Beautiful sculpts, aren't they ? And big ! Well, if your fantasy is to have knee high models of your anime heroes - this is it ! Tokyo Comic Con.... And not a comic in sight ! Oh. Minor self correction. I said in a previous comment - Dynamite Kid... It should have been Kid Dynamite. Western heroes sure had the names !
I tell you there are toy 'huntinmg' -toy shopping sounds so unmanly :-) - videos in which people complain that they have been to comic cons and there ARE comics.,. uh...yeah. Not enough toys which is why going to TOY cons is a thing! LOL! Cowboys were so big in the 1950s and my father was doing national service and he was one of two "Tex's" in his platoon. Apparently, I learnt from a family friend in Germany in the 1980s, there was also a Montana and other "Wild West" names. NBo doubt they also chewed gum and watched a lot of Western movies!
I just flicked over to British Golden Age and looked over the ages of British comics again. It's a long and quite surprising list, with the Golden Age of comics being just that - a time of abundance. We'll never see it's like again. Still, there might be enough left in the tank for one final hurrah...a Post Age of British comics. Who knows ? Let's hope so.
The problem is that the first Black Tower GA book was published in 2010. Not a copy has ever sold. My old Yahoo GA group had hundreds of members and none purchased a copy of any of the books. British GA Blog has had 44335 views. No one has bough the GA books. The UK GA blog -12252 views but no book sales. Comic Bits magazine and all the GA material -two copies sold and one buyer in Canada said it was eye opening and that he had read through it several times. My GA Face Book group -no copies of the books sold there. Is there life left in the GA characters? Yes but only in Black Tower and I never expect sales :-) So long as I can still see and hold a pen I'll continue but I am not going to make money out of this. We are in a new Age of Illiteracy and only comics seen as trendy or "investments" are of interest. Well, that's cheered up my Friday night LOL!
Beautiful sculpts, aren't they ? And big ! Well, if your fantasy is to have knee high models of your anime heroes - this is it ! Tokyo Comic Con.... And not a comic in sight ! Oh. Minor self correction. I said in a previous comment - Dynamite Kid... It should have been Kid Dynamite. Western heroes sure had the names !
ReplyDeleteI tell you there are toy 'huntinmg' -toy shopping sounds so unmanly :-) - videos in which people complain that they have been to comic cons and there ARE comics.,. uh...yeah. Not enough toys which is why going to TOY cons is a thing! LOL! Cowboys were so big in the 1950s and my father was doing national service and he was one of two "Tex's" in his platoon. Apparently, I learnt from a family friend in Germany in the 1980s, there was also a Montana and other "Wild West" names. NBo doubt they also chewed gum and watched a lot of Western movies!
DeleteI just flicked over to British Golden Age and looked over the ages of British comics again. It's a long and quite surprising list, with the Golden Age of comics being just that - a time of abundance. We'll never see it's like again. Still, there might be enough left in the tank for one final hurrah...a Post Age of British comics. Who knows ? Let's hope so.
DeleteThe problem is that the first Black Tower GA book was published in 2010. Not a copy has ever sold. My old Yahoo GA group had hundreds of members and none purchased a copy of any of the books. British GA Blog has had 44335 views. No one has bough the GA books. The UK GA blog -12252 views but no book sales. Comic Bits magazine and all the GA material -two copies sold and one buyer in Canada said it was eye opening and that he had read through it several times. My GA Face Book group -no copies of the books sold there. Is there life left in the GA characters? Yes but only in Black Tower and I never expect sales :-) So long as I can still see and hold a pen I'll continue but I am not going to make money out of this. We are in a new Age of Illiteracy and only comics seen as trendy or "investments" are of interest. Well, that's cheered up my Friday night LOL!
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