Stransky and Labbatt are asking how you are!
Friday, 6 November 2026
Jimmy Jingles Time Machine....Better Than "Jimmy Jingle Bells" I Suppose!
Jimmy Jingles Time Machine was another superbly drawn comic strip from Knockout -this sample from the issue dated 22ndAugust, 1942. The artist is Eric Parker. Now I know Parker's career spanned almost sixty years!
I began writing up notes and I found a scribbled URL (normally I bookmark these things on the computer!) but it took me to a wonderful article on the artist by Norman Wright and David Ashford that I recommend!
http://friardale.co.uk/Ephemera/Book%20and%20Magazine%20Collector/218-Eric%20Parker-artist-May%202002.pdf
A question -Jimmy Jingles -a suitable character for "resurrection"?
Jennifer Rostock - Alles anders (Official Music Video)
Yeah, I felt we all needed a musical Friday especially with over 25K views today (1900hrs UK)
Thursday, 5 November 2026
Who Is Stransky? Who Is Labbatt? Are They-------?
😂😂😂😂😂😂 Grant Morrison is getting a lot of free publicity on CBO!
I was sent a screenshot from a forum where there was a discussion as to whether Black Tower scribe (a pseudonym for a well known comic writer) Stransky was Morrison. Someone pointed out that Ben Dil;worth had published an early story (I think the first published one?) by Mike Millar. Alan Moore was ruled out of the running.
Someone pointed out that I could not afford to pay any of these writers (true as their shirts probably cost more than my home!) but then someone else said Millar might do it as a favour for Dilworthg and that Morrison was "so far out there he might for a laugh!"
I am getting involved with none of this. Here is a thought though, for those people who seem to like to discuss my business, why not buy some Black Tower books? See whether you can fathom who Stranky and Pierre Labbatt (big clue there) really are? Yes, two people one a writer the other an artist. Clues have been there for almost 10 years now.
Wednesday, 4 November 2026
Why have I never postage negative comments about Grant Morrison?
Uh,thatis not quite how it works. If creators court criticism such as insulting comic readers and comics then they can expect criticism.
The best review I ghave on CBO was for something by a writer I absolutely loathe personally. However, reviewing a book or comic means kick the prejudice out. What is the story/book like as a story? What is the art like? My personal prejudice has no place in reviewing.
Look at it this way; Morrison wrote Zenith for 2000 AD. In case no one guessed I love Phase Three. Steve Yeowell did a really great job drawing the series with his early black and white work was spot on for the series and giving it that British weejkly comic feel.
Ellis, Moore and Gaiman produced work I like but I think with Morrison you had someone who was not "borrowing" old ideas and accepting the accolades while putting the original sources under the carpet. I base my opinionm on Morrison by what he has created that I like (including Doom Patrol).
So, no, I have NOT posted a killer attack on Morrison. Just enjoy his work.
Tuesday, 3 November 2026
Penguin Flight/Black Tower -Trump aka "We Are ALL Trump"
Ben R Dilworth
21pp
A4
Black and white (printers could not get a bright enough orange so,,,)
£10.00 UK (non UK countries prices are on the store front)
He is the GREATEST President the United States has ever known!
He has made the United States Truly respected around the world!
He has created world peace!
The most beautiful women in the world WANT him!
He makes $2234,992,000per minute!
He lives in a golden palace that was formerly bland and white.
He is President Trump......
...uh, he's currently sleeping face down in a plate of classic American bacon and eggs.
Dilworth's Ally Sloper
Ben R, Dilworth
A4
Black and white
36pp
£10.00 UK (overseas check price via online store)
Alexander "Ally" Sloper is the eponymous fictional character of the British comic strip Ally Sloper. First appearing in 1867, he is one of the earliest characters in comic strips. Red-nosed and blustery, an archetypal lazy schemer often found "sloping" through alleys to avoid his landlord and other creditors, he was created for the British magazine Judy by writer and fledgling artist Charles H. Ross, and inked and later fully illustrated by his French wife Émilie de Tessier under the pseudonym "Marie Duval" (or "Marie Du Val";. The strips, which used text narrative beneath unbordered panels, premiered in the 14 August 1867 issue of Judy, a humour-magazine rival of the famous Punch. The highly popular character was spun off into his own comic, Ally Sloper's Half Holiday, in 1884. Ben R Dilworth has previously drawn Sloper for Black Tower but here he gets right back to what Sloper was all about and anyone familiar with Dilworth's work will realise that he is probably the only modern era artist who could do Sloper along with social commentary.
Black Tower Super Heroes Werewolves
86pp
A4
Black and white
£10.00 UK
The Prof, investigator of the paranormal, encounters two werewolves in Castle Park...and Devilina who has a "sort of" message for him. Kotar, Sabuta, Lady Silana, Tarot and others deal with new werewolf activity and Dr Lycaon is granted access to the labs at the HQ of the explorer/adventurer group The Questors. Lycaon believes he is close to a serum that will cure the curse of lycanthropy but someone or something is trying to stop him. Meanwhile in space Freelancer delivers justice to the Central Galactic Council after its betrayal (see The Green Skies) and on Earth the equally treacherous Council of Light meets its fate. Will Lycaon succeed with his cure or does the increased werewolf activity even in the halls of one of the UKs most secret buildings indicate that the cure is too late?
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