>1.)Ghost World - Daniel Clowes
>2.)Watchmen - Alan Moore
>3.)When The Wind Blows - Raymond Briggs
>4.)I can't think of that many really good comics

1 Oink
2 Whizzer and Chips
3 Buster.
4 2000 AD
5 Really old Superman comics

Stupid thread. But I just can't help myself.

1) Cerebus: Church and State - Dave Sim
2) From Hell - Alan Moore
3) It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken
4) Bacchus - Eddie Campbell
5) Arkham Asylum - Grant Morrison

>1) Cerebus: Church and State - Dave Sim
>2) From Hell - Alan Moore
>3) It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken
>4) Bacchus - Eddie Campbell
>5) Arkham Asylum - Grant Morrison

They're not comics though! They're bleedin' 'Graphic Novels'

1. Beano
2. Buster
3. School Fun
4. Whizzer & Chips
5. Viz

Graphic Novels...Comics, all that differs is the length. Plus Cerebus and Bacchus are monthly comic type things.
Although I'd like to sat that I was a Whizz-Kid as opposed to the clumsily-named Chip-ites.

Tomorrow Stories - Alan Moore
Top Ten - Alan Moore
Tom Strong - Alan Moore
League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Alan Moore
Promethea - Alan Moore

Are you detecting a pattern here?

1. Transformers UK/G2
2. Uncanny X-Men #137
3. Crisis On Infinite Earths
4. Watchmen (natch)
5. Preacher

1. Watchmen
2. Jimmy Corrigan, The Smartest Kid On Earth
3. Dick Tracy (the "Spots" storyline)
4. Ghost World
5. The Spiderman "Gwen Stacy" storyline

I'd want to include The Killing Joke and a Tintin book, too (probably The Calculus Affair or Destination Moon).

>Are you detecting a pattern here?

Pattern. Checks. Checkers. Board game. Lame. Leg. Beg. Beggar. Richman. Richard. Herring. Fish. Water. Daughter. Mother. Goose. Loose. Juice... erm...

Can't say I am, sorry.

What about Sandman?

this should be in lame showbiz anecdotes, but my sister used to be mates with alan moores daughter. n my mum taught her in junior school

>1. Beano - boring
>2. Buster - better
>3. School Fun - who?
>4. Whizzer & Chips - class!
>5. Viz - should be #1

1.Twinkle
2.Bunty
3.June and Schoolfriend
4.Cheeky
5.Hung Like a Donkey and Gagging for It

>>1. Beano - boring
>>2. Buster - better
>>3. School Fun - who?
>>4. Whizzer & Chips - class!
>>5. Viz - should be #1
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>

This thread might of some use, does anyone remember a strip in 2000ad called Bradley & Milton? I used to like it as a kid cos it took the piss out of the Sisters Of Mercy and they had a superb front cover once, the Slay Ride (a sledge with load of Peaceville etc bands on it). Were they any good, or was I just an impressionable young teen?

BTW I once saw S Bisley on telly once and he was a twat.

School Fun was a good comic. It was where 'School Belle' came from (drawn by the excellent Tom Paterson responsible for 'The Continuing Story of The Park', 'Full O'Beans' and 'Guy's Gorilla'. I also remember a strip in School Fun called 'Coronation Street School'. Apart from that I cannot remember anything else. If you've got some issues Mike can I borrow them and then never return them. School Fun didn't last it 'merged' with Buster. I hated new comics merging with older comics, especially Buster. It became Buster and Jackpot (a sacreligious decision by IPC Magazines); Buster and School Fun;Buster and Nipper. Was anyone else like me annoyed that the DC Thomson comics never revealed the names of their artists trying to convince there was only one. Also I preferred it when Eric was bald in the early days of Bananaman.
I've just reminded myself, Nutty was a good comic.

>1.Twinkle
>2.Bunty
>3.June and Schoolfriend
>4.Cheeky

>5.Hung Like a Donkey and Gagging for It
Chasing Amy "Then Black Beauty realised he couldn't take it anymore..."

Ah what happened to those old photo-strips?

Nobody's mentioned Leo Baxendale yet. He's got a site at

http://www.reaper.co.uk/

and Jeff Smith's Bone is good, too. Jaime Hernandez is great. Alan Moore is Rasputin the mad monk and all the better for it. Does anyone still read Cerebus?

Of all the children's comics that used to be about, why is The Beano the most popular and famous? Surely it was the worst of the lot?

>Of all the children's comics that used to be about, why is The Beano the most popular and famous? Surely it was the worst of the lot?
>

When I was about 13-14 there was a guy in my history class that said he still got the Beano, I mean out of his own choice, if I hadn't put my foot down my father would still be getting the Eagle (tho' he'd be the only one reading it), some people like crap.

Bradley in 2000AD was okay (did it become Bradley and Milton later? I only remember it being Bradley the Sprogg.) although suffered slightly as it wasn't about much. It definitely did, as mentioned by LS take the piss out of the Sisters (something about Pat Morrison's neck snapping under weight of hair, and Eldritch's face cracking) and in another episode featured Mark Moore/ S Express. I got the impression that the whole strip was engineered to show that the artist (can't remember name- was a sloppy version of Bisley and went on to do Strontium Dog) could paint pictures of these peoples' faces. Ron Smith did similar with his Dredd strips.

Nutty was my favourite comic when I was at school (and the bald Eric Wimp was indeed much better), far superior to the Beano I always thought, and suffered greatly (to the point of becoming extinct) when it "mergerd"/ was swallowed by the Dandy.

Relaunched Eagle I liked for a bit, but it wasn't up to 2000AD (I met John Wagner and Cam Kennedy on separate occasions a couple of months ago, and just gibbered).

My dad still buys me Oor Wullie and The Broons at Christmas, and I still read them. I'm 30 this year.

Don't have a Top 5 as such. Always loved Batman. Always will.

Kids should spend more time reading comics and less time stealing old ladies.

Anyone out there remember Poot?
Style was halfway between Viz & Oink! ran from about '88 to '91. Can only think of 2 characters, Sven the Sax & Stupidfatuglybaldman, other details lost in early '90's alcoholic blur.

2000 AD was cool in the mid eighties. Strontium Dog, Sam Slade Robo Hunter, ABC Trucking Crew, they rocked. There's a strange on-line comic over at www.e-sheep.com, combines Pokemon with some kind of skewed version of the old testament (I think) - well worth a look. Plus old Spiderman fans might wanna check out marvel.com or whatever the official address is, where you can get on-line versions of Ultimate Spiderman, which is the original Spidey stories told from an angsty noughties perspective. Dead good.

1 Monster Fun (Mainly for Badtime Bedtime Storybook, the early Baxendale years, anyways).
2 Cheeky Weekly ("Fast-Show"-like array of characters, all of them telling puns that even the readership-ie;very young children-noticed were crap.Mentioned before in this forum, usu. with reference to the great Frank McDairmad (sp?))
3 Sparky (slightly more angular title from the DC Thomson stable favourites include The Sparky People -featuring top Morrissey lookalike Throgmorton-and Planet of the Nurdles)
4 Cor!!!! ("You can't make a monkey out of Gus")
5 Oink! (Student staple. Sanitised, and funnier version of, the hideously over-rated Viz. High Marc Riley and Frank Sidebottom content)

I just remembered, back when Pogs fist came out, it was cheaper to buy the Beano with the free packet of pogs on the front than it was to buy a packet of pogs, so the Beano had HUGE sales that week. All my high school friends bought about 10 copies each. Then we wondered what we were going to do with all these beanos, so we just drew dicks on Roger the Dodger all day.

That reminds me of myself and schoolfriend Simon Mycock adding rude words to the rhyming couplets in The Beano Book. "Dodging's Not Hard In A Crap Yard" Ho, ho, ho. One of my friend's gave a speech bubble to a wrestler with a black eye and arm in a sling, " I tickled my dick and look what happened." The comic book itself was Oor Wullie and I admit it was blasphemous to deface it as is The Beano Book. I still get Oor Wullie and The Broons. One year Oor Wullie was extremely Scottish Nationalistic. By the way does anyone know why Eric's surname was Wimp in Nutty and Twinge in the television series?

>One of my friend's gave a speech bubble to a wrestler with a black eye and arm in a sling, " I tickled my dick and look what happened."

I still find stuff like that hilarious.

Usagi Yojimbo.
Groo.