FURY commands!

1950 Ad reprinted in Hey Skinny! Great Ads from the Golden Age of Comic Books

Big Dave's NerDgasm Quiz Part IV

My good pal Big Dave F has been on the Batphone demanding that I let you all know that it's Nerdgasm time again! Aye, imaginary web chums, London's most ripped quiz-master has spent the winter chipping away at the trivia-filled coalface of his mind to provide YOU with the fuel that your fact-hungry brains require to keep warm.

The last event was attended by vast numbers of awkward and slightly socially inept people, and this month's gathering promises to be another beezer wheeze. As ever there will be SF, comic and fantasy questions galore, confused tourists to laugh at, loud music from Robocop and drunk people shouting about Boba Fett's cock. Dave has even spoken of spot-prizes and raffles! Wowzers! What more could you ask for? Beats staying in and watching Dancing on Ice, eh?

It all takes place in the heart of London's dangerous, yet strangely exciting West End this Sunday. As ever, the venue is The Greenman & French Horn pub on St Martins Lane at 7pm. I'll be there, but don't let that put you off. Show your support for the finest example of the Great British Pub Quiz that the capital has to offer and get your arses down there! Remember, you can't spell nerD without a big D*

*Not strictly true.

Vintage FF Ad

On entering his house, this delusional youngster proceeded to hack his parents to death, screaming: "Die, gorgon scum!"

Incidentally, (and I apologise for the sheer nerdiness of this), the script for this ad is technically incorrect. Any reader of FF books worth their salt will tell you that you never "turn to page 36" you simply turn to 36.

Just saying.

Exposition

A rarity in modern comics: Some good old-fashioned, heavy-handed exposition!

To set the scene: Oa is under attack by Black Lanterns. Mogo the living planet has activated some huge tractor beam thingy in his core which pulls everyone off the surface of Oa into his atmosphere. Then this...

Say what you see!

Scans from Green Lantern Corps #44, March 2010

Dennis Waterman will get your bird drunk and then fuck her

Don't say I didn't warn you.

Scanned from The Minder Annual, 1979

Shopping List

Blimey, is it Thursday already? Here's what I'll be ferreting away in the old nerd sack this week...

Gravel #16

Unread issues of this are piling up like cigarette butts in Warren Ellis's ashtray. I really must make the effort to catch up. Alright, so it's basically a wank fantasy where Ellis imagines what it would be like if HE was some sort of bastard cross between John Constantine and Jack Carter, but I like it all the same.

Blackest Night Flash #2

I can't remember what happened in part one. It doesn't matter. Basically I'm buying this to see Scott Kolins draw The Flash and The Rogues.

Green Lantern Corps #44

Killowog might not raise any eyebrows in the states, but if you're from the UK, he sounds well dodge. When discussing him I always make sure to put particular emphasis on the O.

Joe The Barbarian #1

Bah! I've been writing a comic script about three horrible kids who find themselves in a magical land behind the toilet in their house. They journey through said land fighting monsters and cussing people's mums. I thought it was coming along quite well, but this is probably going to be fucking brilliant and make me want to tear my bilge up. I shall part with the 75p Vertigo are charging to find out.

Phantom Stranger #42

More Blackest Night guff. Given that it's the Phantom Stranger I imagine that this comic will involve a good amount of mystical claptrap, pseudy dialogue and chin-stroking.

Starman #81

Talking of pseudy dialogue and chin-stroking, it's Starman!

I'm reading Starman in the Omnibuses so this will probably spoil the entire story for me.

Jersey Gods #10

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Captain America #602

Missed Reborn, can hardly be bothered with this. Stuff it in the nerd sack anyway.

Doctor Voodoo #4

After cancelling Doctor Voodoo, Marvel are attempting to prevent people from jumping off for the final two issues by rebranding the book as a mini series. I'll buy it because I think it's really good, but I do wish they'd give books like this one a chance to build a little momentum before pulling the plug. I mean I understand that there was a big drop in sales between issues one and two, but five issues? Really? At least give the thing the opportunity to build a bit of buzz.

RASL #6

Very different to the porn mag of the same name.

Also planning on picking up volume eight of Drifting Classroom.

Possibly planning on picking up volume three of Detroit Metal City.

Probably going to wait on the reprint of the second Jack Staff trade - I've been hanging on for Image to reprint this bloody thing and here it is, but I've got a birthday coming up and I might get the missus to buy it for me.

The most metal FF book EVER!

To Hackney Oxfam where I purchased a tatty old stack of Fighting Fantasy books. That's my bit for Haiti done then. Phew.

I've decided to try and build a complete run of FF purely from charity shops. No ebay, no secondhand bookshops, just charity. Bring it on. The 15 I nabbed yesterday brings my total to 20. Among the dog-eared haul - this beauty...

Love that cover! Sensationally good. The codpiece, eagle, eyepatch and spiked flail would've been metal enough, but to have the geezer riding a sled pulled by two sabretooth tigers?! FUCK YEAH! Break like the wind, baby!