When I wrote my previous article Devil Gate Drive, I assumed that Pino has based his B-17 cover on the popular song from 1958. However, I am never adverse to being proven wrong if it builds my knowledge of either comics or anything else. In this case, anything else turned out to be my knowledge of the USAAF and their B-17E fleet. You see, there … Continue reading Suzy Q
I have not been writing much on the blog, not because I have had nothing to say, but I have just been involved in so many different projects. I have also been fortunate to have written a few articles for the new magazine ComicScene. However, as my collection has just taken a quantum leap from the 15k mark to the 16k mark, I have had … Continue reading Devil Gate Drive
For those of you familiar with this blog, you may also have heard of Vic Whittle. Don’t worry if you haven’t but if you are a comic fan, then you may have visited his site a time or three as he is the owner of the British Comics webpage. This is a great source of information and by creating his website, Vic became a personal … Continue reading The One And Only
Sometimes articles take an age to come together and at other times, they just seem to appear fully formed. I am so glad to say that this, my first article after our move is one of the latter. Now we have just moved (which was the reason for my two-week hiatus) and we are still getting things together. However, I am pleased to see herself … Continue reading So Good To Be Back Home Again
It’s been a while since I have put out more than one article in a week, so let’s see how much this is appreciated. With no apologies, we are a geek chic family. We go to watch superhero movies at the cinema, we watch comic based shows on TV and we discuss character motivations. But most importantly for me is that we all have our … Continue reading What Have I Done To Deserve This
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