Grantbridge Street & other misadventures: Tornado!

Sunday, 17 April 2011

Tornado!

A complete issue of IPC's Tornado, with art by Alfonso Azpiri, Antonio Lozano, Xavier Musquera, Mike Dorey, Massimo Belardinelli, Vincent Vano, and Kevin O'Neilll.

5 comments:

GnosticMind. said...: Crikey Joe, that's cracking, and great to see for one so far from home : Alcala AND an English comic on the same day.

Very nice -- reminds me of those old Lion and Thunder/Adam Eterno style comics in me youth in the late 60's/early 70's.

Nice one; the business! IPC were the guvnas in those days.

GnosticMind.; 17 April 2011 16:51
Alex Greene said...: I remember this comic. It felt like a second stringer, compared to the short-lived Starlord which preceded it.

Some of these characters did not survive to the pages of 2000AD. The Angry Planet, IIRC, reached a natural conclusion early on - I think that strip created the "Ancient Martian World Engine Gives Mars A Breathable Atmosphere" plot which turned up in that Arnie movie Total Recall.

The Mind of Wolfie Smith - he never did catch a break, did he, poor git?

Wagner's Walk also came to a natural conclusion when the hero reached where he wanted to go, despite even getting nuked along the way.

The semi-superhuman feral Scots wildcat boy Storm, the stern, super cool sleuth Victor Drago ... I think they'd have survived to the pages of 2000AD, but the biggest injustice was Black Hawk, The Savage Centurion - when they moved him to 2000AD, they transplanted him up into space. Completely lost the plot.

They were doing it today, they could have kept him in Rome and had him investigate occulty nonsense, easily. In fact, they could do that now, in the wake of the likes of Gladiator ("On my word, unleash Hell!") and the movie adaptation of 300.

Massimo Belardinelli's art was stunning, wasn't it? I miss that art even now. So thanks for this.; 17 April 2011 18:51
Mark Kardwell said...: I remember loving the BLACKHAWK strip in this, and hating it when it went SK after the merger with 2000AD, too.; 17 April 2011 21:36
Mark Kardwell said...: Though Henry Flint still says that bringing it back would be his dream job for 2000AD. Don't do it Tharg!; 17 April 2011 21:37
joe bloke said...: didn't Belardinelli do Blackhawk when it went to 2000AD? and I wouldn't mind a Blackhawk revival, so long as they revived this Blackhawk.; 19 April 2011 20:39

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