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Grant Morrison's Master of Kung Fu

H3ct0r L1m4

20:40 / 29.09.02

Early 80s stuff for ACTION FORCE (UK's Gi Joe), I suppose. Pencils by Steve Yowell:

Pages 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.

sleazenation

20:51 / 29.09.02

He also did a storm shadow story with art by mark farmer from action force monthly 2

yawn - thing's buddy

14:27 / 30.09.02

thats some nice looking stuff there: yeowell's art, I just love it - looking back at his early style I can maybe see a bit of Alan Davis in there - those panel arrangements too: classic.

yawn - thing's buddy

14:46 / 30.09.02

Amazing to see those same memes present all those years ago; double-crossing replicant agents, loss of forgetfulness, moustachioed good and bad guys...

The Falcon

18:11 / 30.09.02

Actually, Yawn, I think it's just a quick prelude (nicely enough written) to the 'Master of Kung Fu' series that was a back-up in Action Force for a while, written by (I think) Doug Moench.

MoKF had some pretty wicked art as I recall from the few ishes I've got - there was a crossover with Transformers.

Imaginary Mongoose Solutions

18:53 / 30.09.02

"Amazing to see those same memes present all those years ago; double-crossing replicant agents, loss of forgetfulness, moustachioed good and bad guys..."

That's all Doug Monech. For a while way back when, MoKF was quite the IN comic.

yawn - thing's buddy

19:13 / 30.09.02

fair nuff.

all the same - morrison still wrote that story which had those memes within them. Prelude, fill in, whatever - the bald one can't help but carry those memes withinim.

other thing: Yeowell's in my top ten - definitely.

XXII:X:II = XXX

22:42 / 30.09.02

Quite a coincidence, don't you think, that these pages would resurface among the adherents of "mature" comics roughly simulltaneous to the release of the new Marvel Knights Master of Kung Fu... like maybe someone at Marvel made these visible to catch the attention of comic readers of our stripe. Or worse, that these pages are actually no more than a Sentry-style fabrication to snatch the attention of what is now becoming a subset of the mainstream. I don't know if we should interpret that positively or not, since it's probably less to do with attracting new audiences and more with a lack of fresh blood thinning the entire playing field.

I have really got to stop hanging around here so much; my brain is beginning to view everything conspiratorially.

H3ct0r L1m4

02:50 / 01.10.02

Indeed, Vladimir. I just got that via an email list.

And yawn, it's great to see Yowell had already a solid line, even if that's not early but late 80s, as I was informed.

sobel

09:13 / 01.10.02

vortex - I love all of yeowell's styles - if you look at the work he did on the last few issues of the Invisibles you can actully see him returning to the style he shows here in kung fu and in the first Zenith book - it's not flashy, it doesn't have the dynamism of his Zenith book 3 but its creepy, british and full of meaning.

adamswish

15:56 / 01.10.02

Quite a coincidence, don't you think, that these pages would resurface among the adherents of "mature" comics roughly simulltaneous to the release of the new Marvel Knights Master of Kung Fu...

Or worse, that these pages are actually no more than a Sentry-style fabrication to snatch the attention of what is now becoming a subset of the mainstream.

nice conspiracy vladimir but no. The stuff linked to did appear as a preface to MoKF in the Marvel UK's reprint of G.I. Joe/Action Force.

The Storm Shadow story is really cool though. From the little Action Force comic, issue 2 if memory serves.

I'm guessing (as I can't remember the dates) this was post-zoids, pre-zenith work baldy was doing.

ONLY NICE THINGS

16:12 / 01.10.02

Hang on./...a Master of Kung Fu/Transformers crossover?

The fuck? No offence, but I can't see Shang Chi taking Megatron down with those fancy kicks....what happened?

BTW - this thread has no topic abstract.

The resistable rise of Reidcourchie

18:39 / 01.10.02

I believe that the character doing the narration is Quick Kick a member of Action Force. I'm faintly surprised that I can remember this, I'd like this bit of info out of my head so i can put something else in there.

glassonion

18:40 / 01.10.02

shit i actually read this once at another kid's house..thanks for making me 9 again. Black Jack Tar? oh yes, i remember him well.

The Falcon

22:49 / 03.10.02

Quick-Kick may have met the Transformers (as Spidey did, trivia fans - also later dismissed as non-coninuity, super-trivia fans. Why? 'COS THERE'S FUCKING GIANT ROBOTS running around the Marvel universe otherwise. "Galactus? Feh, here's UNICRON, you cunts!" as Simon Furman may once have said.)

Excuse the shouting. Shang-Chi never met the mighty fuckin' robots though.

penitentvandal

15:34 / 04.10.02

Fu Manchu's son...BWAH HA HA HA!

And Black Jack Tarr's moustache looks awfully familiar...Interesting to see what Sir Miles got up to between killing the Golden Age KM's beloved sometime in the sixties and getting fucked about by the Invisibles circa 1999...Pity he lost the goatee though.

The Falcon

23:15 / 05.10.02

No, man! 'Cos that would mean the Invisibles took place in Marvel continuity, and I didn't see Captain Britain there, so...

penitentvandal

08:52 / 06.10.02

They sent Captain Britain to Harmony House when he found out about the conspiracy. Sir Miles effectively took over the W.H.O., killing off the geek and that Brigadier chick, and then susbsumed it into the Outer Church, which was why his enemies had no choice but to resurrect Division X. Union Jack sold out and became the Myrmidon killed by Jack Frost in issue #9. Megan the were-wolf woman became an eco-terrorist, leading her own cell of Invisibles in attacks on Outer Church road-building projects in an act of revenge for the lobotomisation of her beloved, in a range of exciting stories that couldn't be published by DC, but which might have been incorporated into that road-protest subplot in the Invisibles TV series (mebbe). Dai Thomas couldn't lay off the beer and pies and he had a heart attack in front of the telly, watching 'Eurotrash'.

All this, and more, in Ultimate Invisibles - the Marvel Universe version!

Well, I tried...

The Falcon

23:45 / 06.10.02

That's MEGGAN, foo'.

I like this post, but somehow it seems to conjoin Marvel and Ultimate continuity - WHICH AIN'T GONNA WORK.

You're dealing with the big boys now, petal.

Repeat after me: 'Captain Britain (Brian Braddock) exists in (Marvel) Universe 616.'

Hokay.

Nietzsch E. Coyote

01:13 / 07.10.02

Repeat after me: 'Captain Britain (Brian Braddock) exists in (Marvel) Universe 616.'

And 'King Mob (Gideon Stargrave) exists in Universe 666.' Mad Tom was the incarnation of Merlin in that universe. Note the British flag shirt in KM wears in the U.S. and his loss of focus. And note that the mill tower could be an interpretation of the Excaliber Tower with its time travel/ghosts. The Invisible College was in the ultraverse where Merlin lived.

It all makes sense now!

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