Comments on: You asked, I answer

By: Colin Smith

Colin Smith — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:55:48 +0000

Thank you very much for the kind words about m’blog, Rich. I wish I’d noticed you’d written such a thing before rather than just reading on with your new stuff. (I tend to just bash out things in my corner of the world and I’m always amazed when anyone drops in. Please do drop in anytime you’re over in our way, blogosphere-wise.)

And though I realise that it’s late to add anything to what you’ve written here, I SO agree with you about YHIL and especially Chronus. By chance I took out my Chronus run last night – what a splendid book, and what might it have been after 25 or 50 issues.

Ah. Lost empires.

By: Rich

Rich — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:15:49 +0000

By the way, Colin – great blog you have over at http://toobusythinkingboutcomics.blogspot.com/ – I just added it to my blogroll!

By: Rich

Rich — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:12:09 +0000

Tell me about it; with the Times Past story, the backstory about Chase’s father and the number of obscure characters, it really felt like it was being set up as the next Starman but ’twas not to be.

You know what, around that time there were a few more experimental books that DC was putting out that were pretty good – Chronos and Young Heroes in Love were great too. That experimental nature seems to have dropped by the wayside with both of the big two to a large extent.

By: Rich

Rich — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:08:55 +0000

I think the first time I really took note of him was during his brief guest appearance in Walt Simonson’s Fantastic Four run – but I’d read him in some Marvel UK stuff prior to that, possibly the occasional issue of Transformers weekly I picked up….

That reminds me, I have a Death’s Head trade paperback around here somewhere that I haven’t read, possibly two. Time to dig them out!

By: Chris McAree

Chris McAree — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:06:14 +0000

Hey Rich,
Just an addendum to my question, as a huge Death’s Head fan myself, I was wondering where you first came in contact with everyone’s favourite Freelance Peacekeeping Agent?

By: Colin Smith

Colin Smith — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:16:39 +0000

Really good call on Chase. Those issues with the Rockets Red and The Suicide Squad, for example, were genuingly creepy.