You may remember a few posts ago I Started work on a 3D factory for the background of a Strip I have been working on for Future Quake. Traumatised Astronauts by Chris Stiefvater-Thomas Is set partially on earth, the moon and an orbiting factory and it’s the factory that I have decided to build fully in 3D Using an old copy of Cinema 4D.

My perception of CG artwork will be forever coloured by the games graphics and cut scenes of the late 1990’s, games like ‘Z’ and Star Craft, command and conquer, dune 2000 and Tekken 3. when compression was a must and the Polly count had to be kept low. I can still vividly remember how impressed I was the first time I watched the opening FMV for Quake 2 and how much I loved the blocky and amateurish cut scenes for Dark forces. It was the 3D games revolution that prompted me into my expensive and difficult uphill quest to learn how to make my own CGI work.

By the time I Had pushed thumped and battered some basic skills into my deeply un-technical brain the world of computer graphics had moved on and left me behind. I Sill fire up the odd Application from time to time and have a crack at a new model or background but almost always it would have been quicker for me to just draw it. Working in 3D is like all the rest of my small press work, it’s doing something I love for fun no matter how impractical or out of date and no matter how far below the professional bar I am.

Johnny Lydon was for a brief moment in the 70’s of cultural importance. He was lead singer and the often bemusing but verbose front man to the sex pistols who burn briefly but oh so brightly across the cultural landscape. They weren’t the best punk band and they weren’t the first punk band but they were the poster boys of punk, the counter culture pin ups of a post peace and love nileistic youth. Sid Vicious overshadowed him and in many ways still dose. He wasn’t anywhere near as important to the band as Johnny Rotten and he never really had much to say, he wasn’t the spokesman or a self publicists but by taking punk and nihilism to its logical and fatal conclusion He has become the immortal icon.

Why am I talking about this has been spokesperson for a movement he didn’t really represent in a Blog About comics? Johnny Lydon was at the mojo awards recently and made one of his trademark semi coherent rants. He insulted the journalist and every other musician and the awards but for some reason still turned up to collect one for the sex pistols. He’s like an angry old man trying desperately to cling on to his youth, trying to be vital and important and counter culture but just coming across as a jerk and a smug fucking bully. He was once the voice of an angry generation but that generation has grown up got jobs and become the establishment as youth always do. He’s no longer the voice of anyone he’s just a aggressive old cunt.

Why was he at the awards? Why did he spew venom ant any one that would listen? Was it like he would have you believe, to honour his band mates who do care about that kind of thing, or was it just to get his face in front of some cameras?

2000ad was once the punk of comics but as it’s readers have got older it’s mellowed, 2000ad now wears a cardigan and comfortable slippers. Maybe that’s what all old punks should think about doing.

Fighting crime is not a job. It's a crusade.

Coming soon...

Although it might seem like the Massacre For Boys metaphorical empire is currently lying a tad dormant, behind the scenes we are working as studiously as ever to expand the figurative imperium.

I have now completed 16-pages of the Death on the Rock script, and when I next get some quality writing time will be using it to juice up the plan for the finale before completing scripting duties on this mini-epic. Steve is still working on a Futurequake strip. He'll be returning to the fold soon enough, though.

Meanwhile, I am delighted to reveal that the artist for the forthcoming Crusader tale is none other than the muli-talented Bolt-01

Bolt's now posted his first sketch of the slightly suspect superhero on his own blog and jolly fine it is too. I am very pleased because it's a story that I am particularly proud of and after seeing this I am now even more confident than ever that it is in safe artistic hands.