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Dave Gibbons' The Complete Harlem Heroes + Carlos Ezquerra's The Stainless Steel Rat

“Watchmen” tegneren Dave Gibbons har just gæstet Komiks.dk i Øksnehallen i København, og der er sikkert mange, der lige har scoret en autograf. “2000 A.D.” bladet bød på mange kult serier i 70’erne og 80’erne, og de første 24 Progs (eller numre, på jord-sprog) var med Pat Mills, Tom Tully, og Dave Gibbons’ kung fu- og Harlem Globetrotters-inspirerede sports-serie, “Harlem Heroes”, en tilpas voldelig serie om døds-sporten “Aeroball”, som fandt sted i år 2050. Progs 25-27 fik Massimo Belardinelli så lov at tegne, og dermed afslutte serien, og nu, alle disse år efter, får vi hele moletjavsen i en handy paperback fra oldies forlaget Rebellion/2000 AD, så er man begejstret for “Watchmen” og “Martha Washington” bøgerne, er det bare med at bestille en omgang “2050 Aeroball Almanac” fra denne vigtige medspiller på oldies scenen ovre i Storbritannien. 

The Complete Harlem Heroes (2000 AD) (Paperback)

by Pat Mills (Author), Tom Tully (Author), Dave Gibbons (Illustrator), Massimo Belardinelli (Illustrator)

Product details

  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: REBELLION/2000AD (15 Aug 2010)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1906735522
  • ISBN-13: 978-1906735524

Harry Harrison er en gammel science fiction rotte med mange fede romaner på samvittigheden, og i “Stainless Steel Rat” tegneserien rottede han sig sammen med “2000 A.D.” bladets måske bedste tegner overhovedet, den legendariske skaber af “Judge Dredd” og “Strontium Dog”, den emininente spanske serie-tegner Carlos Ezquerra, en barsk tegner, med en grov, grynet streg lige ud af “hard lad” skolen, den europæiske “hard lad” skole, som også tæller Hermann; og Ezquerra var den hårdeste “hard lad” på science fiction tegneserie ugebladet “2000 A.D.”, hvor mange af 70’ernes og 80’erne ypperste britiske tegnere havde hjemme. “2000 A.D.” udkom kun herhjemme i seriebladet “Dommeren”, den danske titel for “Judge Dredd”, og det var i comic book format i stedet for album format. “Judge Dredd” skal bare læses i sort-hvid i stort format, basta!

The Stainless Steel Rat (Paperback)

by Harry Harrison (Author), Kelvin Gosnell (Author), Carlos Ezquerra (Illustrator)

Product details

  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: REBELLION/2000AD (15 July 2010)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1906735514
  • ISBN-13: 978-1906735517

amazon.co.uk:

Product Description

About the Author

Harry Harrison is one of the established greats of SF. The Stainless Steel Rat is his most popular creation – ‘the Rat can hold his head up high amongst the most elevated superhero company: Bulldog Drummond, James Bond and Flash Gordon’ TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT. Harry Harrison lives in Brighton and Florida.
 
amazon.co.uk customer review:
This is it. This is the very first science-fiction book that was given to me to read at the tender age of 11. How was I to know that the dog-eared and tatty paperback leant to me would lead to an addiction spanning twenty years. There should have been a warning on it saying “Danger: Reading this may lead to becoming an anally retentive spotty teenager, in turn becoming a terminally sad train-spotting adult with no friends.” Seriously though, I loved this book and all the resulting others. The adventures of super crook Slippery Jim DiGriz, Angelina his doting yet psychopathic wife and then James and Bolivar, their twin sons, have kept me entertained throughout my reading life. “The Stainless Steel Rat” was the first book in this series (there are prequels, but this WAS the first) and like any fine classic, it lays the foundations for all the others. It tells how super criminal DiGriz becomes the super agent for the Special Corps and why Angelina is so beautiful yet so criminally insane. I could tell you more, but that would give the whole book away. Just read and enjoy. Harry Harrison is certainly a diverse and talented author and has produced many fine books away from the “Rat” series as demonstrated in the superb “West of Eden” epic fantasies, the “Hammer and the Cross” books, plus many, many others. If I could, I would sue Mr Harrison for all my wasted teenage years spent alone in my room reading his well spun tales instead of wrestling with rampant females in the back seats of cars and fumbling with the intricacies of their sheer and scanty undergarments. I curse you Harrison.
Og her er en handy tjekliste over Harrison’s rotte bøger:
fra http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/harry-harrison/
About Harry Harrison
Harry Harrison is a the award-winning author of numerous bestselling SF novels, including THE STAINLESS STEEL RATS series, the DEATHWORLD series and the predecessor to this book WEST OF EDEN.
 

Stainless Steel Rat
1. The Stainless Steel Rat (1961)
2. The Stainless Steel Rat’s Revenge (1970)
3. The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World (1972)
4. The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You! (1978)
5. The Stainless Steel Rat for President (1982)
6. A Stainless Steel Rat Is Born (1985)
7. The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted (1987)
8. The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues (1994)
9. Stainless Steel Visions (1992)
10. The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell (1996)
11. The Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus (1999)
The Adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat (1983)
You Can Be the Stainless Steel Rat (1985)
A Stainless Steel Trio (omnibus) (2002)
The Stainless Steel Rat Omnibus (omnibus) (2008)
The Stainless Steel Rat Returns (2010)

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