Yes, I forgot a couple of books.
The first comes from Accent Comics and Whatever Happened To The World's Fastest Man? involved no costume. No mask. In fine British tradition....some times.
It really was great to read but it was a while ago so my review was on the old CBO and I never saved it!
According to the Forbidden Planet blog:
“With a sigh he put his half-empty pint glass on it’s beer mat …. and stopped time”
Yep, that’s it. Bobby Doyle can stop time. He’s the mysterious “World’s Fastest Man” that all of the papers have been talking about ever since he carried all of those people from that train crash. But he’s not fast, not in the way they think. He just has this strange power where he can stop time for the world and carry on with his life inside his own time-zone. Bobby’s no hero, not in the way people think of them. He’s just an average 25 year old bloke who wants a normal life. But that’s not his fate. He may have saved people before, may have been the hero before, but never on this scale. And he knows what’s coming, he knows the end result. That’s why he looks so resigned to his fate in the artwork above.
So Bobby sets off to the future ground zero – Prometheus Tower in London, where the bomb proves to be just as big, just as deadly and just as impossible to turn off as he feared. Which means he knows for certain now – he has 59 minutes to rescue everyone he can, 59 minutes to get as many people to safety as he can.
But he knows how his powers work – everything’s frozen when he stops time – so no transport works, doors remain shut unless he temporarily unfreezes time and opens them and the only way he can get people to safety outside the 2 mile blast radius is by the slow, physical, back-breaking way – he has to carry them. And he knows that even though time may be stopped for them, for him it carries on as normal, saving all of these people, carrying them all to safety will be no more than a blink of an eye for them, but for him it will take 50+ years of his life – possibly even all of his life – it’s the ultimate sacrifice and what makes him a true hero – no gaudy spandex, no incredible powers of flight and adulation, his is a special power that no one will ever know about.
The first comes from Accent Comics and Whatever Happened To The World's Fastest Man? involved no costume. No mask. In fine British tradition....some times.
It really was great to read but it was a while ago so my review was on the old CBO and I never saved it!
According to the Forbidden Planet blog:
“With a sigh he put his half-empty pint glass on it’s beer mat …. and stopped time”
Yep, that’s it. Bobby Doyle can stop time. He’s the mysterious “World’s Fastest Man” that all of the papers have been talking about ever since he carried all of those people from that train crash. But he’s not fast, not in the way they think. He just has this strange power where he can stop time for the world and carry on with his life inside his own time-zone. Bobby’s no hero, not in the way people think of them. He’s just an average 25 year old bloke who wants a normal life. But that’s not his fate. He may have saved people before, may have been the hero before, but never on this scale. And he knows what’s coming, he knows the end result. That’s why he looks so resigned to his fate in the artwork above.
So Bobby sets off to the future ground zero – Prometheus Tower in London, where the bomb proves to be just as big, just as deadly and just as impossible to turn off as he feared. Which means he knows for certain now – he has 59 minutes to rescue everyone he can, 59 minutes to get as many people to safety as he can.
But he knows how his powers work – everything’s frozen when he stops time – so no transport works, doors remain shut unless he temporarily unfreezes time and opens them and the only way he can get people to safety outside the 2 mile blast radius is by the slow, physical, back-breaking way – he has to carry them. And he knows that even though time may be stopped for them, for him it carries on as normal, saving all of these people, carrying them all to safety will be no more than a blink of an eye for them, but for him it will take 50+ years of his life – possibly even all of his life – it’s the ultimate sacrifice and what makes him a true hero – no gaudy spandex, no incredible powers of flight and adulation, his is a special power that no one will ever know about.
I think the book is still available: http://www.accentukcomics.com/index.html
I mentioned Brit Force in my previous posting http://hoopercomicart.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/some-of-these-super-heroes-may-not-have.html and that I was sure that I had met Andrew Radbourne at a Bristol Comic Expo. Yes, I did. Moonface Comics -Brit Force, Sceptic Isle.
Sadly, nothing from Moonface nor Andrew since 2010.
According to Moonface Comics and the intro to Brit Force:
“Moonface Press is proud to announce a new ongoing series called Brit Force. It’s written and drawn by Andy Radbourne, lettered and script edited by me and the cover to issue #1 is by Glenn Fabry (above). Look for it later in the year and in the meantime find out more at www.britforce.com.”
Hi my name is Andy (and honestly this is what I look like!!!) and I am in the process of revitalising and re-imagining BritForce, the UK’s own superhero group both based and created in the UK!
I worked on the original BritForce comic over 10 years ago and was always unsatisfied with its unfair demise, knowing there was so much scope and untapped potential with the characters. So after all these years of grumbling into my beard and thinking what could have been, I thought bugger it, I am going to do something about this. So I set about redesigning the characters, fleshing them out and adding new twists and back-stories. I want to present a contemporary comic book which was also a homage to the days when I started reading comics…all those years ago…Oh so many years!!! So plenty of KaPows! and Thunks!
Pity really, but in comics -especially the UK, you need a game plan and I'm sorry to say this title never got the support it needed.
Forgotten anything else? I probably have!
Hey thanks for re-post on our '.....Fastest Man' book Terry, it along with our latest releases is still available through the website link you've given 😃
ReplyDeleteNo problem, Colin -it's still a great read!
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