Pat Mills' SPACEWARP
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scans_daily"If civilisation were to be found on other planets and if it were feasible to communicate, then we would want to send missionaries to save them, just as we did in the past when new lands were discovered." - Father Chris Corbally, Vatican Observatory, Mount Graham, Arizona. Deputy director of the Jesuit project searching for Alien life. Sunday Times 14th December 1999
Pat Mills may be pissed off with 2000ad at the moment, but this week his new, creator-owned anthology series hit UK newsagents.
SPACEWARP!!!
It's 64 packed pages, with no ads (save for one for character t-shirts), text pages, character bios, fanart and stuff, so it's difficult trying to pare down just four-ish pages worth...
The basic gist is that each story is loosely connected, despite taking place in wildly different settings. The pan-dimensional Warp Lords are mucking around with humanity to profit from their pain, but a loose coalition of heroes across time and space are fighting back.
So yes, it's Mills' traditional punky anti-establishment themes. Let's just throw a panel or two of the lead characters from each title:
From 'Jurassic Punx', illustrated by Bruno Stahl: Dada Derda. She fights dinosaurs in a post-apocalyptic seventies Liverpool.
From 'Hellbreaker', illustrated by Ian Ashcroft: De La Rue. Last man hanged in Britian, escaped from Hell to visit punishment on those that escape justice.
From 'Xecutioners', illustrated by Gareth Sleighthouse: Chaval and Zola, agents that hunt down Quantum Deepfaking aliens hiding amongst humanity.
From 'Fu-Tant', illustrated by Mike Donaldson: Koda, a pupil at a school where the student body is experimented on to create 'future mutants' to carry out black ops.
From 'SF1', illustrated by Ade Hughes: Salome, Krak Shot, Bad Dog, Deathnaut, Morlok and Homicida. A mixed team of humans, aliens and robots, they fight to defend humanity from 'Makrobes', microbes that have grown to gigantic sizes. And yes, they're very reminiscent of the ABC Warriors.
And finally, Slayer, the bookend character who ties the whole thing together, illustrated by James Newell.
He's very much like Nemesis the Warlock. The villains even have a war chant of "Be worthy! Be manly! Belligerent!" That is a good thing; the world could always use more Nemesis. Maybe at some point I should post some scans from Nemesis here at some point...
Pat Mills may be pissed off with 2000ad at the moment, but this week his new, creator-owned anthology series hit UK newsagents.
SPACEWARP!!!
It's 64 packed pages, with no ads (save for one for character t-shirts), text pages, character bios, fanart and stuff, so it's difficult trying to pare down just four-ish pages worth...
The basic gist is that each story is loosely connected, despite taking place in wildly different settings. The pan-dimensional Warp Lords are mucking around with humanity to profit from their pain, but a loose coalition of heroes across time and space are fighting back.
So yes, it's Mills' traditional punky anti-establishment themes. Let's just throw a panel or two of the lead characters from each title:
From 'Jurassic Punx', illustrated by Bruno Stahl: Dada Derda. She fights dinosaurs in a post-apocalyptic seventies Liverpool.
From 'Hellbreaker', illustrated by Ian Ashcroft: De La Rue. Last man hanged in Britian, escaped from Hell to visit punishment on those that escape justice.
From 'Xecutioners', illustrated by Gareth Sleighthouse: Chaval and Zola, agents that hunt down Quantum Deepfaking aliens hiding amongst humanity.
From 'Fu-Tant', illustrated by Mike Donaldson: Koda, a pupil at a school where the student body is experimented on to create 'future mutants' to carry out black ops.
From 'SF1', illustrated by Ade Hughes: Salome, Krak Shot, Bad Dog, Deathnaut, Morlok and Homicida. A mixed team of humans, aliens and robots, they fight to defend humanity from 'Makrobes', microbes that have grown to gigantic sizes. And yes, they're very reminiscent of the ABC Warriors.
And finally, Slayer, the bookend character who ties the whole thing together, illustrated by James Newell.
He's very much like Nemesis the Warlock. The villains even have a war chant of "Be worthy! Be manly! Belligerent!" That is a good thing; the world could always use more Nemesis. Maybe at some point I should post some scans from Nemesis here at some point...
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Date: 2021-11-01 09:50 pm (UTC)Wait, what's going on between Pat and 2000ad?
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Date: 2021-11-01 10:51 pm (UTC)He did do a blog post a couple years ago about how the creators were being screwed out of royalties on Hachette's 2000ad collection series, so my guess is that has something to do with it.
There is to be a Mills-authored retrospective on Sláine published at the end of the month, whose blurb includes: "It’s about the comedy behind Sláine and Ukko’s hilarious and fantastic adventures. And the warp-outs by the writer as well as the warrior, as he battled duplicity, censorship and discrimination to save his story from senseless sabotage."
Soooo... Hopefully that should shed some light on things.
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Date: 2021-11-02 07:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-11-02 08:02 pm (UTC)I'll pick this up