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  • Age: 35
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Where Im Usually At

  1. Dark Tomorrow
  2. I Have Nothing To Say - So Listen Up!
  3. Splinter Universe
  4. Mein Facebook
  5. The White Council
  6. Mirabile Visu
  7. Permuted Press
  8. Joker Saints - Music for the New Millenium
  9. The Drawing Board - Ian Gibson
  10. Flat Earth

What Im Into

Now, this is a tricky question. If I were on a date or in a job interview I'd have to make something up to sound less nerdy or more interesting. But since employment and/or sexual intercourse aren't at stake here, I can probably be candid.

First, I read a lot. What I read depends on my mood and how interesting I want to look on the train, and includes (but is not limited to) sci-fi/fantasy, history (and historical fiction), horror, the occasional bit of non-fiction that interests me at the time. Stuff that makes me think or laugh or (preferably) both. My favourite authors of the moment are Edward Rutherford, Robert E Howard and Raybon Kan.

I also read comics and graphic novels. The genres probably follow the same trends as the books I read (I grew up on 2000AD and The Savage Sword of Conan) though I have to admit - when it comes to comics, it's the artwork I'm usually interested in. Ian Gibson is my all-time favourite comic artist.

I also watch a lot of movies. No particular genre - I liked I'm Not Rappaport as much as I liked Dawn of the Dead. Though for different reasons, obviously. Favourite director? I dunno - John Carpenter?

I play the odd video game, when I have the time. Preferably ones that tax my brain as well as my thumbs. Shadow of the Colossus was the last really good game I played.

Finally, I write. And draw. And people seem to like it when I do either. Can't ask for more than that, really.

Who I Am

Who am I? When I figure it out, I'll let you know.

For the moment, suffice to say I'm a single white male from the Antipodes, hovering somewhere on the wrong side of thirty. I work with kids, which is the best and worst job on the planet at any given moment. I've had the same friends since high school, which could mean I'm a social underachiever or could mean I just have really cool friends. If I have to wear a hat in a political debate, it'll say "left-leaning moderate". I believe in God, but my definition of the word changes at least once a month. I write short stories, I draw sketches, I sometimes even finish them. I think humans are probably a species worth saving.

I also like dogs. But hey, who doesn't like dogs?

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    onewildcat

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    10/16/08


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    BejbiCro

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    06/19/08


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    Sacred is the Wind

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    03/08/08

    Hello,
    I hope you are enjoying your weekend.
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    Nenya

    User Infostatus offline264 Kudos

    11/07/07

    I came to i all rather late, it has to be said. The storyline I remember most is the one where they killed him off - and on checking it seems Esquerra didn't draw that because he didn't approve of the decision to kill him off.

    I remember Ian Gibson's stuff and on checking I realise that's where your Steed icon (on LJ) comes from! Did you see, btw, that that icon of yours inspired me to make a whole batch of Avengers icons? Posted them the other day. Quite a few of Emma Peel looking beautiful and awesome. :D

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    11/07/07

    Reply from Mr Razorz:

    Not just my LJ icon, but also my current TWC one. Of which my Yuku icon is an enlargement. image

    Oh, and you should definitely check out some of the earlier Strontium Dog stuff, if it still interests you in the slightest. "Final Solution" (the one you evidently came in on) was a much darker and heavier story than the classic stuff - it was sort of film noir crossed with spaghetti western and a touch of gung-ho war story, all set in outer space with mutants and aliens. I really think you'd dig it.

    Upon further checking: It seems that when they decided to resurrect the series, they dealt with any continuity problems by referring to the earlier stories as "folklore" and the current ones as "truth". Also, at some point they decided to tie Johnny Alpha's storyline in with Judge Dredd, making them both part of the same "alternative future". Which probably only screws things up even more.

    But hey, I can deal with messed-up continuity. I've seen all the Highlander movies.

    And in belated answer to your earlier question, most of the manga I've seen hasn't grabbed me. I like some anime, but nothing specific.

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    Nenya

    User Infostatus offline264 Kudos

    11/01/07

    Damn Yuku never told me you'd commented, so I've only just discovered this.

    Strontium Dog! I used to LOVE Strontium Dog! There was only one artist, though, that really did it justice IHMO and I can't remember his name now - did it so they looked almost like something out of a Henry Moore painting, vaguely nightmarish. Brilliant.

    Tank Girl wasn't a 2000AD story but, as you say, drawn by a 2000AD regular. It was published in "Deadline" which was set up by a group of 2000AD artists for more obscure, off-the-wall and original stuff than would be suitable for even 2000AD. *snerk*

    Out of interest - do you read any/much manga? I've discovered some superb ones recently (having never read ANY till about a year ago) and the themes and stories are so reminiscent of that sort of stuff I feel quite at home. *lol*

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    11/06/07

    Reply from Mr Razorz:

    The original (some would say definitive) artist on Strontium Dog was Carlos Ezquerra, who also did a lot of work on Judge Dredd. I can't say I'm a huge fan of his work, but Strontium Dog just wasn't the same without him. I can't say I loved any 2000AD artist other than Ian Gibson (and I can't say enough cool things about him) but after so many years reading it I couldn't imagine Ezquerra not doing Strontium Dog, Belardinelli not doing Ace Trucking Co. etc.

    Seriously, though, Strontium Dog was just coolness all over. It was pretty melodramatic and often silly as hell (some of the mutants were hilarious, especially the likes of Spud Murphy and Smelly Quinn) but that was part of the point. It got pretty serious near the end, though, when they finally decided it was time for Johnny Alpha to shuffle off the mortal coil (in a suitably heroic fashion). I believe they later resurrected the series, but wisely avoided actually bringing Alpha back from the dead - they just went back in time and started making up new stories about him.

    And Middenface McNulty is, of course, one of my personal heroes. image

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    Nenya

    User Infostatus offline264 Kudos

    10/05/07

    Since you said you'd been tinkering about with it, I thought I'd wander over and have a look-see. Very spiffy. :D

    However, I HAD to comment since in your blurb you said you grew up on 2000AD! *flails* We may have discussed this previously on TWC, but if so I've forgotten it! I used to read 2000AD! Whee! First person I've met online who even KNOWS of it, let alone used to read it. :P Weirdly I was reminiscing and looking up Tank Girl only the other day. (Yes, yes, I know she wasn't in 2000AD, but her creator(s) were and I used to get that mag that she was in as well... the name of which escapes me now).

    10/05/07

    Reply from Mr Razorz:

    Aaaah, 2000AD - the comic that warped my young mind. Alien truckers, mutant bounty hunters, futuristic religious despots, a robotic version of the Dirty Dozen, fascist policemen who were the good guys, and guns that went budda budda budda! It still brings a nostalgic twinkle to me eye...

    And of course it was stuff like Judge Dredd, Nemesis the Warlock, Sam Slade: Robo-Hunter and (especially) Strontium Dog and The Ballad of Halo Jones that shaped my ideas not just of how good science fiction should be done, but how good writing should be done. The stuff I write these days would never have emerged without it.

    As for Tank Girl, it wasn't a 2000AD story (though it might as well have been) but it was a product of Jamie Hewlett, who also did Hewligan's Haircut - one of the maddest and coolest stories 2000AD ever published.

    So there y'are.

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    eowynmerenwen

    User Infostatus offline168 Kudos

    10/05/07

    hello dear! wow i haven't logged in here for nearly a year!


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    tanja1999

    User Infostatus offline1355 Kudos

    06/22/07

    kudos for you :)

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    Nenya

    User Infostatus offline264 Kudos

    10/03/06

    I'm not younger than you. So nyah. *sticks tongue out* You is a mere whippersnapper compared to me, you is. *snicker* I'm not complaining, though, just... oh, I dunno, time steams past and I find myself blinking occasionally going 'bwuh? Wait, wasn't I still twenty-three just last week?'. That and things are beginning to creak and stop working - it's a worrying development. ;P

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    Frodolover

    User Infostatus offline169 Kudos

    08/08/06

    OoooOooo. It's Mr Razorz!
    --FL
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