I guess Hollywood lawyers didn't read British kids comics!
I do remember being vaguely traumatised by one of the strips where a guy goes psycho with a very sharp hatchet in a casino and a dismembered hand is flying about
anyhow, this isn't getting my invoices and banking done
Anyone rember a WWII comic hero called Captain Hurrican. He was always accompanied by his batman Maggots and if angered by Germans would go into "raging furies" and tear down builkdings, bend rifles double and hurl enemy soldiers over rooftops. He had some sort of nautical connection so he always referred to the enemy as 'Kraut bilge rats' (in this more enlightened age it's probably considered impolite - not to mention contrary to the EU spirit - to refer to Germans as 'Krauts' or 'Huns').
Kate, I too remember Look And Learn. My swattish young cousin used to read it but it was sadly lacking in blood, gore, violence and all forms of jingoistic xenophobia. It may well qualify as the most boring children's 'comic' ever.
> sounds it could have come from any number of the 'Commando' booklets
I've seen a couple of compilation books in the cheap bookshop, and am always tempted to buy them. But I've not yet had the chutzpah to actually pick one up and take it to the till. I suspect that's why the books are in the cheap bookshop...
> Had to make do with Look and Learn as a kid - it was the sort of educational comic that my parents would allow us to look at.
'Look and Learn'? My brother got that. I used to get 'Cor!' and then 'Cor! and Whiizer and Chips' (they merged).
I seem to remember L&L having a series called 'The Trigan Empire'; a strange mix of rockets and Romanesque attire. Could this be the source of the Roman interest...?
[edit: Wiki has a reasonable entry on the Trigan Empire]
Hmmmm. How odd to see this thread now. I found a couple of copies of 2000AD when clearing out some boxes the other day. Mid 80s I think but in very good condition so I tucked them back and was going to try to work out what to do with them.
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