I am quite friendly except during the full Moon or when a hefty bill arrives.
Wednesday, 8 April 2026
Just Ask!
Not Long To Wait!
Shock horror. The new PC did not turn up/, however, with the cranky old PC (older than the one that died on me) I have just finished lettering and cleaning 182pp of The Ultimate Game. It's in a core file on TWO USBs as I type.
By pure accident I was looking through the file holding the hard copy D-Gruppe pages and shocked myself. In 2013 Mr Ben Dilworth was working on some D-Gruppe pages that revolved around The Ultimate Game. I had to double check that I was not hallucinating and that means there will be some extras in the book.
If you have boxes or folders full of art you will get the occasional surprise!
And while I ink some pencil pages for something else, here's a heads up for the next one!
Wednesday, 1 April 2026
Still Making Progress
Went on an all day lettering/page clean up spree yesterday so added more finished pages to The Ultimate Game source file.
One thing about pulling together pages from the 1990s-2025 is how I can totally ignore the original text and make the pages even better and add better dialogue. This is the one thing I find a computer good for since my hands are not capable of lettering.
As with all new projects the pages will be destroyed after the source file is uploaded.
Tuesday, 31 March 2026
The Ultimate Game Progress
The Ultimate Game is 180pp in total and as of yesterday 121 of those pages were lettered and cleaned up ready to go into the source file.
All plain sailing until I realised I would soon need to design a cover. But lettering out of the way first!
Monday, 16 March 2026
Alex Ross Finally Addresses Alan Moore's Influence on Kingdom Come
Oddly, about two years after Return of the Gods: Twilight of the Super Heroes was first published in Black Tower Adventure vol. 2, no. 1 I was asked "is it based on Alan Moore's Twilight of the Gods?" and "That was Alan Moore's comic title".
Well, I do not go onto comic news sites or forums -not since 2000 and no one ever mentioned any of this on those groups.
Anyone who knows me knows that history and mythology is something I have been interested since a kid when I read the 12 Tasks of Hercules and Gilgamesh. The Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology is a bulky and very interesting book -it's where I found an Australian aborigine cave painting of something that looked remarkably like The Iron Warrior!
I had a story about the various ancient pantheons being faced with a threat from ancient old gods. No one seemed to think that would be interesting other than me! I then thought that I had heroic/super hero characters going back decades and that might help if they were put in the mix.
That original 96 pager became a 360+ pager later!
In this video Ross does not give out much of Moore's plot and to be honest what is related seems to be "typical Moore" -almost a school boy idea of how to be outrageous and shock. I am told the script is online or was. Really I have no interest in it but I would have bought a series or graphic novel out of curiosity. As noted before I have a good few Moore books/series in my collection.
Originally the series title was War of the Gods which was then used by DC Comics. Return of the Gods needed something added to it to give it "oomph!" I then caught part of a Japanese anime series (I think) in which "Twilight of the Super Heroes" was a subtitle so I thought add that and "Return of the Gods -Twilight of the Super Heroes" summed it all up nicely,
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