It's a blank page, the same blank page we see in the next page.

[jlroberson.insanejournal.com]

And every time I hear Morrison complain how dark comics have gotten and all that--which he was saying AT THE TIME--I look at this and think, "Wonder what Fred Hampson would have thought of the Mekon's device here and the manna thing."

Yes, I realize this is more about Morrison's disgust with Margaret Thatcher and what she did to England that Morrison's saying through Dare here. But still.

[cmdr_zoom.insanejournal.com]

That administration cast a very long shadow across British comics (and their creators).

[jlroberson.insanejournal.com]

I know, Morrison would have argued that he didn't ruin dare, Dare is the British spirit that Thatcher corrupted, tortured and killed. And he'd have a point.

I suppose one has no business presenting national icons as anything but menacing in times when one's nation is that dark.

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

I'd say this Dare had more in common with the original than the 1980's 2000AD Cosmic Claw (http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/d/dandare2.htm) revamp which was space opera, but a lot more mundane.

[thanekos.insanejournal.com]

Gloria Monday?

really?

[jlroberson.insanejournal.com]

In a medium that brought us Pepper Potts, you're asking this?

[(Anonymous)]

Colonel DRAKE!

Who else's mind immediately jumped to General Wayne telling Colonel Drake to lie back and think of England?