Marvel UK's Zoids

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>>94079180
>excellent butt

>>94079072
Geoff Senior's art shits on most of today's Marvel artists.

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This is a different artist now (Geoff Senior) but it's equally as distinct and fantastic as Kevin Hopgood on the earlier issues.

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>Begun, the Zoid Wars have

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>>94079254
Most of today's artists, period.

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This art honestly blows a lot of the art of the day out of the water, even. It's too bad the British Invasion was all about writers instead of great British art talent.

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I don't give a shit about Dr. Who but apparently Senior got his start in Dr. Who Magazine, so I might give it a shot for him.

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And now Jeff Anderson, who I've never heard of but apparently did Transformers, Captain Britain and Judge Dredd, so pretty much the premiere British comics of the time.

>>94079390
Geoff Senior and Kev Hopgood's art is in a class of its own.
Senior's is kinetic and exciting, Hopgood's is meticulously detailed.

Its a shame that so many 90's artists were influenced by the likes of Rob Liefeld, and not the God-Tier art of Senior.

I freaking loved the Zoids anime back in the day. Chaotic Century, none of that Bit Cloud crap. Thanks for the storytime, anon.

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I don't know what it is, but all these Marvel UK artists have this very distinct style that's very different from the house style at Marvel and DC of the time. Maybe it's partially because they're all from 2000AD, maybe just because you didn't have the house style being enforced?

I've been super interested in British comics lately because it's like this whole chunk of comics history that I've totally missed, and that ended up being hugely influential.

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>>94079534
We did get some stuff more influenced by Alan Grant, Mike McMahon, Frank Miller's increasingly stylized art, etc.

And honestly I even kind of prefer the Liefeld-ian stuff to the house styles of the 00's, even if it's technically really bad it at least has character to it. Though that's partially nostalgia talking.

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>>94079550
I loved it too, looking back it was probably the first anime I was ever exposed to.

Like I said in the last thread for a long time I thought Chaotic Century must have been based on the Grant Morrison run on Zoids (one of his earliest published works, which we'll get to soon) because I remembered the anime being surprisingly dark and morally gray, but they actually have nothing to do with each other.

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Which makes it weird that we got two really interesting works out of what's in all honesty kind of an uninspired and inconsistent toyline that never really took off.

In all likelihood the Chaotic Century creators probably never read the Marvel UK comics, and Morrison probably never saw the anime.

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That said, the Zoids designs ARE really cool, and the art in these comics does an unbelievably good job of highlighting that.

>>94079599
UK comic artists are, on the whole, much more focused on detail. Look at how detailed the Zoids are, for example. Comics like 2000AD are packed with tiny details, whereas US comic book art tended, and tends even more now, towards simple shapes and minimal visual detail.

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Here's an incredibly classic image that has nothing to do with Zoids.

>>94079072
>Chaotic Century ends with Raven getting a happy ending in spite of how he mercilessly killed thousands of people

That was some bullshit right there.

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>>94079858
Definitely something that has struck me about Dredd art. I have to wonder if there was a different printing process used by 2000AD and Marvel UK because it would explain why this stuff looks so much more detailed both in the pencils and the colors than the majority of US art at the time.

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Redhorn is really growing on me. He's just such an unrepentant asshole.

>>94079817
Imagine Erica Henderson or Andrea Sorrentino trying to draw the Zoids.

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>>94079950
I threw up a little.

Now Tom Scioli on the other hand...

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I somehow just now realized how the detail and the heavy inking on the Zoids is really obviously reminiscent of Kirby art. Weird that I didn't notice that.

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Guest starring Steve Buscemi with the Leader's forehead

>>94079072

I also forget ZOIDS is a lot older than I realize

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Back to Hopgood now.

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>>94080083
As an anon last thread explained, the reason for that is because Zoids was pretty badly mishandled by TOMY early on so kind of fizzled out in the US and UK. But then got a big revamp in 1999 after like ten years of general dormancy in the West.

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But despite that huge push it suddenly got discontinued in 2004.

So to the casual observer in the West it probably seemed like Zoids suddenly appeared around 1999.

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We Terminator now

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Then apparently there were a couple of Bluray releases of the anime for the 30th anniversary, a couple of model reissues, but pretty much no more news since.

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Sadly no ad or graphic at the end of this issue.

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Another classic Spider-Man image.

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The Spider-Man/FF reprints in these issues are actually the best possible example of the differences in the art between the UK and US of the time.

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What little research into Zoids fandom I've done it seems like fans don't really care about the Marvel UK comics, oddly enough.

>>94080216
I regret deleting my Zoids hentai folder years ago. All that Munbei gone forever.

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And that's it for tonight.

I'm anxious to get to the Morrison stuff but I'm thoroughly enjoying this earlier stuff too.

>>94080216
i think zoids fell out of popularity in japan at the same time (sure there were the occasional rerelease but it took another company for people to take notice again).

>>94080699
Thanks

>>94080537
Anyone got an exact list of what Spider-Man/Marvel issues were reprinted alongside of the Zoid stories?

>>94079900
>Still salty that Raven was better than Bang