Blood for the Baron!

Both Action Force comics had some really great artists working on them.I'd have to say Geoff Campion was my fave working on The Battle Stories closely followed by Vanyo and John Cooper(but I preferred him doing Johnny Red) As for Marvel Geoff Senior ruled for me.. nobody on earth can draw action like him Kev Hopgood was cool too..So Which artists do you think drew The Action Force stories the best?

It's interesting because both titles had a similar pairing, Battle had the detailed and accurate Vanyo, and the dark and moody Cooper, and then MUK had the detailed and accurate Hopgood, and the dark and moody Senior.

If you'd have asked me as a kid I would have said Vanyo and Hopgood, as I was in love with the toys and wanted the strips to be as accurate as humanly possible. But now, as a seasoned comics reader with 20 years of hindsight I choose Cooper and Senior for their emotional content. If we're talking Johnny Red though, Joe Colquhoun wins hands down as the best war comics artist. He has (had) feel and detail combined.

On the lower tier, R. Turner (Sea Fury, Death Castle) was pretty good, and J. Watson (Kraken) was great. I never liked J. Bleach though (Arctic Terror), and I find Carmona (The Ultimate Crime) a bit stilited. To be honest I find Campion solid enough, but lacking any real spark. I'd have to go through the MUK comics for the other artists, but I do recall liking the artist from The Cold Zone. Robin Smith, again, solid enough but his figures seemed stilted, and lacked any real action.

We should make this thread into a poll!

Seems like a good idea. Perhaps a poll for best script writer too I'd say Gerry Finlay Day , good ideas decent scripts not too over simple found some of J Nichols stories a little bit too simple for my tastes(even when I was 12 lol) but your certainly right about Joe Colquhoun ..best artist ever.. If Battle went on printing Action Force stories instead of Storm(cough*) Force I wonder if Joe would of worked on an Action Force script(well one can dream )

Vanyo hands down for me

not that I dont like the rest but Vanyo is by far the best for me

Vanyo's pretty special His Storm Shadow,Baroness and Z Force stories are among my faves from that era , I wonder if he's still working in comics? I saw his work in 2000ad a few years back but nothing since...

Man what I would give to find Vanyo and then pay him to do a cover like image of all of our favorite characters all on one cover

one AF Cover and one RED SHADOW Cover

be so cool

Yeah, Vanyo's Baroness is totally mean, Cooper never got her to jut her jaw the same way. Another thing always used to irk me about Cooper is that all of his characters have got fat asses! But his Gung-Ho strip in the pouring rain is outstanding.

I'm looking for him now lol ..hope he's still around I know Geoff Campions passed away John Coopers still doing the rounds not sure he's too fond of "Old Bucket head"(Ironblood ) from an interview I've read but maybe ..who knows he might help out . He had a Website a few years back if I find it I'll link it here .. But maybe if your lucky I'll find a site all bout him too (might be in Spanish though lol):eagle2:

Coop gave The Baroness a decent ass (I should know I'm painting it lol) Death in the Everglades I'll have to reread that soon

gut reaction is Cooper.. however I might change my mind if I spend a couple of hours looking through the back catalogue tonight

form memory most of coops faces where basically the same box-like jaw line