Durham Red.

September's character has been chosen by our newest member Mitanian77 and is 2000ad's mutant vampire bounty hunter.. Durham Red.

Durham Red was originally created in 1987 as a female sidekick and lover for Johnny Alpha in the long-running British comicbook series Strontium Dog. She was a sexy bounty hunter with a mutation that gave her a vampiric lust for blood.  

October's character has been chosen by Buddha Rex and is Luther Arkwright

By Mitanian77

By JLF 

By Buddha Rex

By JLF

By JLF

By JLF

By JLF

By Mark1up

Strontium Dog

April's character has been chosen by TinRobot and is Johnny Alpha - Strontium Dog

The series was created by writer John Wagner (under the pseudonym T. B. Grover) and artist Carlos Ezquerra for Starlord, a short-lived weekly science fiction comic, in 1978. When Starlord was cancelled the series transferred to 2000 AD. In 1980 Wagner was joined by co-writer Alan Grant, although scripts were normally credited to Grant alone.

The most famous and respected of the Strontium Dogs is Johnny Alpha, whose mutant eyes allow him to see through walls and read minds. He is responsible for such legendary achievements as destroying the Wolrog homeworld, leading the mutant uprising on Earth, and bringing Adolf Hitler to the future to face trial. His legendary career and his assistance to mutants in trouble - such as donating a large sum of money to the Milton Keynes ghetto in "Mutie's Luck" - has made him an icon to Earth's mutants. He is a highly skilled and dangerous fighter.

The next character is Namor - The Submariner and have been chosen by Buddha Rex

On with the art.....

By Tin Robot

By Bhuna

By Mark1up

By JLF

By JLF

By JLF

By Incident Report

By Buddha Rex

Mongrol SMUSH!!!!

If you're into your gaming Ste is one half of the Pickford Brothers who have been developing and producing games for over 25 years. Welcome Ste. As Ste's our newest member, he's had the choice for January's character which is  the A.B.C Warriors behemoth Mongrol!

The ABC Warriors were created by Pat Miils and was first published waayyy back in 1979 (god I feel old!)

The A.B.C. Warriors are a team of war robots designed to withstand 'Atomic', 'Bacterial' and 'Chemical' warfare. They were built to take part in the long-running Volgan War. Each robot has a distinctive personality – often one programmed by its human creators – but each is more or less able to act with free will.

The immensely strong Mongrol was originally commander of an ABC paratrooper platoon, and the only survivor (save Zippo) of the disastrous drop into Volgan territory at Vilnus – so disastrous it was nicknamed Zarnhem after Arnhem. Only his head remained undamaged and remained on the battlefield. A scavenger named Lara, daughter of executed robot manufacturers, salvaged his head and built him a new body with other robot parts as an act of defiance against the Volgans. She was caught and executed, and Mongrol was tortured by electricity for information – this inadvertently activated his body and he broke free of his captors.

The torture and Lara's death reduced him to near animal-like behaviour "Mongrol smush!", and he was regarded as a threat by both sides. He was recruited when Hammerstein earned his respect by beating him in hand to hand combat. Mongrol's belief that he would go to heaven and meet his beloved Lara once more became the driving force of the metal ape. After being told by Deadlock that only good robots go to heaven, he became determined to live a hero's life and see his beloved again.

Right enough copy and pasting from Wikipedia!!

February's choice is Bhuna's and he's got for The Amazing, The Spectacular, The Sensational SPIDER-MAN. But this months it's Spider-Man vs ...... The choice Spider-man's villain is down to the artist! 

On with the art! 

By StePickford - 'Mongrol Smush!'

By Bhuna - 'Mongrol Smush!'

By Mark1Up - 'Gggrrrr' 

By Mark1Up - 'Smush-Shaka-Laka!'

By Incident Report - From the Black Hole

By Tin Robot

By JLF

By JLF - Mongrol CRUSH!

Mean Machine

This month we goin' ta 4 ya bunch of bastitches!

This months character has been chosen by JLF.

Mean "Mean Machine" Angel one of Judge Dredd's greatest adversaries. He is one of the sons of Elmer "Pa" Angel, and as such, is a member of the Angel Gang. 

When he was young, he was gentle, nice and utterly unlike his viciously criminal family. Pa Angel was not pleased by this, and kidnapped a surgeon from nearby Texas City to operate on him, making him the crazed cyborg he is now. He has a mechanical right arm and a steel dome over his skull with a dial on the front. This dial has four settings; from 1, where he is surly and disagreeable, all the way up to 4, which is when he is fully berserk. His favourite attack is a head-butt with his steel skull. He is not very bright at best and has often been outwitted.

Mean Machine's dial settings are:

1. Surly
2. Mean
3. Vicious
4. Brutal

On rare occasions, an extremely hard headbutt causes Mean Machine's dial to get stuck on 4½, which causes him to go berserk, unable to stop headbutting anything he comes across.

Next months character has been chosen by Mark1Up and is Marvels psychopathic vigilante.. The Punisher.

By JLF

By JLF, coloured by Mark1up

By JLF

By Bhuna, dialogue by Gordon Rennie

 By Bhuna

By Incident Report

By Incident Report

By Mark1up

By Mark1up

By Tinrobot

Sláine - Oh and 'Happy Birthday' to us!

Before we go onto Sláine it's been a year since us comic book arty farty type people from Stockport started this blog.

Our thanks go out to the following people who have spent their time and effort contributing:
Bhuna
JLF (get a blog)
Mark1up
The Incident Report
TinRobot
and Man from Space

Enough of the arse licking and onto this months entries. 

Sláine which first appeared in 1983, written by Pat Mills and initially drawn by his then wife, Angela Kincaid. Most of the early stories were drawn by the legends known Mike McMahon and Massimo Belardinelli. Other notable artists to have worked on the character include the fantastic Glenn Fabry and Simon Bisley.

Next months character chosen by Mark1up an in celebration to his 75th Anniversary 'Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No it's SUPERMAN!'

JLF - 'He didn't think it too many!'

Incident Report - One hell of a warp spasm!

TinRobot - Sláine the Celtic Barbarian

Mark1up - In for the kill

Bhuna - Warrior for hire!

Bhuna - Warp spasm

Bhuna  - Sláine vs Shoggy Beast

Bhuna - From Bhuna's archives.

Bhuna - Another from Bhuna's archives