Friday 24 December 2010

Merry Christmas.

Just a quick post to say Merry Xmas and hope you have a good one.

I’ve hopefully got at least two days of lazing around, eating junk food and turkey sandwiches, and watching season 3 of Dexter on DVD. I’d usually post one of those freaked out kids on Santa’s lap picture about now, but I think they’ve fallen out of fashion as I haven’t seen any about this year online. I had to go hunting for this year’s one (bad internet, making me do things for myself), but it was worth it.

Tuesday 21 December 2010

Up In The Hills.

Another shot from the latest issue I’m working on.

Still not really in the Xmas spirit considering it’s only a few days away. Last years Xmas went on forever, this year’s Xmas seem a bit more low-key.

Been really getting into watching Frank Henenlotter movies lately. Watched Brain Damage over the weekend, which was an amazing film (trailer for which is a few post down.) I rate him alongside Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson in 80’s greatness. I’ve already ordered his latest movie Bad Biology and will probably spend the early part of next year trying to hunt down a copy of Frankenhooker. I swear I used to see it on DVD all the time when I didn’t want a copy. Now I do, it’s no where to be seen. Same with the Basket Case sequels. I was a fool. Here the trailer for Bad Biology.

Wednesday 15 December 2010

Nature Walk.

Probably one of the better countryside shots so far, this shot is more nature in the foreground, characters in the background. This was the shot were I really tried to get a handle on drawing the outside world. I do like the lay-out of this panel. Who would have thought drawing trees could be fun? I’d still love to see these nature shot in colour, but have neither the time or colouring talent, sadly.

It’s mid-December and I’m not feeling Christmas-y at all, yet. Still feels like late November to me. I need to get into the Christmas spirit. I need to watch some Xmas movies (maybe find a copy of Gremlins) or High-Five a snowman or something.

Monday 13 December 2010

The Sequel That Never Was.

Come across a trailer for an unrealised (and maybe unofficial) Texas Chainsaw Massacre sequel (or prequel as Wiki says.) I don’t know if it’s unfinished or something, but it sad it’s not available. I’d love to see it. Chop Top is such an underused character and one of the best things about the second movie. Oh well… I’ll just have to hold out for Leather 3D.

Tuesday 7 December 2010

Shall We?

Decided to leave the speech bubble on this shot as I think it adds a bit of spice without giving anything away. This is my first real crack at trying to get some countryside into issue 2. More to follow in the coming weeks. I spent a fair bit of time online trying to research the right type of landscapes, and using magazines like National Geographic for references. I think it’s a pretty good shot to start off with, but doing these scenes, I realized how hard it is to do a decent nature shot without colour. With no greens or browns or blue skies. Hopefully they still have something to offer?

Been checking out this cool Moebius Tumbler. Moebius always kind of slips off my radar as his work is so hard to get a hold of in this country. I’ve heard rumours that one of the big American publishers owns the rights to his work and won’t let them be published here (not sure how true that is?) but it’s a little mystery that I hope gets solved one day, soon.

Thursday 2 December 2010

Stepping Outside.

There’s a good chunk of issue 2 that takes place outside. I just wanted to open the story up a little bit and also had an urge to put some country scenes in the story before it gets all Claustrophobic in later issues. I’m also hoping it will add a very slight Fairy Tale quality to the book.

Speaking of Claustrophobia…

Still a snowy wasteland around here. I was kind of hoping today would be the day it started to die down, but no such luck. I was hoping to avoid going out in it, but this weather means business. I get the feeling it could be around for days. I now have two major regrets. One, I promised to get myself some decent footwear for snowy weather after the horrors of last winter. All I have at the moment is a pair of Adidas trainers with no grips. It’s not that I forgot, it just I never thought it would snow this side of Xmas and would ironically probably be buying those shoes about now, if Mother Nature hadn’t been one step ahead of me (the bitch.) Two, I regret not owning an MP3 player. If I do have to go outside in this weather, not only did I want some decent boots, but I would also want this as my theme tune as I’m trekking through the snow.

Wednesday 1 December 2010

Snowed In.

Funny that now I’m too old to enjoy the snow and it’s nothing but a burden, it seem to snow regularly every year now. But anyway, I’m snowed in, which is fine as I stocked up on food at the start of the week and don’t really have anywhere to be anyway. It’s all a good excuse not to leave the house and just get on doing artwork. I just wish the snow had hit a little later so I could have got my copy of Brain Damage in the post first. This film has been top of my to see list for a bit now.

Also I’m regretting not having a copy of The Thing on DVD, too. I’ve got such an urge to watch that film at the moment for some reason.

Did my Xmas shopping this year in 10 minutes online this weekend. And to think… I use to have to walk around shops for hours in the past like a caveman or something.

Friday 26 November 2010

Ripping Off Myself (…And Failing.)

It probably won’t take long to figure out this above shot looks a bit familiar. I copied my own layout from a panel that went on to be the heading for this very blog. A panel I did a year or two ago taken from this page. I usually can’t stomach looking at my old artwork after a while, but I think this shot has held up ok. So when I needed a group reaction shot, I went back to this design. First thing that hits me looking at them both is that the older shot is the better of the two. It was drawn larger for a start, and therefore is more detailed and dramatic. A Zombie about to get squashed is more exciting then a bunch of people turning around. Plus no funky, forbidding shadow on the front character in the new shot. I guess the newer one isn’t meant to be as in your face as the other shot, however. Weirdly I wasn’t so keen on this panel when I saw it on the page, but I’m warming to it more after seeing it blown up on a computer-screen.

Been taking it a bit slower this week. Been fighting off a crappy cold and trying to relax and keep warm enough that it doesn’t turn into anything nastier. Which means my work rates has fallen a little bit this week. Hopefully I can pick up the slack and catch up over the weekend.

Friday 19 November 2010

The Pile In 3D.

Another panel from issue 2. I am fond of this shot, but I can’t put my finger on why.

There was a time not long ago when I only had two pairs of 3D glasses. Both pairs were worn out and not very good. One pair that I got with a Danger Girl comic, and one pair shaped like a dinosaur that I’ve had since childhood. In the last year or two that figure has now gone up to 17. They’re not all the same you understand, most are Red\Blue, then there’s my modern ones for the cinema. Then I have Red\Green and Purple\Green ones. My panic buying of 3D movies recently helped fatten up this number a fair bit. What ever form 3D comes in now, hopefully I’ve got the right glasses for it. It is a crazy amount of 3D glasses to have. I may well open my own 3D cinema.

Wednesday 17 November 2010

Pussy Power.

I don’t usually do viral videos, but I just can’t stop watching this video. This Cat is awesome. This is going to be one of those Youtube videos that ends up getting millions of hits, and I think this Cat’s earned it. That dumb Panda sneezing video has over 85 million. 85 million just for sneezing. This Cat is like the Charles Bronson of Cats. I bet he has to have an extra large Cat-Flap installed just to fit those massive Cat-Balls of his.

I don’t want this to be the end. I want them to take that Cat around the world and every week he faces a bigger animal.

I've never wanted to high-five a Cat so much in my life.

Thursday 11 November 2010

Panic Buying.

I did indeed get back into the swing of things this week, thank God. In fact I got a bit more done then I was expecting to this week. Which was a nice surprise.

Been buying what 3D DVD I can this week. With people talking about 3D movies going out of fashion these last couple of weeks, and with 3D movies at cinemas not pulling in the audience as much lately. It’s been a good enough excuse for me to buy a couple. If 3D does just turn out to be a fad again, like in the 50’s and 80’s, I just want a small pile of 3D DVDs of my own, which I can get out whenever I want a bit of 3D action. Part of me thinks 3D is too big this time around to die. Part of me is just screaming “stock up now, before it’s too late.” I don’t think every blockbuster should be 3D myself. But I’ll miss it if it does die out over the next couple of years. Actually I’m more hoping that trashy, low-budget movies will pick up and run with 3D. 3D is a little bit trashy, that’s why it works better with trashy flicks. I can’t wait to see 3D films made by the next generation of directors in the same vein as guys like Sam Raimi or Stuart Gordon or Frank Henenlotter.

This site has been all over the net lately, but I’ve got to post a link as it made me laugh. Our Valued Customers. The funniest thing I’ve seen online in ages.

Friday 5 November 2010

Art Floppy.

One day you’re posting a picture of a Pumpkin-Headed Zombie getting blown away. The next you’re posting a picture of two people passing a glass of water between them. That’s what I love about comics.

Been doing the less exciting side of making a comic this week. Well… less exciting to me, anyway. Lettering and Thumb-nailing mostly. I’ve been making pretty good progress these last couple of months. Wished I hadn’t eased up a bit this week however. I feel like I’ve lost my art mojo a bit. The idea of sitting down and drawing is not a welcome one at the moment. Having a slight rest this week has been nice, but hopefully by the start of next week, the lead will be firmly back in my pencil.

Wednesday 3 November 2010

Double Dipping.

Thought I’d try to keep Halloween alive a tiny bit longer, by posting the unedited versions of the artwork form my last two Halloween Ecards. I.E. before I elongate them on the computer and stuck the type on.


First up is my 2008 one. It’s a couple of years old now, but I still like the look of the sweets in the head. I still love the Jelly-baby coming out the nose. I did think of trying to make this creepy looking kid a reoccurring character and use him in every Halloween Ecard, I do. But sadly I just couldn’t think of another decent creepy kid idea. He does kind of make a very crappy cameo in this years one. The little boy in the front row is meant to be him. Not that cameos really work when everyone has a pumpkin for a head.


Anyway, speaking of this years effort. As I said at the weekend, this years concept was a lot bigger and more time consuming then I was hoping for. I think it’s a good action shot and works pretty well in its normal size (actually I think they both do, hence this bit of shameless double dipping.) I like how the pumpkin getting shot in the upper left hand corner came out. And the dead pumpkin zombie below him. Maybe at some point I’ll do a normal zombie pin-up. But right now I’m gonna be trying to get as much of issue 2 done, as I can for the rest of 2010.

Ok. I guess that’s Halloween 2010 officially over… bummer.

Sunday 31 October 2010

Happy Halloween.

Well… well… well… look who got their arse in gear in time for Halloween.

Truth be told, I probably spent way longer on this then I was hoping to. Sod’s law that the only decent idea I could come up with was a biggie. But rather then leave it till the last minute, I did this earlier in the month and so could give it some extra time. I hate drawing crowd scenes. Doing this pic gave me a new found respect for artist having to do Zombie comics. Just drawing one Zombie after another. Must be really frustrating. I call this shot Night Of The Pumpkin-Head Dead.

DeviantArt copy HERE.

Happy Halloween. Hope you have a good one.

Wednesday 27 October 2010

Fear The Bears.

Why is it every time I hear or read a story involving Bears, they just get worse and worse, and more gruesome. And now comes the story that they’re feeding on the dead and teaching each other how to open coffins. Vampires and Zombies are old news now, and Bears are the next big thing in horror, I predict. Their time has come.

This Halloween, why not dress up as a corpse munching bear? Or spend hours online looking for cheap Bear-mace… even though you live in a country that doesn’t even have Bears.

Friday 22 October 2010

Coming Up The Stairs.

Two panels for the price of one today.

I’m currently getting into the Halloween spirit. I’ve been getting hooked on Jelly Beans lately, and I’m slowly working my way through A Nightmare On Elm Street boxset. I’d probably be doing these things anyway, but at Halloween it all kind of feels more official.

Thursday 21 October 2010

Repaneled.

My new favourite blog at the moment is Repaneled. It’s along the same lines as Covered, a blog where comic book artist recreate classic comic covers in their own style. But Repaneled is where they’re recreating just a single panel. Both blogs are well worth keeping an eye on. Every once in a while you’ll spot one that just makes you laugh or blows your mind. I think I may have mentioned about the Covered blog before on here a couple of years ago? But I’m far too lazy to check.

Friday 15 October 2010

Knock, Knock.

If last weeks shot was all about the facial expressions, then this shot is about the body language. I think body language is maybe a bit hardier to master, as people are just wired to relate more to the look on someone face more then maybe their body language. But I think you can say just as much in your artwork with body language. You kind of have to on those longer shots, when you can’t really make out any of the characters faces.

Also, I’ve drawn a lot of hallway shots over the last year (with many, many more still to do.) But I think this is my favourite one to date. This is the shot to beat, so far.

Thursday 14 October 2010

Man Vs Pop-Up Ad.

It’s not often something will annoy the hell out of me and give me a cheap laugh at the same time. But this certain pop-up ad I’ve been seeing more and more lately does. Most pop-up ads, you just click the red cross in the corner of the page and send them hurtling back into the cyberspace void they came from. But these ones are trickier… once you try and close them, a little window pops up stopping you leaving or worse, telling you it’s your own computer scanning for viruses when really it’s installing something nasty on your computer. So you quickly try and shut the page down only to get given another pop-up and an option that can only be described as bullshit. “Press OK to continue, or cancel to stay on current page.” Confusing, patronizing and outrageous all at the same time. Someone is not only trying to mess up your computer, but also has now insulted your intelligence. If you’re lucky you’ll be able to quickly navigate away by hitting the back button. Or failing that, just close down the whole page.

The next ad should simply read: “If you would NOT like us to empty your bank account, please fill in your bank account details below. Failure to do so will result in us withdrawing all of your money.”

I read on Wiki (and therefore it must be true) that if you hold down the ‘Ctrl’ key, it stops pop-ups. If this turns out to be a fact then I might buy a tiny G-Clamp and have my Ctrl button permanently pressed down when I’m browsing from now on. That’s how a real man would deal with this situation. There isn’t many problems in life that can’t be solved by a tiny G-Clamp.

Friday 8 October 2010

Mr Grumpy Face.

I think I got the look on this guy’s face just about right. I don’t shy away from doing facial expressions in my work. In fact I try and embrace it. I don’t always get the shot I’m after as faces tend to be the thing that goes very wrong, very fast, when drawing. But when it does work out I find it very rewarding. I’m a big believer that if you can do decent facial emotions on characters, the reader is more likely to relate and care about them and the story. That’s my angel on it anyway.

Tuesday 5 October 2010

Info Dump.

Read a lot of interesting stuff online over the weekend and last couple of days. So I thought I’d throw some links at you today, since the internet has been in full-interestingness-bloom lately.

First up, this short article on how Stephen King would make Vampires scary again. Saw this on the Guardian website at the weekend. A good, short read.

Next up is another great Cracked.com list. This time ‘nine video game easter eggs that took years to find.’ It’s bottom of the page, number 5 that caught my eye. Wesker’s desk in Resident Evil 2. Who checks an empty desk fifty-times? I had to look this one up on Youtube to make sure it was for real. I’m just picturing all those gamers now going back through all the old Resident Evil games and clicking on everything fifty-times.

And finally, I’ve just been checking out these first shots form The Thing prequel. I’m glad they went prequel instead of reboot or remake. I think prequels are the lesser of the three evils. They fill me with slightly less dread when I hear them announced.

Saturday 2 October 2010

Potty Mouth.

Wow, last week smut, this week, bad language.

I do like this shot. I also decided to leave the word balloon on this one, just to give a flavour of the scene. It’s not really an overly swear filled comic, to be honest. Sure… there’s violence and mutilation and stuff to turn your stomach… But swearing wise, this is probably as bad as it gets.

Speaking of violence, mutilation and stomach turning. It’s Halloween soon and I’m starting to doubt I’ll have a Halloween Ecard ready this year. Partly because I’m making good time on issue #2 and I went to keep that up. Partly because if I’m honest, I haven’t had a decent Halloween idea since my 2008 one. Depressing thought, I know. I’m starting to think I only had one good Halloween idea in me. I’ll just have to wait and see if I can get on top of this problem in the next couple of weeks before it’s too late for another year.

Why have you forsaken me, Halloween mojo?

Sunday 26 September 2010

Catching Some Z’s.

Latest panel from issue 2. Kind of feels wrong to post a titty shot on a Sunday… Oh well.

You know that feeling when you spot a film you might like, so you hunt it down on DVD for a decent price and hopefully get a decent copy. You wait forever for it to turn up (getting something in the post takes a bit longer in these dark days.) It finally turns up and you’re all excited. Then on the weekend when you were going to watch it, you’re looking about on the net and notice one of your favourite sites has just put up that same film… for free…

Yeah, I got my copy of Street Trash this week, and last night I noticed they just put a copy up on Blinkbox in their free movie section. Talk about bad timing. I was gutted. If I had just waited one more week. Still… it’s not all doom and gloom. For a start the DVD has a two hour documentary on it. Came with a poster of that awesome cover. Also I noticed mine has a five minute longer running time and says it’s “Fully Uncut.” In fact I noticed they had a lot of those cool, wacky, gory, horror flicks that have been coming out of Japan over the last few years like Tokyo Gore Police and Vampire Girl Vs Frankenstein Girl too. As well as a copy of Night Of The Living Dead 3D in 3D. It’s crazy how many good films they’ve just put up. If you like this blog, then you’ll probably like those types of films. So I’d recommend checking it out.

Monday 20 September 2010

For Once, You Eat The Zombies.

I don’t know how many Brides would go for it, but this is the best wedding cake ever. It‘s the only time I’ve ever looked at a cake and thought it’s too good to eat.

The couple that slays together, stays together.

Friday 17 September 2010

There’s Always A Snake In The Garden Of Eden.

I don’t usually do this. In fact I think this is the first time I’ve done it (I think.) But this shot is cropped from a bigger shot, so as to not give too much away. Maybe if you actually saw the rest of the shot, you’d be grateful it was cropped. That’s all I’m saying.

Been buying way too many horror movies on DVD in the last couple of weeks. I tell myself it’s research as I’m doing a horror comic, but really maybe it’s something to do with the long nights creeping in and Halloween’s not far off. The one I really want to get lately is an 80’s film called Street Trash. It almost worth getting for the cover alone. So glad Arrow Films have started using the original posters on their latest releases. They look so much cooler then some bollocks knocked up on photoshop.

Tuesday 14 September 2010

“It Is Tattoo Of Two Dogs Doing It.”

I think this is one of my favourite sketches of all time. Christopher Walken in The Continental. I laugh every time I watch this. It is seven minutes and sixteen seconds of pure comedy gold.

Friday 10 September 2010

Bed Sit.

Well, here we go again. I am well and truly underway with issue 2, and it’s time I started posting shots from it. Let’s start with this one.

Wednesday 8 September 2010

Why I Won’t Be Doing Much Work In 2011.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m a very happy bunny that they’re finally putting Duke Nukem Forever out next year. But I’m asking myself the same as everyone else, can any game live up to a fourteen year wait? And even if this game is a massive hit, first this game would have to claw back the cost of being in development hell for that massive period.

Above all, I’m just hoping they keep that sense of humour that Duke Nukem 3D had. When you’re putting that much time and money into a game, you’re going to want people to take it seriously. I just hope it’s still a bit trashy.

Speaking of trashy but glorious games. I forgot Dead Rising 2 is out at the end of the month. I may hold off on buying this straight away (if I have that much willpower in my body) so I can get as much as I can of issue 2 done before 2011. But to be honest, I’ve found my finger hovering over the pre-order button so many times lately. Doesn’t help with Play.com having an offer to have your Zombie face put on the box. I guess the main thing will be if anyone else I know gets a copy. If it’s got a two player online co-op mode, it’d be rude not to get a copy.

Sunday 5 September 2010

Last Shot.

Well… here it is. The last shot I’ll be posting from issue one. I hope you’ve been enjoying the artwork from this comic. I’m well underway on issue 2 (I’m over a quarter of the way through it, but just under a third.) I’ll probably start posting stuff from issue 2 next week, hopefully. I’ve got a fair amount of scanning ahead of me in the coming days.

I like this shot. It got a hell of a tilt on it, but I like it. I was happy with the design of it.

Quick Question: why does your phone’s battery always go dead at 4am in the morning when you’re asleep? I’m always woke up in the early hours of a Sunday morning by my bloody phone beeping. Why always Saturday night\Sunday morning time as well?

Been trying to get into watching artist draw on ’Live Stream’ lately. If anyone knows any good sites or videos? I wish I was less of a n00b when it came to these thing.

Thursday 2 September 2010

Living In The Past.

Like Peter Kay, I’m pretty much living in the past these days.

I just got an RF Cable through the post today that I bought online. I got it so I can hook up my 80’s NES to my modern, widescreen, HD telly (like it’s going to make the 8bits any less 8bit-ish.) I’m glad retro-gaming is big at the moment. I’ll feel a little less loser like, playing away on my old-timey-NES tonight. I wish I’d kept a lot of my old consoles. Why didn’t it ever dawn on me that I may want to play them at a later date?

Also got the first issue of CLiNT today. Last time I got to walk into town and buy a British anthology that wasn‘t 2000ad, I was probably a teenager, maybe even just a kid. I remember while growing up there always seemed to be a new comic around the corner. Comics based on video games like Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. Comics based on the latest toy. I really loved that one they put out which was loads of Dark Horse reprints (I think it was called Total Carnage or something like that.) But then around the mid-90‘s… nothing. I hope this new comic sells and some more UK comics start to pop up. Like Doctor Who and my old dusty NES before it, it’s time for resurgence. If only to help people of my generation avoid the horrors of adult life and pretend they’re eight again.

Sunday 29 August 2010

Dead Space.

Wow, look at all that dead space in this panel left for the word balloons. It’s almost an art in itself trying to draw a decent looking panel, with large gaping holes left in it for dialogue. I’m fairly good at leaving dead space for word balloons, when I’m designing and thumb-nailing a shot. Depressing as it sounds and no matter how many hours you put into drawing a panel, the word balloon is always king, why fight it?

Friday 27 August 2010

Hell Comes To Frogtown.

Hell Comes To Frogtown is a movie I’ve been hooked on lately. It all started when I came across the poster on the internet. How could I have never heard of this film? Roddy Piper battling humanoid toads. It sounded too good not to look up. Usually at this point with B-movies, you try and hunt down a copy on DVD and find there’s no Region 2 or it’s so rare you’d have to pay a small fortune for a second-hand copy. I got lucky as I found a new copy and for cheap (doesn’t happen often, so I savoured the moment.) I think it a little lost gem from the 80’s, myself. This movie couldn’t be more 80’s if it tried. I think it’s a cult classic. Now all I need to do is hunt down a copy of Immortal Combat. Sonny Chiba and Roddy Piper in a buddy cop movie. I’d watch that… just so long as I didn’t have to pay a small fortune.

Thursday 19 August 2010

Another Tiddler.

Last couple of panels of issue one are a lot bigger, but I’ll just get this smaller one out the way (still probably twice the size of the last one.)

I’m glad to say I’m making some progress on issue two, so I will have something to post in the coming weeks. I want to get a nice chunk of it done before the cruel, chilly winter months set in (kind of feels like winter now, really.) The good thing about doing issue two is you can pick up the pace a little, now you’ve set it all up in the first issue. That, and you know the score better second time around.

Monday 16 August 2010

Just Add Zombies.

I keep seeing clips and people talking about Highschool Of The Dead online a lot recently. I can see from just watching the trailer why people are getting so excited about this show, it does look pretty awesome. All the fun of a normal messed up Japanese cartoon with added Zombies. Sadly, I doubt it’ll be out here for a while seeing as how it’s only just airing in Japan. Even more annoyingly I don’t think you can even get the comic\manga in this country at the moment. So that’s The Walking Dead and Highschool Of The Dead I’m waiting to check out now. Is this the start of a new golden age of Zombie TV shows? …no, probably not.

Friday 13 August 2010

SMASH!

Last couple of panels have been nice big shots, so here’s a tiddler. Probably the smallest panel in the comic (if I could be arsed to go back and check… which I can’t.) This is a panel within a larger shot, it all very fancy stuff and probably the only thing I can post from this page without giving too much away.

Also lately, I found another copy of The Corpse Grinders up online. The prints about the same as the Youtube copy, but there’s no long gaps in this one… there is however adverts, but it is free. Go HERE.

Was in town today picking up a couple of things and had no money. So I head over to the cash machine and put my card in. A mum and her kid start using the one next to me. I’m tapping away doing my thing when I notice the little girl is staring at my screen, not even doing a good job of hiding the fact she was trying to either. Just fixed eyed and mouth gapping, staring at my transactions. Now, it’s only a little girl so no harm done (it’s not like a thought she was going to knife me and take my cash or anything) but it was still a little off putting so I look over at the mum to see if she’s noticed her doing this. She hadn’t… she was to busy, mouth open and eyes fixed on my screen too. Like a thirty year older version of her daughter. I was both pissed off and wanted to laugh out loud at the same time. Maybe they were both transfixed by my incredibly low bank-account.

Wednesday 11 August 2010

Toolbox.

When I was at art college a lot of the students would carry their equipment around in a cheap, plastic toolbox. It was the right size and long enough to hold brushes, and stopped your tubes of paint getting crushed. Plus the great thing about tool boxes is they have loads of tiny compartments for bits and bobs like rubbers and pencils and so on. Sure, companies made proper art boxes to hold these things, but those things cost a bomb and you’d be better off just buying a toolbox.

So anyway, I like to stock up when I buy stuff from Art-shops. Art-shops are terrible at restocking stuff. If you find a kind of pencil or brush or ink or paper you like, buy in bulk is my advice. You may never see that brand again. A couple of years ago, I’m all stocked up on gear and I decided I’ll treat myself to a toolbox to keep it all safe in. I pick one up from a local shop where I’m served by this tattooed man’s man, who seems very slightly impressed that I’m buying this manly product (it probably would of broke his manly heart if he knew it was being used to store arty things in and not manly tools.) All this Toolbox has done is sat by my desk for the last couple of years with a pile of comics and magazines on it. For a Toolbox, it’s had a pretty comfy life. And yet… my one is falling to pieces. The top comes off, the hinge that runs along the back is broke and it doesn’t lock properly. Must Toolboxes spend their life being carried to worksites everyday. Or being thrown around in the back of a transit van. Being covered in paint or having heavy tools dropped in them. I know my Toolbox leads a mollycoddled, bohemian life, but my Toolbox really needs to man up.

Friday 6 August 2010

Sinister Smile.

A nice big panel to start the weekend off right. I kind of like the look I got on this character’s face. If one shot sums up what this guy is like and about, it’s this shot. And the less said about the drunk guy in the background, the better.

Was delighted last night when I found they had a copy of a film I’ve been wanting to see for ages, up on Youtube. Yeah, it’s a movie that only has a rating of 2.5 out of 10 on IMDb. But I liked The Corpse Grinders. A movie where the dead are grinded up into cat food, which then makes household cats have a taste for human flesh. What’s not to love? And the poster is awesome too. Ok… if you dislike cheap looking B-Movies then you probably won’t like it. And the print’s not great, and for some reason it has long gaps cut into this version. But I thought it was one of the best films I’ve seen in a while.

I’m gonna have to find some spare time and see what other dodgy flicks Youtube has up.

Wednesday 4 August 2010

Thriller.

Kind of glad I’ve got an older copy of Plants Vs Zombies with recent news that they’re retiring the Michael Jackson Zombie in future copies. I’ve had this game months and I still laugh when I see him dance across the screen. If your going to get a copy, don’t download it, get on CD. Then you’ll probably get a copy with him in it. Sure, the new afro zombie looks alright… but he’s no Michael Jackson Zombie.

I can’t watch Youtube videos of Plants Vs Zombies, as every time a sun appears, I have to stop myself from trying to click on it. I’m positive this game is what brought on my fathom air clicking a couple of weeks back. If I was a stronger man I’d just delete this crack like game off my desktop. But then what about all the flowers I’ve been growing in my virtual greenhouse? Maybe I can wean myself off this game with Dead Rising 2 when it comes out. God, I hope they do a good copy for the PC.

Sunday 1 August 2010

Tiny Parasites.

When I’m not complaining about the state of public pavements like a middle-aged, Daily Mail reader. Sometimes I like to draw comics. Above is a recent example. I do like this shot. It’s a little bit of humour before things get very, very dark.

God, my hands are itchy! I keep finding tiny little bug-bites all over myself, but mostly on my hands. They’re so itchy I just want to chew my hands off.

Friday 30 July 2010

Hell-Hounds.

This may well be a local thing and mean nothing to you, but is it just me or has the dog population exploded lately? I don’t know if it’s living under a Conservative government or the ongoing recession or our recent boiling hot summer… but everybody seems to be investing in dogs lately. And not the good kind either, the evil little ones that’ll be on the news for eating toddlers in a few months. The ones that were clearly breed to rip your balls off and seem a bit too savage to be sold to your average gob-shite looking to look a bit dangerous. The amount of times I’ve had to walk pass someone and their evil looking dog lately this summer.

The other day I was walking into work and as I got to a certain point and a certain area the pavements were just smeared in dog-shite. It was like a bad joke or something. Every few feet there’s another patch of crap spread out so they can get as many walkers as possible.

Something spooked dog owners into cleaning up after their annoying dogs in recent years. I think they could I.D. the poop or something, but maybe they’ve publicly dropped whatever scheme it was, because we’re back to the times of just keeping your eyes fixed to the ground when you’re walking about and shooting dog owners dirty looks.

It just that ’walking a tightrope’ look these people have when they’re walking down the street with these vicious little fucker they know they probably couldn’t control if\when it goes berserk. Or when you see some knucklehead walking down the road with a couple of pitbulls on one arm and some tiny kid on the other. It reminds me of a couple of weekends ago when I was walking to my local artshop (which is in a pretty shitty part of town.) I’m walking pass one house and there’s a pitbull in the tiny bit of space that would be their front garden. It doesn’t seem very interested in me at first but as I walk closer it starts to perk up until someone pulls it back, as I’m walking pass I see this tiny little girl holding the lead. She’s probably waiting for her mum who‘s inside, but if this dog decided it wanted to attack, this little girl (about 6ish if I had to take a guess and not much bigger then the dog) would be just dragged along and useless… if not caught up in the attack. I just put my head down and walked quickly down the road. I didn’t hear any barking or a little girl squealing as she dragged along behind this blood thirsty hell-hound, so I breathed a sigh of relief and went back to doing what I was doing… trying to avoid stepping in dog-shit.

Saturday 24 July 2010

A $1000 Split Three-ways.

I should probably speed up a bit in posting the remaining frames from issue one now I’ve already started on issue two. I’ve been trying to put in some serious hours these last two weeks so I can really get issue two underway. But until I get round to scanning and posting them, here a little something from the first issue. I have to be careful now I’m coming to the end of it, that I don’t give anything too important away.

This pictures is all over the net today, but I think it worth reposting. Is The Human Centipede even out yet? I’m getting really bad at keeping up with what movies are on at the cinema and out on DVD these days. I thought The A-Team was out a couple of months ago, but it was only released last week apparently. Anyway, they’d kind of have to win the $1000 by default, really… has anyone ever suffered more in the name of cosplay?

Tuesday 20 July 2010

Back On The Horse.

Well, I made my annual trip to my towns only (as far as I know) and very out of the way artshop to stock on Bristol Board and Ink this weekend. I’m heading back into the sequential wilderness. In fact if I get my arse in gear, hopefully I’ll have the first page inked and finished tonight. It’s been fun getting to do a few pin-ups lately, but now I need to get some comic pages done.

Speaking of which… here another new panel. I left the lettering on this shot as I made a big song and dance about my new font, then never really showed it off. So here it is in action. Also the Cover can now be seen on my DA page.

Like a lot of people, been trying to keep up with The Walking Dead TV Show lately. I just hope a UK channel picks it up when it finally gets put out. Even with loads of new channels created by digital TV they’re still crap at it. Been a nightmare trying to figure out if and when certain shows are going to be shown. Plus with every website blurting out spoilers.

Thursday 15 July 2010

Cover.

I haven’t drawn a proper cover in years. I was trying to figure it out the other day, and it probably close to three years… maybe even more. I’ve done plenty of Pin-ups lately, so I didn’t feel rusty or anything. But this is my first one for a while.

To be honest it looks a lot better with the title on it, as all that unused space at the top tends to be a bit much. It’s like a third of this image is darkness.

When I was designing this shot, I was going for a much different feel. I was looking at old pulp comic covers and B-movie posters. I bought this great book on video-covers for video nasty’s called The Art Of The Nasty. I was really aiming for something gruesome. Something blood soaked, that screamed horror. Something that might catch the eye of your common gore-hound looking for splatter. But, as you can see, that wasn’t the end result. While thumb-nailing I came up with the above design and kind of feel in love with it. Not the gory throw back to old EC comics I was going for. But it felt the most right out of all my rough thumbnails. It reminds me more of that scene from The Birds, when they’re walking to the car at the end and all the birds are just watching them.

This heat is a bastard to work in. I don’t know how great comic book artist can come out of boiling hot county’s like Spain or Brazil? I’m finding it really hard to get down to drawing lately. Usually my fan and a cold drink keep me sane in the summer months. But this summer…

Sunday 11 July 2010

Liquid Crystal Display.

This wasn’t actually what I was hoping to post today (that’ll have to wait until next week.) But it’s a good shot and hopefully a little bit funny, too.

Wow… has today been in fast-forward? I can’t believe it’s all ready over. Is time being sucked into a phantom black-hole or something? I want my Sunday back! Anyone else notice that or is it just me?

Wednesday 7 July 2010

Smile!

This panel is a bit of a nod to one of my favourite comics of all time. Well, the cover of it anyway. The Killing Joke had a big impact on me when I first read it years ago. It’s still a comic I’m always pulling off my bookshelf to read. In fact I think I have about three copies of it. My old beat up copy from when I was a kid, a newer copy I bought when I left home for college and the Bolland coloured edition they put out last year. So in this panel, I just wanted to do a bit of a tip of the hat to it. This shot also has a tiny bit of lettering done in my new font, if you look hard enough.

Here something weird that happen to me today that says bad things about my life… I woke up today to find myself ‘air double clicking.’ Like when a dog lays on its side and runs in its sleep. I was dreaming that I was on the computer (that how shit and boring my dreams are!) and woke to find my finger twitching in a double click motion. I found this both hilarious and deeply upsetting at the same time. I really need to spend less time on computers.

Really wishing it was August the 9th already. Look how lovely that Cybermen boxset looks. With this, that kick-ass scene of the headless Cyberman from The Pandorica Opens and the new BBC game they’ve just put out, it’s a good time to be a Cybermen fan.

Sunday 4 July 2010

America’s Doctor Who.

It’s funny because it’ll probably be true soon. I do like the Punky sidekicks though.

Wednesday 30 June 2010

Dirty Look.

For anyone who’s been missing the lazy eye action that’s been lacking from this blog lately. Enjoy.

I’m keeping this post short as I spent the whole of last week re-lettering all 24 pages of Project B.O.B. and designing a logo for the comic. At the moment the sight of a computer or keyboard makes me feel sick, so I’m going to be avoiding them for a couple of days at least. Let the headaches die down a bit and hope my eyes stop burning. Plus it’s the summer and I live in a seaside town and I need to start taking advantage of that. My sunburn should be a lot redder.

Thursday 24 June 2010

Spoilers.

This joke might be a little lost on you if you’ve never read Watchmen, or if you’ve never seen those old Twinkies ad in the back of American comics. But it made me laugh. I’m not sure who it’s by? I couldn’t spot a name, I just found it on someone’s Tumblr. But I had to post it.

Also spotted another online gallery of old pulp covers this week.

Been spending my week trying to avoid spoilers for the end of season Doctor Who episode this weekend. Avoiding certain website and so on. Six years ago, having Doctor Who back on TV sounded like a joke and now we’re three new Doctors in, and every paper, website, podcast and magazine are Doctor Who mad and have spoilers. I’m doing pretty well so far, just two more days. I’ve had a couple of near misses. Aren’t spoilers just a modern day pain in the arse?

Blimey, it’s just gone pass 11pm and I’ve got my window open and I’m still going to have to put the fan on because it’s too hot. I guess Summer has finally kicked in.

Tuesday 22 June 2010

Centre Of Attention.

Got another boring week coming up this week. Well… not boring, but all my energy will probably be spent making notes, thumbnailing and a very large slice of the week will be spent re-lettering a lot of old comic pages. So that will probably leave little or no time for drawing. But just to start the week off right, here’s a new panel.

Also Blood Belly can now be found on my DA page.

Read Crossed (probably the sickest graphic novel I’ve ever read) over the weekend and now I have a massive urge to get back to doing some sequential artwork. I just need to get my arse in gear and start drawing up those thumbnails… a lot of them.

Friday 18 June 2010

Blood Belly.

Even Vamps overindulge from time-to-time.

A chance to see some of my new font in action. I managed to solve my Comma problem from last time (in a really round about way.) You may also have noticed those little marks either side. They’re what some letters use sometimes when someone’s making a noise like a gasp or sneeze or burp. Those marks aren’t on modern keyboards and therefore are kind of dieing out in modern comics. But I love that effect, so I made some of my own. I wasn’t sure if the website I used would let me get away with it, but I got lucky and they did.

As for the image itself… there’s bits I like about this shots and some I don’t. It was quite fun to draw a sexy Vampire. I’m to close to it still to really make any calls on the quality yet. I’m hoping when I look at it again in a few days it will still hold up. I just don’t want that nasty shock, when you like something and then you move on and look at it again later and think “God, that’s awful!. What was I thinking?” It’s always like a punch to the gut when that happens.

I know these X-ray pin ups shots have been up over the net for a few days now, but they blow my mind. I still feel a little cheated not to live in a world with X-ray specs. I had always hoped as a kid that by the time I was an adult, they be real. But sadly not. No flying cars or invisibility suit either. You suck, adult world!

Sunday 13 June 2010

The Andrew Reed Font.

Well, it took a couple of goes, and I’ve written out the alphabet so many times this week I feel like I’m back in school. But I have made a font out of my handwriting (that‘s it above.) I haven’t had a chance to do any lettering with it yet to see if it’s any good, and sadly I put down my commas as apostrophes, which is annoying as the font I’ve been using lately didn’t have any commas either, when I downloaded it off a website (it‘s how they get you to buy the whole font.) It seems it’s my curse in life to have to letter something and leave spaces and then go back and put the commas in… oh well, at least I know it shouldn’t be a problem and by now I‘m kind of use to it. I could always resubmit it and sort it out easily… but at just over £8 a go (and remember it’s already taken me two goes) I can live with this small problem.

I’m hoping it well look ok used as lettering on my final artwork, as I’ve been wanting a font made of my own handwriting for ages (it’s also nice to know I own the copyright on it for once, and it makes the lettering more personal.) I’ve just got to free-up some time first, so I can sit down at my Mac and try it out properly… bloody real life, eh?

Wednesday 9 June 2010

X-Ray Punch.

I like this panel a lot. Nothing’s really happening and it’s a pretty small panel on the final page… but I do like this shot.

Finished watching The Street Fighter trilogy last weekend. Probably some of the best kung-fu movies of all time. It’s at this point I usually put up a Youtube trailer, but since the first film is in the public domain, they’ve got the whole film up. Which is good as I couldn’t find a decent trailer on there anyway. It’s well worth a watch. I’m really going to have to hunt down some more Sonny Chiba movies. He’s a legend. One of my dreams is to learn that move were you screw your fist up into a funny shape and punch someone in the back of the head and their heart explodes 50 seconds later. I refuse to believe that isn’t true. I just need to find the right old, wise, kung-fu master living in a cave to teach me.

Also got round to putting up Sewer Snatcher on my DA page last weekend as well. I doubt I’ll have time to do another pin up this week as I’ve got loads of boring things to do. But I need to post some stuff from Project B.O.B. so that ok. One of the things I’ve got to do this week is try and make a font out of my handwriting. I’m just filling in loads of templates now and making loads of annoying mistakes. You have to pay for it, so I need to get it right. Also that and as I’ve said before, I do have the handwriting of a retarded chimp… so even if I do fill one in right, buy it, and there’s no annoying computer problems that means it doesn’t work on my computer or it doesn‘t work as a comic font… it can always still just look crap.

Thursday 3 June 2010

Sewer Snatcher.

Tell me this pin up wouldn’t have made a great old style pulp cover? Evil giant creature reaching up from the sewer. Maybe I should have swapped the Super-heroine for a 50’s looking damsel, but still… I wasn’t going that much for retro.

I may have gone back to my default setting slightly with this image (girls and monsters) after the hassle of last week. But saying that I’m maybe not so down on Mind-Flux as I was last week. I’m seeing a couple of things about it I like now.

Been on a bit of a Kevin Maguire craze lately. Ordering a lot of his books. Reading The Cat And The Bat and so on, has made me wonder if I could draw a decent Super-heroine. But the above image isn’t a great try as she’s tiny in this shot. In fact, because the set up of the image was so bizarre, she was kind of a bit of an afterthought, really. Maybe something to come back too.

I learnt one thing from drawing this image… if you’re drawing a Super-heroine who’s look more like a wrestler or something, just throw on a utility-belt, utility-belts make Superheroes look super.

Tuesday 1 June 2010

What Could Have Been.

Think of this as a little add on from last weeks post.

You’re probably going to have to click and enlarge this photo, but if you can make it out, this is a shot of the two peril scenes that I ended up rubbing out. If you can imagine these in the thought bubble from last weeks pin up. That how the shot looked.

I’m still glad I scrapped them. They would have been tiny in the final image, plus I feel the three in the Hot tub is a better drawing. But I did like the two heroes on the pile of TNT shot. I did think for a second I might scan that part, blow it up and print it out, then light-box it onto a sheet of A3... but then I realized redrawing all that TNT again was a fate worse then death and I didn’t love that image that much.

Speaking of things I forgot to post recently... Here a really cool gallery of old style pulp comic covers I found a couple of weeks ago. Some of these are just amazing, some not so great. I would have love to have been an old pulp cover artist back in the glory days. You probably got paid peanuts but look how cool some of these cover are.

Friday 28 May 2010

Mind-Flux.

Sticking with last weeks love\hate theme, I present my latest pin up. It’s been a while since an image has been as painful to draw as this one. This image was just one problem after another. I drew it in landscape at first so I had to spend time light-boxing it onto another sheet of Bristol board (twice now I’ve done that and both from the same sheet, which is now looking very unhealthy.) Then I couldn’t decide what should go inside the bubble. At first the villain was just going to be making them fight, but once I’d pencilled the outside of the bubble, I found that idea a bit underwhelming. So I thought about it and I had what I thought at the time was a killer idea. I drew a gutter line splitting the balloon in half and then drew in each half a peril scene. In one the two superhero’s sitting on a pile of TNT. And in the right side them dangling above a piranha pit. I spent at least two or three hours on these scenes. I spent an hour alone drawing all those sticks of TNT. Problem was when I was done I knew it wasn’t right. For a start the two peril scenes looked tiny, and this was on a A3 sheet. When I scanned it and shrink it to A4 you’re just not going to be able to make them out. At this point I’d had enough. I gave up. I knew when I was beat and I decided to cut my losses. Only problem was, I couldn’t think of what else to draw. My mind was blank. I had some very piss poor ideas, but nothing worth drawing. One of my ideas were Superheroes in a Hot tub ( I’d like to think when Heroes do get into Hot tubs, they take off everything apart from their masks.) thinking about it, I thought maybe this is what should go into the bubble. It’s very much a peril scene and a hopefully a little funny. Hopefully this move stopped it from being a complete waste of time, but it’s been a rough time, trying to beat this image into something.

Looking at it now, damn it… why didn’t I move that rubber duck to the right a tiny bit.

Ok, time to put this whole nasty mess behind me. I’m not even sure if I’m going put this one up on my DeviantArt page.

Sunday 23 May 2010

Strange Taste.

I’ve been falling in and out of love with this shot for a while now. Sometimes it’s my favourite shot from the story and sometimes I can’t even look at it. I have that problem a lot, but for some reason, more so with this panel. It’s a tricky one.

It’s weird… the older I get (and therefore hopefully the better I get) the less I like my own artwork. When I was late teens/early twenties, I thought my artwork was brilliant. I look back on that work now and I want to weep, it’s so bad. But at the time I thought it was great stuff. It maybe evening out a little bit more over the last couple years. I still think OCT is one of the best things I’ve ever drawn and it’s a couple of years old now. I thought by this point, heading into my late twenties, I’d be at that point were magic flows from my fingers every time pencil touches paper and something special would happen, you know?

I always wonder if truly great comic artist know they’re great? Do they always look at their artwork and think “yep…still awesome, still got it.”

I’m starting to feel shitty now, I’m going to go watch some Batman Porn to cheer myself up. Why are girls dressed up as Batgirl or Catwoman so sexy?

Thursday 20 May 2010

Plants Vs Zombies.

Been hooked lately on the awesome Plant Vs Zombies. It has taken what little free time I have and gobbled it up. This game is genius in the same way as games like Worms or Lemmings were. Just really, really playable. I think you can download a free trial off their website (it only lets you play for a short while, but the good thing is, when I bought the full game, somehow it knew where I’d got to and I could start from there.) Saying that, I have got far enough into it now that it’s starting to get really hard. Those Zombies riding dolphins are tricky bastards (words I never thought I’d catch myself typing.) This is the first videogame in a long time, that I’ve really fallen in love with. You can also get it for your iphone, but I’d find it a massive headache to play this on a tiny screen, as so much is going on that you have to keep an eye on. Also the music really good on this game.

Also on the gaming front, I’ve finally got a controller for the new Doctor Who game that the BBC are putting out next month. Sadly I don’t own any games that need a controller… but I have one… sitting unused in its box. Looking sad and untouched.

And Marine Cuisine has now been put up on my DeviantArt page. Why scroll down the page to check out artwork, when you can just click a link?

Thursday 13 May 2010

Marine Cuisine.

Around the end of last year, I started to get a real urge to draw something other then what I was working on. I wasn’t bored with the project, but you just start to want to draw other things when you’re working on a long project. Then for Christmas I got the Walking With Dinosaurs boxset and really got the urge to draw some Dinosaurs.

I kind of chicken out at first, once I did get some free time. But this week I gave it a go and above is the result. I started by mapping out the image too far down the page to begin with. So I had to light-box all my rough artwork onto another piece of Bristol Board, so I could move it up the page. It was annoying at the time, but I think the layout of this image is good, so worth it. I also spent ages inking this one. Just trying to get the line-work and shadows as strong as I could.

Also what really made me want to draw this was I’d been watching a couple of other Dinosaur boxsets over the last few months. One late 90’s one, with Jeff Goldblum narration and some of the most dodgy CGI I‘ve ever seen (I think it‘s called When Dinosaurs Ruled.) And a really good one called Jurassic Fight Club. I’m on the last disk now, and this series is amazing. I think it’s got a different narrator on the UK version and they changed the name at the last minute to Dinosaur Secrets (sounds like Jurassic smut to me. They should have a Raptor on the front in sexy lingerie or something.) You can check out a clip HERE.

Monday 10 May 2010

He Didn’t Wash His Hands.

I’m not sure what you call this shot, or if it actually has a name. When you split a background up into a series of frames and have people or things move through them. But it’s a shot I should use more. It’s a nice effect. I’ve always been a fan of this shot.

Also got round to putting up Death By Ray-Gun on my DeviantArt page, this weekend.

Enjoy.

Friday 7 May 2010

Life During Wartime.

One of the best movies of the 90’s was a movie called Happiness from 98. Maybe one of the darkest comedy’s of all time. I never thought they’d make a sequel (it didn’t seem like the kind of film to have a sequel.) So I’m really looking forward to a movie called Life During Wartime. Mind you, this is a sequel where every character is now played by a different actor. One character has changed race and they’ve all aged at different rates…or something like that. It sounds like a bit of a head fuck, but I do want to see it.

Also on BBC1 next week is a great and underrated 70’s movie called Prime Cut, starring the great Lee Marvin. I don’t think there’s a Region 2 copy of this film out there, and it’s an really underrated movie. If you like films like Dirty Harry and Point Blank, give it a go. They really need to put it out on DVD. This movie is so unknown, I can’t even find a trailer on Youtube for it. I think this is probably one of my favorite gangster movies of all time.

Wednesday 5 May 2010

Death By Ray-Gun.

If you’re a fan of people getting shot with Ray-Guns and turning into skeletons, then you’re in for a real treat today.

During my recent brain drought I did come up with this idea last week. I’m a big fan of the “death by ray-gun” scene in TV, movies and comics. So here’s my take on it. I did play around with the idea of having the guy being shot by a Dalek, as the first time I ever remember this effect was in the 80’s in Remembrance Of The Daleks. But I’m hoping one day to collect all my pin up artwork in an artbook and I don’t know the legal rights if I start doing “fan art” so I tend to avoid it. Plus Daleks look like a massive pain to draw.

I think now the best “death by ray-gun” scenes, are probably from Mars Attacks. Apart from the red and green skeleton colour effects, they’ll still brilliant.

I do love drawing people getting vaporized, but drawing a correct skeleton is a lot of work…fun…but hard. I get the feeling this may be a theme I come back to again.

Just been checking out this Dead Fly Artwork Gallery on i09. Reminds me of an old friend who used to keep a dead wasp glued in his sketchbook in art college. At the time I thought it was sick, but maybe he should have ran with it.

Sunday 2 May 2010

Brain Drought.

You could count the hours I’ve spent drawing this week on one hand and still have a digit left (probably your thumb). I wanted to rest up a bit this week and I’m happy to say I feel a little less like a zombie now. Still a little short on inspiration, but I’m sure something will turn up. I was dieing for some free time to do some pin up work over the last few months, and now I have it, my brain’s dried up. I’m just enjoying the down time at the moment. Watching some DVD boxsets and not forcing myself to draw so much.

Speaking of Boxsets. I was over the moon when I heard this week they were releasing the last two classic, Cybermen stories this year as a boxset. I haven’t seen Silver Nemesis for over twenty years. And I’ve never seen Revenge Of The Cybermen. I was kind of hoping they put them out together. Never thought they would.