THAT COMIC SMELL: Dinosaur comics

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"In a distant time (earlier this year) 4 friends embarked on a Skype journey to chat... Dinosaurs!
Come and listen to us prattle on about bloody dinosaurs. There’s no deeper meaning here. No messages of any kind. Just a good long look and talk about comics that have kool dinosaurs in them.
This and all the usual comics chat on…
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Boring (Noah Van Sciver)
One Dirty Tree (Noah Van Sciver)
A Matter of Life (Jeffrey Brown)
Calvin and Hobbes (Bill Watterson)
King-Cat No.80 (John Porcellino)
Eye of the Majestic Creature Vol.2 (Leslie Stein)
Blat! #1 (Mat Greaves)
Crossover Classics (Various Marvel and DC)
Bravo for Adventure (Alex Toth)
Jurassic Park (Gil Kane, George Pérez, Walter Simonson)
Tyrant (Stephen Bissette)
Dark Horse Classics Godzilla (Randy Stradley, Art Adams)
Creature features (Art Adams)
Ray Bradbury Comics (Richard Corben, Al Williamson)
Gon (Masashi Tanaka)
The Flash #269 (Cary Bates, Irv Novick)
The Cartoon History of the Universe (Larry Gonick)
Devil Dinosaur (Jack Kirby)
Steve Ditko Reader
Cretaceous (Tadd Galusha)
The Avenging Spider-Man in the Savage Lands (Cullen Bun, Gabriele Dell'Otto)
Predators (Various Accent UK Creators)
Tommysaurus Rex (Doug TenNapel)
Dinosaurs for Hire (Tom Mason)
Dreadlands (Andy Lanning, Steve White, Phil Gascoine)
The War that Time Forgot (Bruce Jones)
Tor (Joe Kubert)
2000 AD: Flesh (Pat Mills, Carl Critchlow)
The Real Prehistoric Beasts (Mike Sedakat)
Marvel Fanfare (Michael Golden, Chris Claremont)
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (Amy Reeder, Brandon Montclare, Natacha Bustos)
Axe Cop (Ethan Nicolle, Malachai Nicolle)
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (Mark Schultz, Craig Elliot)
Dinosaur Comics (Ryan North)"

THAT COMIC SMELL 31: Happy 80th, Supes!

The new episode of That Comic Smell is now online. A discussion on Superman!

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"*Cue the John Williams Superman Intro Music*
Is it a bird? Is it a Plane? No! It’s that smelly podcast.
Welcome folks to That Comic Smell Podcast. Yes, this time we are talking Superman and all because this year the big boy in blue and red turned 80! Can you believe it? Doesn’t look a day over 25.
We discuss our first experiences with him, the movies and all things Supes.
This and all the usual comics chat on the only comics podcast that can leap tall buildings in a single bound and run faster than a speeding bullet!
That Comic Smell!
Here are some of the titles mentioned:
Superman Pocketbook No14
Supermobile Issue of Superman
Superman Annual 1980 (Various)
Action Comics: Millennium Edition (Various)
Superman III Adaption (Cary Bates, Sal Amendola, Ben Oda)
Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? (Alan Moore, Curt Swan, George Pérez)
Superman War of the Worlds (Roy Thomas, Michael Lark)
The Man of Steel (John Byrne, Dick Giordano)
Action Comics Annual 1987: Cry Vampire (John Byrne, Arthur Adams, Dick Giordano)
Red Son (Mark Millar, Dave Johnson, Killan Plunkett, Andrew Robinson, Walden Wong)
All-star Superman (Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely, Jamie Grant)
Superman vs Muhammad Ali (Dennis O'Neil, Neal Adams, Dick Giordano, Terry Austin)
The Death of Superman (Dan Jurgens, Louise Simonson, Roger Stern, Jerry Ordway, Jon Bogdanove, Tom Grummett, Jackson Guice)
World Without Superman ( Louise Simonson, Dan Jurgens, Jerry Ordway, Karl Kesel, Roger Stern Walter Simonson, Tom Grummett, Jon Bogdanove )
Superman: Transformed (Dan Jurgens, Louise Simonson, Ron Frenz, Ron Lim, Karl Kesel)
Superman: Peace on Earth (Paul Dini, Alex Ross)"

SCOTLAND IN COMICS 4

In 1987, Chris Claremont and Marc Silvestri brought the X-Men to Edinburgh. Dazzler, Rogue, Psylocke and Longshot had a big fight with Juggernaut on Princes Street...


































At the time, I liked Silvestri's art. There was a certain lack of weight to everything and it all looked dashed off, but it was different. In retrospect, it was the first of the "Image" style of art I'd come across.

I like the cheeky Doctor Who reference on this next page. Also the mention of Captain Britain, at this time a Marvel UK character that the US comics ignored almost completely. Claremont was already writing towards his later Excalibur series, which featured Captain Britain prominently.

















Next, we have some locals having a chat after the X-Men have sorted out Juggernaut.


















Just for the hell of it, here is the cover. It's a goodie.

















It was good to see Art Adams draw Longshot again - I liked the original series drawn by him.

A few months after this X-Men issue, Colossus visited Edinburgh. This story had a nice personal touch for me. More anon...