"Why Jag 97?"

 I mentioned how The Trial that eventually ended up in Black Tower Super Heroes was intended to go into Jag 97 https://blacktowerbooks.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-trial-featuring-germanys-first-and.html

Some might ask "Why Jag 97?" The simple answer is that to put the idea to the "men upstairs" the project needed a title. I suggested a couple and Gil Page, then Managing Editor at Fleetway, thought that the suggested "Jag 97" (as it was 1997) might click with some since Jag had existed as a title before so along with adding the "trendy" numbers..... fingers crossed.

In case you have never seen a copy of Jag here is the cover dated  10th August 1968

"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!