"I wasn't Ready For This!"

Two people have actually commented on the Return of the Gods: Twilight of the Super Heroes and The Green Skies (the latter in three volumes comprise part 3 of the Invasion Earth trilogy)

I  am not quite sure what they were expecting  -probably just super heroes fighting aliens?  Whatever, the books are not simply super heroes. There is sorcery, horror, sci fi as well as ancient pantheons and much more with action and scenes taking place around the world as well as space and other dimensions...the multiverse.. 

Everything that I like and the fact that there are no scripts involved meant that I could just sit there, look at the sheet of paper and say "You know what would be cool to put in here...?"  Comics should be fun and that's how I started out and mean to continue. 

Subzero on the Tales From The Kryptonian blog gave Return of the Gods a fair review and the idea of the Hornet using a lead pipe to whack out a god seems to have raised a few smiles. Well, fight crooks and you pick up a few bad habits, right?

The art style has been labelled "old school" probably because it is pencilled and inked on paper by hand (the only exception is the lettering -arthritic fingers cannot do the fine lettering needed!).  Also, the late great British comic artist John Cooper stated that the art style was very "Old British weekly comics mixed with some Americanisation" I told him I would not argue about that!  Gil Page, at the time Managing Editor at Fleetway told me I had come  into comics too late because in the 1960s-1980s I would have been getting weekly work due to my speed. Working on an A4 page I could fully pencil and draw 20 pages in 7 days or 15 A3 format.

That was at the height of my skills -20 pages a week now would be pushing a brag too far!

I am currently finishing off one new book and once that is done it and another will need lettering and I am hoping that will all be done by June of this year as I have too many ideas in my head and new ones daily and there just ain't enough years left to draw them all!

As the work progresses I'll post updates and maybe a few teasers.  Hopefully, the people who commented will buy and be equally amazed by the new books. You never know! 

A Look Inside the Green Skies

 

A4

B&W

124pp

£10.00

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It all began in 1987 and the Black Tower Universe has seen alien attacks, heroes kidnapped to be put into the middle of a war of the gods. 

Despite the deaths and losses the heroes -crime fighters, super powered and members of the magical union have come back but now unaware that alien races are escaping through the Sol system and that a mysterious space fleet is heading towards the inner planets, they find themselves trapped or distracted. 

The Many Eyed One is finally coming. 

The Multiversal Council has quarantined Earth and forbidden any to help. 

The evil has spread and there is treachery striking at the very core of Earth's defenders

A4

B&W

126pp

£10.00

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Following on from events in Green Skies V. 3 Part I the Clone Zone Boyz are increasing in number while those who created them, the Vampirons, continue to plot and await the arrival of their 'God' -The Many Eyed One. 

The Druid finds that his physical and mental state are deteriorating and even the Rev. Merriwether cannot help him. 

Shockingly, the Clone Zone Boyz claims someone close to Merriwether and this leads him to team up with two 'unsavoury' characters. 

In space Krii and Tyn hrrn face a seemingly unstoppable enemy. 

On The Moon the Selenites and representatives of other worlds meet and decide that Johnny Apollo, the Z-Man, is the only one who can lead the counter invasion fleet. 

With the enemy striking Mars and then the Moon things look grim for Earth

 A4

B&W

208pp

£10.00

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The gathered Sol Defence fleet is prepared to make its final stand led by Johnny Apollo the Z Man. If it fails to halt the invaders then the doomsday weapon will be detonated and destroy the entire Sol System. 

Meanwhile, unaware of the threat in space, Jack Flash, the Avenger and others prepare for a final show down with the Many Eyed One; a final confrontation they know they do not have the power to win. 

Is this Humanity...the Earths...final day?

And woven into The Green Skies is the story of the harbinger of destruction: the story of Varik Dann -The Man Who Walked Through a Door and Into Another World

Varik Dann is but one character as we follow the attempts of heroes and adventurers as well as the military as they try to confront the Clone Zone Boys with no idea of who or what is behind them. And in space the very existence of not just the Earth but the solar system rests on efforts to stop an alien invasion fleet and if it cannot be stopped them there will be no conquest: the entire solar system will be destroyed by a doomsday device.

And now, in no particular order -some more art pages!