sadakos_fury wrote:@ meertoth: yeah i've seen that site before, it's pretty good isn't it? a year or two ago, i spent way too much money buying back all 15 issues of scream from ebay after my own copies had been lost to the ages. worth every penny though. amazing that the stories themselves still stand up today. do you think kids today could handle the feeeeeeeaaaaaaaaar? there's no real equivalent out these days, is there? i know most parents would drop a load if they saw what went on in those pages.
Tell me about it. I was born in 1967, so I got some of the best comics there have ever been when I was a kid, and well into my teens. I still read and appreciate the old stuff.
British children's comics today are censored and sanitized to the nth degree, except for some of the American Marvel and DC reprints currently on the shelves. Seems to be that modern childrens comics are aimed at the 3 to 9 age group.
When I was a lad, we lived in a lake and had to get up half an hour before we went to bed........Sorry, wrong sketch. When I was a kid, my father use to buy me Action, Warlord, Bullet, Battle, Scream, 2000AD, Commando. My parents had no problems with me reading these, in fact they encouraged me to read everything and aything I could lay my hands on. My father also enjoyed these comics. Child psychologists and parents (mothers especially) would be up in arms if anything like the above were published for children these days. Not only them, but can you imagine the political fallout from terms like "Nips" and "Krauts"? And yet during the period that was being written about, these were acceptable. I just cannot imagine Charley's War, Johnny Red, Darkie's Mob or Hellman being published for the same age group today.
I continued reading Battle when it became Battle/Action Force, whilst reading GI Joe at the same time. I always found the AF stories to be more realistic and far grittier than their American counterparts. The good guys frequently got killed, and the bad guys were far more than cardboard, one-dimensional cliched haracters. There was alwayts reasoning behind their actions. Looking back at the Black Major origin story, does anyone else think: Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader?
