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Horses for courses really. If they convey the intended emotion or understanding without me having to explain in several consecutive posts what my actual original intent was , then they have served their purpose and saved me time.

The Cap.

( ...must...resist...smilies...arrghh!... )

H George , The devil is in the detail. Do not undertake this task lightly without first having access to every weekly , summer special and annual. This would also include flyers , any promotional material and all free gifts. Any mergers etc would also have to be fully documented. Of course we then n...

Hi Raven , I've been a member of this forum a long time , in fact back as far as 2000 when we had only a handful of contributors. And I can attest that a lot of online battles were fought over misinterpretation of words. That is the reason why smilies were introduced , so the likelihood of misunders...

Raven wrote: However, please don't Hi Raven , it was precisely because of the absense of smilies that Dwitefry was misunderstood. I of course don't mean that he should saturate his post with them , but if he is being humorous to insert one , so anybody reading will know. Believe it or not , it is to...

Dwitefry wrote: Hi, I'm completely new Hi , and I'm completely Captain Storm aka The Cap. :wink: Welcome to the site. I've read through your posts and to be honest can find nothing that would cause me upset. As everybody is aware , emotions and lateral thinking are extremely difficult to deduce from...

Hi all, Just my 2 cents here and not geared towards any post or individual in particular. We all have a passion for comics and how things used to be and hopefully how they may be in the future. But times change and so do comics. Back in the day when each title sold in its millions , there was very l...

Sorry for the red herring Phoenix :lol: But sometimes you need a good punchline to capture an audience :wink: This field of research is a goldmine for any budding comics historian. Comics as we all know were treated as disposible entertainment back in the day by both the buying public and the indust...

During a random trawl of the Net , I came across a blog entry of Terry Hoopers concerning European incarnations of several British comic characters. I had forgotten about my foray into this field of research :oops: But Terry's mention of me in dispatches brought it all back. Here's the article if an...

And therein lies the answer to the whole shindig. Lighten up fellas. This ain't a court of law. No one cared then and no one really cares now. Disposable media that was used as wrapping paper for next day's fish and chips. We reallly have to stop taking ourselves so seriously. Sorry if that sounds b...

Hi Lew , Perhaps I should qualify my broad sweeping statement in my reply. By plaigirism I of course refer to the 7 basic plots that can be emplyed when writing a story ... comedy , tradegy , man against nature , quest , ally etc. I wasn't referring to out and out copying line for line , brush strok...

Can't understand what all the kerfuffle is about. Ask any creator and they will tell you that Plagiarism is rife in the comics media and any other other media for that matter. In fact it is the very life blood of the industry. Only a few truly good original ideas proffer themselves and then they are...

Hi, Adam Eterno visited the Authurian period a while back in Valiant Annual 1976. Here's the link to the strip. Alas some pages are gone and some resized for some peculiar reason. I used Imageshack as a host back then LOL! This is an old web site of mine so grab it while you can, regards, The Cap. h...

I actually have quite a few of the Janus Stark BD's from France which perversely included a lot of Adam Eterno reprint as opposed to all new Janus Stark content. And a few pocket libraries from Portugal , Australia and Italy though the size tended to vary slightly between countries. Also a few Fleet...

Can you elaborate Phoenix? Did he die? And if so when and in what paper.


respectfully,

The Cap.

The dialogue is a little "Enid Blyton". I was half expecting "lashings of ginger ale" to make a sudden appearance On a serious note , that artwork is simply delicious! Now I have to find more of this strip .. Damn

sincerely,

The Cap.