Unsuspecting comic book readers raised on the EC-inspired black and white horror magazines from Warren Publishing had no idea what to make of Heavy Metal when it debuted on American newsstands in 1977. We came to understand it was a domestic version of France’s wildly successful Metal Hurlant, and introduced us to European talents and storytelling. It was mind-blowing.
The magazine’s success led to an animated feature, released in the summer of 1981, heralded by the beautiful Chris Achilléos promotional poster image generic levitra , introducing us to Taarna, who has become the magazine’s unofficial mascot and most recognizable figure.
The film, like the magazine, was a series of animated shorts, an anthology of science fiction, and fantasy, with heavy dollops of violence, nudity, and heavy metal music. And like the magazine, it was beautiful to look at and occasionally made sense.
It opened to mixed reviews and modest success,...
The magazine’s success led to an animated feature, released in the summer of 1981, heralded by the beautiful Chris Achilléos promotional poster image generic levitra , introducing us to Taarna, who has become the magazine’s unofficial mascot and most recognizable figure.
The film, like the magazine, was a series of animated shorts, an anthology of science fiction, and fantasy, with heavy dollops of violence, nudity, and heavy metal music. And like the magazine, it was beautiful to look at and occasionally made sense.
It opened to mixed reviews and modest success,...
- 5/16/2022
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
Philip Bates is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.
It’s been nearly four years since the BBC last released reprints of the popular Target novelisations. Fortunately, in the chasm left by having no new Doctor Who until Christmas, there seems to be a push to continue the franchise’s awareness with a shed-load of official books hitting shelves across 2016. And this includes seven reprints of...
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It’s been nearly four years since the BBC last released reprints of the popular Target novelisations. Fortunately, in the chasm left by having no new Doctor Who until Christmas, there seems to be a push to continue the franchise’s awareness with a shed-load of official books hitting shelves across 2016. And this includes seven reprints of...
The post Full Details of Target Reprints Emerge (With New Chris Achilleos Art!) appeared first on Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews.
- 2/13/2016
- by Philip Bates
- Kasterborous.com
Andrew Reynolds is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.
BBC Books are to reissue seven classic Doctor Who novelisations from the original Target Books range. The out of print novels will also be made available in digital format for the first time and feature illustrations from original artist Chris Achilleos. Often the only way fans could revisit episodes, the Target imprint in the 1970’s was...
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BBC Books are to reissue seven classic Doctor Who novelisations from the original Target Books range. The out of print novels will also be made available in digital format for the first time and feature illustrations from original artist Chris Achilleos. Often the only way fans could revisit episodes, the Target imprint in the 1970’s was...
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- 2/3/2016
- by Andrew Reynolds
- Kasterborous.com
2012. It's as if you came and went in the blink of an eye. But very few years have been quite as quintessentially British as 2012 – it'll probably be mentioned in years to come in the same way that ageing, craggy-faced football pundits look back on 1966 with a tear in the eye and a sigh of nostalgia. Whether Mrs Maj pretended to look interested at the Take That man's aggregation of pop stars and comedians; whether countless medals were achieved at the Olympics; or whether the country had maybe one week of glorious sunshine, 2012 would probably boom “Britain. Britain. Britain.” Big Tom-style.
And one typically British aspect still made its presence felt this year. 2012 has been a bit of a mixed bag for Who aficionados – new episodes, new companions, but then goodbyes to past companions, both in the series and in the real world. Add in an ex Doctor attempting gangsta rapping...
And one typically British aspect still made its presence felt this year. 2012 has been a bit of a mixed bag for Who aficionados – new episodes, new companions, but then goodbyes to past companions, both in the series and in the real world. Add in an ex Doctor attempting gangsta rapping...
- 12/18/2012
- Shadowlocked
On the outside it looked like an old-fashioned paperback book. The words 'Doctor Who' were emblazoned in huge white-bordered blue letters on the rose-red background above the bold black proclamation 'And The Pyramids Of Mars'. Underneath them, a floppy-hatted, curly haired time traveller with an impressively long scarf who I had recently discovered on a Saturday tea-time show adorned the cover, along with a menacing, barrel-chested Egyptian mummy and a rifle wielding young woman who I was pretty sure wasn't the same girl who accompanied him on the television.
[ I soon discovered that this was in fact previous - and future - companion Sarah Jane Smith, rather than the current Time Lady, Romana (mercifully short for Romanadvoratrelundar), originally played by Mary Tamm, and then by Lalla Ward after controversially 'trying on' several forms before settling on that of Princess Astra from The Armageddon Factor. ]
On the inside, however, this slim tome that I'd found lurking in the revolving metal rack in my local public library on a chilly autumn day in 1978 was every bit as magical as the blue police box that I was rapidly growing to love. Its relative dimensions promised me a journey through time and space using the power of words alone,...
[ I soon discovered that this was in fact previous - and future - companion Sarah Jane Smith, rather than the current Time Lady, Romana (mercifully short for Romanadvoratrelundar), originally played by Mary Tamm, and then by Lalla Ward after controversially 'trying on' several forms before settling on that of Princess Astra from The Armageddon Factor. ]
On the inside, however, this slim tome that I'd found lurking in the revolving metal rack in my local public library on a chilly autumn day in 1978 was every bit as magical as the blue police box that I was rapidly growing to love. Its relative dimensions promised me a journey through time and space using the power of words alone,...
- 2/28/2011
- Shadowlocked
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