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.

Grant Morrison’s CANCELED Marvel Trilogy

 

Why have I never postage negative comments about Grant Morrison?

 

I was asked why I had "not posted anything negative 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.

Christine and the Queens - Rendez vous avec toi (Official Video)

 

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)

https://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-hooper/trump/paperback/product-gjz86me.html?q=&page=1&pageSize=4

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)

https://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-hooper/ally-sloper/paperback/product-957knrq.html?q=&page=1&pageSize=4

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 

https://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-hooper/black-tower-super-heroes-werewolves/paperback/product-84wwge7.html?page=1&pageSize=4

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?

Black Tower Super Heroes The Ultimate Game

 

Story Terry Hooper-Scharf

Art Terry Hooper-Scharf, Thorroe Prey, P. Beard, Tomas Scharf

Pages

188

Binding Type

Paperback Perfect Bound

Interior Color

Black & White

Dimensions

A4 (8.27 x 11.69 in / 210 x 297 mm)

£15.00 UK  see online store for outside UK price

https://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-hooper/black-tower-super-heroes-the-ultimate-game/paperback/product-95d9z68.html?page=1&pageSize=4

 The mystical traveller of the realms, The Thinker, meets a stranger while travelling along the Path of Counter Actuality. But this stranger is a different type of traveller: he is Illuyanka and he has been charged with on sworn duty –to destroy specific Earths in the multiverse.

Finding that Illuyanka is partial to gambling the Thinker risks all by challenging him to a cosmic game pitting heroes against various challenges: they lose then their Earth dies. The Thinker has no doubt that with all of his knowledge he can win. But Illuyanka is not what he seems.

A story that throws in as many super heroes and villains as you could ever want plus an Earths parallel crossing storyline that will have you wondering who the real bad guy is!

Black Tower Presents 2

 

A4

Black and white

36pp

£8.00 ( see price for your country at online store) https://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-hooper/black-tower-presents-v-2-no-2/paperback/product-454yg7v.html?q=&page=1&pageSize=4

This is it! The Big Number Two (maybe we ought to re-think that one?) The comic you have all been demanding (in our heads)!

Bunny and The Bloke: a very angry Bristolian and his 6 feet tall crime fighting rabbit. What? Never been to Bristol? Whether a huge rampaging monster or aliens landing in the most beautiful city in the world (Bristol -you got that?) these two will deal with it. Who needs the Avenger, Jon Future or Major Victory?! Resident Golden Age crime-fighting beauty with a whip (we say nothing) Cat Girl is ready to deal out justice! LeFez and zombies...he always knew it would happen but the Zero Heroes never did. Trapped in a church with a pooping 6 feet tall bunny.. The Crimson Cowl shows up to show the bad guys how he deals with crime. Klaus von Happe (D-Gruppe's Kopfmann) decides to stay at a chalet but the weird staff there can't be ignored...but Klaus does much to the annoyance of his companion. Having survived the destruction on the Moon (Green Skies) Moon Man is sent out to investigate an alien landing on the lunar surface. This time it ain't humans! The Thinker walks the dog. What? He is walking the dog -did you think he walked a dinosaur?? Garza the Lord of the Jungle and a Barbarian in action. Could it get any better?

Tales of Terror!

 

 56pp

A4

Black and White

£10 UK (outside UK check store for cost)

https://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-hooper/tales-of-terror-6-2026/paperback/product-gjzzjv7.html?page=1&pageSize=4

Contributors: Terry Ford, Darron Northall, Terry Hooper, Ben R Dilworth

The Annual Black Tower feast of Horror is here! The Reverend Merriowether ("God's Demon thumper") faces evil in two tales: Bastet and Varney the Vampyre! Will the Right Reverend succeed in his goal to wipe "the horrible things" from the Earth? Lady Silana, Tarot, Kotar and Sabuta combine forces in the now legendary mini epic: The Curse of the Lycanthrope" but fear not if one epic story was too little from his monastery retreat Ben R Dilworth brings us three tales of lycanthropy: Wolf. Werewolf and Wolf: Scream Life and what more could you ask for? Oh, a peek into The Black Files of Q Bureaux? An old case from 1898 maybe? Okay, babies you got it! All tales introduced by Black Tower's own stalwarts in the fight against vampires, werewolves, demons and...we'll not mention the psilocybin mushroom tea. Really.

One of my FAVORITE underrated mangaka of all time!

 

101 of the Creepiest Horror Comic Covers Ever Printed

 

Escape from Broadmoor (1948) Is A Strong & Spooky Crime Thriller Short

 

It's THAT Day Again

 No more posts tonight. Annual busy night as I go out fighting supernatural evil and strange creatures.

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