tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134300402009-06-18T16:56:24.312+01:00UKDanenoreply@blogger.comBlogger157125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13430040.post-77207029308263575462009-05-31T21:25:00.013+01:002009-05-31T21:47:36.480+01:00

I have dates for the last material coming in and have also begun to compile the comic before it goes to the printers. There is some tinkering still to do, and I'll be getting proofreading copies of the comic (for a nice change!) before it comes out, but I'm still expecting it for June.Here is a brief scene from Episode 3 of Rathbone which returns to Omnivistascope. It is drawn by Bryan Coyle,

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Well, I've seen the latest Star Trek movie, which uses the same titles that appear in a lot of JJ.Abrams product including the sub X-Files rubbish that is Fringe. Don't get me started on Fringe, it's a TV show based on the concepts beyond any rational interpretation of science. Still, at least it's rubbish from the outset, it has had the decency not to draw you in for a series or two before

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Worth registering your interests with the current Eagle Award nominations to support the stuff you like. Solar Wind won an award in the past and, although I've already peaked awards wise, I've spoken to others who've got a big boost from these things, so it is worthwhile voting for them.All the bestPaulhttp://www.eagleawards.co.uk/nomination.aspx

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Well, most of the work is now done, but as I'm not at Bristol this year, I'm using the opportunity to try and get a couple more strips in before I publish. I won't name 'em in case they don't make it though :)Most of my work is done, I have a few bits to tidy up, but as I've had a long weekend of work and comics production, I'm now going to have a wee break.Anything I say about the issue may be

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Back before the name George Lucas didn't cause me to sigh and hang my head in a sort of weary despair, there was a film called THX1138. This was his first full film, which showed a weird distopian vision of the future, it's inhabitants mere cogs in a machine, which appeared to have no actual purpose. I love it.You can't get the original film any more sadly. Lucas decided to go back and add

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Hi everyone, I'm currently putting together issue 5 of Omnivistascope, the science fiction comic I (largely) write and put out yearly.And I have space for letters. It's at this time I realise I haven't saved all the e-mails I told myself I would use as letters. Now I must ask for letters, even though the idea of a letter is really a bit anachronistic and redundant. Do I even want letters? What

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The Last Days of Destiny is on sale, and has gone down very well with the audience so far. Which I'm obviously delighted about. I'll posts ome feedback up here soon.I am currently trying to work hard on the next issue of OVS (Model 5) and not get distracted by games. Games do have a habit of getting stuck in my head, they are like crossword puzzles in that respect.I may be entering a

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As you probably know, Red Dwarf is back in a brand new mini-series called 'Back to Earth' on (appropriately) channel Dave. Why has a show that's not been broadcast for nearly a decade suddenly come back on a relatively obscure (sorry Dave) digital channel? Well, massively popular during its heyday, Red Dwarf always was something of a space oddity. I'm not sure why I'm compelled to watch it again,

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Howdy Pardners!Welcome to Destiny, Arizona. The setting for my Wild West card game 'The Last Days of Destiny' which plays out exciting cinematic gunfights in a doomed town.Over ten years in development (it's a long story, son) I have finally produced a version available for sale, which will be available for £2 on downloadable PDF. Featuring 110 cards with illustrations by professional artist

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Last week I was adding another chapter to the longest mid-life crisis in history (I think it's been ongoing since I was about three) by lying about being really into the Hip Hop (but I really did enjoy the album, albeit it in an old-fogey fashion, cheers Junior Disprol!). As for OVS, I'm working on it, as if it were some sort of Frankenstein and I was the mad professor who would later come to be

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Well, I'm a year older and I still haven't got my life sorted out. Still, I have a plan and a caffeine addiction, that my friends, is a start.Arriving through the post, entirely unrelated to this cosmically ignored date, was a Jack Daniels Key Ring (They must think I'm still drinking like it's 1999) and the new album from Welsh Hip Hop monsters, the Dead Residents. Now, as is well known, nobody

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I didn't think I was going to watch The Watchmen, but in the end, I did.I left feeling the cinema feeling as if I'd received a severe blow to the head with a rather large book, wielded by a deranged American gentlemen, who then ran away into the night. Some of the pages may have been missing, but even in my dazed state I recognised the book as The Watchmen.I can't tell you if it was good or bad

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Thanks to everyone who has got in touch to tell me about the review of Omnivistascope Model IV in the latest issue of Comics International (buy it at your local comic shop now). As I've been largely unable to reach the outside world for a month (except via the irregular No.56 outworld colony shuttle) I'm very grateful to you all for your transmissions.Artists Paul McCaffrey, Bryan Coyle and Chris

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At the start of February I was coming home from work when I hit an ice patch, I almost thought I had it under control, but that only lasted a fraction of a second before the car went into a spin and decided to become an off road vehicle. I was okay, the car not so much.I've had a month of doing very little but travel to work and look for cars (admittedly I had a nice week's holiday in Inverness)

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"Memory? Yeah, I used to have one of those, reckon I left it somewhere. Now lemme think..."Well, rather annoyingly, I lost the details of an artist I was keeping 'on file' for when a suitable story came up. I was sure I knew his name, had a contact e-mail, everything. Looked up the name, and it's not him. Looked in my contacts list, he's not there.Weird.Anyway, he's from Darlington, and I

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As the 6th of March appears on the horizon, the film THE WATCHMEN is about to about to appear in your local cinema. And though the film or the posters don't bear his name, the original comic book was of course written by the great shadow that falls across modern comic books, Alan Moore.Alan Moore won't be making any money from the film as he has given his share of the rights to the artist, David

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I've just returned from my holiday in Inverness where I was also an exhibitor at the Hi-Ex comics festival. I had a very nice couple of days chatting to people. I also gave (solicited) advice to someone on a script they'd written, only to have them make it obvious they weren't interested in what I thought. It was very odd, but hopefully at least they took away the thought that some form of

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I have a (well-deserved) reputation among people who vaguely know me, of being a miserabilist. Possibly more accurately, I have a defective gene for enthusiasm. I do like things, and I am enthusiastic about them, but it's got to be something that really engages me, startles and excites me me and causes my largely dead and withered nerves to tremble with at least the vague sensation of feeling.So

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Well, today, I've written my first script of the year.It's been cold, wet, wintery, I've been busy with work, illness (I'm not dying I've just had a horrible cold) and last week - sleep. January has been a near complete write-off (NPA) and it's been a real slog to get to February. But here we are.It's starting to have the feel of a gap year for me. I'm still working on issue 5 of my comic OVS,

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Currently playing in British Sci-Fi comic 2000AD is Strontium Dog by original creators John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra (with Hector Ezquerra). The character was always one of the 'Big Three' stories during the classic 2000AD run in the 1980's alongside Judge Dredd and Rogue Trooper.It is the tale of Johnny Alpha, a man forced to become a Search and Destroy agent, a bounty hunter, by his mutation.

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It is our future and as species numbers free-fall through the last hundreds, Mother Nature lashes out in her death throes. Spontaneous mutations pose a threat to the tightly controlled populace and Domestic Guards patrol neatly maintained lawn reservations.One ordinary man leaves his house for work, not knowing that he'll never return. Caught up in the chaos he'll be sent half way across the

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Well, I'm almost back, this cold is dragging on and I have less enthusiasm than Dirk Despair at a puncture repair kit convention. I'm determined to do something constructive, but in the meantime, I'll just ramble on a bit and I'll be back soon to talk about games and comics.Someone who is back of course is Jonathan Ross.The Daily Mail, who have had to judicially edit their own comments page today

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Okay, things have been going very slowly due to an outbreak of lesser spotted lurghee, but things are going quite well all the same.We have preliminary art for quite a few of strips now, and more promised. I'm currently (in between feeling pathetic) editing the next Keegan Jask story with Leigh Shepherd.February 15th/16th sees OVS in Inverness, at the Hi-Ex comics festival, which is worth a visit

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Well, due to unforeseen events (Christmas, who saw that coming?) it's taken me a while to getting around to picking up the first issue of Impaler from Top Cow comics. The story is by William Harms and the art is by Matt Timson.Following on from the previous series we arrive to find New York nuked, the vampires haven't been contained, and a top squad of military muscle sent to retrieve a missing

paulvonscotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13554205355843520905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13430040.post-66066398578839382982008-12-25T20:45:00.006Z2009-02-01T18:26:48.294Z

Well, here at Omnivistascope studios, it's been a successful* year with the collections of Solar Wind and the most impressive issue yet of Omnivistascope and I'm looking forward to 2009 as a year full of potential for the comic, games and novel. Until I do anything, it all remains as just as potential, but I shall get back to work soon. Ish.In the meantime, a big thank you to all of my friends

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