Blood for the Baron!

Kambei wrote:

pocoyo_joe wrote:Wow I remember that poster! I too had it on my wall as a kid *sigh* I had a thing for Quarrel as a kid too, I always imagined Glynis Barber of "Dempsey & Makepeace" playing Quarrel, she was something back then (not bad now too considering).

I always had a thing for Glynis Barber, both in D&M and Blake's 7 (preferred Servalan, though. YUM!) Good call on her as Quarrel.

I prefered her in D&M but a mate of mine was mad on Blake's 7, we even went to see her in a play at the Lyceum theatre in Crewe when she was in a play back in the late 90s. It was just her and Dennis Waterman. She still looked pretty good in her recent run in Emmerdale given how old she must be.

Shame they've only released the first season of D&M on dvd.

@ meertoth: yeah i've seen that site before, it's pretty good isn't it? a year or two ago, i spent way too much money buying back all 15 issues of scream from ebay after my own copies had been lost to the ages. worth every penny though. amazing that the stories themselves still stand up today. do you think kids today could handle the feeeeeeeaaaaaaaaar? there's no real equivalent out these days, is there? i know most parents would drop a load if they saw what went on in those pages.

@ the baron: thanks for that link, boss. much appreciated.

pocoyo_joe wrote:
Although I registered here back in October last year, I didn't start posting til this week. I got directed here by jamarmiller, as I used to post on Joe Sightings (I think jamarmiller must post on every Joe site!).

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hehehe this is true! LOL or at least I dont think I missed any LOL

welcome aboard all of you!

sadakos_fury wrote:@ meertoth: yeah i've seen that site before, it's pretty good isn't it? a year or two ago, i spent way too much money buying back all 15 issues of scream from ebay after my own copies had been lost to the ages. worth every penny though. amazing that the stories themselves still stand up today. do you think kids today could handle the feeeeeeeaaaaaaaaar? there's no real equivalent out these days, is there? i know most parents would drop a load if they saw what went on in those pages.

Tell me about it. I was born in 1967, so I got some of the best comics there have ever been when I was a kid, and well into my teens. I still read and appreciate the old stuff.
British children's comics today are censored and sanitized to the nth degree, except for some of the American Marvel and DC reprints currently on the shelves. Seems to be that modern childrens comics are aimed at the 3 to 9 age group.
When I was a lad, we lived in a lake and had to get up half an hour before we went to bed........Sorry, wrong sketch. When I was a kid, my father use to buy me Action, Warlord, Bullet, Battle, Scream, 2000AD, Commando. My parents had no problems with me reading these, in fact they encouraged me to read everything and aything I could lay my hands on. My father also enjoyed these comics. Child psychologists and parents (mothers especially) would be up in arms if anything like the above were published for children these days. Not only them, but can you imagine the political fallout from terms like "Nips" and "Krauts"? And yet during the period that was being written about, these were acceptable. I just cannot imagine Charley's War, Johnny Red, Darkie's Mob or Hellman being published for the same age group today.

I continued reading Battle when it became Battle/Action Force, whilst reading GI Joe at the same time. I always found the AF stories to be more realistic and far grittier than their American counterparts. The good guys frequently got killed, and the bad guys were far more than cardboard, one-dimensional cliched haracters. There was alwayts reasoning behind their actions. Looking back at the Black Major origin story, does anyone else think: Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader?

Kambei, you make some very good points, I'm a bit young (born 1972) but my Dad had no problem with me reading a lot of his Wild West books, and I don't mean fiction, he had a lot of really great books about the real Outlaws like Butch Cassidy et al. The only fiction he used to read himself were Sven Hassel, and yeah I even read some of them as a kid, I didn't always understand it all but I got the gist of the stories. My Mum tried to get me to read Beano and Dandy as well but I always went for War books like Battle and Commando. However my Mum's grandfather had been a prisoner of war in Germany, so she made sure I knew about the wars and learnt about the history behind the action.