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Jan 7, 2023Liked by Lisa Mills, Pat Mills

Thanks for that, Pat. Kevin came into the business fully-formed, as it were.

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Jan 7, 2023Liked by Lisa Mills, Pat Mills

Absolutely Brilliant! The details are amazing! Thank you for sharing this Beauty with us. 🧡

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Jan 7, 2023Liked by Lisa Mills

I have checked the Mek Memoirs Fac Simile published in 2021 (dark and golden books, edited by Tom Oldham and Douglas Noble), introduced by Kevin. It reprints art from the first issue and never completed second issue, but none of your findings are in it!

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Thanks, Remy. Hard to make sense of, but here's a possible guess. IIRC the original Mek Memoir published in 1974 definitely included the pages I've shown. Kevin then passed those pages over to me in around 1977 and they remained forgotten about and locked away for decades. So when the fascimile edition came out, the original pages were not available. Seems odd, but possible

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Jan 7, 2023Liked by Pat Mills

What a nice treat!! Thank you Pat!

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Jan 8, 2023Liked by Pat Mills

Stunning. He was just born brilliant. His work on Legend Horror Classics is, as expected, superb as well. (Incidentally: did Kevin illustrate the British quad poster for The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue?). A very brief reminiscence (promise): the 1989 Judge Dredd annual was crucial for me - it's top-notch in my opinion and it has great, horizon-expanding interviews with your good self and with Brian Bolland, whose work I of course love also, but he mentioned in passing Kev's experimental colouring techniques: a wash of colour then picking out the details with a fine pen. This was thrilling and intriguing to me and has never left me. In retrospect, I see i was spoiled rotten with the quality of artists and writers who passed through 2000 AD. People throw around the phrase 'changed my life' until it becomes banal, so I'll avoid using it, but there is no doubt you all enriched my life beyond measure.

Really enjoying reading about efforts to bring Marshall Law to the big screen. I'm glad some of them came to naught to be honest, since I don't think they would have done justice to the property. I've been fantasising about what a Law film would be like for 30+ years - even harbouring dreams of getting into film making myself and pitching for it. I fear in the hands of most producers, it would end up watered down into just another anonymous landfill post-apocalyptic cop seen-it-all-before ... it needs a completely committed director to translate the vision of the comic onto film, like the Sin City film ... I wonder if the Superhero is too ample a cash-cow for producers to risk allowing a totemic figure representing hatred for the genre?

One more thing: a live-action Law is necessary, but additionally I've always felt that Kev's and yourself's vision here and in Nemesis:The Warlock would lend itself superbly to animation, and animated films of either or both could be spectacular.

Sorry for goign on, but it's stuff that deeply inspires me and always leaves me with a lot to get off my chest. Always knew it was very special stuff, never took it for granted - but over time realise just how vanishingly rare it is ...

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Me too. Although I still believe creative successes can be repeated by subsequent generations. When 2000AD started, there was a strong feeling that the Golden Age was behind us (Dan Dare, Gerry Anderson, Bellamy etc). We proved otherwise and I think it can happen again

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If Rebellion had any sense, they'd make a children's CGI TV show of Ro-Busters.

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Jan 8, 2023Liked by Pat Mills

Great stuff! The intersection of Whizzer & Chips and Wally Wood’s EC comics sci-fi!

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Jan 7, 2023Liked by Pat Mills

I marvel at the quality of Kevin's work and this was early in his career 💭

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I'm not sure they have the 'gift' to make things happen. So many of their film and TV productions have gone nowhere. However, Kevin and I loved Robusters so much, in the 1990s we came up with Robotel - a science fiction motel run by a group of crazy robots. I found Kev's designs just the other day, so will put up shortly with a story summary We didn't get the project green lit at the time, but you never know,..

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